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Local Olympians head to Sydney
■Tracktown USA is sending
six medalist hopefuls to the
102nd Olympiad in Australia
By Robbie McCallum
for the Emerald
Eugene will be well-represented
in next month’s Olympic Games in
Sydney, Australia. Six former
Ducks and Eugene residents have
qualified for the Olympics in the
track and field portion of the inter
national competition.
Hammer thrower Lance Deal is
the only Oregonian in this year’s
Olympics who owns a medal. Deal
was the silver medalist in the ham
mer at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
This year, Deal is making no pre
dictions about a medal.
“My goal for Sydney is very sim
ple,’’ Deal said in an earlier inter
view with the Emerald.
“It’s to throw a personal record
in the final. That means taking care
of the technical aspects of the
throw. Distance takes care of it
self.”
Deal's personal best is 270 feet,
11 inches, which is also the Ameri
can record. The four-time
Olympian won this year’s Pre
fontaine Classic with a throw of
262-9, his best throw this year. The
Olympics will be Deal’s last com
petition ever.
Former Duck Nick Rogers sur
prised the crowd at the U.S.
Olympic Trials in Sacramento last
month with his third place finish
in the 5,000 meters.
Coming into the competition as
a dark horse at-best, the 22-year
old Rogers tucked in behind fa
vorite Bob Kennedy for most of the
race before taking the lead for the
final two laps. Rogers was out
kicked by winner Adam Goucher
and Stanford’s Brad Hauser with
200 meters to go.
Marla Runyan provided the feel
good story of this year’s Olympic
Trials with her third place finish in
the 1,500. Runyan had been ham
pered by a knee injury all season
and considered scratching from
the race beforehand, but still man
aged to qualify in a time of 4:06.4.
The former heptathlete finished
behind four-time Olympian Regi
na Jacobs (4:01.1) and former Eu
gene resident Suzy Favor Hamil
ton (4:02.1).
Runyan is the first member of
the Olympic team who is legally
blind. She suffers from a condition
called Stargardt’s disease, a macu
lar degeneration syndrome that
leaves her with 20/200 vision.
The third former Duck who will
compete in Sydney is heptathlete
Kelly Blair-LaBounty. She finished
third in the seven-event competi
tion despite winning only one
event.
Blair-LaBounty tied for first in
the long jump and placed third in
the 800 and javelin throw and tal
lied 6,180 points, 163 points be
hind winner DeeDee Nathan.
Former Oregon runner Karl -
Keska qualified for the Olympics
on Great Britain’s team. The former
Pacific-10 cross country champion
placed third in the 10,000 in the
British Trials in July. Keska is
ranked 23th in the world among
Olympians with a personal best
28:00.5.
The track and field portion of
the Olympic Games takes place
from Sept. 22 through Oct. 1.
Pac-10
continued from page 13A
biggest question mark that the Tro
jans have is their running game.
Chad Morton is gone, which leaves
three candidates to fill his hole. Most
likely, the job will belong to sopho
more Sultan McCullough, whose
brother Saladin was a running back
at Oregon just a few years back.
Powerful junior Malaefou
MacKenzie will also get his fair
share of carries, with true freshman
Chris Howard probably being the
best true running back on the team.
“Sultan is a real blazer and cre
ates problems when he gets through
a hole or around the comer,” Hack
ed said. “We'll utilize all of our tail
backs this season. I really like our
mixture of power and speed.”
Funny how Hackett adores his
running backs, but during this past
off-season he expended a lot of ef
fort in trying to recruit tailback
Maurice Morris, the top junior-col
lege prospect in the nation.
Morris declined the Trojans, and
chose instead to go up north to play
for the Ducks, who with Morris on
the roster, should be a contender for
the conference title.
Oregon is spearheaded by its
two-headed quarterback monster in
Harrington and A.J. Feeley, who
combined for more than 3,000
yards passing last year.
Another Pac-10 team that should
contend is UCLA , which is anxious
to get on the field and erase memo
ries of last season’s disastrous 4-7
record.
The only problem is that there is
still no clear cut starting quarter
back for the Bruins. Sophomore
Cory Paus was not able to partici
pate in the spring while he recov
ered from offseason shoulder sur
gery, but he still seems to have the
inside track at the starting gig over
6-foot-4 Ryan McMann, who got
about 75 percent of the snaps dur
ing spring drills. Also, third-string
QB Scott McEwan could provide
competition at that position.
But the need for a Cade Mc
Nown-type gun slinger isn’t as nec
essary due to the fact that running
back DeShaun Foster heads the
backfield. Foster will be running
behind a monstrous offensive line
that should provide him with
enough holes to get back the form
that he had in 1998 when he was
the team’s leading rusher as a fresh
man. He missed most of last season
due to an ankle injury.
The Bruins defense should hold
up well and it is likely that the Bru
ins will be the most improved team
in the league, but whether that will
be good enough to earn a bowl bid
remains to be seen.
The wild card team is Oregon
State, which has been re-energized by
second-year coach Dennis Erickson.
Last season, Erickson led the
Beavers to a 7-5 season, which was
— get this — their first winning sea
son since 1970.
It was good enough to earn them
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an invite to the Oahu Bowl, which
marked their first bowl berth since
1964. But now Erickson must prove
that last season was no fluke, and
he showed he’s committed to the
city of Corvallis when he signed a
new five-year guaranteed contract
for more than $480,000 a year.
In order for the Beavers to stay
above the .500 mark for a second
straight year, quarterback Jonathan
Smith must keep improving and
learn to control his touch and accu
racy.
“He is the leader of this offense
and I look for him to have a great
fall,” Erickson said. “He worked ex
tremely hard in the winter and in
the spring.”
Other concerns for Oregon State
are the kicking game and the ability
of the defensive line to rush the
passer, but Erickson says that all
problems will be resolved.
“This football team has a chance
to be as good as we were a year ago,
it just depends on how we develop.”
The rest of the five Pac-10 teams
— Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford,
California and Washington State —
can’t be overlooked as the unpre
dictability of the conference will
most likely turn a few heads as the
season progresses.
But as for the conference as a
whole, it is looking to come out
smoking against non-conference
foes such as Michigan, Wisconsin,
Alabama, Texas and Penn State.
And help shift that “Pathetic”
notion of the past into a “Power
ful” one.
Oregon
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