Tennis
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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.”
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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.”
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“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. I’ve been
pushing myself as far as I can and
beyond, I would hope, some
times.”
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