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Listen to the mom seated next to you get incensed:
“Willis, you suck!”
People will taunt. “Wil-lis. Wil-lis.”
Really. People just love to talk smack.
“Oh, yeah,” Willis said. “When the crowd’s against
you, it is weird, and I kind of do enjoy it. It’s like a
rush that you get when you have people booing at
you and yelling out your last name. It’s a good feel
ing; it can get serious sometimes, but I try not to let
that happen.”
So, yes, let’s keep things in perspective.
It’s like this: Willis is one of those players who — if
she’s not on your side — you love to hate.
The Ducks know a little about that. Former shoot
ing guard Lisa Bowyer, a four-year starter wrho got
into it with Willis more than once, was a similar type
of player.
Willis “does bring it,” Oregon head coach Jody
Runge said. “She takes charges like Lisa did, she’s a
very emotional player and she creates a lot of situa
tions where she makes the big hustle play and ener
gizes her team.”
It’s just what she does. Energizes her team. Irritates
the other.
“Definitely,” Willis said. “You’ve gotta have some
one to fire up the team.”
And, yes, it’s fire that people often misconstrue.
Oregon point guard Shaquala Williams — having
experienced being misread herself — testified to that.
Williams and Willis became friends last summer at
an Athletes in Action camp in Fort Collins, Co.
“I had never really known her,” Williams said.
“We were just opponents. I remember all the girls
used to talk about her, say bad things.
“But she was the one who picked me up at the air
port and kind of took care of me when I first got there.
That’s my buddy right there. She’s cool.”
And she can play some ball.
“I’m hoping to jump into the league,” Willis said,
speaking about the three-year-old WNBA. “That’s my
first option, something that I really want to pursue.”
In fact, Willis — formerly a two-sport star — won’t
play softball this season because she’s going to spend
that time preparing to chase her pro basketball aspi
rations, either in the'United States or abroad.
They’re achievable pursuits. She is second in the
conference in assists, averaging more than five per
game to go with her 7.8 points and 1.7 steals. The
Apple Valley Daily Press named her one of the city’s
top five athletes of the 20th century.
“She’s real get-in-your-face,” said Oregon junior
Emerald Archives
Senior guard Felicity Willis has a reputation as being one of the
Pac-10’s most aggressive defenders.
Jenny Mowe, who was on hand for all of the Bowyer
Willis tangles. “One of the better, more aggressive de
fensive guards in the Pac-10.”
Her defensive saved the day against Arizona State
last Sunday. With 42.2 seconds left, Willis, who is 5
foot-7, drew a charge under the basket on 6-3 center
Rachel Holt. It was a crucial play because it negated
what would have been the game-tying layup.
Arizona coach Joan Bonvicini wasn’t surprised.
“That’s typical Felicity against a post,” Bonvicini
said. “She’s just a tough kid.”
Who just always seems to make a bad impression.
“It’s interesting,” Bonvicini said. “After the game
[Sunday], I had a friend come up to me, a coach who
was watching, who said, ‘When you watch Felicity,
you think that she’s a cocky kid.1”
Interesting, but not exactly shocking.
“She’s anything ^ut that,” Bonvicini said. “She’s
the most humble, religious, respectful player. She’s
one of the hardest workers that I’ve ever coached.”
And that is Felicity for you.
Despite what other people say.
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