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Glendale, Ariz., in 1999. The 5-foot
5-inch Andrus finished fourth at the
Junior College National Champi
onships in her first season at PVCC.
As a sophomore in 2002, after red
shirting the 2001 season, Andrus
was the national runner-up with a
then-personal best of4,903 points.
Oregon assistant coach Mark
Stream, who trains the Duck hep
tathletes, began recruiting her
halfway through the 2002 season.
For Andrus, who has always wanted
to be a Duck, it became a sure deal
in no time.
“She has a lot of the quality char
acteristics of a good heptathlete,”
Stream, in his 26th season of coach
ing, said. “She’s reasonably level
headed. She’s pretty determined.
She’s a good competitor and she likes
to rise to the occasion.”
In his career, Stream has
coached some of Oregon’s greatest
heptathletes including record hold
er Kelly Blair (6,038 in 1993), Jen
nifer Thomas (5,452 in 1998) and
Jenny Kenyon (5,169 in 2002), to
name a few.
“She compares very favorably to
those people on the top part of that
list,” he said. “Before she’s done, 1
would think that she’ll be number
two (all-time) or at least has the po
tential to be there.”
Andrus’ potential continued to blos
som in last weekend’s Long Beach
State Invitational where she led a 1-2
sweep in the 400 hurdles and finally
broke the 60-second barrier. Mellott
finished second at 61.30 seconds.
Her time of 59.90 was a .34-sec
ond personal best and ranks An
drus sixth all-time in Oregon histo
ry along with improving her own
outlook.
“It was good to break the barrier
of 60 seconds,” Andrus said of her
Pacific-10 Conference and regional
qualifying mark. “It gave me confi
dence that I can start running times
that I think I’m capable of.”
If Andrus can continue to set high
marks, her chance of qualifying this
weekend will greatly increase.
The 22-year-old has set goals to go
sub-14 seconds in the 100 hurdles,
which is her favorite event of the sev
en, and to hit a mark of more than 19
feet in the long jump in today’s start
of the heptathlon.
“She wants to constantly improve
and isn’t satisfied until she’s better,”
said Kenyon, who is Andrus’ training
partner and ranks fifth on Oregon’s
all-time heptathlete list. “Although
she’s quiet, Abby shows her compet
itiveness on the track. She’s ex
tremely competitive.”
Andrus has generated noise in the
Pac-10 standings, currently ranked
fourth, and has easily surpassed the
Pac-10 qualifying mark of4,400. If she
hits the 5,500-point mark , Andrus
would have a NCAA automatic bid,
whereas 5,000 is a provisional mark.
“I don’t see that as an obstacle at
all,” Stream said. “She’s a rise-to-the
occasion type of person. She just
loves what she does.”
That rise-to-the-occasion, quiet,
soft-spoken person may continue to
create more buzz starting today.
Contact the sports reporter
atjessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
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tourney.
Merle begins the day for the
Ducks with a match against Dinka
Hadzik of Washington, while
Leksinska, who beat Hadzik in a
dual match earlier in the season,
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Duck sophomore Bak, winner of
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round of the Invitational portion by
taking on Kristen Case of Gal.
Matches continue throughout the
day for both the men and women
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