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JEFFERSON’S SHINNING STAR
SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD
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Erika Mashia
by
D anny B ell
Erika Mashia is a pretty and
petite 5 ’7" Senior Point Guard for
Jefferson varsity women’s basket
ball team. She comes across as a
disarming, quiet, talented and genu
ine young woman.
Mashia by most accounts is one
o f the premiere women’s basketball
players in the state.
She says she first became inter
ested in playing basketball when she
was about two years old. She would
play with her dad who is also an
assistant coach at Jefferson.
E rik a has one y o u n g e r b ro th
er nam e Erik and her co ach M ilt
A dam s a tte st to the fam ily b ein g
clo se knit. Although she has been
recognized as an outstanding athlete,
and has been awarded a basketball
scholorship to the University o f
Southern California -- a top ranked
w om en's program.
Mashia make the impression that
she is sensitive to others in as much
as she wants to pursue a career in
occupational therapy.
This attitude is echoed by her
coach “Erika is a great person in a
sense that she gets along with the
othere kids’’ he says "that her style o f
Senior Erika Mashia pulls up for a jump shot for the Jefferson
Democrats. Mashia has earned a scholarship with the University of
Southern California.
play is unselfish and that she will
sacrifice on a drive to help another
player.”
She says she loves the whole
sport o f basketball playing both of
fense and defense. When pressed
further she said she like the compet
itive nature o f the sport. Her favorite
aspect o f playing is driving to the
basket to see what she can create.
Mashia credits her coach with
se ttin g high sta n d a rd s for the
Jefferson team this year. Their goal
is to win the P.l.L. and to advance
beyond the first and second rounds in
state. She says that the P.l.L. is
underated, and that the Metro, Three
Rivers, and Mt. Hood are most the
competive leagues in the state.
Mashia says that Jefferson play
full court press defense through out
their games and that th is leads to a lot
fast breaks. Basically a run gun style
emphasizing man to man defense
throughout. With a game plan like
that Mashia thrives as athlete.
But just as fascinating as her
athletic prowess is, the perception by
Adam her coach as an individual o f
values.
Adams states that Erika is versa
tile player who is am bidextrous and
can play either I or 2 guard. She is
very supportive ofher family, as well
as supported by them inc luding aunts,
uncle, mother and father, but the
most intriquing thing noted is that
she is a listerner, she listens to her
peers as well as adults.
That is kind uncommon quality
in adolescence and young adults. Ms
Mashia gives a quiet presence o f
confidence and that a young she found
direction. Good Luck.
FIVE NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL STAR TEAM
Five o f the more than 160 Uni
versity o f Oregon students who re
cently competed in the campus-wide
College Bowl tournament have been
picked to represent the university at
the regional contest this winter.
Tim Blackman, Drew Mirante,
Hoi ley Powell, Peter Rayls and John
Watson will compete in February at
Linfield College in McMinnville
against eight other teams from four
Northwest states in the “varsity sport
o f the m ind,” according to Sue
Pederson, College Bowl coordina
tor and manager o f the Erb Memo
rial Union Recreation Center.
Watson and Rayls were mem
bers o f the first-place team, “The
Jammers," Mirante participated with
the second-place team, “Boiled;”
and “Blackm an's team, “Smarter
Than God”, finished third in the fi
nals. Powell competed with a team
called "Three Men and a Babe.”
Depending on their showing at
the regional event, the UO students
could move later this spring tot the
national competition at Ohio State
University, where Pederson says they
could face some the College Bowl
giants-the Massachusetts Institute o f
Technology, the University o f Chi
cago, Pennsylvania State University
and Cornell University.
College Bowl is based on the pop
ular “College Bowl” television series
o f the 50s and 60s. Teams o f four
players compete against the clock to
score points answering toss-up and
bonus questions on topics ranging from
history, literature and science to cur
rent events, music and sports.
The com petition’s history at
the University o f Oregon began in
1980 when a student resident assis
tant and Sally Smith, currently Uni
versity Housing’s resident life as
sistant director, started their own
Scholastic Bowl for dorm residents.
Faculty members from different
departments wrote the questions for
the competition.
“ We realized that we started
something the student really like,”
Smith said. As participation grew,
the residence halls joined the col
lege Bowl organization and used
official questions to qualify for re
gional competition. Later, the com
petition began to incorporate the
entire campus so teams from every
aspect o f the university’s communi
ty could participate.
D anny B ell
A c h ild h o o d r e s id e n t o f
Glenwood, Colorado has come to
the city o f Roses and already made
an impact o f one local University ’
basketball program. Rob Chavez
heads University o f Portland's bas
ketball program and he already has
made a noticeable as well as favor
able impression.
Chavez says he w asn’t bom a
basketball coach, but may be the
next best thing he was born a
coache's son. You see that way one
becomes a coach by osmosis.
