RUNNING DOWN HISTORY.Byline: Steve v. t. 1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve. Mims The Register-Guard THE OFFER made to Mike Jodoin was to be an assistant softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' coach at Sheldon High School Sheldon High School may refer to:
Jodoin accepted, and head coach Lee Schilling introduced him to the team. "Lee walked on the field, called all the girls in and said `Here is your new softball coach,' ' Jodoin recalled. "Then he left." Schilling left, but Jodoin hasn't has·n't Contraction of has not. hasn't has not hasn't have left softball since taking over the Irish in 1978. He moved to North Eugene Eugene, city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. four years later and has turned the Highlanders into one of the state's top programs during the past decade. North Eugene has averaged 22 wins per season in the last nine years, and Jodoin is closing in on 500 career wins. With a record of 496-161, he could soon become the second coach in state history to reach that milestone, following Putnam's Jerry Jer·ry n. pl. Jer·ries Chiefly British Slang A German, especially a German soldier. [Alteration of German. Stidham, who reached that number last week. "Just recently I started thinking about it, and I think it is taking up too much of my time," Jodoin said. "Early in the season the girls found out about it and started feeling a little pressure, almost like they were letting me down." North beat South Eugene on Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant to improve to 6-4 in the Midwestern Mid·west or Middle West A region of the north-central United States around the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi Valley. It is generally considered to include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and League, and is now in fourth place in the league standings. The Highlanders were swept Monday Monday: see week. in a nonleague doubleheader at North Medford North Medford is the name of some places in the United States of America:
North has been in the postseason in each of the past eight years, but this year's team is young and without all-state pitcher Amy Harris, who is now playing for Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. . "I knew when the season started we had things to work on, and we weren't going to walk in and be undefeated," Jodoin said. "We had to improve, and I like the progress this team is making." Jodoin is in his 26th year coaching softball in a career that started before there were even softball playoffs. He has coached both of his daughters, won a state championship and watched softball grow into a sport that lasts well past the spring into the summer. It is a different era than when Jodoin inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). the Irish. "There were no playoffs, you played a schedule and when the schedule ended, the season ended," Jodoin said. "It was pretty low key; you played games on Tuesday and Thursday and sometimes didn't practice on Friday. If you got rained out, maybe you rescheduled it or maybe you didn't." Jodoin's background was in football, and he played for Oregon from 1971-73, starting at linebacker during his final two years. He played baseball for two years at North Catholic High in Portland and was starting to play slow-pitch softball when he got into coaching the sport. The Oregon School Activities Association started having softball playoffs in 1979, Jodoin's second year at Sheldon. Jodoin was teaching middle school at the time and when a job opened up at North Eugene High School North Eugene High School is a public high school of about 1,200 students in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located at 200 Silver Lane near the Santa Clara area of Eugene.[1] North Eugene's mascot is the Highlander. in 1982, Jodoin joined the Highlanders. Churchill was the class of the league and the state at that time, as coach Steve Minney guided the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. to seven state titles in eight years from 1980 to 1987. "When Steve Minney came in and started winning state championships, that was when I got more involved in it," Jodoin said. "I am a little competitive and I hate losing. Steve and I had some real rivalries, and he was on top on most of them, but every once in a while we'd sneak up Verb 1. sneak up - advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you" creep up advance, march on, move on, progress, pass on, go on - move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" and beat him and that was a pretty darned darned adj. Damned. Adj. 1. darned - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or good feeling." Jodoin started coaching summer teams, which added to a hectic hec·tic adj. 1. Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste: "There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor" Erik Erikson. 