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each other when they first
square off against each other,
Curry responded with a
smile highly recognizable,
even over the phone.
“Knowing me and Jenny,
we’ll probably look at each
other and laugh,” she said.
The 41st selection (third
round) in Friday’s WNBA
Draft by the Charlotte Sting,
Curry is excited to be able to
get the chance to play pro
fessional basketball. And the
team that drafted her,
coached by Anne Donovan,
is just as excited to have her.
“We were really pleased
she was there in the third
round,” Donovan said. “We
are point guard-heavy right
now, but she was the best
player available on the board
< at that point.”
Curry joins a team that
most recently finished 18-14
in the regular season, only to
lose to Los Angeles in the
WNBA Finals.
She also joins a team that
is loaded with talent. That
talent begins with Dawn Sta
ley, whom Donovan calls
“the best point guard in
the league.”
Then there is Sheila Lam
bert, the seventh overall se
lection in this year’s draft.
The former Baylor guard is
expected to come in and
make a difference in the
Sting lineup this season.
All of that creates a sense
of uncertainty for Curry.
Unlike her four collegiate
seasons, she will no longer
be the main focus on either
the offense or defense. A
role on the bench is most
likely the case for the
Palmdale, Calif., native.
“You never know what
kind of an effect that may
have,” Oregon assistant
coach Dan Muscatell said.
“But she understood de
layed gratification. She un
derstood she had to work
very hard in practice.”
Muscatell said that Curry
is the type of person and
player who will be able to
overcome the harder times
on the court.
“She should be able to uti
lize her quickness,” he said.
“She’s very competitive.
She’s stepping up to the
highest level. She will
be tested.”
Curry understands the
need to work hard. She also
understands her predica
ment, already being pen
ciled in to sit behind Staley,
should she make the team.
Nevertheless, she also
plans to make the most out
of her first season in the
WNBA.
“I’m just going to go in
there and work hard,” she
said. “You go in there as a
rookie on a new team, so
you have to.”
As the third Oregon play
er ever to be drafted in the
WNBA — joining Mowe and
Angelina Wolvert (43rd
overall, Cleveland), both
chosen last season — Curry’s
selection begins to center the
focus on Oregon. With
Shaquala Williams almost
assured of a selection after
next season, and junior-to-be
Cathrine Kraayeveld on the
right track, Curry could have
some elite company soon.
“It just says a lot for our
program,” Curry said of her
selection. “We have WNBA
caliber players on our team.
I just think it gives our
younger players something
to look forward to.”
Muscatell couldn’t have
agreed more.
“I’d anticipate we’d have
another (selection) next
year,” he said. “We have peo
ple in the program who will
be able to play at that level.”
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Edniesha Curry, former Oregon point guard, was selected 41st overall by the Charlotte Sting in this year’s WNBA draft.
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freshman Kellen Clemens
continue to share time with
the first team.
“I’ve seen improvement,
but not as much as I would
like to see,” Bellotti said of
the quarterbacks. “Certainly
when the standard right now
is Joey Harrington or Akili
r
Smith, who were both No. 3
draft picks, that’s obviously a
pretty high standard.
“These guys are working
very hard, they’re very intelli
gent and they’re very good
athletes. Now they’ve found
out what they don’t know and
what they need to work on in
the offseason.”
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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things we do well” and to
help the team prepare for
three upcoming games
against the Arizona schools
beginning Friday.
Today’s two games bring
Oregon’s recent game tally to
seven games in six days. Port
land State has been just as
busy this week with three
doubleheaders in three days.
The Vikings faced No. 14 Ore
gon State for two at Erv Lind
Stadium on Tuesday between
their meetings with Oregon.
With the loss of the second
game on Monday, Rincon
was disappointed by his
team’s performance.
“We’re going to look for a
much better effort with inten
sity to get some wins under
our belt,” he said.
Oregon exploded for six
runs off of Portland State’s
all-time strike out leader
Morgan Seibert in Game 1
on Monday but failed to
score off of the Viking’s Nic
hole I vie in Game 2.
“Our team just lost intensi
ty from the first to the second
game,” junior Amber Hutchi
son said. “Everyone was real
ly on (against Seibert).”
Hutchison said that the
Ducks failed to make the
needed adjustments against
Ivie.
Portland State has won
four of the last six meetings
between the two schools.
E-mail sports reporterChris Cabot
atchriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
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