The one thing he did n 't say is
how much he loves the game and the
students who play the game. How
ever it comes across in the enthusi
asm in his voice and how he likes to
explain his views.
although he grew up in a bas
ketball environment and played for
his dad in high school. He says he
felt it w asn’t a conscious decision
more than a natural inclination. In
college he played ball, worked at
summer basketball camps, and hung
around the coaches. Since they do
not give specific degrees in coach
ing he opted for one in biology.
One might say that Chavez is
an amalgamation in terms o f philos
ophy he freely admits borrowing
from his dad and other coaches that
he has been affiliated with, yet he
ROSE BOWL
BUDGET
their support o f the school and its
athletic program.
These fans include football sea
son ticket holders, members o f the
Duck Athletic Fund, current donors
to the university dues-paying mem
bers o f the university alumni associ
ation, faculty and students.
Participating in the event is the
football team o f 96 players, march
ing band o f 180 members, rally squad
o f 17 members, and Oregon Duck
mascot. Travel and accommodation
costs for these groups are paid from
the $1.3 million Rose Bowl expense
fund provided by the Pacific-10 Con-
ference.
The football coaches, trainers,
administrators and other support staff
are an example - that the (JO wold
have to purchase eventually out
o f its own funds, so there is an
offsetting effect on the athletic
AEROBICS
The attached preliminary bud
get gives a rough outline o f the ex
penses that are anticipated to be in
curred by the University o f Oregon
during its first Rose Bowl visit in 37
years.
1) Pac-10 share. Every school
in the Pacific-10 Conference, every
year, get approximately $550,000 as
its portion o f a shared Rose Bowl
payout. At the UO, that money goes
directly into Athletic D epartment
budget, where it is treated like any
other budgeted revenue source.
2) E xpense b u d g e t. As this
year’s participating Pac-10 represen
tative, the UO will receive approxi
mately $1.3 million from the league,
in addition to the annual payout, to
cover expenses. This money is used to
equip, transport, house and feed 96
football players, seven coaches, train
ers and athletic support staff, 180 band
members, 17 rally squad members,
one Duck mascot, some members o f
the UO President’s Delegation and a
number of support staff for up to eight
days.
SQUASH
Some o f this expense allot
ment pays fo r long-term equip
ment purchases - band uniforms
WHIRLPOOL
THE 1994 ROSE BOWL: WHO’S G0IH6?
TheUniversity o f O regon’s first
Rose Bowl appearance in 37 years
will bring tens o f thousands o f Ducks
and Duck fans to Southern Califor
nia this New Y ear's weekend.
Most will go simply to enjoy them
selves. but dozens o f UO employees
and public official are also going to
work, not only to make the football
team successful, but to ensure that this
"moment on the world stage" for the
university translates into long-term
benefits for the state o f Oregon
The U O ’s allotment o f 39,000
tickets has been sold to Duck fans
who have consistently demonstrated
contributes the largest part o f his
philosophy has been gained from
what he terms life experiences. He
especially acknowledges the freedom
to experiment and the automy that
his tenure at Chemketa allowed him
made a big difference.
He feels that there are three as
pects crucial to the success o f a given
program.
1. system o f play
2. recru itin g
3. discipline o f the p ro g ra m
From there it is incumbent on
the coach to effectively market and
promote to everyone concerned be it
potential recruits, high schools, fac
ulty, students, and adm inistration to
build support for the team.
Chavez observed with the ad
vent o f the media he has found that
there is no noticeable difference in
the style o f play on the east compared
west coast. If there is a difference its
because there are so many more
schools back east.
He finds that the ability and the
talent level o f the players are com
paratively the same, only difference
being density o f population, & pro
liferation o f schools.
Noted for his ability to turn pro
gram s around C h av ez previous
coaching job had been at Maryland
Eastern Shore which had only won
54 games in 10 years.
He turned them around to 28.27
make up 71 persons, th
band has a support staff ol
person for the rally squad s
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the money is given - and is expected to
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in two year reign as head coach.
At Chemketa Community Col
lege in Salem his record in an im
pressive 136-24 from 1987 to 1992
Even though he has ju s t re
tu rn ed from the east co a st he
b ro u g h t no east co a st p rd sp re c ts
back w ith him. He feels very
stro n g ly that it is n e c e ssa ry to
have a blend o f local and re
g io n al talen t, on the team .
“ It is beneficial for many rea
son” say coach Chavez. “The big
gest thing is to align the players with
a common goal, it takes time and the
ability to communicate”.
Ray Ross a senior and a Port
land product who played at Park
Rose,
briefly commented that coach
Chavez stresses “an uptempo de
fense, and to make the other team
earn everything they get. He is easy
to play for if you can defend.
Regarding defense “he wants
you to take the good shot”.
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the team a ttitu d e you can see
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