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If you aren’t spending this Mother’s Day weekend with your mom, the Nitro Circus is offering a total daredevil, wild action adventure this Saturday night at Autzen Stadium. The sports-ac-tion entertainment company is coming by Eugene for a night of freestyle motocross, BMX and, “Anything you can imagine with wheels!”

Thirty of the world’s best extreme athletes join the Nitro Cir-cus tour for a night of entertainment and daring stunts. The Nitro Circus group tours the world every year, hitting five continents in 2015. The crew has also been featured on MTV and many oth-er network television channels. Nitro Circus will be rolling into Eugene on Saturday after two sold-out shows in Reno.

The event at Autzen is still not sold out. Tickets are $79 for any seat in the stadium, which has been outfitted for the sports-theater event. The event starts at 7 p.m.

Nitro Circus Live invades Autzen

CALENDARCALENDARSpoonfest — Taylor’s Bar and Grill (894 E. 13th Ave), 2-6 p.m.

Oregon Spoon’s second annual Spoonfest will be held once again at Taylor’s this Friday. This chapter of Spoon University, which is focused on providing recipes and food hacks for college town locals, is celebrating Cinco De Mayo weekend. There will be free drink giveaways, food contests and drinking games, along with a live DJ.

Willamette Valley Music Festival — on campus (1535 E. 13th Ave), noon to midnight, free

As detailed in today’s Emerald cover story, the Willamette Valley Music Festival is returning to campus. With 18 performers, live art, fire dances and aerial gymnastics, it will be the main attraction of the day for students and residents of the entire Willamette Valley. The event is put on by students, for students, as a creative and artistic celebration.

Aaron Carter — WOW Hall (291 W. 8th Ave), 8 p.m., $15 in advance, $18 at the door

Most college students know Aaron Carter as the little brother of Backstreet Boys lead singer Nick Carter, and as the boy who rose to childhood stardom with pop/rap songs like “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq.” Now, Aaron Carter is trying to make it back onto the charts a decade later with new music, a fresh mix of pop, R&B and progressive house. His performance at the WOW Hall on Sunday night will include new music off his most recent album, LOVE.

Filmed By Bike Film Festival — Hollywood Theater (4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd), $11+

For cycling fans this weekend, the Hollywood Theater is hosting the 13th annual Filmed By Bike film festival. Over the course of the weekend, the festival hosts a street party, filmmaker Q&A sessions, brewery tour bike rides with the filmmakers, workshops and awards ceremonies for the films being presented. Tickets for each screening vary, with the minimum being $11 for a two-hour series of films.

Kentucky Derby Party — North 45 (517 N.W. 21st Ave) 3:30 p.m., $20, 21+

The Kentucky Derby is this weekend for fans of horse racing and Southern culture. In Portland at the North 45, the watch party and celebration of the event will be huge. Guests are encouraged to wear their biggest hats, enjoy a Bulleit Bourbon Mint Julep, place their bets on the winning horse and listen to live music from the Dixieland-style band the Brass Roots Movement. Proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House charity.

Elliphant — Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mississippi Ave) 9 p.m., $15

Swedish alternative hip hop and synth-pop artist Ellinor Olovsdotter, known by her stage name Elliphant, is performing at Mississippi Studios this weekend. Elliphant is best known for her collaborations with more high-profile musicians and producers like Skrillex and Diplo. Her song “Too Original” with Major Lazer was a track on their 2015 hit album Peace Is The Mission. Her tour is based on her new album, 0, released in March.

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1. A YEAR OF REASONS WHY YOU LOVE YOUR MOM

Although this defines stereotypical homemade Mother’s Day gifts, it’s still a cute and cost-effective craft idea that takes a lot of love — and a lot of effort.

How to:1. Find some pieces of pretty card stock,

cut them into 365 small sections (12 if you’d rather just do it by month), then write a reason why you love your mom on each one. Don’t get discouraged if your reasons start becoming more silly than sentimental.

2. Tie a ribbon around the top of a mason jar and pour all of your cards in. Your mom will have something sweet to read for every day (or month) of the year.

2. BAKE THE FOODS YOUR MOM BAKED YOU AS A CHILD

Did your mom make cookies or cupcakes when you were little? If she did, pick the baked good that you remember your mom making the most. Instead of waiting for her to bake it for you, surprise her by baking it yourself and sending it to her doorstep.

3. FRAME SOMETHING FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD

In elementary school you may have created little poems, pictures and other projects then shared them with your parents to be hung on the refrigerator. These works of art often had a sweet, charming feel to them since a young child put them together. Some moms may miss that child version of you, so bring back some charming memories by framing a project you made when you were little.

