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Junior Julie Gerlach (4) and senior Halie Mazza (17) join new head coach Carl Ferreira in
bringing the volleyball squad out of the Pac-10 basement and to the top of the set.
Under new tutelage,
Ducks spike doubts
■ A pitiful season last year left the Oregon volleyball team
hungry for bigger and better performances in 2000
By Adam jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
For the Oregon volleyball squad,
there’s only one way to go: Up.
Following a dismal 7-20 1999-00
season — in which the team won
only one of 18 Pacific-10 Confer
ence matches — the Ducks have a
new head coach in Carl Ferreira, a
new style and most importantly, a
new attitude.
Ferreira comes to Eugene with
lofty expectations: Become one of
the top 20 teams in the nation and
make it to the NCAA tournament
for the first time since 1989.
“We need to have a common vi
sion,” said Ferreira, who compiled
a 148-56 coaching record in six
C C There’s definitely going
to be a change. We’re put
ting the past behind us.
There’s a new face to Ore
gon volleyball and we’re
going to make it happen
this year.
Monique Tobbagi
junior, outside hitter
years at Cal-State Bakersfield and
Idaho. “We need to prepare 30
times and give the same effort and
the same intensity each game.”
While Ferreira has high hopes of
rejuvenating his newly-inherited
program, his visions will not come
easy in the country’s toughest con
ference, which had four teams fin
ish in the nation’s top-20 last year.
“It’s simple to be optimistic in
August, but competition reveals
character and exposes what you’re
made of,” said Ferreira, who began
the season with four straight wins
in leading the Ducks to a champi
onship trophy at the USTA/Hamp
ton Inn Tournament in San Anto
nio on Sept. 2. “I feel good about
heading into the season. I have a
lot of confidence in what we do.”
Much of the team success this
year will depend on the health of
its four upperclassmen, particular
ly junior Monique Tobbagi. The 6
foot outside hitter, who led the
1999 squad in kills per game and
service aces, was sidelined for part
of last season with a nagging foot
injury and missed one match in
the San Antonio tournament this
month due to a concussion.
“There’s definitely going to be a
change,” Tobbagi said. “We’re put
ting the past behind us. There’s a
new face to Oregon volleyball and
we’re going to make it happen this
year.”
Along with Tobbagi, senior out
side hitter Amy Banducci, senior
middle blocker Halie Mazza and
junior setter Julie Gerlach will an
chor the squad in its quest for an
NCAA tournament berth.
“We need them to really buy
into what we’re doing and provide
direction for the new players,” Fer
reira said of implementing his sys
tem. “They’re doing great so far.
I’m really happy with them.”
One major disadvantage that
Oregon faced last year was a lack
of size at the net. In Amanda
Porter, a 6-foot-2 middle blocker,
the Ducks may have found the
height they desperately needed.
The Idaho transfer, who played for
Ferreira last year, will be a key
contributor off the bench.
Porter said the team is gaining
confidence as it gets more ac
quainted with Ferreira’s method.
“The system is so competitive,”
she said. “Competing is the main
thing. Everyone is like, ‘We’re go
ing to win,’ and I love hearing that,
especially since I already know the
system and now people are believ
ing in it just like I do. It’s awe
some.”
Ferreira designed his system
around the Ducks’ strength: Quick
ness at the setting positions. Ger
lach — who ranks fifth on the
Ducks all-time assist list with
1,941 — and sophomore Sydney
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