Cleveland takes Williams in third round
Shaquala Williams is the
only player chosen from
the Pac-10 in the WNBA Draft
Women’s basketball
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
The last time you saw Shaquala
Williams, the star point guard was
embroiled in a dispute with Oregon
head coach Bev Smith, only to be
dismissed from the team.
On Friday, it was a time for
Williams to embrace her profes
sional career and leave behind
painful memories from the 2002
03 season.
She was drafted 30th overall — a
third round selection — by the
Cleveland
Rockers in the
WNBA draft.
“It’s been an
anxious last
few weeks,”
Williams said.
“I’m happy to
have that
question mark
out of my life
and kind of get
to know where
I get to head and move on to the
next phase. It’s been a while since
I’ve played basketball, at least com
petitively, where it has some impor
tance, so I’m definitely excited to
get out there and play again.”
Williams heads to a team that fin
ished 10-22 last season, finishing
seventh in the eight-team Eastern
Conference. The Rockers also se
lected Mississippi State forward La
Toya Thomas with the first overall
selection Friday, then grabbed
UMass center Jennifer Butler in the
second round.
Williams was the only Pacific-10
Conference player chosen.
„ “I’ve never been to Cleveland,”
Williams said. “I’ve never been a
big fan of the Midwest, but I’ve
only got to be there three months,
so maybe I’ll find something new
when I get there, and it’ll more fun
than I think it will.”
For Williams, the selection is
more of an opportunity to exorcise
the demons that have followed her
since her dismissal from the Ore
gon program in December. Neither
she nor Smith have publicly dis
closed those reasons, and it may
have played a factor in Williams’
selection in the third round. En
tering the season, Williams was
considered first-round material
and was named as one of the top
collegiate point guards in the na
tion by ESPN.com.
“Based upon my talent abilities, I
was ranked somewhere else but I
think everybody had a lot question
marks about my character because
of everything that had happened
last year,” Williams said. “So, that’s
a little bit disappointing that people
would judge me on an isolated inci
dent, but that’s life. You make some
mistakes, people are going to hold it
over your head.
“The biggest thing for me is get
ting there and showing people I’m
not a bad person.”
Williams said training camp be
gins Thursday, and she will most
likely fly out to Cleveland today.
She is the fourth Oregon player
to be drafted into the WNBA, follow
ing Jenny Mowe by Portland in
2001, Angelina Wolvert by Cleve
land in 2001 and Edniesha Curry by
Charlotte last season.
Speaking of Mowe, the former
Oregon center was taken eighth by
the Washington Mystics in the play
er dispersal draft Friday.
Mowe, the only Oregon player to
play in a WNBA game, played for
Portland the last two seasons. Howev
er, the Fire — in addition to the Mia
mi Sol — folded after last season.
Mowe also saw action with Chi
na’s Baiquanchun team, a member
of the Women’s Chinese Basketball
Association, last year.
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at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
Danielle Hickey Emerald
Eric Mitchum took advantage of the Oregon Invitational wind Saturday to clock a sub-14-second time in the 110-meter hurdles.
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who sat out last season with a
knee injury, threw massive foul af
ter foul at Saturday’s competition
and finished third. But Oregon’s
Adam Jenkins picked up Stiegeler’s
slack and threw a personal best to
finish second behind national leader
Rob Minnitti of Boise State.
The Ducks also got strong per
formances from Brandon Holliday
in the 400 hurdles, Jason Willis
in the 200 and
Trevor Woods in
the pole vault. But
for the second
time in three
weeks, the story
at Hayward Field
was Kriz and
the sprinters.
As much as Kriz
tried to play off his -
almost 220-foot
heave in the hammer, the senior
and reigning Pac-10 Champion drew
the most noise from the home
crowd Saturday. In the final round,
he threw 219-1, a personal best by
more than a foot, on his first throw.
Then he bested that by eight inches
on his second throw. He threw short
on his final toss, and looked to have
the competition beat. But Scott
Boothby of Club Northwest threw
221-10 on the final throw of the day
to edge Kriz for the win.
“I’m glad he went out and beat
me, because mine wasn’t that great
of a throw,” Kriz said.
Mitchum’s 13.87-second sprint to
the win in the 110 hurdles was a
personal best for the freshman but
was heavily wind-aided. It was the
second time this season Mitchum
ran a sub-14-second race that was
discounted because of wind.
The 4x400 relay team gave Ore
gon fans a glimpse of what could be
in store for the future of the Duck
relays. The relay started with two
freshmen, Travis Anderson and Matt
"I'm glad he went out
and beat me, because
mine wasn't that great
o f a throw."
Adam Kriz
Oregon hammer thrower
Scherer, running
the first two legs.
Senior Santiago
Lorenzo and Holl
iday, a junior, fin
ished it off. Both
ran their legs
without competi
tion as the other
teams fell far be
hind.
“It’s just anoth
er step toward the big day,” Holliday
said, referring to Pac-lOs. “That’s
our motto this year, ‘It’s all about on
the day.’”
Holliday might as well have spo
ken for the entire Oregon team.
Even if the coach won’t talk about
the team effort, the team is made up
of individuals. And the individuals
put on a show Saturday.
Which means the team is whole.
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