IF YOU AREN’T ABLE TO MAKE YOUR MOM SOMETHING, HERE ARE A FEW IDEAS THAT ARE JUST AS SWEET.

4. SEND HER FLOWERSIf you’re living away from home

and can’t physically deliver your mother fresh flowers on Mother’s Day, there are services that can send fresh flowers to her on your behalf, either through the mail or via local florists. These companies include 1800flowers.com, proflowers.com, ftd.com, fromyouflowers.com and more. Prices average at about $30 sans shipping, although some elaborate bouquets are more expensive. You can also check with florists near your mom’s residence and see if they do deliveries. Some florists in Eugene are Dandelions, Flowers and Gifts and Rhythm and Blooms.

5. SEND HER SOMETHING SPECIAL FROM EUGENE

If your mom doesn’t live in Eugene or Springfield, send her something she can’t usually find at home.

Euphoria Chocolate Company is a local business that produces chocolate bars, truffles, cocoa and more. They also sell assorted boxes of chocolates that make cute gifts and range from about $10 to $20.

Pioneer Natural Soap Company is a private business that sells handmade soaps with natural ingredients. These soaps include oatmeal honey shea butter, rose petals shea butter & goat milk and Oregon forest. The company is often represented at the Eugene Saturday Market, but appointments to buy products can be made by phone. Soaps average around $5.

If you’re trying to figure out something thoughtful to send your mom this Mother’s Day, here are a few gift ideas. These first three are sentimental and creative gifts that are best when working on a budget. Prices vary based on the quality/quantity of materials you choose to buy.

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A couple days ago, when Beyoncé’s Lemonade had been out for about a week and Radiohead was ramping up the promotion for “Burn the

Witch,” I wrote a tweet comparing the two albums’ cryptic rollouts. Quickly, a Twitter user responded: “The difference between Beyoncé and Radiohead is that the latter are musicians and the former is nothing but a dancer.”

The debate about musicians who write their own songs/play their own instruments versus those who don’t is age-old (well, about 50 years old; nobody cared before the Beatles), and it was especially prevalent during the debate about whether Beyoncé or Beck should have won the 2015 Album of the Year Grammy.

But it will happen again. Beyoncé and Radiohead will inevitably be compared. And to many pop fans, Radiohead represents a critical discourse still dominated by white guys playing rock (Both criticisms are valid). Beyoncé fans will shit on Radiohead and vice versa. And much of the discourse will have to do with the fact that Radiohead plays its own instruments and writes its own songs while Beyoncé only sings and employs small armies of songwriters and producers.

I won’t even mention how I feel about either artist I write about here. But let me just lay down the law:

in the mainstream music industry, it does not matter who’s playing what, and this in no way affects the quality of the art.

It’s one thing in DIY genres like punk. But this is the mainstream. Discourses on authenticity are largely moot unless you’re straight-up lying, like using ghostwriters or claiming to be the “realest” when you’re a white Australian pretending to be a black woman. These have nothing to do with musicianship anyway.

Here’s a question: if Beyoncé’s “Formation” was credited to Beyoncé, Khalif Brown, Jordan Frost,

Ashton Hogan and Mike WiLL Made-It, would you enjoy it more?

Some of the best pop has come from artists channeling emotions put to paper by other writers. Was Elvis really so lonesome? Do the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me” or the Supremes’ “Baby Love” sound any less joyful when you know they were written and played by a bunch of hired goons backing up singers?

Don’t get mad at Bey. Maybe get mad at the baffling system for crediting artists. It’s hard to know if Bey wrote anything on Lemonade because her name appears in the writing credits of each song for royalty purposes. I’d like to know which lines are hers and which are, say, The-Dream’s. Then I could get a better grasp of who she is as a songwriter and be sure the quirks in her songs spawn from her vision rather than that of some dude in Sweden.

If you don’t like Beyoncé, think up a better criticism than “she doesn’t play her own instruments.” There are many valid criticisms to be made about her lyrics, her production and her politics. Maybe you just don’t like pop, which is fine. But let the lady sing. And, to paraphrase my anti-rockist hero David Greenwald at OregonLive: “For the record, Beyoncé does play an instrument: it’s called her voice.”

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For the record, Beyoncé does play an instrument: it’s called her voice.”

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LIBRARY COLLECTIONS BUDGET REDUCED BY

$500,000+The library is cutting its collection

budget by over half a million dollars this year in response to administration’s realignment process.

