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Sports briefs
Women’s soccer
honored for academics
Coming off its best season since
becoming a University sport in
1996, the women’s soccer team has
shown it can also hit the books.
The Ducks were one of two Pacif
ic-10 Conference teams to achieve
a minimum 3.0 GPA during the
2000-01 academic year. Washing
ton also earned the honor.
The two schools will be recog
nized Thursday by the National
Soccer Coaches Association of
America at the 2002 NSCAA Con
vention in Philadelphia.
“I’m very happy to see the overall
performance of the team has been
balanced with a good understand
ing of academics and athletics,” sev
enth-year Oregon coach Bill Steffen
said. “Good grades don’t happen by
accident, and the kids have worked
hard to achieve this for the third
time since I’ve coached at Oregon.”
Oregon finished last season with
an 8-8-2 record — its best winning
percentage under Steffen. It also
landed four players on the Pac-10
All-Academic team.
— From staff and wire reports
Basketball
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Pac-lO (9-7 overall) — including an
83-73 win over Oregon in Los An
geles — as they begin a long stretch
at home.
Five of USC’s next seven games
are at home, and with a balanced
attack in Ebony Hoffman (14.2
points, 8.7 rebounds) and Aisha
Hollans (18.3, 7.1), the Trojans are
tough to bet against.
In the ’zona
After averaging less than 58
points a game during a three-game
losing streak, Arizona (7-8, 3-4)
torched Washington State and
Washington last weekend, with 107
and 83 points, respectively.
The 107 points against the
Cougars is the most Arizona has
scored in four years and the most
points scored in the Pac-10 this sea
son. Sophomore guard Candice
Allen scored a career-high 25
points in the 83-69 win over Wash
ington on Saturday.
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude at
adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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hockey squad will take on Finland
in its opening game. Six months
ago, most people in America
wouldn’t have paid much attention
to the ice at Salt Lake. Yeah, fanat
ics like myself would have been
glued to their television sets any
way, but the actions of September
have magnified what the men of the
United States do in February.
Simply put, the country needs
them to do what American hockey
did at Lake Placid, N.Y., 22 years ago.
Back then, the economy was in
shambles, American hostages were
still in captivity in Iran and national
pride was at an all-time low. Some
have credited the upset with making
everything right again in America.
This probably isn’t the case, but it
sure made Americans believe they
could pull through the tough times.
In a sense, 2002 parallels 1980 clos
er than any year in United States’ his
tory. American pride is up, but nation
al security is still an issue in many
people’s minds. The country is
stronger than ever, but at the same
time, it’s still as frail as it ever could be.
Enter Mike Modano, Mike Richter,
Jeremy Roenick and others on this
year’s squad. Every American player
who will take the ice in Salt Lake City
was alive in 1980. Some were barely
old enough to walk, but all know the
significance of Eruzione, Craig and
coach Herb Brooks — and what they
did for the sport with their win.
“It was a great accomplishment for
them, and we know how important it
was to us,” U.S. forward Doug Weight
said in an article published by USA
hockey.com. “We still have that little
kid in us. We’re professionals now,
and they were amateurs ... but we’re
still the same kids, and we want to
win as much for them as they want
ed to win for us.”
These men know what an
Olympic gold could do for America.
Win, and it will help erase the memo
ries of Sept. 11. Lose, and the world
will still be the same. However, if
they make themselves a laughing
stock, as they did in 1998, it could
spell the end for American hockey.
For those of you who forgot, in
Nagano, Japan, the American team
decided to trash their hotel rooms
after they accumulated their third
loss in four games, leaving the sport
and its players with a black eye.
The men who starred for the team
that year, which is a large chunk of
this year’s squad, can save face by
playing well at Salt Lake.
But, more important, they can
help pull America through its
tough time.
So, if you can’t make time to sit
down and watch the Americans
take on Finland on Feb. 15 or the
Russians the next night, make sure
you tape it. Who knows, there
could be another miracle on ice.
E-mail reporter Hank Hager at
hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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