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Ducks start outdoor season
with meet at Hayward Field
■The Ducks converge at
Hayward Field on Saturday for
the season’s first home meet
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
After posting successful in
door seasons, Sarah Malone and
Becky Holliday are looking to be
gin the outdoor track and field
season with strong performances
at the Weber State-Montana Tri
angular on Saturday at Hayward
Field.
Malone, who has a season best
170-feet-9-inch javelin throw, will
lead the talented Oregon women’s
squad, and is in just her first step
to what she hopes is a successful
season.
A close friend of the late Art
Skipper, a former Oregon javelin
star who died in a plane crash in
October, Malone has grand plans
for this season after an injury rid
dled last year.
“I plan to dedicate this season
to him, his wife Kam, and the new
baby,” Malone said of Skipper.
“I’m going to do everything in my
power to have a great season and
hopefully I can give the champi
onship medal to his wife.”
Malone said her season best
mark, achieved two weeks ago,
was a surprise, albeit a favorable
one.
“Hopefully I’ll improve upon
that, and if the weather’s good,
that will be in favor of us,” she
said.
Holliday, a junior college trans
fer, may be the grand jewel in Ore
gon’s plan for prominence this
season. The junior pole vaulter
i
p
placed seventh last weekend at
the NCAA Indoor Champi
onships, all despite an injury that
required seven stitches.
She was unimpressed with her
high mark of 13-feet-7 1/4 inches
in Fayetteville, Ark., but neverthe
less, is beginning to transition
well to Division I.
“I competed as well as I could
right now,” Holliday said. “I’m
still working on my technique
‘‘I plan to dedicate this
season to (Art Skipper),
his wife Kam, and the new
baby. I’m going to do
everything in my power to
have a great season and
hopefully I can give the
championship medal to
his wife.”
Sarah Malone
Oregon track and field
right now a whole bunch. It still
didn’t come quite together, but
when it does, I’ll be set.”
Holliday has competed at Hay
ward Field before and was often
the focus of the Ducks’ attention
during her meets, but will wear
the Oregon green and yellow at
the fabled facility for the first time
Saturday. To say she is looking
forward to the triangular is an un
derstatement.
“I’m excited,” she said. “It’s so
awesome. Home meets are always
so awesome.”
In past seasons, the first event
at Hayward Field was always
called the Oregon Preview. These
meets afforded Oregon fans a
chance to check out the team’s
athletes early on, but never really
gave the Ducks much competi
tion.
Because two other squads will
be competing at the triangular,
head coach Tom Heinonen ex
pects the Ducks to benefit.
“Team scoring makes it more
interesting to the fans, and adds
a little more impact than the Ore
gon Preview, which we thought
was important with only four
home meets this season and
none of them championships,”
he said.
Heinonen added that the trian
gular will help his coaches sepa
rate who will travel with the team
at the end of March.
“This will be the final factor we
use in determining who goes to
Arizona at the end of spring
break,” he said in reference to the
team’s trip to Tempe.
After two weeks of sunny
weather, the Eugene area has been
soaked with precipitation, which
is not expected to lqf up Saturday.
However, it will not curtail the
Ducks’ plans to compete.
“We’ll take what we can get,”
Heinonen said. “We’ve seen every
possible type of weather at Hay
ward Field.”
The meet starts with the
women’s javelin and the men’s
hammer competitions at noon.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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