To each her own at Saturday’s Oregon Invitational
• ■ After last Saturday’s team
win against Washington, the
.. Ducks go for individual
marks this weekend
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Take some 350 athletes from 37
schools such as Washington, We
ber State and Seattle Pacific, Si
mon Fraser and Lane Communi
ty College.
Invite them to come run, jump
and throw with you at historic
Hayward Field. What you’ll get is
some serious competition.
On tap
What: track
and field
Who: 700-plus
West Coast ath
letes
When: morn
ing events
9:45—2:10
p.m., evening
events 3:30 —
7:50 p.m.
Where: Hay
ward Field
“[The Invita
tional] is what
it’s always
been: a service
to the North
west track com
munity,” head
coach Tom
Heinonen said.
“A lot of people' can run at Hay
ward Field in a meet, which is
good for a lot of people.
“We’re doing what we think is
right for each individual athlete.
This is a good time for seasonal
bests and PRs and maybe some
more Pacific-10 Conference
Championships qualifiers.
And that’s
just fine with
the Oregon
women’s track
and field team
— which goes
into this Satur
day’s Oregon
Invitational sig
nificantly more
self-centered
than it did last
at weekend’s
dual team meet
victory against
the Huskies.
“We’re gonna get plenty of
competition. People look at this
meet, and say ‘Man, this is small
potatoes.’ But really, if it’s the
Oregon team against 700 [total]
athletes there’s plenty of compe
tition.”
For sure.
One need only check the pole
vault lineup.
The Ducks’ Niki Reed, current
ly ranked third in the Pac-10 (13
feet, 5 1/4 inches) isn’t even fa
vored Saturday. Utah State’s Shae
Bair is.
Oregon’s Karina Elstrom and
Holly Speight also hope to capi
talize on the competitive situa
tion to improve their marks. If it
happens, it would be the second
straight weekend for Speight,
who PRd with an NCAA provi
sional height of 12-3 1/2 at the
Washington Dual.
(i We're doing what we
think is right for each in
dividual athlete.
Tom Heinonen
head coach _^
“It was the first time Holly
vaulted in a helmet after her 20
stitches when the bar fell on her
the previous weekend,”
Heinonen said.
And Maureen Morrison, Ore
gon’s all-time leader in the ham
mer throw, is seeded fifth going
in. Morrison and freshman Mary
Etter are ranked second and first
in the discus, respectively.
Otherwise expect some Ducks
to try their hands, so to speak, at
events other than their special
ties.
Hilary Holly, usually Oregon’s
optimum long jump threat, plans
to tone things down a bit after
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Redshirt junior Holly Speight earned a personal record with a vault of 12-31/2 in last weekend’s Washington Dual.
competing in four events at the
dual. She’ll focus on the triple
jump and run a leg on the con
stantly improving 4x100 relay
team.
“We’ve been improving every
week,” Holly said. “That’s what
happens with relays, something
has to come together in order to
run fast, and we’re starting to
come together.”
Katie Crabb, the Pac-lO’s top
1,500-meter runner (4:19.88) will
instead run the 800.
“Katie is moving down to the
800 to see what she can do with it
and as a preparation for a fast
1,500 next week.”
Besides any PRs, there will be
other Duck firsts as well.
Long jumper/sprinter/hoops
guard Amanda Brown will sprint
her first 100 in an Oregon uni
form Saturday morning.
Chrissy Ruiter partakes in her
first career 10,000 Friday night.
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