Collections technically encompass all the media the library owns. The cuts will not affect permanent additions to the library like the books on the shelf. The areas that will face the most cuts are the databases and scholarly journals that require annual subscriptions.

“We’re currently launching a plan to work with faculty to decide what will need to be cut,” Dean of Libraries Adriene Lim said.

The collection budget is split up by discipline, such as physics, psychology or comparative literature. Most depart-ments are taking a cut of 12.4 percent. Overall the sciences will take the biggest hit, as their initial budget is generally much higher than other departments’. Accounting for the inflation, the biol-ogy department’s budget will be cut by $34,240, physics by $47,379 and chemis-try by $60,923. General sciences, which has by far the biggest budget, will be cut in half, losing $75,320.

“In the science, technology, engineer-ing and medical areas, the costs for the journals, for example, are much, much greater,” Mark Watson, associate dean for research services, said. “A physics journal could cost $4,000 a year, and a journal in the humanities could cost $400 a year.”

While the cuts in the science’s budgets are much higher, humanities depart-ments often feel the cuts much deeper. Their journals are cheaper, so it will take cutting more resources to reach the target budget.

“I’m not saying the chemists aren’t going to miss this big, expensive data-base that we’re going to have to cut,” Watson said. “But in English literature, for example, if we have to cut twelve journals to get enough to actually meet that 12.4 percent, that’s 12 different, dis-tinct things that people were depending on. And now they’re not there anymore.”

Departments with budgets less than $3,000 will not take any cuts.

The cuts are a response to Presi-dent Michael Schill’s realignment plan. Administration asked all departments on campus to cut spending by 2 percent this year. Unfortunately for the library, many of their databases get more ex-pensive year to year.

Watson said the library submitted a strategic budget request asking for money to cover the inflating prices of their current subscriptions. Not only

was that request denied, but they were hit with the additional 2 percent cut that affected the rest of campus. Two posi-tions were laid off.

“In the library, if we stay status quo, we’re really losing. You have to add money to the pot,” Watson said. “It’s like boiling something on the stove. You’re going to lose liquid in the pot when some of it vaporizes.”

While the two percent cut was only responsible for a budget loss of $115,000, according to a memo sent out by Dean Lim, the denial of the library’s strategic budget request means an ad-ditional loss of $450,000 when factoring in inflation.

Reductions are not new to the library, Watson said. “I went clear back to 1960, and figured out that on average, we have done this every five years,” he said. That’s an average though, as the library has gone through long periods of ease and other, shorter periods of strife.

“We get upset about it every time it happens, but in reality, this is kind of the way things operate. I think universities and libraries are starting to realize that it’s really not going to change unless some bigger, more systematic and struc-tural changes occur,” Watson said. “For one thing, all of our professors do all this research. They publish it, and by and large, it is given away to companies who then repackage and sell it back to us at inflated prices. So we ought to look at that and say, ‘Wait a minute. Something is wrong with this picture, right?’ ”

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VAPORIZES.”MARK WATSON, associate dean for research services.

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NEWS

There will be fewer and smaller student-organized events, conferences and incidental fee-funded activities next year, according to the current ASUO Senate.

University of Oregon student groups operate on the budget allocated by the ASUO Programs Finance Committee. However, the slow growth model has made it difficult for groups — especially small groups — to acquire a desirable budget amount, put on events or send members to conferences. In those cases, groups can request funding from another source: the surplus.

The ASUO Senate controls the surplus budget. It meets weekly to decide how to allocate this budget to ASUO recognized student groups on campus. This year and last, the senate has allocated funding to ASUO-recognized groups from roughly a quarter of a million dollars. This year, the senate only voted down four special requests out of more than 100 requests.

This won’t last long.Next year’s surplus will potentially

be a much smaller amount, Senate Treasurer Martin Martinez said. There are many factors shaping the size of the surplus budget, but with the current spending pattern – in which senate voted to pass over $20,000 worth of requests every night — the senate next year will have a considerably smaller budget, Senate President Max Burns said.

Academic department cuts are also a threat to student groups. With UO President Michael Schill’s initiative to realign funding across campus for more research and tenure-track faculty, more student groups will rely on the ASUO Senate surplus next year, Burns said. With all-around funding cuts, all student groups are threatened.

“The smaller surplus will hurt [smaller student groups] the most. It will put more competition on them,

making it harder for them to receive funding,” Martinez said. “It could hurt big groups too. If we have less surplus, that will mean fewer events we can fund.”

