Harriers look back on year of success
The Oregon cross country
teams will lose only three
seniors from two squads
Cross country
Mindi Rice
Freelance Sports Reporter
Coming home with five All-Ameri
can runners from the NCAA Champi
onships is a feat that no Duck squad in
the past six years — and possibly
longer—has accomplished.
Men’s head coach Martin Smith and
women’s head coach Tom Heinonen
had a year to be proud of.
“This season I felt like the guys did
an outstanding job working together as
a team,” Smith said. “It’s a tremendous
accomplishment to have four All
Americans and finish fifth as a team at
nationals. It’s a positive indicator that
we’re getting better, and building to
ward a brighter future. ”
Smith’s men’s squad had an impres
sive fifth-place finish at the national
meet, stunning everyone — including
themselves. Smith had counted the
Ducks out of the top-five before the na
tional meet.
Senior Jason Hartmann earned his
third All-American honor in cross
country, finishing 20th in his last colle
giate cross country meet.
“Coming in, I had a feeling that
we would do well as a team,” Hart
mann said. “This was a nice way to
finish it off.”
Redshirt sophomore Ryan Andrus
finished 34th in the national race, with
redshirt sophomore Eric Logsdon and
junior Brett Holts right behind him at
41st and 43rd, respectively. The three
all earned All-American honors with
Hartmann.
“It’s been an intense year, and we’ve
been so dedicated that it’s been a spe
cial season,” Andrus said.
Andrus earned a Pacific-10 Confer
ence All-Academic First Team honor
for the second consecutive year. Red
shirt junior John Lucas was named to
the second team, while Logsdon, Holts
and junior Noel Paulson all earned
honorable mentions.
All of the men who ran in the
NCAA race this year finished higher
than they had in any previous na
tional appearances.
“We had a very good year and the
guys have worked extremely hard,”
Smith said. “They’ve been very coach
able and they have patiently built
themselves into a nationally-competi
tiveteam.”
On the women’s side, the team
missed an opportunity to run in the
national meet in Heinonen’s last cross
country meet. Heinonen is not disap
pointed, though.
“I’m really pleased with how we fin
ished the season,” Heinonen said. “A
lot of teams were on the way down at
the end of the season, and we were
stronger than ever. ”
Redshirt senior Carrie Zografos
qualified as an individual to race at the
NCAA meet. She earned her first All
American honor and gave Heinonen
his 31st All-American runner in his 28
years at the helm.
“What more can you ask for—your
last runner to be an All-American and
have her best race ever,” Heinonen said.
Senior Erinn Gulbrandsen ended
her harrier career with a 47th-place
finish at the Western Regional meet,
her highest finish at regionals.
“Erinn had her best this season as a
senior, which is what every coach
hopes for,” Heinonen said. “Her goal
this year was to be counted on as a sen
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Carrie Zografos (left) earned All-American honors in Tom Heinonen's last season.
xor and she accomplished that. Erinn
had a fine finish to her collegiate cross
country year.”
Gulbrandsen was named to the Pa
cific-10 Conference All-Academic First
Team, which she also was named to last
year. Redshirt junior Eri Macdonald
earned her first top-team honor. Zo
grafos, junior Laura Harmon, redshirt
junior Alicia Snyder-Carlson and red
shirt sophomore Taylor Bryant were all
picked as honorable mentions.
While only losing three seniors be
tween the two squads, Oregon’s cross
county future appears to be set for more
national appearances. Freshman Nicole
Feest had an impressive first season,
scoring in three of her five races for the
women’s squad. Andrus, Logsdon and
Holts all have at least one more year to
seek another All-American honor on
the men’s side. Many harriers from both
squads will also participate in the up
coming track and field season, which is
a benefit in off-season training.
Things should continue to run in the
right direction for Oregon cross country.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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The men's rugby squad will continue its season in January.
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to improve upon their less-than
stellar record.
“We are a really young team.
We have a few freshmen who
stepped up and played well,”
Coordinator Bill Bleecker said.
“The more we play together and
understand each other, the bet
ter we will do.”
Oregon will get a chance to
prove that they are dominant,
as the season is only half over. It
starts with having to extract
some revenge from teams that it
faced on the road this season.
Only this time, those teams
have to come to Eugene. The
time to improve starts on Jan. 7,
when the team will begin prac
ticing Tuesdays and Thursdays
on the Turf Field.
“I know and the team knows
that we are going to grow to
gether and get better from
here,” Bleecker said. “I’ve been
on several teams before, and
this team really gets along and
really has something special.
Rugby really makes you like
family, and we are all getting on
the same page.”
Getting things in order seems
to make sense. With a few
months of rest, relaxation and
recuperation, Oregon should
come out stronger with a better
understanding of the offense,
and will have the one thing all
teams cherish — experience.
“It would have been nice to
get a few more ‘W’s,’ but our
boys are really beginning to un
derstand the attack we are us
ing. Our last two games really
started to bear fruit,” Snyder
said. “I sincerely expect Oregon
rugby to finish the second half
of the season and earn a
playoff berth.”
To borrow the words of for
mer Indianapolis Colts head
coach Jim Mora: “Playoffs?
You’re talking about playoffs?”
Yes, playoffs. Something Ore
gon rugby deserves and should
be talking about, and something
that other tackle sport will not
know about until Sunday.
Scott Archer is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Rice
continued from page 9
coverage, as it already has, the club has the right to
decide to not allow women as members.
It’s not as if women aren’t allowed on the
grounds — they just aren’t allowed to be members.
Several members of the Ladies Professional Golfers
Association have played on the course; women are
allowed on the course as guests of members, and
women actually play about 1,000 rounds of golf per
year at Augusta. The only thing they are not being
allowed to do is run freely through the clubhouse
or play a round by their own free will.
Augusta is not the only club to bar women from
membership. Two well-known courses in Ireland
— the Royal Dublin as well as the course that hosts
the annual Irish Open — are men-only clubs also.
The question also lies with the messenger. Why
is Burk, whose mother was an “avid golfer” but who
admits to rarely playing herself, the messenger of
this let-women-in-or-we’ll-glare-at-you message?
Had it come from a person such as Annika
Sorenstam, the 32-year-old Sweden native who
won 11 tour tournaments this year, or Nancy
Lopez, who has been called one of the most impor
tant goodwill ambassadors for women’s golf, it
might have made a bit more of an impact.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer for the Emerald. Her
views do not necessarily represent those of the Emerald.
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