Russell Coach of Year, Carter All-Conference
■A breakthrough year leads
to an NCAA tournament
berth and numerous awards
for the men’s tennis team
By Robbie McCallum
for the Emerald
All the time and effort that
Chris Russell has put into the
men’s tennis team didn’t go un
noticed by the Pacific-10 Confer
ence. A panel of coaches voted
Russell the 2000 Pacific-10 Con
ference Coach of the Year.
It is the first Coach of the Year
award for Rus
sell, who is in
his fifth year at
Oregon. The
Ducks’ 12-9
record is a four
game improve
ment from last
season, good enough for fifth
place in the Pac-10.
This season, Russell guided
the Ducks to their second NCAA
appearance in school history.
“To be honest, it caught me off
guard,” Russell said. “The great
thing about it is that it’s recogni
tion for the program. Anytime
the [Coach of the Year] award
goes out, I think it’s more of a
tribute to the guys on the team,
not so much the guy in charge. I
think we have some very good
character in our program, and
they tend to make me look good.
This is more about what they’ve
done for us and what they’ll
continue to do.”
Add honors
Senior Guillermo Carter’s
dream season just had one more
honor attached to it. After earn
ing NCAA berths in both singles
and doubles competition and a
No. 39 ranking, Carter was
named to the Pac-lO’s first team.
Carter is only the second Ore
gon player to qualify for the
NCAAs in singles competition.
Carter has a 15-9 singles record
with upsets over Stanford’s Ge
off Abrams, Pepperdine’s Robert
Kendrick and UCLA’s Jong Min
Lee.
By earning a No. 39 rank and NCAA berths in singles and doubles play, Guillermo Carter was named to the Pac-10’s first team.
Shattering the record book
With a 22-10 singles record,
freshman Oded Teig has vaulted
into Oregon tennis history. Pos
sibly the best freshman ever to
play at Oregon, Teig earned the
(( To be honest, it
caught me off guard.... I
think it's more of a trib
ute to the guys on the
team, not so much the
guy in charge.
Chris Russell
Coach of the Year
best record of any first-year play
er with the NCAAs yet to come.
The freshman from Holon, Is
rael, is second on the all-time list
for total wins in one season and
is eighth in winning percentage
(.647).
Finishing with style
A breakthrough year has
pushed senior Joaquin Hamdan
into the Oregon record book. Be
fore this year, Hamdan’s best
singles season saw only 12 wins.
Hamdan exploded this season
for a 20-12 record and a spot in
the hall of fame.
Hamdan’s career total of 50
wins places him eighth all-time.
His 20 wins this season is good
enough for eighth on the single
season list.
Add records
With an 18-9 record, freshman
Leslie Eisinga and Carter are one
of Oregon’s best doubles teams
ever. The duo became the first
Duck team to qualify for the
NCAAs this spring after reaching
the finals of the Pac-10 Champi
onships. Carter and Eisinga
moved into a tie for second in sin
gle-season wins. With at least two
more matches guaranteed, the
two could move into first place
before the season ends.
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