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Adam Jones Emerald
Oregon linebacker Kevin Mitchell, pictured in front of the Casanova Center, wants to be a K-9 cop when he graduates.
Just like a game
■Kevin Mitchell has tackled
tougher stuff in his life than
Oregon’s football opponents
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
T n 1997, Oregon linebacker
Kevin Mitchell and his friend,
Gerrard Fame, arrived at Fame’s
JL Santa Ana, Calif., home as a
man leapt over a fence carrying a
VCR under his arm.
Faine ran inside to call the police,
certain his VCR had been stolen,
while Mitchell took off in pursuit.
Mitchell chased the burglar down an
alley, through a strip mall and across
an intersection as sports sedans and
SUVs rushed by. He tackled the man
on the far side of the street and wres
tled to hold him down for five min
utes until police responded to the
scene. It was a little after 7:30 p.m.
“The police were saying to the
man, ‘You let a high school kid
catch you?’” recalls Mitchell’s
mother, Betsy. “Kevin was 17 years
old at the time. It turns out (the bur
glar) was a third-strike case, and
they put him away for a long time. ”
Many Pacific-10 Conference wide
receivers and running backs could
share in the burglar’s pain. Mitchell
has put vicious hits on them as a sec
ond-year linebacker for the Ducks.
But his instinct to see justice
served comes from a life spent with
family friends who serve in the Los
Angeles Police Department and the
Orange County Sheriffs Department.
His mother works in the training
academy of the sheriff’s department,
and Mitchell would listen to presen
tations on gangs > cults and drugs
while he waited for rides home.
He says those early experiences
fueled his desire to work in law en
forcement when he finishes school.
“It’s an eye-opener,” Mitchell said
of the tribulations police officers
deal with on a daily basis. “I knew
these things were out there, but it’s
an eye-opener.”
But Mitchell doesn’t look like av
erage cop material. He sports a goat
ee and has four tattoos, including a
multi-colored number on his left
arm that reads, “Trust No One.” In
side the tattoo are the names of his
parents and other family members.
He says he got the tattoo because
he’s seen a harsher side of life. One
that is dangerous. Unpredictable.
Those who have known him say
his intensity and desire to succeed
will take him as far as he’s willing to
work in whatever career he choos
es to pursue.
“There’s not a lot of compromis
ing about the young man,” says
Bruce Rollinson, head football
coach at Mater Dei High School in
Santa Ana, Calif., where Mitchell at
tended and played. “There’s not a
lot of acceptance for less than per
fection. He joked with the best of
them, don’t get me wrong. But that
kind of leadership permeated on
this defense. He led them.”
Mitchell says Mater Dei — a pre
dominantly Catholic school of
2,200 students—was hard to adjust
to, especially since he was not
raised Catholic.
“I got sent to the office a lot,”
Mitchell says. “It would be because
I forgot to shave, and my facial hair
was too long.
“But it would only be this long,”
he says, rubbing a hand across the
stubble on his cheeks. “Basically, I
had to conform.”
Motivational speeches from
Rollinson didn’t hurt, either.
“Yeah,” Rollinson says. “I can re
member saying, ‘Look son, you’re
not a bad kid. It’s just a different set
of standards here, and you’ve got to
live up to them. It’s just like a game.
And the rules of this game are you
get your shirt tucked in and get to
class on time.’”
Mitchell’s experiences have
taught him to be himself, because
living up to another person’s expec
tations can’t make him happy.
“I’m gonna wear my jeans and my
steel-toed boots,” Mitchell says.
“That’s just my style. ”
Eric Martin is a higher education reporterfor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.
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