Pacific LUtheran university scene october 1993
23 Sports
Weekly Named To U . S. Olympic Team Softball C aching Staff When Pacific Lutheran softball coach Ralph Weekly was named the head coach of the North team for the softball competition at the Olympic Festival this past summer in San Antonio, Texas, he called it p robab l y the biggest honor I ' ve "
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NAlA Softball Coach of the Year a nd National Softball Coaches Association Coac h of the Year honors in 1 992 , that indeed was an outstanding accomplishment. But in l ight of rus most recent coaching assignment, t he Ol y mpic Fe tival honor looks like single compared to a trip l e . [ n late August , We kJy wa named to the USA National SoftbaU Team coaches poo l . Weekly and 'even other individual s w i l l serve as national team coache in interna tional competition leading up to the Olympic Games i n 1 996. Of the eight coaches, two will u lti mate l y be cho e n to lead the Unit ed States softball team at the 1 996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Geor gia . The '96 Games will mark the fir t appearance of softba l l as a recognized O l ymp ic sport . A a national team coach, Week l y spent September 2-6 in Oklaho ma City O kl a , at the USA Soft ball National Team camp, where he, the other seven coaches and a seven- membe r se l e ction commitJ
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WOMEN'S SOCCER It came a game later than she would have l iked , but women ' s occer coach Colleen Hacker added anot her mi l es ton to he r remarkable coaching career at Paci fic Luther an in the opening week of play this season. With a 2-0 victory over West mont College of California in the Lutes' season-opener on Septem ber 3 , Dr. Hacker picked up win No. 200 as the PLU soccer coach. The victory came in the first round of the Nike/Toro Invitation al at Carson , Calif. Her overall record entering this season , her 1 3th, was 1 99-36- 1 5 . That calculates to more than 1 6 wins per � season through the first dozen �. years of her tenure . Coleen Ha ker Had win No. 200 come one game earlier, it would bave given PLU the 1 992 NAJA women's soccer championship. As it turned out , the Lutes dropped a 1 -0 decision to Lynn University Florida in the '92 title game . Hacker has made PLU women' soccer synonymous with success: • Three national titles and two sec nel-place finishes in the past five yea rs . • Four straight District 1 and West Region championships . • 1 8 players earning either first or second team NAJA Al l-America honors since 1 985 . Congratulations are in order � r Stacy Waterworth . Earlier this summer, Waterworth , the assistant coach for the PLU wom en ' s soccer team for eight sea sons , was named the Wash ington State Women ' s Soccer Association Player of the Ye r .
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tee chose the 1 7 p l ay er national team. " The thing that is the most exciting is getting the opportunity to work with all those great coach es, " says Wee k l y . . ' I ' m looking forward to interc hanging coaching philosoph y w i th them and to bringing th ir ideas back to Pacific Lutheran and the NAIA . " Weekly ' s Paci fic Lutheran teams have appeared in the NAIA national title game three times, winning in 1 988 and 1 992 . The Lutes have qu a l i fi ed � r the national tournament seven tim in Weekl y ' s eight seasons as head coach. -
Lute Backs Earn Recognition In Early Weeks Of Grid Season A fter two game s , Pac ific Lutheran is ranked No . 4 in the NAJA Division II Top 25 national pol l . The Lutes have a 1 -0- 1 record after tying Linfield, 20-20, in the season opener at the Tacoma Dome, followed by a 43- 1 3 past ing of Eastern Oregon State Col lege at Sparks Stadium in Puyal lUp . Al ready this season , two Lute players have received conference bonors and one national accord . Senior quarterbac k Marc Weekly was named NAJA Division II and Columbia Football Association Offensive Player of the Week for his performance agaiIlst Linfield. H e completed 3 3 -of-5 3 passes
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(both marks breaking his own sin gle-game school records) for 362 and two TDs . He scored on a I -yard sneak with one second left, then passed for a two-point con version to Chad Barnett to give the Lutes the tie . The fol lowing week against Eastern Oregon , Barnett, a senior running back, scored four touch downs to earn CFA Mt. Rainier League Offensive Player of the Week honors . Barnett had 25- and 36-yard scoring runs, caught a 27yard TO aerial from Weekl y , and returned a punt 57 yards for anoth er score. The untold story at this point of the season, however, is the out standing defense played by the Lutes. After two game s , Pacific Lutheran is ranked No. 1 among NAJA Division 11 teams in total defense and rushing defense .
Waterworth bas been a member o f the Washington State Select Team for three years nd has received invitations to partic ipate in United States national team camps in Boston and Florida. She played her col legiate soccer at Pacific Lutheran, where she was named to mul ti p l e wcrc and NAIA District 1 Al l-Star teams. She still holds the PLU record for goals in a single game with six . The finaJ score of the Sept. 22 match read Seattle University 5 , Pacific Lutheran Univer ity 2 , in overtime. But in fact , PLU had scored four goals in the game . Something 's fishy you ' re thi nking . Not reall y , because two of the goals the Lutes scored went into their own net-the soccer term is " own goal , " and Seattle U . gratefully accepted the two scores. The irony? Never in her 1 3 seasons as head coach had one of Colleen Hacker's teams scored even one own goal-and then it happened twice in the same game. MEN'S SOCCER Pacific Lutheran, the defending NAIA District I and Area I champion, is off to a slow start in 1 993 . After eight matches , the Lutes were 3-4- 1 . Not including a 4-2 loss to Area 1 runner-up Concordia, however, the Lutes have allowed only six goals-that' s less than one goal a game. The Lutes have had trouble putting the ball in the net, scoring only 1 2 goals in their first eight matches. A pleasant surprise is the scoring punch of freshman forward Laef Eggan, who had four goals and three assists through the first eight matches . VOLLEYBALL Through the first 1 1 matches , the Lutes were 5-6 overall and 3- 1 in both district and conference play . Youth is being served on this team: the statistical leaders in virtually every category are a sophomore (Rachelle Snowdon) and two freshmen (Beth Jayne and Kim Baldwin) . Snowdon and Jayne, both outside hitters, are the primary targets for the sets of Baldwrn. In fact, Snowdon has ranked among the NAIA national leaders in kills per game throughout the season. CROSS COUNTRY The goal of the Lutes is to return to the NAIA National Championships set for Nov . 23 in Kenosha , Wisconsin. For the first time since Brad Moore became coach in 1 980, the Lute women fai led to advance to nationals . For a team that had finished i n the top ix every year since 1 98 1 , that was a disappointing result . And the men ' s tea m , winners of eight straight NCIC hampionships , also stayed home . With earl y sea so n meets geared toward conditioning, the Lutes will set their sight" on two late season meets that they hope will propel them to nationals-the NCIC Cbampionshlps on Oct 23 and the District 1 Champi onships on Nov. 6. The Lutes will host both races -
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