fOO MANY
BOOKS?
We buy texts and
other good books
all year long
CAMPUS
. 768 East 1 3th
\ 345-1651
DOWNTOWN
525 Willamette
343-471 7
a proud member of Unique Eugene
Javelin duo may leave Oregon
With possible coaching
rearrangements looming,
two Ducks say they might
head to different programs
Track and field
Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
The Oregon women’s track and
field team must say some good-byes
at the end of the season.
Fourteen seniors will graduate
and 27-year veteran head coach
>J±l/
use unsay®
Every Watt Counts!
0 0 SHUT OFF
computers monitors
O0^ Sponsored by the UO Campus Environmental Issues Committee
v English as usual
Introduction to Fiction
ENG 104. CRN 40592. 9:00-9:50 a.m
MUWH. Andrew Morse.
|l JNU 23-Al’(;UST 15
English in Sununer
2003 SUMMER SESSION ■ JUNE 23-AUGUST 15
Register on DuckWeb now. Pick up a free summer
catalog in Oregon Hall or at the UO bookstore.
It has all the information you need to know about
UO summer session, http://uosummer.uoregon.edu
O
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
diversity of Ore«°v
Tom Heinonen will retire. But the
future of Heinonen’s staff and soph
omores Roslyn Lundeen and Elisa
Crumley isn’t so definite.
With the men’s and women’s pro
grams converging next year under
the guidance of men’s head coach
Martin Smith, Lundeen and Crum
ley have re-evaluated where they
might throw next year.
The heart of the problem lies in
Smith’s hands, as he has the choice
to do any coaching rearrangements
he wishes. That means that women’s
throws coach Sally Harmon might
not be re-hired next year, leaving the
javelin duo with a difficult decision.
“As an athlete, you can’t have ideal
situations, and you can’t always stay
with your coach,” Lundeen said.
“Sometimes it’s good to branch out
and get a new perspective on the
event and get some new insight into it.
“Whether or not it’s Sally or
whether or not it’s someone else is
n’t going to make or break the deci
sion; just as long as there is someone
knowledgeable in the job that can
help us get where we want to go.”
Lundeen and Crumley have made
some recruiting trips to evaluate
possible options shall the situation
arise. The two visited Purdue and
Georgia with Lundeen also seeing
Virginia Tech and Clemson and
Crumley made a stop at LSU.
“Both of us have said right from
the start ‘yes, it would be wonderful
to stay together,”’ Lundeen said of
her and Crumley, who is also her
roommate. “But at the same time, if
there was a coaching fit that worked
better or situation that worked bet
ter, we are just really looking for the
best fit for us.”
The decision remains on hold for
Lundeen and Crumley. Lundeen
said Smith was going to make his an
nouncement in early May but there
is still no word.
“Oregon is home to me, I love it
o
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
It’s Here Now!
2003 Summer Session
Registration
Register for
Summer Classes
Summer Session starts June 23. Pick up your free summer catalog
today in the Summer Session office, 333 Oregon Hall, or at the UO
Bookstore. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking
required courses during summer.
Check Out Our Website!
http://uosummer.uoregon.edu
. .r. r. r. .--- *
Mark McCambridge Emerald
Roslyn Lundeen said Oregon is still herfirst choice to throw next year.
here,” Lundeen said. “If the oppor
tunity presents itself to stay and if I
think it’s going to be conducive to
my throwing far here, then that will
be my choice. But until we know for
sure what’s going on with the pro
gram next year and the coaches, it’s
tough to make that decision.”
For love of the game
With Heinonen’s time quickly
winding to a close, some athletes have
taken the time to reflect on what the
27-year-veteran loves the most.
“All he gets to do is coach, and
that’s his favorite part,” Crumley said.
“He came to me the other day, smil
ing, saying ‘This is what I love.’ He
loves track and field, and he’s going to
love everything until it’s done.”
And with a love so strong,
Heinonen simply can’t walk away al
together. Heinonen has said he may
want to coach the Club Sports dis
tance running team next year, but it
has not been made official.
“We’re thrilled to know that he’s in
terested,” director of Club Sports
Sandy Vaughn said. “The students
would definitely benefit from his com
mitment and expertise. And we would
hope that he would enjoy the experi
ence of this programs environment.”
One more try
With the Pacific-10 conference
Championships starting this weekend
with the heptathlon and decathlon,
three athletes will make their final
tries at regional and Pac-10 qualifying
marks in Stanford this weekend.
Junior Jill Hoxmeier (hammer),
redshirt freshman Sara Schaff (800)
and redshirt senior Carrie Zografos
(5,000) will all try and qualify in
their respective events.
Contact the sports reporter
atjessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
Hockaday
continued from page 11
enemy. And there isn’t a harder en
emy to fight.
But he stayed on his feet, even as
his legs betrayed him. He redshirt
ed track last season. He worked at
the prestigious and grueling Steens
Mountain Running Gamp last sum
mer. He rooted on his Oregon
teammates at cross country and
track meets.
And the whole time, that compet
itive fire smoldered in his belly.
“The hardest part of it, the other
part is watching everybody else get
better, everyone else improving,”
Heinonen said. “Guys that I used to
be able to compete with are now do
ing some pretty good stuff, guys at
other schools. I’m watching them
run and thinking ‘I owned that guy
in high school.’”
He started branching out. As one
of only two declared journalism ma
jors on the track team, he started
writing. He writes a regular column
on the Web site for Runner’s World
magazine. He writes features for the
Prefontaine Classic programs. His
mom, Janet Heinonen, is a well-re
spected track columnist, and Erik
got those genes along with the
coach’s talent.
But Erik doesn’t want to be
stuck behind a computer his
whole life. He wants to run like
Forrest, slowing only when the
crowd yells “Stop!”
That’s what he’ll do this week
end. It’s a throwaway race at Stan
ford, the track equivalent of a late
season game between the Tigers
and Devil Rays. The field will be
scrubs, maybe a couple guys hop
ing to run one last tune-up before
the Pacific-10 Conference Cham
pionships.
One runner will run his shoes off.
One runner will run against his in
juries, against his past, against his
future.
Erik Heinonen will run this
weekend. May the Track Town
gods shift in their unholy orbit and
bless him with reservoirs of good
luck, if only to make up for all the
bad luck they’ve dealt him in the
past two years.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
His views do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.