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1. Rise Alexander

Description: OSU golfer Rise Alexander played at OSU from 1974 to 1977. She served as OSU's women's golf coach from 1990 to 2014.

2. Mary Govaars

Description: Govaars was a junior and the team’s co-captain in 1976. She was the team’s no. 1 rated singles and doubles player.

3. OSU Crew team

Description: Rob Zagunis (back row, left) led OSU to its first ever event title at the 1975 National Intercollegiate Rowing Championships in the varsity 4. He was the first OSU crew athlete to be named to the U.S. National Team, and was a member of the 1976 Olympic team.

4. OSU women's basketball player Shirley Lagastee

OSU women's basketball player Shirley Lagastee

Description: Basketball became an intercollegiate sport for women at OSU in 1972. Lagastee was a four-sport athlete at OSU – she also played field hockey and softball, and was on the track and field team.

5. OSU women’s cross country team running in Avery Park

OSU women’s cross country team running in Avery Park

Description: The team included (from left) Kris Trom, Karen Brown, Julia Anderson, Janet Lovelace and Jenny Bird. Lovelace placed fifth at the regionals in 1977 and twenty-sixth at the AIWA championships in 1978.

6. Erin Capps at bat

Erin Capps at bat

Description: Capps played at OSU from 1982 to 1985. She was OSU’s first softball All-American, named to the second team in 1983. That year she led the Beavers to a 9-2 NorPac conference record and a 26-14 overall record.

7. Steve Johnson

Description: Steve Johnson was a star post player for the OSU basketball team from 1977 to 1981. He was drafted number 7 overall in the 1981 NBA draft and played professionally for ten years.

8. Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods

Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods

Description: Wagner coached both OSU athletes at the Pan American games in Mexico City, where they both won gold medals. He coached at OSU from 1966 to 1975, compiling a dual meet record of 49-24. He led OSU to four top six finishes at the NCAA Championships, where the 1969 squad finished second. Nine of his athletes won individual NCAA titles, and fifteen athletes won twenty-three All-American honors. Tom Woods was a four-time All-American in the high jump and captured the 1972 NCAA title. Huntley competed at OSU in 1975 and participated on two U.S. Olympic teams. In the early 1970s, OSU was called the “high jump capital of the world” by some sportswriters due to the success of Dick Fosbury, Woods, Huntley and other Beaver high jumpers.

9. Joni Huntley preparing to high jump

Joni Huntley preparing to high jump

Description: Huntley competed for OSU in 1975, and later competed for the United States national team in the 1976 and 1984 Olympics, winning a bronze medal in 1984. She was ranked the no. 1 female high jumper in the United States five times. She also served as an assistant track and field coach for OSU in 1981.

10. OSU’s Steve Ericksen blocks a shot by UCLA All-American Bill Walton

OSU’s Steve Ericksen blocks a shot by UCLA All-American Bill Walton

Description: OSU defeated #1 ranked UCLA, 61-57, before 10,376 fans in Gill Coliseum. The win by the Beavers ended UCLA’s conference winning streak of 50 games. This photo, taken by student photographer Chris Johns, appeared in the March 1974 Oregon Stater. Johns tied his camera to one of the basket supports behind the backboard in order to get the photo.