Sports briefs
Kent signs super prospect’
Oregon men’s basketball head
coach Ernie Kent announced Satur
day that Adam Zahn, a 6-foot-8, 225
pound forward from Redondo
Beach, Calif., has signed a national
letter of intent to play for the Ducks
next season.
“We are very excited to get Adam
into our program,” Kent said. “He
brings a new dimension to our team
that we don’t have, in that he’s an ath
letic big guy who can run the floor.”
Zahn averaged 14.4 points and 8.2
rebounds per game as a senior in earn
ing all-CIF Division 2A first team hon
ors at Redondo Union High. Coached
by Tom Maier, he led his team to a 24
7 record in 2001-02 as Redondo
Union advanced to the Southern Cali
fornia regional semifinals. As a junior,
Zahn averaged 17 points, nine re
bounds and six blocks per game as Re
dondo went 28-1.
Respected recruiting analyst Bob
^ Gibbons ranked Zahn among his top
100 seniors nationally. “(Zahn) has
nice size and a good touch from the
perimeter,” wrote Bob Gibbons All
Star Report correspondent Rob Mat
era. “He’s a hard worker and a solid
weakside rebounder.... (He) has some
potential as a combo forward because
of his ability to shoot the ball.”
Other recruiting services took no
tice of Zahn as well. FansOnly.com
gave him a rating of “super prospect.”
Hoop Scoop ranked him as the 17th
best player in California. Prepspot
light.com ranked him among the top
40 power forwards in the nation. Last
summer, Prep West Hoops listed Zahn
fourth among “rising power forwards”
on the West Coast.
Zahn, the son of Chet and Cathy
Zahn and brother to Arizona player
Andrew, is also a good student with a
3.0 prep grade point average.
He will join three players Oregon
signed in the fall — Jordan Kent
(Ernie’s son) of Eugene, Brandon Lin
coln from Portland’s Jefferson High
School and Andre Joseph from Lee Ju
nior College in Baytown, Texas.
“This recruiting class has some ex
cellent athletes who should keep our
program very well stocked for the next
four or five years,” coach Kent said.
“This is a versatile group that can fill a
lot of needs.”
Oregon graduated six seniors
— guards Freddie Jones, Anthony
Lever, Ben Lindquist and walk-on
Kristian Christensen, center Chris
Christoffersen and forward Mark
Michaelis — off the 2001-02 team that
won the Ducks’ first outright confer
ence title in 63 years and advanced to
the NCAA Elite Eight.
Women’s hoops signs
second Canadian
The University of Oregon women’s
basketball team landed another Cana
dian recruit Thursday as the Ducks
signed 6-foot-2 forward Yadili Ok
wumabua to a national letter of intent.
Okwumabua (oak-wum-ah-BOO
ah), a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
averaged 19 points, nine rebounds,
four steals and three blocks per game
as a senior last year at Glenlawn Col
legiate Institute. She also earned 4A
Player of the Year honors in Manitoba
her final two years.
“She’s a great rebounder and de
fender and loves to play an up-tempo
style,” said Oregon assistant coach Al
lison McNeill, whom Okwumabua
played for on the Canadian Junior Na
tional Team last summer. “On the jun
ior national team, she tested out as
one of the camp’s top athletes in terms
of speed and jumping ability.”
A three-year letterwinner at Glen
lawn, she led her team to the 4A
Provincial championship each year
— an unprecedented feat by a boys or
girls team in the province.
Okwumabua’s junior season was
nearly as successful with averages of
18 points, eight rebounds, four steals
and three blocks per game.
“Yadili is such a mentally and
physically tough player,” McNeill
said. “On top of that, she’s a great "kid
and an excellent student.”
An honor-roll student, Okwumabua
also earned the Carl Ridd Award,
which annually recognizes one Mani
toba athlete for outstanding athletic,
academic and community service ac
complishments.
Okwumabua joins 6-foot-3 post
player Carolyn Ganes (Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan), 5-foot-8 point guard
Corrie Mizusawa (Lafayette, Calif.), a
transfer from Saint Mary’s, and 5-foot
10 guard Chelsea Wagner (Spring
field), a transfer from Hawaii, in Ore
gon’s 2002-03 recruiting class.- It will
mark the first time the Ducks have
had two Canadians on the roster since
the 1983-84 season.
Women’s soccer player
to represent University
Oregon women’s soccer senior
Lindsey Peterson was one of about
300 student-athletes chosen to attend
the sixth annual NCAA Foundation
Leadership Conference from May 26
30 at Orlando, Fla.
Participants are from all three divi
sions of the NCAA attend the five-day
conference which helps enhance
leadership and communication skills
for the student-athletes.
Peterson, a three-year letterwinner
at the defender position for the Ducks,
is a native of Port Orchard, Wash. She
is majoring in business administra
tion.
To be nominated, one must be in
good academic standing and have ath
letics eligibility remaining the follow
ing year. Student-athletes also must
demonstrate an ability or strong desire
to be leaders.
Junior women’s basketball player
Shaquala Williams represented Ore
gon last year.
—from staff and wire reports
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play nearly with the same passion that we took to the UCLA
game,” Rincon said.
Hall, who struck out and popped out to the shortstop on
Sunday, said that her final game at Howe Field left her feeling
“bitter sweet.”
Washington is “an incredible team, but we didn’t play to our
potential — we didn’t make the hits and we didn’t do what
was necessary to win,” she said. “It’s a good feeling ending my
four years, but kind of bitter sweet knowing that we weren’t as
successful as we should have been.
“I’m very proud to be on this team. Whether we win or lose I
love playing with this team. It’s different going out like this.
... There is no other team I would rather go out with.”
Hall and McMurren have three games remaining in their
collegiate career as Oregon travels to play California on Friday
and Stanford in a doubleheader on Saturday.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
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