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Dion takes job at Seattle Pacific.


Byline: The Register-Guard

Lindsey Dion, who played on the Oregon team that won the 2000 Pac-10 Conference women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges.  championship, has been named an assistant coach at Seattle Pacific.

Dion, 22, a co-captain for the Ducks' 2001 NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean:

Men's Sports
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the most common usage of this term
  • NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
 team, served as a volunteer assistant coach at Oregon last season, helping UO first-year head coach Bev Smith Bev Smith (born April 4 1960) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon. She has held that position since 2001, replacing controversial coach Jody Runge, and has posted an 83-69 record.  lead the team to the Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's NIT.  title.

Dion will be the top assistant to Seattle Pacific women's basketball head coach Gordy Presnell Gordy Presnell is the current head women's basketball coach at Boise State. His 2005 team went 15-15 including 6-10 in WAC play. He previously coached at Seattle Pacific University where he compiled a 396-127(.757) record. . Dion replaces Lynne DeYoung, who resigned last month to become head coach at Chico State.

During her playing career, Dion, a native of Fresno, Calif., was a three-year starter, a member of four UO teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament, won one Pac-10 title outright and shared another. She was an honorable mention all-conference player as a junior and senior as well as honorable mention academic all-conference her last three years at Oregon.

Felicia Ragland, a three-time all-Pac-10 player for the Oregon State women's basketball program, has been named its most valuable player for the 2001-02 season.

Ragland, ranked in the top 10 of 14 OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005.  career statistical categories, was the first OSU player to be drafted into the WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association
WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association
WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association
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. She currently is a member of the Seattle Storm For the soccer team of the same name, see .

The Seattle Storm is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Seattle, Washington. In 2004, led by Australian basketball star Lauren Jackson and University of Connecticut star Sue Bird, the team brought the
.

Other awards were won by Leilani Estavan (for leading the team in assists and leading the Pac-10 in assist-turnover ratio), Juleen Smith (most improved), Jenni Jodoin (spirit) and Hollye Chapman (academic achievement).

Honors

Five Oregon athletes and three from Oregon State have been awarded postgraduate scholarships by the Pac-10.

From Oregon: Adam Bergquist (men's cross country), Starr Johnson (women's soccer), Jenny Kenyon (women's track and field), Santiago Lorenzo (men's track and field) and Ryan Schmid (football).

From OSU: Katie Beachwood (women's rowiing), Dustin Janz (football) and Nathan Pakish (men's rowing).

Soccer

Tickets for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  venues playing host to the women's Gold Cup 2002, the championship for women's national soccer teams that will also serve as the qualifying tournament for the 2003 Women's World Cup The Women's World Cup could refer to either the:
  • FIFA Women's World Cup
  • UCI Women's Road World Cup
  • Women's Cricket World Cup
  • Women's Rugby World Cup
, go on sale today in Seattle and Los Angeles.

The eight-team tournament will be held from Oct. 27-Nov. 9 at Fullerton, Calif., Victoria, British Columbia, Seattle and Pasadena, Calif.

Tickets, available at all Ticketmaster locations, range from $15 to $40 for matches prior to the final, and from $20 to $50 for the championship.

Golf

Four area high school golfers are scheduled to participate in an all-star event at Black Butte Ranch next Thursday that matches top players from the Class 4A, 3A and 2A state tournaments last month.

Playing in the 4A boys event is Skyler Johnson of Marshfield. In the 4A girls competition is Jean Wheeler of South Eugene. Marist's Meredith Jones and Megan Budge are in the 3A girls event.

The 36-hole tournament, conducted by the Oregon High School Coaches Association for the fifth year, includes an 18-hole best-ball round and 18 holes of match play.

Tennis

Oregon officials said Thursday that the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's ranking of the UO women's team last season at No. 33 is the highest in the program's 29-year history.

The Ducks won seven of their final nine matches, six against ranked opponents and finished the season 14-11, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years.

Track

The Oregon women's track and field program has signed Abby Andrus, a heptathlete from Phoenix, Ariz., to a national letter of intent.

Andrus, a transfer from Paradise Valley Junior College, will be a junior next season.

This year, Andrus was second in the multi-events at the National Junior College Championships with 4,903 points.

CAPTION(S):

Administration Dan Miles, a coach and instructor at Oregon Institute of Technology The Oregon Institute of Technology, also known as Oregon Tech or OIT, is an accredited university in the Oregon University System, and the only public institute of technology in the northwest United States.  in Klamath Falls for 32 years, is relinquishing his job as athletic director after 10 years but will continue to coach basketball and softball. Mike Schell, an assistant athletic director at OIT OIT Organización Internacional del Trabajo (Spanish: International Labor Organization)
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, has been named interim athletic director.
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Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Jun 7, 2002
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