Ex-Duck's daughter
signs with UO track
■The Ducks continue
bolstering their team with
the addition of another prep
recruit, one with Oregon ties
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Usually, when the Oregon
women’s track and field team
shows around a new recruit, every
one wants to know where they’re
from. Or they ask them their per
sonal best in the event they’re par
ticipating in.
But in the case
of Clarite Hay
ward-Lee, the
Ducks’ newest
addition in the
triple jump an
n o u n c e d
Wednesday, maybe all everyone
wanted to know was how many
points her dad scored in 1974.
Hayward-Lee is the daughter of
Oregon men’s basketball legend Ron
Lee. The Bellevue, Wash., native
may turn some Duck heads of her
own on the Oregon track next year.
Hayward-Lee won the Washing
ton 4A triple jump title last season
with a leap of 38 feet, 6 1/4 inches,
f
then took second in the high jump
with a jump of 5-5. She was fifth in
the triple jump her junior year at
Newport High School. -
“Clarice has a lot of potential to
develop into a national-class triple
jumper, and possibly a high
jumper as well,” Oregon sprints
and jumps coach Mark Stream
said. “She’s very athletic and has
her best years ahead of her.”
Hayward-Lee could fill a hole in
the Ducks’ field unit, which has
been without a consistent triple
jumper this season. Sophomore
Deborah Lee has been the only
Duck to focus solely on the event,
and failed to make the Pacific-10
Conference standard of 39-4 1/2
this season. High jumper Rachael
Kriz came the closest to that mark.
Hayward-Lee will draw a lot of
attention because of her father.
Ron Lee was part of the “Kamikaze
Kids,” with current men’s basket
ball head coach Ernie Kent, in the
mid-70s. Lee holds the Oregon
record for scoring, and is second
all-time in points per game. He
was a three-time all-American.
Hayward-Lee is the fifth top re
cruit signed by Oregon for the
2001-02 season.
Tom Patterson Emerald
Niki Reed was an all-around prep athlete, lettering in volleyball, softball and track, and earned all-state honors in swimming.
Reed
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Half of Eugene comes to meets.
This helps.
And, unless Speight can make
the NCAAs this weekend, Reed
will be the only Oregon partici
pant in the NCAA pole vault.
“People who live in Eugene al
ways come to meets,” Reed said.
“Just being able to vault here is
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As the end of the season is ap
proaching, Reed may need to
make the most of her situation
right now. Life at Oregon hasn’t
always been peachy, and if she
encounters more twists in the fu
ture, the vault of Reed’s career
may not turn out just right.
There were the knee injuries
that hampered her last season.
There were the busted poles at
successive meets this season that
forced her to move down to
smaller poles and lower heights.
And there’s the mental aspect of
vaulting that has always pushed
Reed to go one notch higher, and
sometimes one notch lower.
“Ninety percent of vaulting is
mental,” Reed said.
Then there is the case of El
strom. The senior was an all
American last season, but recur
ring injuries forced her to
essentially sit out her senior sea
son. Elstrom has been vaulting,
but with short poles at short
heights. Because of the athletic
meat grinder that is pole vaulting,
Reed could follow Elstrom next
year if her knee problems come
back.
But if Elstrom’s words are a
guide, Reed should have success,
right here, right now.
“Niki’s always done well at big
meets in the past,” Elstrom said.
“She’s able to put behind her
whatever has happened before
the meet.”
Even Reed herself recognizes
that clutch mentality.
“I love beating people equal to
or better than me,” Reed said.
“There will be a lot of talented
girls [in the postseason], but I’m
just going to try my hardest and
see what happens.”
For Niki Reed, now is the time
to go over the bar.
Smith
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sion about who the next coach is go
ing to be,” Muscatell said. “We’ve
talked about that, and I told them
that people other than ourselves are
in control of that. We need to con
centrate on the things we can con
trol right now.”
Muscatell, an Oregon assistant the
last two years who has become a
team favorite as the primary recruiter,
said he has not decided if he will ap
ply for the head coaching job.
“As I have said all along, the
deadline is May 21 and I plan to
make my decision before then,”
Muscatell said. “It certainly would
be my desire [to remain at Oregon
n some form], but Moos has made it
dear that the new coach will decide
:hat. I’d like to be around.”
Muscatell also said that he and
some of the players met with Smith
during her two-day visit to campus.
“[Smith] has a great depth of feel
ing having played here,” Muscatell
said. “All coaches hold out that hope
to return to their roots. She clearly is
sxcited about the possibility. ”
The Ducks return nine letterwin
aers next year, including 2000 Pa
cific-10 Conference Player of the
Year Shaquala Williams, who
missed the entire 2000-01 season
with an injured knee.
This year’s recruiting class of six
prep standouts is considered by
many to be one of the best in the na
tion.
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