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Brandon Holliday said he doesn’t care that Washington comes to Eugene Saturday.
"But I get pumped up for every race,” he said about the Pepsi Team Invitational.
The Ducks will also compete against Colorado and Minnesota at the meet.
DEBUT
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said. "There's a lot more pressure.
At Barton it was more like I was an
underdog, I didn't really have any
pressure. (At Oregon), it's kind of
like being a big dog and it's been
pretty rough on me, but I'm ad
justing.
"It's time to get down every
time you step on the track for
competition and that's something
I have to get used to. *
If Dotts can figure out how to
handle the pressure, he has the
physical tools to be a standout on
one of the top programs in the
country. In 2003, he ran a person
al best of 1 minute, 48.41 seconds,
placing him 17th in the country
among collegiate athletes. The
mark would also have led the Pac
10 season best list.
No beef with the Huskies
While there are plenty of Ore
gon athletes who receive extra
motivation when it comes time to
face Washington, the men's track
team isn't the best place to find it.
Former Pac-10 champion hur
dler Brandon Holliday said he
feels no added incentive to beat
the Huskies, instead entering each
race with the same amount of fo
cus.
"I've never really focused on ri
vals, even back in high school,"
the senior said. "It's cool if some
people do it, if that's what gets
them riled up. But I get pumped
up for every race."
Dotts said he gets pumped for
competition against some of the
better track schools in the country,
but doesn't consider Washington
to be among the elite.
"Washington isn't a big concern
of ours," Dotts said. "Stanford,
UCLA, only the big track schools
(are the oneS we don't like)."
Kenttoredshirt
Former 200-meter West Region
al champion Jordan Kent will red
shirt in track and field this spring,
choosing instead to focus on bas
ketball, an Oregon media official
confirmed Wednesday.
Kent had a phenomenal fresh
man year on the track in 2003 —
following a decorated prep career
— cracking Oregon's top-10 list in
two events. His time of 20.99 in
the 200 stands sixth in the Duck
record book, while his time of
10.46 in the 100 placed him
eighth.
Despite success on the track,
the 6-foot-5 guard turns his atten
tion to the hardwood, where he is
coached by his father, Ernie Kent.
Jordan Kent came off the bench to
play in 29 games during his red
shirt freshman season. He is ex
pected to play basketball for the
2004-05 season when the oppor
tunity for playing time will in
crease next season.
Contact the sports reporter
at jonroetman@dailyemerald.com.
MALONE
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as the man tried to persuade her to try it
"To finally shut him up, I walked over,
and 1 picked it up and threw it" Malone
said. "It didn't go anywhere — it was a
terrible throw."
The man persuaded her to contin
ue throwing for the next 45 minutes,
and she ended up achieving an im
pressive 100 feet. The man turned out
to be Boutin — her coach for the next
three years.
Malone went to the state champi
onships that year, where she finished
ninth overall. She capped her career by
winning Oregon's 4A high-school title in
the javelin her senior year.
Malone credits Boutin for the suc
cess she has had so far and the great
experience javelin has given her the
past seven years.
"(Coach Boutin) could tell just by the
way 1 threw that (first) day," Malone said.
"He told me 'If you stick with this, I
promise you, you can sign your educa
tion anywhere you want to go.'"
By the time her senior year ap
proached, 12 universities, including
Kansas, Georgia and North Carolina,
came calling.
She chose Oregon after meeting with
her eventual teammates. Also, having
the opportunity to practice and
compete at legendary Hayward Field
was too good to pass up.
"The people I was going to be interact
ing with (at Oregon) were unmatched,"
Malone said. "Nowhere else did I see the
camaraderie, and that means a lot to me
coming from a large family."
Malone said she feels better than ever
and is injury-free for the first time since
arriving in Tracktown, USA. By surround
ing herself with coaches who instill posi
tive thinking, she said she is has what she
wanted all along — teammates and
coaches who show they care.
"That's why 1 think I'm doing so well
now," Malone said. "With having my
one thing that I really hold dear to my
heart be challenged and make it into
the situation I am in now, I am thank
ful everyday for the opportunity to have
met Coach Deal and be a part of this
new program."
Malone carries a rock everywhere she
goes engraved with the word 'persever
ance' to remind her of the her battles
and the numerous times she chose not
to give up. She also wears a green
bracelet to help her remember whom
she represents.
"I'm a Duck through and through,"
Malone said. "And anything I can do to
have a good reflection upon this Univer
sity and this track program.
Contact the sports reporter
at alextam@dailyemerald.com.
OUT
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conditioning, and I was undercut going
for the interception," White said. "Instead
of landing on my head, I braced myself
and landed on my wrist."
A milder version of the story comes
from Oregon men's head coach Steve
Nosier.
"It sounds a little dramatic and in
volves some poor judgment to say that
they were playing football," Nosier said.
"What they were doing is after their work
outs, the kids go out and play touch foot
ball, and (White) just tripped over some
body and landed on his arm. It wasn't
like he was going head-on with the Ore
gon football team."
Kim Terrell, the trainer who attended
to White, said the participants were
throwing a football around when White
tripped on accident.
When asked about the viability of us
ing football as a conditioning workout,
Nosier said the coaches do allow foot
ball as conditioning, and that trainers
were present at the time.
"You can't keep them in a test tube,"
Nosier said. "If he would have been
downhill ski racing or he would of
fallen off a fence at the fiat house at 4:30
in the morning, that's a little
different story. There was no poor judg
ment at all. Nobody did anything wrong.
It was just a very unfortunate accident."
White's absence could have a profound
affect on the rest of the men's season. The
Ducks have played a single tournament
since White's injury, earning a second
place finish at the Duck Invitational three
weeks ago. They still have two more tour
naments before the Pacific-10 Conference
Championships at the end of April.
"(White's injury) means that you have
a seasoned player that probably would
be playing somewhere up fairly high, in
the top five, that won't be playing now,"
Nosier said. "So potentially, you could
be replacing a one- or two-man with
six or seven."
White's return is not completely out
of the question, but he and the doctors
agree that it isn't probable.
"I have a week left in the cast," White
said. "You can't really set a schedule on it
It's whatever the doctors say."
Brian Smith is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
RICE
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occurrence of a Pac-10 team being left
out of the top 25. The Sun Devils are
two spots — and two points — out of
No. 25.
This is the reason Oregon gets the recog
nition that it does. But the drawback is the
Pac-10 is so heavily loaded with good
teams that when upsets happen, there is
little movement in die polls.
The best thing that will come out of
Oregon's 3-1 start, and its 2-1 weekend
in California, is confidence.
"Coming out strong with those two
wins was really important,
especially against those two teams,"
Poore said. "Our confidence is pretty
high. We took two out of three games
from big teams."
How's that for making a name for
themselves?
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
Her opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
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