Lorenzo
continued from page 13
the leap north to the United States.
Event 3:
El Papa
Lorenzo’s father has played a large
part in the development of Lorenzo
as an athlete. Gerardo Lorenzo is
now 55 and has a two handicap in
golf, the kind of handicap a weekend
golfer would kill for.
He’s never taken lessons.
“I think I got those genes, being
competitive, being a hard worker,”
Santiago Lorenzo said. “I definitely
got those genes.”
Gerardo Lorenzo will make the
trip to Eugene for the first time ever
in two weeks for his son’s gradua
tion. Ask Santiago Lorenzo, and he
says his father’s trip is almost as im
portant as the looming NCAA meet.
“My mom has been and my sisters
have been, but my dad’s always the
one that stays home and makes the
money so they can come up here,”
Lorenzo joked.
Maybe next weekend, Lorenzo
can finally pay his father back for the
genes of a champion.
Event 4:
So this is recruiting?
By the time Lorenzo’s two years
of training were up, he knew only
two things.
He wanted to come to college in
America. And he wanted to run track.
The “where” in the track equation
wasn’t so important and neither was
the “academic” part of the college
experience. Luckily, Lorenzo had a
state-side friend.
That friend was somewhat of an ex
pert in the decathlon field. Tito Stein
er, a three-time NCAA Champion
from Brigham Young, screened Loren
zo’s recruitment letters and gave the
Argentinian advice on where to go.
“He said that people breathe track
here,” Lorenzo said. “He said the
best place to come for track was Ore
gon, so I said ‘OK. Here I go.’”
Lorenzo (or Steiner?) turned
down Texas, Colorado State, Cali
Santiago
Lorenzo reacts to
a miss in the pole
vaultatameetin
2001. He won the
NCAA title in the
decathlon that
year after
coming back in
the final event,
the 1,500.
Adam Amato
Emerald
fomia-Santa Barbara and St. Louis.
He was bound for Eugene.
Event 5:
Flair for the 1,500
Lorenzo was reasonably suc
cessful in his first three years at
Oregon. He finished fifth at the
NCAA Championships in 2000,
and seemed primed for a run at the
NCAA title in 2001.
But Louisiana State’s Claston
Barnard lurked in the standings. The
Tiger was a favorite to win the de
cathlon and would eventually win
the title in 2002 with a hefty score of
8,094 points.
At Hayward, Barnard went down
with an injury in the first event on
the first day. Suddenly, the title race
was more open than an IHOP.
“I knew I had a chance to win it if
everything went right,” Lorenzo said.
The decathlon came down to the fi
nal event, the 1,500, one of Lorenzo’s
strongest events. He needed to beat
Georgia’s David Lemen by 20 seconds
and Tennessee’s Stephen Harris by
two seconds in order to win the title.
“I was helping out at the meet, but
I made sure to sneak away because I
knew he was running,” Slye said.
“Watchinghim run was amazing.”
Lorenzo knew the big, hulking
Lemen would be easy to beat, even
by 20 seconds. But Harris had a per
sonal best that was four seconds bet
ter than Lorenzo’s in the event.
Lorenzo did indeed beat the pants
off Lemen. He beat Harris by four
seconds, winning the NCAA title
with two seconds to spare.
“In sports, that’s the number one
feeling,” Lorenzo said. “I just know
how much it means here. I’ve been a
Santiago Lorenzo in Buenos Aires,
Argentina on May 4,1978.
Before Oregon: Competed with Argentinean
junior national teams in field hockey and track,
tn track, holds South American junior record in
decathlon and finished first or second at five
national meets.
Oregon: Finished fifth at 2000 NCAA
Championships and won title in 2001. This
season, turned in PR at Texas Relays of 7,911
points, good enough for third on the national
list heading into NCAA Championships in
: Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday.
South American champion five
times, but people don’t care as much
about track at home. It’s no big deal
because nobody cares.”
Lorenzo still had a year left at Ore
gon, but his career was due for a dras
tic twist in his fourth year. But that will
come on the second day of our de
cathlon story...
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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opportunities and 58,000 fewer
spots in college, as well as $133 mil
lion less in athletic scholarships
each year, according to the Women’s
Sports Foundation.
Football is definitely a part of the
problem when comparing opportuni
ties by the number of spots available.
For football, there is no equivalent sport
that offers 85 or more spots for women.
Thus, football should be taken out
of the equation. This is the main
change that should occur in Title LX.
After all, it is much easier to com
pare apples to apples, as Oregon’s
Senior Associate Athletic Director
Renee Baumgartner once said.
Apples like baseball and softball,
men’s and women’s basketball, or
men’s and women’s tennis.
Not a watermelon like football with
an apple like volleyball or soccer.
Unfortunately, removing football
from the Title IX equation wasn’t direct
ly one of the 23 recommendations.
Many of the recommendations did
involve changing the three-prong test.
Let me back up.
The basic equation of Title IX ath
letically involves three basic criteria:
a “laundry list” of services, propor
tional scholarship dollars and the
proportionality monster.
Proportionality, or having a ratio of
male-to-female athletes equivalent to
the ratio of male-to-female students,
is like a three-pronged fork. There are
three different ways to comply, but
they all come back to the same handle
—in this case, proportionality.
The first prong is plain, simple pro
portionality. It’s the prong in the mid
dle that is most directly an extension
of the handle. Play the pure numbers
game and your institution is assured
to be found in compliance.
The second prong — the one Ore
gon attests to comply under—is when
the school shows a history and contin
uing practice of program expansion for
the underrepresented gender. Ore
gon’s student body was 53 percent fe
male in fall 2000, yet 37 percent of the
athletes in 2001-02 were female.
The third prong is for those who
can’t meet the first two options. If all
else fails, an institution must show that
they are meeting the interests and
abilities of the underrepresented gen
der. Schools meet this through interest
surveys to ensure they actually know
the athletic interests of that gender.
The speedbump comes when in
terest surveys aren’t held up in
court, or when a “history of expan
sion” is 10 years old at best. Then it
all falls back to the middle prong and
the handle—proportionality.
After growing up in two athletic cir
cles —the shotput circle and the soft
ball pitching circle—I love Title IX. It
just shouldn’t be so dam confusing.
Contact the sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
Her views do not necessarily reflect
those of the Emerald.
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