SPORTS BRIEFS
UO Freshmen in Top 10
of U.S. Junior
Championships
Oregon freshman Kyle Alcorn
won the 3,000-meter steeplechase
race at the USA Junior Outdoor Track
and Field Championships in College
Station, Texas on Sunday.
Alcorn defeated second-place fin
isher Derek Scott of Cornerstone by
three seconds with a time of 9 min
utes, 10.37 seconds.
"Winning means a lot to me," Al
corn said. "I was here last year in the
steeple and placed 10th. It was my
first time ever doing it — I was exper
imenting with it. 1 didn't actually
train for it. 1 came back this year and
just so happened to win."
As a result, Alcorn received an au
tomatic invite to compete for the
United States at the World Junior
On the women's side, senior pole
vaulter Kirsten Larwin was selected for
the women's national third team with
her 3.89 C.PA majoring in French.
Larwin, a Eugene native, is a two
time Pacific-10 Conference All-Acade
mic First Team selection from 2003
and 2004. She ranks third all-time for
the Ducks with personal best at the
Pac-10 Championships (13-6 1/4).
Oregon softball tabs new
pitching coach
Oregon softball head coach Kathy
Arendsen announced the hiring
of new pitching coach Amy Mayes
last Thursday.
1 layes, who has collegiate coach
ing experience in the Atlantic-10,
America East and Missouri Valley
conferences, replaces former assis
tant coach Mike White.
"Amy Mayes is an outstanding ad
dition to our coaching staff,"
Arendsen said. "She brings to us a
wealth of coaching experience, a
strong pitching background and she
is a proven recruiter."
In addition to recruiting, Hayes will
coordinate camps, oversee facilities,
coordinate strength and conditioning
workouts and oversee areas of travel.
For the past four seasons, Hayes
was head coach at Boston University
where she took the program to back
to-back NCAA Regional appearances
in the 2002 and 2003.
"For me to have the opportunity to
coach at the University of Oregon is a
dream come true," Hayes said. "To
coach in the Pac-10 is nothing short of
amazing. To be able to work with
Coach Arendsen and her staff is also a
great honor. She has brought a lot of
success to the program and 1 want to
help build on that success."
— Alex Tam
TAM
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Cleveland's LeBron James in 2003 —
arguably made the right decision to
join the NBA at the right time.
On the other side, though, high
school players who were not chosen
first overall have mostly spent their
time sitting at the end of the bench
rather than playing and developing
their game at the college level. It hurts
them and the game they play.
A good start would be for colleges
to continually emphasize NCAA rules
when it comes to recruiting. Cleaning
up its image, which sees a small num
ber of programs trying to cheat to gain
an advantage, needs to be addressed.
In the end, it can only benefit the
schools, the sports and, especially, the
athletes themselves.
alextam@dailyemerahl.com
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JACKSON
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Rather than travel to New
York for the draft, Jackson
spent the time with his family
and friends at home, where
he said he felt more comfort
able. As soon as NBA Commis
sioner David vStern announced
his name on television, the
celebration immediately broke
out, said Jackson.
"bveryone kind of just leapt
up in the air and we were all just
hugging each other," Jackson
said. "It was great. Until your
name gets called out, you get su
per anxious and I was pretty
anxious, so it feels good."
Jackson will team up with
Cavaliers's guard LeBron James,
last year's No. 1 overall selec
tion, who is considered one
of basketball's top players at
only 19 years old. In James's
rookie year, Cleveland im
proved its record by 18 wins
from the previous year, but still
missed the playoffs.
"He had a great year last year
and I think the Cavs are a team
that are on the up and up in the
NBA," Jackson said. "They made
a huge turnaround last year and
they're going to be a contender
for years to come. I just feel like
I'm lucky to get on a team that's
a good fit for me like that, so I
feel very blessed."
Cleveland expects Jackson to
fill its need for a young player
who can consistently make
shots from the outside — a lost
art in modern-day basketball.
"He's an athlete," Cavaliers
head coach Paul Silas told the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer. "He
can penetrate to the hoop
and finish. He's a good free
throw shooter and we were
looking for someone who
could stretch the defense.
He understands how to play."
A three-year guaranteed con
tract worth more than $4
million dollars is waiting for
Jackson, a fact that he feels
privileged to earn.
"It doesn’t seem like you
should get paid that much for
something that you love," Jack
son said. "I have the best job in
the world now."
alextam@dailyewemld.cotn
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Luke Jackson (#33) takes a breather during the final moments of his last game at McArthur court. The Ducks dropped the UCLA Bruins after
Jackson scored a pair of game-winning tree-throws.
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