Tuiasosopo bounces back from off-season trouble
After a run-in with the law
during the spring, fullback
Zach Tuiasosopo has a
renewed drive on the field
By Mindi Rice
Senior Sports Reporter
In Seattle football, the Tuiasosopo
family is well-known.
Manu Tuiasosopo, a father of five was
drafted with the seventh-overall pick in
the 1979 NIT Draft by the Seahawks.
A month before the draft, Tuia
sosopo's second child, a son named
Marques, was bom.
1 Wo years later, another future I Iusky
— Zach Tuiasosopo — was bom.
Now a redshirt junior, the middle of
three boys and five total siblings, Zach
Tuiasosopo has started six of eight
games at fullback for the 1 luskies.
He missed the season opener
against defending national champi
on Ohio State when he was suspend
ed by head coach Keith Gilbertson
for one game. His suspension
stemmed from a May 2003 incident
where Tuiasosopo was accused of
malicious mischief for bashing in the
windows of four cars while drunk.
He entered an Alford plea —
pleading to lesser charges while
maintaining his innocence — in Oc
tober to a misdemeanor.
‘There's a maturity to him now," old
er brother Marques Tuiasosopo told
The Seattle Times in October. "You can
just tell that he's being very serious
about school and football and getting
tilings done the right way. 1 think he's
definitely learned his lesson."
Zach Tuiasosopo has returned to his
SOCCER
continued from page 5A
to the postseason, dating back to
1994.
Arizona (5-8-2, 1-3-1) is coming
off a 1-0 upset of USC and a 4-0 loss
to UCLA last weekend. Although
Oregon has a 4-1-1 series lead over
This is what we have
been working all season
for. This is what all the
fitness and all the training
is working towards."
Cariie Ashcraft
Oregon sophomore defender
the Wildcats, they don't expect it to
be a walk in the park.
"Arizona is a much improved
team, * Steffen said. "They're very ath
letic but they're much more organ
ized than in years past. It's also going
to be their last home game so their
kids will be very motivated."
Oregon's motivation is sky high
right now. With the win over Cal last
weekend that tied the best record in
program history, the Ducks couldn't
be more excited.
"Right now they are probably per
forming at the highest level of any
team we've had here," Steffen said. "I
think this team still has a ways to go
in terms of how good can they be. I
think they can still be better. They
still have their best soccer in front of
them this season."
This year's team will have its
chance to stake its claim as Ore
gon's best team ever while in Ari
zona this weekend.
Regardless of what the next two
weekends hold — including the final
regular season matchups with USC
and UCLA — it has become NCAA
tournament or bust.
Garbin put it the best: "We have
nothing to lose," she said.
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at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
teammates determined to succeed after
the off-season troubles, and he has
found some success. Fifteen carries for
52 yards and his first career touchdown
have made his teammates happy to see
him back on the field.
"It's meant a whole lot having him
back" running back Rich Alexis told The
Seattle Times. "He brings an attitude of
toughness back there. He's got some
similarities to his brother, that type of
leadership where you just get that vibe"
During the 2002 season, Tuiasosopo
started five of the 13 games he played in
and rushed for 34 yards on 15 carries.
Marques Tuiasosopo, who starts his
first game for Oakland on Saturday
against Joey Harrington and the Lions,
was a standout quarterback in his hey
day at Washington. He was a standup
guy off the field too, respected by team
mates and fellow students.
"At no point was I embarrassed by
(my brother)," Marques Tuiasosopo
said. "Stuff like that happens in life You
have to learn from it."
The family's togetherness and prox
imity helped Zach Tuiasosopo get
through his law troubles.
Matt Tuiasosopo, the family's fourth
child, is a senior quarterback at Wood
inville High School in Woodinville,
Wash., a suburb of Seattle where all
three brothers excelled at football.
The youngest boy in the family,
Matt Tuiasosopo is regarded as one of
the top quarterback recruits on the
West Coast. He has received offers
from five Pacific-10 Conference
schools: Stanford, UCLA, USC, Wash
ington State and the Washington.
Marques Tuiasosopo doesn't think
Zach Tuiasosopo's incident will affect
the latest recruit's school choice but told
The Seattle Times he'd love for his
youngest brother to attend Washington.
As for the middle Tuiasosopo, he is
moving on from his run-in with the
law, but not without learning a few life
lessons along the way.
"Maturity was a big part of the
whole thing," Zach Tuiasosopo said.
"It's (changed my) lifestyle in general.
You have to look at the big picture."
Tuiasosopo's coaches have noticed
a change in him as well.
"He's more focused now," running
backs coach Chuck Heater told the
Seattle Times. "Football has always
been important to him, but I think he
brings it on a daily basis with a little
more focus now."
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VOLLEYBALL
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takes — including 16 service errors —
ruined a match that presented Oregon
with ample opportunities to win. The
Ducks (3-18,0-12) recorded a season
high .315 hitting clip, marking the
third consecutive match in which they
set a season-best.
"We came into this match with
really high hopes," Westendorf said.
"We out-executed them, we out-hit
them .315 to .300, but we just
couldn't pull it out in the end."
Freshman outside hitter Sarah
Mason led all players with 17 kills,
while hitting at a .324 clip. Sopho
more outside hitter Jaclyn Jones
added 12 kills, while sophomore
setter Jodi Bell dished out a match
high 48 assists.
"It makes it even more disap
pointing that we had so many peo
ple come out," sophomore Kelly
Russell said. "We want everybody to
be behind us and come out like that
every time and it's really disappoint
ing not to come through for our
selves and the community."
Oregon head coach Carl Ferreira
said he's disappointed that Oregon
lost, but he'll remind his players
that this game can be used as part of
the learning process for a team with
12 freshmen and sophomores.
"The thing that we've had to do
with a young team is truly try to
separate process from outcome,"
Ferreira said. "There will be anoth
er time in our growth and develop
ment that we'll have a heavier em
phasis on a certain aspect of an
outcome."
Contact the sports reporter
at jonroetman@daityemerald.com.
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It's not that easy for Harrington.
The only thing the Lions have done
to help the Portland native is to draft
former Michigan State wide receiver
Charles Rogers, and even he hasn't
helped after an injury of his own.
With a sub-par offensive line, re
ceivers who can't catch the ball and
a city that is tired of waiting for
something positive to happen to its
football team, Harrington could be
in an ugly situation for a long time
to come.
With little but pride on the line
Sunday, I don't see the Lions making
this much of a game. If the Raiders
take the pressure off Tuiasosopo's
shoulders by establishing a running
game, the Raiders should have an
easy time with the hapless lions.
Prediction: Oakland 35, Detroit 14.
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represent those of the Emerald.
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