2. schedule. In addition to his softball duties in the spring and summer, Jodoin was the head football coach at North from 1982-99. When Jodoin was hired as football coach, his daughter Jenni was 3 years old. "I wanted to keep coaching softball and I had a daughter so I thought it was an interesting sport and she might want to be involved in it," Jodoin said. Both of Jodoin's daughters not only got involved in the sport, but excelled at it. Jenni was a three-time all-state selection who graduated in 1997 and went on to play at Oregon State. Dani was a two-time all-state selection who helped the Highlanders win the 2000 state title. "I was always around the field, out there throwing the ball or hitting," Jenni Jodoin said. "He would pick me up from school and take me to practice. This is where I kind of lived." Jodoin started coaching each of his daughters on 12-and-under teams. "Once they got to an age where they started playing, I knew there was no way I was going to get out of it for a while," Jodoin said. "I always enjoyed being around my daughters. I went through eight years coaching them at North and it was perfect." Jenni Jodoin said playing for her father was "the best thing I ever did. "Every practice was fun; every game was fun," she said. "I think it was the saddest day of my life when I had to graduate and not play for him any more. Then seeing my sister play, when we were both done we felt bad for him in a way." Jenni is back at North this year as an assistant coach. "I always knew I wanted to coach with him, and now being here I know I don't want to do anything else," Jenni said. "It's very different from playing. In a way it is more fun because I get to talk with him and work with him." That figures to continue for at least a few more years because Mike Jodoin has no plans to retire any time soon. "I have a group of sophomores that a friend of mine coached in the fifth grade, and I told him that I would stay until they graduated," Jodoin said. "I couldn't imagine not doing this. Jenni is here, and if she decides to stick around I think I will be here in some capacity. I might eventually turn it over to her and help her out, but I will be around." Jodoin has had a great run during the past nine years with a record of 205-48, including a 131-15 league record. The Highlanders have had seven all-state players during that time. "We got competitive and had a remarkable run of athletes," Jodoin said. "Nine years ago the program kind of took off and the girls got ownership of it, they feel a part of it. They are tougher on each other than I am." North Eugene lost the 1999 state final to Central Catholic but defeated the Rams 1-0 in nine innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. to win the title in 2000. Jodoin waved Tina Carlsen home from second base on Becky Weston's single in the top of the ninth. "There was no way I was going to stop her," Jodoin said. "It seemed to me like that umpire A person chosen to decide a question in a controversy that has been submitted to Arbitration but has not been resolved because the arbitrators cannot reach agreement, or one who has been chosen to be a permanent arbitrator for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement. took 10 minutes to make that call." That was the 435th victory for Jodoin that capped his 23rd season as a coach. "I couldn't have imagined I would stay and do this so long, but I like the success of the program, I'm competitive and I like winning, so that has kind of helped," Jodoin said. A CAREER OF ACCOMPLISHMENT Career record for North Eugene softball coach Mike Jodoin YEAR SCHOOL LEAGUE OVERALL 1978 Sheldon 12-2 18-4 1979 Sheldon 11-3 16-4 1980 Sheldon 11-3 17-3 1981 Sheldon 6-8 8-11 1982 North Eugene 12-2 15-5 1983 North Eugene 14-0 19-3 1984 North Eugene 12-2 22-5 1985 North Eugene 11-3 21-6 1986 North Eugene 12-2 18-4 1987 North Eugene 6-1 12-6 1988 North Eugene 12-4 21-6 1989 North Eugene 11-5 21-9 1990 North Eugene 13-3 23-6 1991 North Eugene 9-5 17-8 1992 North Eugene 10-6 16-12 1993 North Eugene 10-6 15-10 1994 North Eugene 11-7 13-11 1995 North Eugene 18-0 25-3 1996 North Eugene 15-3 23-7 1997 North Eugene 15-3 22-7 1998 North Eugene 18-0 24-4 a-1999 North Eugene 12-3 21-9 b-2000 North Eugene 16-0 28-3 c-2001 North Eugene 16-0 29-2 2002 North Eugene 14-2 25-3 2003 North Eugene 6-4 7-10 TOTALS 313-76 496-161 a-Lost 1-0 to Central Catholic in state championship b-Beat Central Catholic 1-0 in state championship c-Lost 1-0 to Canby in state championship CAPTION(S): Mike Jodoin has turned North Eugene's softball program into a perennial perennial, any plant that under natural conditions lives for several to many growing seasons, as contrasted to an annual or a biennial. Botanically, the term perennial state power the past decade, and with a record of 496-161, he could soon become only the second coach in Oregon history to reach 500 career victories. Jodoin: Coach's daughters kept him in the game Continued from Page E6 "I am a little competitive and I hate losing. ... I couldn't imagine not doing this." - MIKE JODOIN, NORTH EUGENE SOFTBALL COACH Jodoin, here talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to North's Ashley Ficek, has been coaching softball since 1978, when he took over the Sheldon program. Please turn to JODOIN, Page E5 North Eugene softball coach Mike Jodoin is four wins away from 500 |
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