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Friday, February 16, 2007

Speaking of Oregon: UO's student newspaper has a nifty profile of Eleanor Haring, the quiet Australian Institute of Sport alum who has become the Ducks' team leader, and who gave them what they needed last night.

Is Haring a WNBA prospect? Assistant coach Phil Brown, who also taught her at the AIS: "The talent's there... There's certain things that she'd need to really work on in a concentrated period of time - three, four months to really get herself into a position where she could be effective."

How did Haring end up at UO? Ducks head coach Bev Smith says Brown "sent a tape and we saw a couple moves and we're like, 'Wow'.... We saw her turnaround jumper and we saw some things offensively that it was like, 'OK, this lady needs to be a Duck.'"