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Since arriving on the scene last season, Shaquala Williams has helped raise Oregon’s game to a new level.
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Shaquala Williams, always flashy
and very serious about winning,
adds new flavor to the Oregon
women’s basketball program
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Shaq is a bailer.
Go watch her, if you haven’t
yet. You’ll see. Shaquala
Williams is bad.
Bad like one of those old
school, cool jazz cats. The dudes
who used to play impossibly
crazy, intricate fast-paced tunes
like it wasn’t a thing. Like they
weren’t even really trying. Like
they didn’t even care.
Except that they did, of course.
Artists so passionate and so ob
sessed with their craft that they
continually raised the bar, pushed
their form to unbelievable levels
but still managed to look incredibly
cool the whole damn time.
That’s the type of accomplish
ment that doesn’t just happen.
That takes immense amounts of
work, energy, commitment, love.
“I allow basketball to consume
me,” Williams said. “From the
day I started playing when I was
really little ... just watching it,
talking about it. I’m one of those
people who can sit and talk about
basketball for hours and never get
sick of it. That’s my love affair
with it.”
And it’s perfectly evident. To
fans and teammates alike.
“Her whole life, her whole
mentality, is basketball,” junior
guard Lindsey Dion said. “She’s got
a huge career after she leaves Ore
gon. No doubt, she’ll be a superstar.
And for good reason.
“The thing that people either
knowingly or unknowingly like
about her is her passion,” Oregon
head coach Jody Runge said.
How hard she competes and that
she has the courage to take big
shots and make things happen.
It’s her passion and her courage
that’s really fun to watch — in ad
dition to the fact that she has great
skills to do spectacular things.”
Already, this hyper-competi
tive, 19-year-old, All-American
sophomore’s accomplishments
are spectacular. She’s only the
fourth freshman in the history of
the Pacific-10 Conference to be
named first team all-Pac-10. She
{ { Her whole life, her
whole mentality, is bas
ketball. .. No doubt,
she’ll be a superstar.
Lindsey Dion
Oregon guard
was also the conference’s fresh
man of the year. Her 10.2 points
per contest led the Ducks in scor
ing. She played a major role in
Oregon’s winning the Pac-10 last
year. This season she scored in
double-figures in 10 straight
games, before San Francisco held
her to six points by draping de
fenders all over her in the Ducks’
loss last Sunday.
Williams is indeed a star. She
has the required skills, the brava
do, the unwillingness to lose.
Qualities that come either natu
rally or not at all.
So it makes sense that it’s
Shaq’s time that the media need
ed for every conference preview
this week. And that it s Shaq s
player’s diary posted on
ESPN.com.
“I think everybody has a plan,”
Williams said. “I think God maps
out a plan for everybody. Every
body’s meant to do a certain
thing. Michael Jordan was meant
to be who he is. Chamique [Hold
sclaw], she’s who she’s supposed
to be. Randy Moss is who he’s
supposed to be, and so I’m hoping
that my map is the same way and
that hopefully I can be the best at
what I do.”
Williams’ map, of course, has
n’t been without obstacles.
Her tumultuous high school
basketball history is well-docu
mented — “I played against her at
least once at all three schools that
she went to,” chuckled junior for
ward Brianne Meharry, formerly
a star at Oregon City.
Her initial displeasure at com
ing off the bench last season even
got some national attention.
“I don’t want this to sound
wrong,” Williams said. “But I feel
like I’m too cool to be sitting on
the bench. Know what I’m
sayin’?”
Well, she’s right.
Because she’s in her element
on the court, competing, perform
ing and, of course, winning. And
meanwhile, stirring up change.
Raising the bar, and pushing mat
ters ahead in the Oregon program.
“No. 1, I’m black,” Williams
said. "No. 21 have a different type
of game. Everyone else here is
structured. Bounce pass. Chest
pass. With me it’s not like that. If
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