UO women's track team adds to recruiting class.Byline: The Register-Guard The Oregon women's track and field team's group of newcomers was an honorable mention choice as one of the nation's best by Track and Field News. The Ducks were one of six honorable mention teams, just out of the top five. Since the rankings were released, the Ducks have added two more high-profile athletes, pole vaulter Becky Holliday and high jumper Mary Murphy Mary Murphy may refer to:
In her indoor debut earlier this month, Holliday met the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association automatic qualifying mark and tied the school record of 13-5 1/4, a mark that currently ranks third among collegians in 2002. Murphy owns a high jump best of 5-8 and joins a group that already returns two of the Pac-10's 12 best from last season. Murphy might also see work in the heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. . Golf Bandon Dunes Resort has been named the nation's fifth-best golf resort by Golf Digest. In its first ranking of American courses, the magazine's panel of more than 700 golfers named Pebble Beach Resort in California the top resort. Sunriver Resort in Central Oregon, the only other resort in the state to make the list, is ranked 19th. After Pebble Beach, the rest of the top 10 are The American Club (Wis.), The Greenbrier greenbrier: see smilax. (W.Va.), Pinehurst Resort (N.C.), Bandon Dunes, Sea Island The Cloister cloister, unroofed space forming part of a religious establishment and surrounded by the various buildings or by enclosing walls. Generally, it is provided on all sides with a vaulted passageway consisting of continuous colonnades or arcades opening onto a court. (Ga.), The Lodge at Koele/The Manele Bay Hotel (Hawaii), The Homestead (Va.), The Boulders (Ariz.) and Kapalua (Hawaii). Bandon Dunes Resort, on the remote southern Oregon coast, opened in May of 1999. Basketball The Lane Community College men's and women's basketball teams are in Coos Bay tonight for divisional games at Southwestern Oregon. The Titan men (11-9, 4-2) will meet the Lakers (15-5, 5-1) at 5:30 p.m., with the women's game following at 7:30 p.m. Lane's men are in third place in the Southern Division of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges The Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges commonly called the NWAACC (pronounced N-Wack)is a sports association for Community Colleges in the states Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. and were recently ranked No. 8 in the twice-monthly conference poll of coaches. Southwestern Oregon is in second place in the division and ranked No. 5. The Titan women (15-5, 4-2) have won four straight and are tied with Clackamas for second place in the division. The Lakers (10-10, 3-3) are in a three-team tie for fourth. Soccer Soccer Buzz magazine has recognized the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. and Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. women's soccer teams for being among the nation's most-improved programs from 2000 to 2001. The Ducks improved their record to 8-8-2 last season, tied for the sixth-best increase in wins out of 278 Division I teams. It was Oregon's best record since the program was added in 1996. Oregon State was tied for 20th with a 4 1/2 -game improvement, as the Beavers went 10-8-2 in 2001 after a 6-13-2 record in 2000. |
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