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Thursday, May 28, 2020
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EOU lacrosse team up to 13 on fi rst-year roster
By Ronald Bond
The Observer
LA GRANDE — The
new Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity women’s lacrosse
program added 12 more
athletes to its roster,
bringing the number of
players in the fi rst-year
program to 13.
EOU in February
announced Sydney
Shaughnessy as its fi rst-
ever lacrosse signee, and
head coach Monica Plut
has continued to build the
team’s roster, which will
take the fi eld for the fi rst
time in the spring of 2021.
“We have a lot of
talent,” Plut said. “We
have a couple rookies of
the year, a couple second
team all-states, a couple
former captains of the
high school team as well.
Overall a really talented
group.”
Plut said the fact she
has her roster mostly
fi lled is a plus considering
some of the recruiting
challenges the corona-
virus pandemic and the
ensuing lockdowns have
caused.
“Feeling good about
that,” she said. “When I
was at fi ve I was freaking
out a little bit.”
Three of the new addi-
tions to the roster are,
like Shaughnessy, from
Idaho. Plut also brought
on fi ve California lacrosse
players, two from western
Oregon, one from Wash-
ington and the one from
Montana.
The Idaho athletes
signed by Plut are all
offensive players: 5-foot-7
attacker Kiana Watchman
from Boise, 5-foot-8
attacker Danielle Tracy
from Nampa, 5-foot-4
attacker/midfi elder
Hannah Victory from
Eagle, and Shaughnessy,
a 5-foot-8 midfi elder/
attacker from Meridian.
Three of the additions
from California will help
lock down the defensive
end, including 5-foot-3
goalkeeper Giselle
Amezcua from Stockton,
5-foot-4 defender/mid-
fi elder Kennedi Tuliau
from Corona, and 5-foot-2
defender Brittany Rodri-
guez from San Diego. Plut
also landed players with
some versatility from
California in 5-foot-0
attacker/defender Briana
Sotelo from Fresno, and
5-foot-8 attacker/mid-
fi elder Marisol Trevino
from Riverside.
From Oregon, Plut
scored 5-foot-3 attacker
Saydee Hetrick from
Mountainside High
School in Beaverton
and 5-foot-6 midfi elder/
defender Regann Donahue
from McNary High
School in Keizer.
Lauren Kombol, a
5-foot-5 attacker from
Bellingham, Washington,
will add collegiate expe-
rience on the roster as
a transfer from Siena
Heights University, an
NAIA school in Mich-
igan. She played in four
games this spring, scoring
two goals and adding an
assist before the corona-
virus ended the season.
She scored two goals in 17
games her freshman year.
Plut said in the vir-
tual meetings the team
has had during the pan-
demic, Kombol is already
emerging as a leader.
“And she’s been
playing forever. She
played up in Canada too,”
the coach said. “She has
a ton of experience, and
who she is as a person,
she wants to be that posi-
tive light and that leader.”
Rounding out the cur-
rent signing class is
5-foot-4 goalkeeper Dylin
Joining the EOU roster:
1. Saydee Hetrick, from
Beaverton, is one of two
Oregonians signed to the
fi rst Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity lacrosse team.
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3. Dylin St. Germaine, from
Billings, Montana, was
a second-team all-state
goalkeeper in 2019. She is
among the recent play-
ers to sign on for Eastern
Oregon University’s new
lacrosse team.
4. Regann Donahue, from
Keizer, is one of two Ore-
gonians signed to the fi rst
Eastern Oregon University
lacrosse team.
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3
St. Germaine from Bill-
ings, Montana, a sec-
ond-team all-state keeper
in 2019, according to Plut.
The team has been
having weekly calls and
challenges to help build
chemistry,” Plut said.
“We’re getting a head
start in building the team
culture and getting to
know each other that
we wouldn’t have (oth-
erwise),” she said. “It’s
going to be a really nice
fl ow. We’re using this
time as much as we can
right now.”
She added that in spite
of the positions they have
listed, nothing is set as to
where an athlete will play
once the team is together.
“Expect to play dif-
ferent positions. Try
everything,” Plut said.
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“You don’t know until you
try.”
The coach shared an
example of an athlete on a
club team she coached in
Kentucky who had strictly
been a defender. Plut
moved her to an attacker
and she scored four goals
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in a game.
“I told the team you are
going to play more than
one position,” Plut said.
“Told the goalies too.”
The signees give Plut
about three-fourths of the
17 players she hopes to
sign for the fi rst season.
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ence will allow voluntary
workouts on campus for all
sports beginning June 15,
subject to the decision of
each individual school and
where allowed by local and
state guidelines, the confer-
ence announced Tuesday.
The decision was made
by the presidents and
chancellors of the con-
ference schools and fol-
lowed the announcement
last week by the NCAA
that schools can reopen
for voluntary activities
beginning next Monday.
The Pac-12’s COVID-19
medical advisory com-
mittee created a series of
guidelines and protocols
for schools to follow once
they decide to open for
individual workouts.
“As states have either
already opened or begin
to open up access to
parks, gyms and other
training facilities, stu-
dent-athletes should have
the option at this time to
be in, what for many, will
be a much safer environ-
ment on campus, where
they can have access to
the best available health,
well-being and training
support,” Pac-12 Com-
missioner Larry Scott
said.
It’s unlikely all 12
schools will open their
doors at the same time.
States with schools in the
conference are reopening
at difference paces and
that will affect when ath-
letes can return to campus
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2. Lauren Kombol, a native
of Washington, is trans-
ferring to Eastern Oregon
University, La Grande,
from Siena Heights, Mich-
igan, to join the women’s
lacrosse team.
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in Tempe, Arizona. The Pac-12 Conference announced
Tuesday it will allow voluntary workouts on campus for all
sports beginning June 15, subject to the decision of each
individual school and where allowed by local and state
guidelines, the conference announced Tuesday.
has reopened many of its
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sional sports can resume,
while California, Wash-
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been slower and more
restrictive in allowing
the resumption of small
gatherings.
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will be on the fall sports,
most notably football.
Several Pac-12 foot-
ball coaches have said
they would like six to
eight weeks of preseason
training and practice
to be ready should the
season begin as scheduled
in late August and early
September.
The guidelines cre-
ated by the conference’s
medical advisory com-
mittee cover returning
to campus; returning
to an athletic facility;
facility specifi c consider-
ations; return to exercise
and response to infec-
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tion. The conference said
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its own health and safety
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