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1998 Oregon Volleyball Preview
EMERALD
Senior outside hitter Madeline Ernst unit lead the Ducks as co-captain along unth fellow senior Alii White.
Ernst was named the team’s most valuable player last year after leading the squad in kills with 363
Volleyball: White, Ernst lead UO rebirth
■ Continued from Page 7
wanted the season to be over
with.”
Although ten new faces will be
joining Ernst and four other re
turning players, the future looks
bright.
“Cathy is feeling really good
this year. She’s in her own and
that’s because these are her re
cruits,” Ernst said.
Perhaps the brightest spot
comes from the return of 6-foot
senior Alii White. White was
sidelined with a knee injury ear
ly in the season — an injury that
kept her from competing in the
first nine games. She briefly re
turned only to re-aggravate a
shoulder injury, causing her to
miss the remaining games of the
season.
This year she will be vital to
the program as a middle blocker
and as co-captain alongside
Ernst.
"I think that’s one of the most
critical parts of our team being
successful this season is having
Alii White healthy,” Nelson said.
White’s 1996 season is proof of
what she can do. She was the
only player to start all 31 match
es, accumulating 120 total
blocks, 284 kills, 246 digs and 17
service aces.
Last year was tough for a play
er like White to watch. Certainly
she would have contributed.
“It was really difficult last
year,” White said. “It’s hard to
think about the past, but it
opened my eyes to the attitude
and the personalities on the court
and what I could change for this
year.”
ERNST
witn so many
new players be
ing incorporat
ed, it’s difficult
to determine
what the
strengths of this
year's team will
be.
“It takes a
while to get
everyDoay up to speed in your
system. What we’re dealing with
right now is trying to get all the
WHITE
young people 10
understand ex
actly what we
want technical
ly, exactly what
we want tacti
cally and then
putting them
into play,” Nel
son said.
But these are
Nelson s recruits, and she knows
that they are capable of being an
integral part of this team.
“In terms of their physical abil
ity, they’re great and there are
definitely some instant-impact
players,” Nelson said. “Right
now Julie Gerlach, who is a setter
from Arizona, is our starting set
ter as a freshman.”
Another new part of the pro
gram is the addition of assistant
coach Revis Ward-Daggett. A for
mer head coach at Oral Roberts,
Ward-Daggett led her 1995 squad
to the NCAA tournament where
they were eliminated in the Elite
Eight by Stanford. Her six-year
record was 105-85.
“What I like about Revis is that
she’s been a head coach for
years," Nelson said. “When she’s
in the gym she can realiy identi
fy weaknesses and knows how to
improve those. That’s what you
want every assistant coach to
have.”
With the experience of the se
niors, the potential of the fresh
men and last year out of their sys
tem, the Ducks have only one
thing on their mind: the NCAA
tournament. They are confident
that there is a spot waiting for
them this year.
“I have a pretty good feeling
we’ll get to the tournament,”
White said. “It’s amazing, the lev
el we’re at right now is probably
our peak level that we were at all
year last season.”
Coach Nelson agrees.
“I’m going to come right out
and say it,” Nelson said. “That’s
what we’re training for, that’s
what we’re playing for this year,
and we’re going to work our rears
off to make sure that happens.”
1998 Oregon Volleyball Schedule
Date Opponent Time
Sept. 1 Portland St. 7 p.m.
Sept 4-5, Nike Invitational
Sept. 4 N. Arizona 12p.m
Cal Poly SLO 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 5 Denver 12 p.m.
Fresno St. 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7 Utah St. 5 p.m.
Sept, 11-12, Minnesota Nike Invitational
Sept. 11 Minnesota 8 p.m.
Sept. 12 Missouri 10 a.m.
Wake Forest 6 p.m.
Sept. 18 Oregon St. 7 p.m.
Sept. 23 @Cal State Fullerton 7 p.m.
Sept. 25 @UCLA 7 p.m.
Sept. 27 @USC 11a.m.
Oct. 2 Arizona St. 7 p.m.
Oct. 4 Arizona 1 p.m.
Oct. 6 ©Portland 7 p.m.
Oct. 9 ©Washington 7 p.m.
Oct. 11 ©Washington St. 1 p.m.
Oct. 16 California 7 p.m.
Oct. 18 Stanford 1p.m.
Oct. 22 USC 7 p.m.
Oct. 25 UCLA 1 p.m.
Oct. 30 ©Arizona 7 p.m.
Nov. 1 ©Arizona St. 11a.m.
Nov. 6 Washington St. 7 p.m.
Nov. 8 Washington 1 p.m.
Nov. 13 ©Stanford 7 p.m.
Nov. 15 ©California 1p.m.
Nov. 20 ©Oregon St. 7pm
Nov. 27-28
LBSU Thanksgiving Tournament
Nov. 27 vs. Oral Roberts 5 p.m.
Nov. 28 vs. Illinois St. 12 p.m.