Malone will redshirt ‘03 outdoor season
The star Oregon javelin thrower
will sit out the 2003 season
with a serious back injury
Women’s track
Peter Hockaday
Sports Editor
Sarah Malone, Oregon’s school
record-holder in the javelin, will
redshirt the 2003 outdoor track and
field season.
Malone, a junior who was an All
American in her freshman season,
has a herniated disc in her back
that, while it may or may not be in
remission, will keep her out of her
workout routine and therefore out
for the season.
“I just don’t think I can compete
at the level I want to compete at for
the season,” Malone said Monday.
The Newberg native said she has
been in constant contact with doc
tors recently. She said that while a
doctor told her the disc may be in
remission, she is still in pain and
can’t throw regularly. She also said
the doctors advised her to sit out
the season.
“It’s extremely painful, and my
workouts need to be altered be
"I'm sure (the coaches)
aren't happy... but it
wasn't anything / had
control over''
Sarah Malone
junior javelin thrower
cause of it,” she said.
Malone holds the school record in
the javelin at 179 feet, 2 inches and
made the NCAA Championships in
both her freshman and sophomore
seasons. She finished seventh and
14th in those two national champi
onships, and second in both Pacific
10 Conference Championships she
has competed in.
The junior will miss head coach
Tom Heinonen’s final season, and
she said the move to redshirt was in
no way affected by the recent an
nouncement that both the men’s
and women’s track teams will merge
next year under the direction of
men’s head coach Martin Smith.
“I’m sure (the coaches) aren’t
happy,” Malone said. “I know coach
(Heinonen) wanted to go out with a
bang. But it wasn’t anything I had
control over.”
Malone leaves a talented javelin
Malone was an
All-American her
freshman season
at Oregon, but a
herniated disc will
keep her out of the
2003 season.
Adam Amato Emerald
squad that will still miss their leader.
The squad includes two returning
All-Americans in sophomores Elisa
Crumley and Roslyn Lundeen.
“They’re totally supportive of
me,” Malone said of her javelin
throwing counterparts. “They see
me in pain all the time. I have the
full support of all my teammates.”
The Ducks don’t kick off the out
door season until March 22. That
first meet will be the Oregon Pre
view at Hayward Field.
That still leaves some time for
Malone to change her mind if she
feels strong enough to compete.
But the thrower said she has been
knocked so far off her training
schedule that she doesn’t antici
pate returning to action this year.
“I’m definitely redshirting,” Mal
one said.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Men's
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86-75 win over Oregon on Saturday.
“Winning (at McArthur Court) is
big-time for us, and we’re showing
signs that we’re not going away and
that we’re going to win the Pac-10.”
Arizona also has four of its final
seven games at home, but its three
road games are at Arizona State,
Stanford and Cal, the teams right be
hind the Wildcats in the standings.
The Wildcats, who needed overtime
to beat Washington on Thursday and
didn’t pull away from lowly Washing
ton State until the final minutes, say
they must do some soul-searching
before the NCAA Tournament.
“It’s getting more frustrating the
further into the season we go,” Ari
zona senior Luke Walton told the
Tucson Citizen. “This should be one
of the best teams around. A team
that people are talking about, but
the way we’re playing right now,
we're just doing that in spurts.”
Oregon (16-6,6-5), by the way, has
virtually no hope left for defending its
conference crown. The Ducks are
fifth in the Pac-10, four games behind
Arizona, with five of their final seven
games on the road, including the Civ
il War in Corvallis on Saturday.
Another coaching
controversy
UCLA’s Steven Lavin isn’t the
only Pac-10 coach who may soon be
looking for a new job.
Paul Graham, in his fourth year as
Washington State’s head coach, has
twice finished 1-17 in conference
play and his Cougars are 0-11 in the
Pac-10 this season (5-15 overall).
WSU hasn’t had a winning season
since 1995-96, and is 18-87 in the
Pac-10 since then. Worse yet, the
Cougars are averaging just 2,098 fans
per game this season, the lowest at
tendance figures in school history.
A season-ending injury to its best
player, Marcus Moore, has hurt the
Cougs, though they have played
tough against Arizona and Oregon
in recent weeks.
“To be honest with you, I don't
think Washington State is good at
all,” Oregon State’s Jimmie Hay
wood told reporters after the
Beavers’ win over WSU last month.
“They are missing a lot more than
just Marcus Moore. It would have
been the exact same game as it was
even if they had him.”
The buzz around the Palouse is
that Grahman’s tenure in Pullman
may be over, but the coach is re
maining optimistic about his future.
“I don’t have any less enthusiasm or
confidence that we can do it than I did
four years ago,” he said. “If anything,
I’m probably more determined than I
was four years ago because I want it to
read someday that those guys got it
done. There’s no quit in me.”
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