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Tennis Scott Bamett/Ememld Shanelle Kaneshiro lost her match Wednesday to UW’s Lara Botts. But coach Jack Griffin was supportive, saying, “I was glad to see Janice, Alina and Shanelle battle their bud off.” Continued from Page 11 ence more than me.” Alina Wygonowska, a junior, also played a dramatic match against Washington’s No. 1 player, Kristina Kraszewski, who is the No. 15 singles player in the nation. It was Wygonowska’s consisten cy, combined with Kraszewski’s somewhat erratic play, that allowed Wygonowska to rebound after los ing the first set. In the second set, Wygonowska needed a tiebreaker to hold on to her early lead and even the match at a set apiece. Momentum shifted back in Kraszewski’s favor in the final frame, as she finished the contest I up by claiming the third set, 6-2. “Alina fought very hard," Griffin said. “[Kraszewski] is a player Ali na has faced before and had some success against. It was a match that could have gone either way. ” Senior and captain Shanelle Kaneshiro also played gallantly, but she was defeated in straight sets by Lara Botts. “I was glad to see Janice, Alina and Shanelle battle their butts off,” Griffin said. Adeline Amaud, a freshman who has spent most of the season play ing in the No. 2 position, couldn’t break out of the slump in which she’s lost her last four matches. “Adeline is struggling,” Griffin said, “so it’s basically like we’re missing a couple of players with her and Sarah.” The Ducks will go at it again to day when they take on No. 4 UCLA at noon, either at the 15th Street Courts on campus or at the Willow Creek Tennis Courts, de pending on weather conditions. “We better compete harder at one through six,” Griffin said. “And we need to handle adversi ty better. We need to control the things that are in our control.” risK Continued from Page 11 “This year has been extremely frustrating for me,” Fisk says. “To be honest, I hate injuries. I don’t handle injuries well. When I get injured, T know that I can’t com pete, and that just kills me. If it’s an injury I can’t compete or prac tice on, I just see myself falling be hind.” Fisk was in the sixth grade when she held a shot put for the first time. During P.E. class, her teacher put the shot in her hand and told her to give it a chance. “He kind of said, ‘Here, try track, see how you like this,”’ Fisk said. “And that’s how it started.” So Fisk started a career in track and field. She traveled to the state cham pionships in each of her four years at Lebanon High School, winning the state title in the shot put the last two years. She also captured a discus state champi onship as a junior. By the time Fisk graduated, she had broken the shot put and dis cus records at her school. This pleased Fisk’s mother, who had been herself a rival of the previous record-holder back in her days of track and field. “Mom played a great role in get ting me started in throwing,” Fisk said. “She said it was a lot of fun, and she inspired me to do it. My family always encouraged me to play sports.” Track and field was not Fisk’s only competitive sport. Through out high school, she was a multi sport athlete, playing on the bas ketball and volleyball teams as well. But when it came time to choose a path, Fisk stayed with what she was best at. Her experi ence in track and field far out weighed her combined experi ence in Other Spurts, and she preferred the more individual philosophy of track and field. “I like track in the aspect that it is a team sport in its own way,” Fisk said. “But it is also an indi vidual sport, and I can contribute in my own way to a team instead of being the only person that can contribute to a team.” When Fisk came to Oregon, she held on to her winning ways. Fisk has traveled to every Pacific-10 meet since her fresh man year, and she continues to break records and improve her skills. Fisk ranks 10th all-time for the Ducks in the discus and third in the hammer. Oregon women’s track and field head coach Tom Heinonen said Fisk is a key part of the Duck team. “She has developed steadily over the last four years, and she is now one of the top throwers in three events,” Heinonen said. “She has contributed greatly to the team and is doing her three events quite well, even in spite of a sprained ankle. “She has matured in ways you like to see athletes develop, which is one of the real positives on our team.” Looking back on the choice she made in high school to pur sue throwing instead of other sports, Fisk sometimes wishes she was playing basketball right now. However, she has no re grets for choosing track and field. “I can’t compare basketball and volleyball to [track!,” she said. “It was just a wonderful experience, and I look back and I see that ex perience end I see where it brought me. It brought me to Ore gon — an extremely high-class, very well-renowned track pro gram.” Fisk’s recent injury was unfor tunate. Competing in the shot put at Stanford two weeks ago, Fisk fell forward as she released her throw, folding her ankle and dis qualifying her shot attempt. Throwing coach Sally Har mon caught the critical moment on video tape. Upon watching the video to examine what went wrong, it was discovered that the throw — if counted — would have cleared the 50-foot mark. It would have been a new per sonal best. “She still has it on tape, and I can’t watch it,” Fisk said. “It makes me upset because I could have held that, but I know I can do it.” But Fisk is not letting that — or her injury — damage her senior year plans. “I’m looking toward Boise to nationals,” she said. “I know I can do it, it’s just a matter of getting healthy and getting things fixed up and put back together. I should be able to do it. I have a pretty strong feeling that I could go to nationals this year. “This year has been frustrating, but I’ve handled it well. 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