Tom Patterson Emerald
Junior Carli Halligan, senior Lisa Dohrmann and senior Annie Pogue were three main reasons the Oregon club volleyball team
secured the coveted national championship trophy. Pogue was awarded the tournament’s Most Valuable Player honor.
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national championship.
The game ended in dramatic
fashion when Oregon senior Annie
Pogue scored the final point on a
spike that hit a Purdue player dead
in the face and knocked her off her
feet.
“Our team has so much tenaci
ty,” said Pogue, a former member
of the Oregon varsity volleyball
program. “We knew we were going
to win as long as we just kept fight
ing.”
Pogue was honored for efforts as
the tournament’s Most Valuable
Player.' Oregon also had two first
team all-tournament players in
senior Lisa Dohrmann and junior
Carli Halligan.
Those who witnessed Oregon’s
games through the tournament
were amazed at the level of play
shown.
“I have never seen a women’s
team that worked so well and had
no flaws,” Oregon men’s club vol
leyball coach Vince Butera said.
The future is bright for Oregon,
as it will have five returning
starters and two returning All
Americans while losing only one
senior.
“All in all, I like the way the
team played as a team,” Banner
said. “It’s a team sport, and they
played as team and that is what
mattered.”
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ed Press.
Iowa State head coach Bill Fen
nelly said he is “positive” the inci
dent did not happen.
“The situation at Oregon is
chaotic at best,” Fennelly said. “It
appears they are out to get Jody, so
whatever they can dig up, they are
digging up.”
Also in 1996, Runge refused to
renew the scholarship of Kristin
Niemann, who sat out most of the
1995-96 season with a shoulder in
jury. Niemann and her attorney,
Michael Seidl, protested, and a set
tlement was reached with the Uni
versity. Both Niemann and Seidl
have been interviewed by the rep
resentatives from Bond, Schoe
neck & King.
Seidl described Niemann’s rela
tionship with Runge as “emotion
al terrorism.”
“This was not a situation of a
player having a normal kind of
problem with a coach,” Seidl told
The Oregonian.
From the beginning, the 2000-01
season was unpredictable. From
Shaquala Williams’season-ending
injury to the demand that Runge
be fired, not much went right. But,
in the end, the Ducks still made an
eighth straight NCAA Tournament
appearance.
When the eight still — and per
haps forever — unidentified play
ers met with Moos, the reaction
was simple: why now? The team
had just swept a weekend series
against two of the top teams in the
Pacific-10 Conference.
The players, however, wanted to
i make it clear why the team had
been so successful in recent years.
“Jody was not listening and that
was a concern to [the players],”
Moos said in a March 5 conference
call. “As I understood it, they had
an issue with belittling and private
matters being aired out in the me
dia when they had not been ad
dressed on a one-on-one basis.”
Although there haV6 been public
disagreements in the past, none of
the players has spoken publicly
about Runge since the meeting.
Little has been said in the past
two weeks. Moos is unavailable for
comment, and Runge cannot be
reached.
All eyes are on Bond, Schoeneck
& King.
“We have not seen anything
yet,” University spokeswoman
Pauline Austin said Monday. “It’s
really in the hands of the consult
ants. We’re not crowding them.”
It’s no secret that Runge and the
Athletic Department have been at
odds since she’s been here. From
the lawsuits to the arguments, the
two sides have had little to say
about one another.
In an in-depth feature on Runge
in last year’s Emerald, Moos didn’t
have much to offer in regard to
Runge’s impressive career.
“Her record speaks for itself,” he
said, referring to the coach’s .687
winning percentage.
But surely something has to be
said — soon. How long can the
players hold their breaths? How
long can Runge not know her fu
ture? How long can a program es
sentially go without a coach?
So many questions to be an
swered. So few responses.
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