USD Magazine, Summer 1997

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UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Stephan Cascioppo is deputy director of human resources and employee relations for the County of El Dorado in California. H e has three daughters: Corinne, 7, Kelli, 5, and Kylie, 2.... Noelle Chartier is senior director of sales and conventions for C rittendon Golf Inc. in Coronado, Calif. ... Heidi Farguson is sales manager at Center BMW in Sherman Oaks, Calif.... Amy Selensky left her position as office manager for Koll Construction in San D iego last year to raise her two sons: Jake and Matthew. Amy and her husband, Rick, relocated the family to Billings, Mont., in 1996. ... Craig Yanagi is senior procu re– ment supervisor at Sony in the business and professional products group. H e earned an M.B.A. degree in international business and marketing from the N ew York Institute of Technology in December 1995. Craig lives in Lyndhurst, N .J.

LIVING HER HOOP DREAMS

19&7 10-Yaar Raunion Celebration Nov. 14-16, 1997

D ebbie Gollnick '92 started shoot– ing hoops as a second-grader in Auburn,Wash.When the Seattle Supersonics won the NBA championship in 1979, she took to the playground courts with renewed intensity. She knew what she wanted out of life - to play basketball for her beloved team. Then one day a friend broke it to her. Girls can't play in the pros, the friend said mattel"-of-factly. Gollnick reluctantly accepted the truth, but 17 years later found a different way to break into the pro ranks. She spent the 1996-97 season as assistant coach for the Portland Power, a team in the upstart American Basketball League, one of two professional women's leagues to begin play in the past year. She worked under head coach Greg Bruce, with whom she spent the previous three seasons at Portland State University leading the women's team. Just a few short years ago, coming out of college with a computer science degree, Gollnick figured her basketball career was over. She played four years as point guard and off guard for the Toreros. Despite her love for the game that helped define her as a person, she hadn't considered coaching. A year working as a computer program– mer in San Diego left Gollnick frustrated and yearning to move back to the Pacific Northwest. She volunteered with the

Portland State team while attending gradu– ate classes and a year later was hired as a full-time assistant. What is it about basketball that has a hold on Gollnick? "The strategy and competition,'' says the coach in her. "That great feeling when you blow by somebody and hit the three– pointer with nothing but net,'' says the player, whose specialty as a Torero was the outside shot. Even with weekly traveling and daily practice sessions, leaving little time for a social life, Gollnick is hooked on the coach– ing lifestyle. She's experienced everything from recruiting for Portland State, making all the travel arrangements for the Power and working on the court with the wing players. It's on the court where Gollnick is most at home and, after completing the season in the pro ranks, it's where she hopes to find a position at the college level again. She prefers Xs and Os and training the players over administrative work.The court also is the best place for on-the-job-training, says the 27-yeal"-old coach who admits she has much to learn. "You've got to be able to motivate the players and earn their respect,'' she says. " That's the part I'm learning."

CLASS CHAIR: Philip Welp

CLASS CORRESPONDENT: N iamh Foley-H oman 15 14 N orth Shore Road N orfolk, VA 235 05

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Ozzie Fumo graduated from Whittier Law School in May 1996. In N ovember 1996, he passed the N evada state bar. H e and his wife, I rmina, have three daughters: Genevieve, Veronica and Gabriella.... Teresa (Duff) Maynes earned a master's degree in social work in 1989 and a clinical social worker's license in 1991. She and her husband, Charles, have three children: Marissa, Julian and Elliott. The family moved to Burbank, Calif., in 1994 , where Teresa is a full-time home– maker. ... 'l'l-oy Mills is a marketing executive for KFMB 760, a radio station in San Diego. H e writes: "After working for five years as a television sports producer/sportscaster in San D iego and Louisiana, I worked for three years in professional sports public relations and marketing in South Dakota and San D iego." ... Anna (Hernandez) Sanzo (M.A.T. '92) is a

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