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8 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, February 21, 1990
FANFARE
The Georgia men's and women's track teams travel to Gaines
ville, Fla., this weekend for the SEC championship meet at the
O'Connell Center. The men's tennis team visits Louisville for the
ITCA National Team Indoor Tournament.
Assistants equal assets
By BILLY COPELAN
Contributing Writer
Assistant coaches can go
through an entire season vir
tually unheralded for their ef
forts, but they can provide a vital
influence on a team The Georgia
women’s basketball team is very
fortunate to have two such assis
tant coaches.
Bernadette Locke and Lisa
O’Conner, each former standout
members of the Lady Dogs, have
brought a winning tradition and
a helping hand to the Lady Dogs
and head coach Andy Lanaeri.
Locke played for Lander* at
Georgia from 1979-81. She is the
first female basketball player at
Georgia to be named an All-
American, an honor she achieved
in her first season with the Bull
dogs. Locke also helped lead the
Lady Dogs to the NWIT
championship in 1981.
Locke haB served as an assis
tant coach at Georgia for the last
four years, and she is also
Georgia’s recruiting coordinator.
She is regarded as one of the top
recruiters in the nation.
O’Connor is perhaps one of the
most valuable players in Lady
Dog history. O'Connor lettered
for the Lady Dogs from 1982-86
and served as co-captain for the
team in 1985 and 1986. She was
one of the key players on
Georgia’s Final Four teams of
1983 and 1985.
O’Connor, who it entering her
first season as an assistant coach
at Georgia, previously served as
an assistant at the University of
Florida.
Locke and O’Connor have a di
verse number of roles with the
Lady Dogs. During practice,
Locke works with the backcourt
players while O’Connor assists
the poet players. Both perform a
tremendous amount of re
cruiting, while O'Connor works a
great deal on the promotion of
the Lady Dogs,
and
Lock*
O'Connor stated
y<
Lady Dogs hot the potential to be
a great team.
The talent definitely qualifies
them for a Final Four team,”
O’Connor said. “But we have to
start working aa a team.*
Locke said that in order for the
Lady Dogs to go all the way. they
will have to "want it really bad.
Ford plays string music for Lady Dogs
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Sports Staff Writer
String music.
Georgia forward Stacey Ford has
been hearing that sweet Bound of
the basketball swishing through
the net a lot this season — about
.633 percent of the time she shoots
the ball to be exact.
In Saturday’s game against Mis
sissippi State, she made five of
seven attempts from the field and
maintained the third highest spot
on the NCAA field goal shooting
percentage list.
If she maintains her present
pace, she would be the first Lady
Dog to lead the SEC in that cat
egory since Katrina McClain did it
before going on to star with Teresa
Edwards in the 1988 Olympic
Games.
Ford, a 6-2 junior from An
derson, S.C., earns her living in the
paint — scoring most of her 328
points this season (13.7 a game) by
flashing through the lone and
taking the quick jumper.
"My game is that short, turn
around jumper,” Ford said. “I’ve
been doing that all my career ... I
always look for the ball in the pack
(in the lane). That’s my territory.
Nobody is going to stop my shot so I
don’t think about it. I just shoot.”
Ford, who is also the team’s
second-leading rebounder with an
average of about six a game, says
she tries to avoid thinking about
national rankings and credits her
teammates’ with getting her the
ball.
“My scoring depends on people
getting the ball to me,” Ford said.
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"And if I start thinking about my
percentage, it’s hard for me to keep
my focus. I just focus on making
my shot go down.”
Georgia coach Andy Landers
said that Ford is a team player and
hasn’t let the aura of personal
achievement slow her down.
”1 think Stacey handles thnt
well,” Landers said of Ford’s high
field goal percentage. “Something
like that does effect moet players.”
Landers also said that ne relies
more on Ford this season than in
her two previous campaigns.
“Once we started practice this
season, I began to expect more
from her,’ Landers said. “It’s like
cold water on a hot day. At first,
you want a little bit. You get a sip
and then want some more. Then
you have to stand there and drink
the whole well. I wanted Stacey
like a sip of cold water. Now 1 just
want her to turn it looae.”
While Ford has spent much of
her court time playing string music
and cleaning glass, she has also
improved her quickness, defense
ana overall gams as the result of a
self-avowed rededication to the
game.
“She’s a great blend of power
and quickness. How many big
people do you know that can play
the front of the press? She can get
down and guard a guard like a
guard,* Landers said.
Ford will lead the Lady Dogs
into Tallahassee, Fla. for a non
conference matchup against the
Florida State Lady Seminoles to
night at 7:30. The Lady Dogs then
host LSU at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Stacey Ford: Lady Dogs’ junior forward prepares to sink
a shot — her field goal percentage is third in the nation
SEC Championship Meet next for Aqua Dogs
The University of Georgia men's
and women’s swimming and diving
teams will travel to Tuscaloosa,
Ala. this week to participate in the
Southeastern Conference
Championship Meet on Feb. 22-24.
The lOth-ranked Lady Bulldogs
finished the 1989-90 dual-meet
season with a 7-2 record overall, 5-
2 SEC, while the Bulldogs finished
3-5 overall, 2-4 in the SEC.
“Both the men and the women
are swimming extremely well right
now,” head coach Jack Bauerle
said. “We’re coming off the fastest
dual-meet season in history and
peaking just at the right time. It
should be interesting next week
and we’re looking forward to it.
“Our goals for the SECe will be
top three for the women and top
five for the men,” Bauerle said.
One of the problems plaguing
the team all season is its lack of
depth. Bauerele said that the
problem forces the Swim Dogs to
dig a little deeper.
“It will be difficult because we
don’t have a lot of depth, so we’ll be
relying on the same people to con
sistently score.”
Although the swimmers will be
challenged, Bauerle said that he
feels his team will overcome the
added pressure and adversity.
“I have a lot of confidence in our
swimmers and I know each and
every one of them will give it every
thing they’ve got."
The team departed from Athens
en route to Alabama yesterday af
ternoon.
Following the SEC
championships, Georgia will tune
up for the NCAA championships at
the Tarheel Invitational in Chapel
Hill, N.C. on March 2.
—Gene Williams
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