USD Magazine, Spring 1999

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ATHLETES, TEAMS AMONC BEST Despite playing and performing in less than lavish facilities, USD still manages to recruit top prospects and produces some of the league's better athletes and teams. Consider: • Men's soccer and women's volleyball teams are among the conference's best. Both teams advanced to the NCAA tourna– ment's second round in 1998 and featured all-WCC performers. Soccer player Leighton O'Brien was drafted in February by Major League Soccer's New England Revolution. • The women's tennis team is one of the better programs in the nation and currently features the country's No. 1 player, junior Zuzana Lesenarova. • The men's and women's basketball teams are extremely competitive in a league that this year featured an NCAA Elite Eight contender in Gonzaga. Holland and women's coach Kathy Marpe land some of the best high school players in the West even though the facilities fall below other league schools.

be expanded and include a new sports administration building with coaches' offices in the east end zone. The pool, which is too shallow for 3-meter diving, will be replaced by a new, Olympic-size facility. And the tennis courts, where lack of restrooms require visitors, players and officials to trek to nearby buildings, will be rebuilt to include restrooms, locker rooms and a main court seating 1,000. "Our plan will take us to where we should be and give us room to go forward," says athletic director Tom Iannacone. "The other schools (in the conference) are not just sitting still. They're constantly making improvements as well."

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