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B • The Red and Black • Tuesday, November 5, 1996
Landers craving
can only be cured
by sweet victory
ORNELAZ: Coming or going
Andy Landers is like a wide-eyed child peering
into a candy store, pressing his face against the
glass and leaving hand prints on the window pane.
It is the Women's Basketball National
Championship trophy Landers, Georgia’s head
coach, longs for. It has become his jar of candy, his
goal, his burden.
“It is the kind of thing that weighs on me now
more than it did last spring or summer,” Landers
said. “I was real pleased with our basketball team
last year to advance the way they did. I’m disap
pointed we didn’t win, but now that we are getting
prepared to play again I have more thoughts of
last year. And I want to be in that position again.
It makes me want to get back to that National
Championship game even more."
The Bulldogs finished second in the nation last
year — they did the same in 1985. Georgia has
been in the NCAA tournament 13 times since
Landers took over as coach in 1979. He has been
named national coach of the year three times, in
cluding 1996. But Landers and his team have a
sweet tooth — they want a national title.
“Any time that a program has been successful
as long as this one has [the national title) becomes
the expectation,” Landers said. “When you’ve been
to the Final Four four times, when you’ve played
for a National Championship twice, when you’ve
had the All-Americans and national players of the
year, it becomes the one thing that is left out there.
There isn’t any new frontier to explore.”
Landers and his band of Bulldogs barricaded
the doorway to the candy store last season, but
somehow Southeastern Conference rival
Tennessee walked out with the loot
Georgia freshmen Angie Ball, Dianna Lott and
Kiesha Brown haven’t played in an NCAA tourna
ment or even a college game, but the back of their
practice shirts proclaim the dates of the 1997 Final
Four.
“Freshmen, by and large, are big dreamers any
way," Landers said. “I think as they practice and
play they come to understand that there is some
thing special about the team that they are on —
that being the experience, the success and the con
fidence. I think they may not really know why they
should believe it, but they believe what is on the
back of their shirts.”
Georgia’s starts down the road to the Final
Four on Friday in a exhibition game against
Chevakata Russia. It is an exhibition game, but
when the goal is to be the best — every game is
important.
At Midnight Madness. Landers told the crowd
that this team was going to bring the National
Championship to Georgia. It is the same promise
he made last year.
“I don’t think you dismiss the good things from
last year, and I don’t think you totally dismiss the
negative," Landers said. “I think those two are
great building blocks for what you want to be.
Take the things that are wrong and correct them,
and you take the things that are-right and try to
duplicate them and keep going.”
And Landers knows where he wants to go.
— Patricia Heys is a sportswriter for The Red
and Black
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of the exchange program when she
made the soccer team. At the end of
this school year, though, she will
have to make a decision. She can ei
ther stay at Georgia, where she has
become a starting forward for the
Dogs, or return to Sonoma State,
closer to her family and her home.
“I could stay if I wanted to, or go
back and finish," Ornelaz said.
“Right now, it’s in the middle. I’m
going to go ahead and play spring
ball and go from there and see what
happens. I love this school. I love
this atmosphere.
“I remember the first day I
walked in, I wondered why I was do
ing this. All the girls on the team
were like, J You are crazy. What
would make you want to go 3,000
miles away without anybody?’ I’m
very close to my parents and that’s
been the hardest thing. It’s just the
whole aspect of being away from my
family."
Her parents were able to travel to
Athens for the Oct. 25 Tennessee
and Oct. 27 Mississippi games. This
was the first time they had seen
their daughter in a red and black
uniform.
“Having a father that is a coach,
you always want to prove and shew
you can do it,” Ornelaz. “That was
my biggest thing last weekend. To
prove that I made it, and I’m here. I
attribute all of that to them, espe
cially to my dad.”
There are still many things left
for Ornelaz to experience here at
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Nikki Ornelaz (right) will have to decide whether to stay at
Georgia or return to California at the end of the school year.
Georgia. She was in Gamma Phi
Beta sorority at Sonoma State, but
has yet to make a visit to the chap
ter at Georgia.
“I haven’t affiliated here,”
Ornelaz said. “I really want to, I just
haven’t had time. I’ve only been here
a quarter. I haven’t really experi
enced anything because of soccer.
That’s all I do — live breathe, eat,
drink, sleep soccer. I have two more
quarters to see what goes on.”
Omelaz’s subdued demeanor and
persistence has enabled her to enjoy
soccer and life at Georgia.
Will she stay or will she go?
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