Fredrick
continued from page 7A
But all of Pauley Pavilion no
ticed the redshirt sophomore after
a quick steal and a coast-to-coast
drive capped with a strong move
to the hoop.
In nine minutes of play — not a
big share of time in a 40-minute
game — Fredrick managed to
have a breakout effort. She scored
10 points, including six in Ore
gon’s pivotal 8 2 run late in the
game.
“I sat out all last year and didn’t
get a chance to play in any of the
big games, or play in any of the
games for that matter,” Fredrick
said. “That was motivation
enough to go out and perform.”
Fredrick’s play not only earned
the attention of UCLA, but it
earned the respect of her team
mates who have encouraged her
since she came to Oregon.
“I hope she can continue what
she did last weekend,” Oregon
point guard Shaquala Williams
said.
“I hope that was a real confi
dence boost for her. It shows her
what she can do if she comes out
and plays as hard as she can.
“She kind of got a taste of the
limelight and all the good things,
so I think she’ll want to continue
to have that.”
People who saw Fredrick play
in the season’s early going would
not have guessed that she would
have been so key in the Ducks’
biggest game of the year. In Ore
gon’s opening exhibition match
with Lokomotiva Kosice, Fredrick
was limited to two points in five
minutes.
But Fredrick’s control and
calmness began to set in during
the past couple weeks. Rather
than rushing a bad shot against
UCLA, Fredrick exercised quick
ness and patience.
“I never thought it would be
Emerald
Hard work in practice is the source of Alyssa Fredrick’s progress in the Pac-10.
this hard to play, and then when I
got a chance to play, I was like, ‘oh
my gosh, this is scary,”’ she said.
“Now it’s kind of comforting, in
stead of being scared out there to
perform.”
Fredrick was lured out of high
school by Beth Burns, then head
coach at San Diego State. But be
fore the 1996 high school All
America honorable mention
could ever dawn a uniform, Bums
had accepted a coaching job and a
bigger paycheck at Ohio State.
Her replacement, Barb Smith,
brought in a new system. Not only
did Fredrick realize she strongly
disapproved of the new coaching
system, but she also did not like
the education she was receiving.
“Things were terrible,”
Fredrick said.
“I loved playing in front of my
family, and all my friends got to
see me all the time, but the situa
tion was not what I wanted at all.”
Fredrick thought about going to
Oregon during her lone season at
San Diego State. She’d seen the
Ducks play on television, she’d
checked into Oregon’s academic
catalogs and she also played in
McArthur Court at the 1997 Pep
si Shootout.
The rest, she says, is history.
The road has been long, but
Fredrick welcomes her new role
with the Ducks.
"It’s not as frustrating to try to
work hard in practice and then
not really not get to get to play as
much,” Fredrick said.
“Even to go out and play nine
minutes was exciting. It calmed
me down and gave me a little con
fidence in myself.”
Duck head coach Jody Runge
said Fredrick won’t sit down
when Lindsey Dion, who is recov
ering with post-concussion syn
drome, returns to the lineup.
“She brings a different dynamic
for us,” Runge said.
“She’s very athletic, kind of
wiry, not a banger, kind of a post
player who’s got great quickness
and quickness to the ball when re
bounding. [She has] a very differ
ent dynamic in her game versus
some of the other post players that
we have.”
“She has shown glimmers of
brilliance, and those are things
she’s going to need to do consis
tently to establish herself.”
Basketball
continued from page 7 A
“This loss isn’t going to have
that big of an effect on us,” Olson
said. “A nonconference loss is
easy to get over. If it is a confer
ence loss then it’s a problem be
cause it sticks with you.”
The Ducks would like nothing
more than to deliver Arizona a
second-straight defeat, but histo
ry is not on their side. The Wild
cats hold a commanding 18-3 ad
vantage in games played at the
McKale Center. In fact, the last
time Oregon won in Tucson was
in a 43-40 victory in 1985.
“Success is going to depend
greatly on our ability to keep our
composure,” said Oregon head
coach Ernie Kent, whose team is
one of only three Pac-10 teams
still undefeated on the road in
league play.
“I think they will be on top of
their game. Lute will certainly get
them ready to play. We just need
to be ready as well.”
A year ago in Tucson, Oregon
led by as many as seven points
with nine minutes remaining, be
fore eventually losing 92-86. Ore
gon senior forward A.D. Smith
was encouraged with that per
formance and hopes it will give
his team the belief that it can win
this time around.
“Arizona is a good team, and
even though they got roughed up
a little bit last week, they have
great talent,” said Smith, who was
named Pac-10 player of the week
for the first
time in his
career. “We
haven’t won
there in
awhile, but
last year was
the first year
where we re
ally had a
chance to
pull it out.
“And
we’re better now, so we feel com
fortable that we can go down
there and have a shot to win. ”
The Wildcats have an athletic
starting line-up that features three
freshmen, a sophomore and a jun
ior. In the backcourt, freshman
point guard Jason Gardner has fit
right in and averages 13 points
and five assists per game. Fellow
frosh guard Gilbert Arenas aver
ages 13 points a game as well. The
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“Oregon is a very experienced
team,” Olson said. “They have
great balance and athleticism.
They have proved that they can
win on the road and the key for us
will be to control the open court
game.
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