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Wednesday Best Bet NCAA Soccer: Arizona at Oregon 8 p.m., Fox Sports Net SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com I First-year head volleyball coach knows what it means to be successful and is proving to the Ducks that there is light at the end of the tunnel By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald Carl Ferreira knows it’s just around the corner. His eyes widen as he passes a sign on the side of the road — “Respectability: Two miles.” But there’s some bumps in the road, then some curves and finally a con struction delay. To make it to Success, U.S.A., one must put forth the effort, have the confi dence and, most importantly, the desire — all of which are displayed on the face of the first-year Oregon volleyball coach. • Ferreira has been to “Success.” He al most knows the road by heart, but that doesn’t make traveling it any easier, es pecially with a bus full of 15 young and talented athletes. “I’ve always considered myself an overachiever,” said the 39-year-old Fer reira. “But I don’t expect anyone to roll out the red carpet for me. In this profes sion, you’d better be successful on a day-to-day basis or you’re going to get your lunch handed to you.” After an illustrious high school career in Hawaii — in which he starred in vol leyball, baseball, basketball and track — Ferreira attended California’s Santa Rosa Junior College in the early ’80s. It was there where he found his true pas sion. Ferreira asked to assist the Santa Rosa volleyball team’s coaching staff on a volunteer basis, and he has never looked back. * Following a stint as an assistant coach with Stanford in 1994, Ferreira was hired as the head coach at No. 1 ranked Cal-State Bakersfield, a Division II school. Ferreira led the team to the national championship match in his first season, and compiled an overall record of 100-13 in three years at Bak ersfield. From there, Ferreira moved to Division I Idaho and the Big West Con ference, where he led the Vandals to a three-year record of 48-43. “You’re always trying to put yourself in successful situations,” said Ferreira, who had his third child, Elise Malia, just two weeks ago. “But to be success ful you have to have the right opportu nities along the way. You have to have passion as a leader and create vision to get motivated people to follow.” And that vision is now in Eugene, where volleyball and success have not blended well in the memorable past. In February, Ferreira was hired to turn around a program that had not seen a winning season in 10 years and had an overall record of 14-130 in the Pacific-10 Conference from 1992 to 1999. “Oregon volleyball has had its strug gles, but it’s not impossible to be suc cessful,” Ferreira said. “I’m not rein venting the wheel here. You make a plan and stick with it. But you still have to look in the mirror to figure out what’s working and what’s not. You have to stay hungry and passionate.” Ferreira said that one of the main rea sons he came to Eugene was because of the University’s strong athletic depart ment. “It’s a great time to be here,” said Fer reira, who i$ 7-8 overall this season and will look to win his first Pac-10 match in Washington this weekend. “Oregon has one of the fastest growing athletic Turn to Ferreira, page 10A ii Oregon volleyball has had its strug gles, but it’s not impossible to be successful. Carl Ferreira // Oregon volleyball head coach Kevin Calame Emerald Carl Ferreria instantly gained the respect of his players. Oregon s shaking off rust, preparing for Trojans Emerald Joey Harrington (3) has not lost confidence in senior place-kicker Josh Frankel, who missed three field goals against UW. ■The Ducks enjoyed their bye week, but now are hungry to get back to work and keep their undefeated Pac-10 record intact By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald “Tweet!” “Go!” “Tweet!” “Go!” With the sounds of a whistle and the voice of a coach sig naling when to sprint, the brief “vacation” officially came to an end for the Oregon Duck football team. Last week, the starters got the chance to rest for most of the week. The bye came at a perfect time in the season and al lowed them to heal up their bodies and let their minds relax after back-to-back showdowns against Washington and UCLA. But now the Ducks (4-1, 2-0) are back at it in preparation for Saturday’s road game against Southern California (3-2,0 2). On Monday, head coach Mike Bellotti wasted no time in getting his troops back into the game week mentality. The Ducks practiced for almost three hours under the lights of Autzen Stadium, and closed the session with some fast paced sprints. “Last week was great because we got a chance to shut it dowm for a little bit," defensive end Jason Nikolao said. “But this week, as you can see, on the first day out they put us in Turn to Football notes, page 10A (i You have to take it one game at a time. Because if you start thinking too far ahead, you're going to slip. Marshaun Tucker senior wide receiver yy
