Emmies
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“We had a misagreement,” Joseph
said after he was suspended late in the
season for an argument with coaches.
“At that time, my mental wasn’t
ready,” he said about a bad perform
ance in a game.
“Can’t not one man do it,” he said
after a stellar individual performance.
Cheers, Andre. You made our inter
viewing lives a little better this year.
Best Athlete You’ve Never Heard
Of: Shane Webster. During the win
ter months, basketball isn’t the only
sport that uses Mac Court. So does
wrestling. And Webster turned the
most heads of any of the wrestlers.
Webster, only a sophomore, fin
ished sixth at NCAAs at the 174
weight class, after a regular-season
record of 31-8. All eight losses came
at the hands of ranked opponents.
We have a feeling Webster won’t be
so unknown in future years.
Best Game: 2003 Pac-10 Tourna
ment. You mean you want us to pick
one? You want us to differentiate be
tween Luke Ridnour’s sweet little
floater to beat Arizona State and
Luke Jackson’s ice-cold three to beat
UCLA? You want us to judge those
against the final two minutes of the
title game against USC, when the
Ducks stopped a huge Trojan run
like a brick wall stops a bicyclist?
The tournament was, undoubtedly,
the highlight of the men’s basketball
season. Over three days, the Ducks
turned in three thrillers and came
back to Eugene as champions.
Men’s Rookie of the Year: Eric
Mitchum. The freshman came from
virtually nowhere and jumped his
way to the top of Oregon’s all-time
list in the 110-meter hurdles. He
currently sits second all-time at Ore
gon and is close to breaking a hal
lowed 110-hurdles mark, 13.70 sec
onds. He sits 16th on the national
list heading into next week’s NCAA
Championship. He was invited to
this year’s Prefontaine Classic, a tes
tament to his maturity as an athlete.
There’s more Mitchum to come.
Women’s Rookie of the Year: Amy
Harris. How good is Amy Harris? Af
ter only one year at Oregon, the fresh
man sits eighth on the Ducks’ career
strikeout list. She had so many K’s this
season, she should open a K-Mart.
Nobody represents Oregon’s soft
ball turnaround this season more
than Harris, who finished the year
with a 17-13 record and a 1.97 ERA.
A pure pitcher, Harris is sure to
make her presence felt around the
Pac-10 for years to come.
Coach of the Year: Tom Heinonen.
He hates the hype, Heinonen does.
The legendary women’s track coach
announced his retirement early this
year and he gets tired of every move
being his last. His last home meet. His
last Pac-10 meet. His last NGAAs.
But Heinonen deserves every bit
of the hype. His track record (pun
intended) is longer than a Mary Et
ter hammer toss and every bit as
heavy. He led the Ducks to three na
tional team championships and nine
conference titles. He is quite simply
the best women’s track and field
coach ever at Oregon.
We’ll miss you, Tom.
Most Valuable Female: Becky
Holliday. Her season isn’t over yet,
and that’s perhaps the most excit
ing part about Holliday. You never
know what the pole vaulter will pull
off next. She already set the Ore
gon record and broke it a couple
times. Then she set the NCAA
record at the NCAA West Regionals
two weeks ago.
Holliday had buzz even before she
came to Oregon. As an underclass
men at Clackamas Community Col
lege, she came to Hayward Field for
invitational meets and blew the
socks off the Ducks. Now she’s wear
ing the green and yellow of Oregon,
and the Ducks couldn’t be happier.
Her Oregon career will end at the
NCAAs, and it’s a career that was too
Mark McCambridge (Harris) and Adam Amato Emerald
Shane Webster (top right) lost only to ranked opponents this year, which earned him
an Emmie for Athlete You've Never Heard Of. Becky Holliday (top) won the female
MVP award and Amy Harris (bottom) earned Rookie of the Year honors.
short. Good luck, Becky.
Most Valuable Male: Luke Rid
nour. He won every other award
possible, but we thought we’d add a
prestigious Emmie MVP to Rid
nour’s trophy case. Is there anybody
else who deserves it more?
Ridnour came to Oregon three
years ago as a clean-shaven Wash
ington point guard and left for the
NBA as a mop-topped Duck hero.
With his incredible ability to run a
game like a Hollywood director, with
his trademark flip-shot, with his pas
sion for the game, Ridnour attached
himself to the hearts of many Ore
gon basketball fans in his three
years as a Duck. The outcry over his
early exit to the NBA is only another
example of that connection.
Fans chanted “one more year,
one more year” during his final
home games. What they really
meant was “thanks for three.”
Thanks for three, Luke. Now kick
the NBA’s butt.
And with that, we conclude an
other year of Ducks. Maybe it wasn’t
the “Year of the Duck,” but we’ll still
remember the highlights. For those
of you moving on Ridnour-style,
check out Emerald sports on the
web at www.dailyemerald.com. For
those of you coming back next year,
just hope for a thrilling end to the
trilogy. Gan the Ducks be Lords of
the Pac-10 Rings again? We’ll see.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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