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Amanda Fox has started every game in the history of the women’s soccer program.
Fox reflects on UO career
■ Goalkeeper Amanda Fox
discusses life as a Duck as the
women’s soccer team seniors
prepare for their final weekend
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
It has been a long time since Sept.
3, 1996, a day that will be remem
bered forever by the 13 seniors on
the Oregon women’s soccer team.
They were only freshman at the
time, and they were rudely intro
duced to Division I-A soccer in a 5-0
loss to Califomia-Irvine.
Times, however, have changed.
The Ducks’ 2-1 victory over No. 20
UCLA last weekend was just one ex
ample of how far the program has
come since that gloomy day three
years ago.
This weekend, the seniors finish
their careers with games at Arizona
and Arizona State. I sat down yes
terday with one of those seniors,
goalkeeper Amanda Fox, and dis
cussed her experience at Oregon.
ODE: It has been a long journey
for your senior class. Talk about the
memories you have of your time at
Oregon.
FOX: I remember the first prac
tices we had at Hayward Field and
bringing together 32 girls who knew
nothing about each other. But we
came together as a group. My fond
est memories are not on the field,
they are from our traveling together.
But beating UCLA was very memo
rable.
ODE: How emotional was the
team at the UCLA game?
FOX: I don’t think I have ever
played in a game that emotional.
The tradition is, before the last
home game, the seniors don’t go
into the locker room right away. It
was a crazy feeling, and it was
weird for us. When we went into
the locker room, the seniors were
breathing hard so we wouldn’t cry.
After the game, we were frazzled —
Amanda Fox
Year: Senior
Height: 5
foot-5
Major Soci
ology /fine
and applied
arts
Hometown:
- Orange, Calif.
Notable: Has
started every contest this season,
recording 77 saves and allowing 25
goals in 1,518 minutes... has hada
part in three shutouts this season, in
cluding a 4-0 win at Oregon State.
we didn’t know whether to be sad it
was our last home game or to be
happy we beat UCLA.
ODE: Talk about the struggles the
team had in the beginning, and how
you overcame the adversity.
Turn to Amanda Fox, Page 12
Reeling UO
could beat
troubled OSU
■ The Beavers come to McArthur
Court this weekend without two of
their most productive players
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
The volleyball gods must be smiling on
Oregon.
After last Thursday’s three-game loss to
California, it appeared that the struggling
Ducks would be outmatched and out
gunned for the remainder of their season.
Stanford, ranked No. 2 in the nation, beat
Oregon in three games on Saturday.
The Ducks play their
toughest back-to-back
road games of the season
when it faces No. 7
UCLA on Nov. 11, fol
lowed by No. 17 South
ern California the next
day. The Ducks then face
Arizona State and No. 19 Arizona to wrap
up the season on Nov. 18 and 19.
Winning almost sounds impossible.
Perhaps not. Before embarking on its
road trip to California, Oregon State comes
to McArthur Court on Friday for the sec
ond Civil War match of the season.
Oregon State dominated throughout the
first matchup on Oct. 8. This time, the
Beavers will be without starting outside
hitter/middle blocker Sarah Bjeldanes,
who quit the team last week for personal
reasons.
Oregon State also is without setter Bran
di Bonnarens, out indefinitely with a knee
injury.
Bjeldanes was unstoppable in the teams’
last meeting, scoring 15 kills and commit
ting just 2 errors.
Angie Shirley put up similar numbers
for Oregon State in that game (15 kills, 3 er
rors), but Bjeldanes’ absence should take
more away from the Beavers than points.
Against Oregon, she was their emotion
al leader.
Couple the loss of Bjeldanes’ presence
with the return of Oregon’s Monique Tob
bagi, and you have yourself a perfect situa
Turn to Volleyball, Page 12
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Pac-10’s still bizarre - on and off field
■ The season just keeps getting
crazier as the end approaches and
teams vie for bowl berths
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
This is supposed to be the part of the
season when things get sorted out.
There’s supposed to be a plausible
front runner. Maybe a couple of con
tenders on the periphery. And the long
shot, some team that happens to be just
hanging on.
But that’s not how it’s going this year.
Not in the Pacific-10 Conference.
The Pac-10 is practically as wide-open
no\y, with three games to go, as it was
when the season began.
If Arizona beats Washington in Tuc
son, and if Oregon, Arizona State and
California all win Saturday, five teams
will be tied for second place, with 4-2
conference records — none of which are
yet bowl eligible.
She’s so scandalous
Bizarre.
That’s the adjective every news outlet
that’s running the story has used to de
scribe the predicament that Arizona
State’s J.R. Redmond finds himself in.
If you haven’t heard yet, it goes a little
like this: The Sun Devils’ star tailback got
involved with a woman named Francine
Arthur.
Arthur was a fellow Arizona State stu
dent — and part-time employee of the
Sun Devil’s athletic department.
She let Redmond use “her” cell phone.
So he did. And racked up $418 of calls.
Unfortunately, the phone belonged not
to her but to the Arizona State athletic
department. And his using it constituted
a violation of NCAA policy. She ex
plained that to him — but not before he’d
made good use of the phone.
She said that if she and Redmond got
married, he could avoid penalties.
Of course, Redmond readily agreed.
He wasn’t about to miss a game be
cause of some annoying NCAA penalty.
The couple had reportedly planned to
get divorced on Jan. 1, after Redmond’s
eligibility had expired.
The couple was wed at the Mesa Wed
Turn to Pac-10 notes, Page 12
Ryan Kealy and Arizona State can stay in the Rose Bowl hunt with a win at Southern California on Saturday.