Yet nothing much can be done, Martinez said.

A big part of the surplus includes unused money rolling back from student groups. Burns said it’s important to fund different events and conferences, but it will “kill surplus” at the same time.

“You have to pick your battles with that one,” Burns said.

The senate voted to form a committee on April 27 to oversee another source of funds, which could potentially be a solution to next year’s surplus shortage.

Martinez, who is also the chair of the ASUO Programs Finance Committee, said last year’s over-realized fund was barely used. Though the fund of $264,763 was allocated to seven different project requests last year, $199,000 of that fund has gone unspent.

The committee is set to either take back those funds or at least determine why they have not been used, committee member and senator Kiley Wilson said.

Burns said this goal is unrealistic. The current senate has less than one month to get in contact with all of the groups that received funding last year, decide whether to retrieve the money, have an open process for new applications, decide the finalists to recommend to senate and have senate vote on the new allocation.

“There’s just simply not enough time to do the process rightfully,” Burns said. “I’d just leave it to senate next year.”

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EVERGREENMakayla Meador, the electronic

producer Evergreen, didn’t always know she was going to be a DJ. But one day, everything just clicked.

It was the morning after attending an electronic show in Portland two years ago, she was having breakfast with her aunt, uncle and best friend. Meador’s family asked her friend what she was planning to do after college. She said she wanted to be a neuroscientist.

They turned to Meador, then a student pursuing a degree in communications and media studies at Lynchburg College in Virginia, and asked her the same thing.

“You know what I actually want to do?” she said to them. “I think I want to be a DJ.”

Meador decided to relocate back to Eugene, and she began producing music. She holds close ties to the Eugene-area music scene, playing frequently at house shows and local venues. Meador currently makes music mixes for the local radio station 104.7 KDUK every other week.

“I’m really inspired by super peppy [music],” said Meadow. “I call it, like, rainbows and butterflies and unicorns music.”

This energetic type of music influences Meador’s production and the way she performs.

“I try to have a really energetic performance,” said Meador. “I know a lot of DJs just kind of stand up there and bob their heads. I want to be as engaged as the crowd is and connect with them on that level.”

Catch Evergreen at 5:45 p.m. at the Garden Stage.

COLLEGE TOWN SOUNDTHE ZENDEAVORS

Things are going to be tight for the Zendeavors when they travel from their homebase of Portland to Eugene to play the Willamette Valley Music Festival.

For one, drummer Jason Miller is currently in South Africa. He’s attending AfrikaBurn (South Africa’s answer to Burning Man) as his girlfriend works for the Peace Corps in nearby Lesotho. Secondly, they haven’t practiced with their new lineup yet. They’ve got a new guitarist, Chris Kirkpatrick, but he hasn’t been in the studio with the other five members.

“I didn’t want to play guitar anymore,” said singer-guitarist Andrew Rogers. “I wanted to focus more on vocals and performing. So we talked to him, and he was sick, so now we have a five person lineup and it’s a fuckin’ party.”

Their WVMF performance will be their first with Kirkpatrick. In order to show him the ropes, the band will practice extensively the night before the show — it’s the only time Miller can do it once he gets back from South Africa.

“I’m gonna give Jason a big, old hug and a kiss and then we’re gonna go on down to Eugene. We’re probably gonna drive to Eugene and eat burritos and play music all night,” said Rogers.

This isn’t the first lineup change the Zendeavors have seen as of late. The group started out as a three-piece consisting of Rogers, Miller and bassist Andrew Poletto, who met at the University of Oregon and have since graduated.

In 2014, they added saxophonist Ted Schera, whose sound was more central to this year’s self-titled debut than guitar. Perhaps Kirkpatrick’s presence will change these dynamics again.

“It’s gonna be next level,” said Rogers. “The beginning of the next level of the Zendeavors. It’s very good, it’s very fun, it’s very antsy.”

Catch the Zendeavors at 12 p.m. in the Memorial Quad.

THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL only happens once every year — and you should take advantage of it since it’s all free. Here’s the low-down on some of the bands you’ll regret not going to see.

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TRUCKS GO EASY

Trucks Go Easy has been a band set on having a good time.

The blues and southern rock-inspired group, formed in 2012, came from meek beginnings.

“I’m sure one of the first things we did together was play music in a dorm room,” said Trucks Go Easy drummer Taylor Jones. “I’d hit sticks on the ground and play on canteens for a makeshift drum set.”

Along with drumming for Trucks Go Easy and other local band, Pancho + The Factory, Jones was a part of planning Willamette Valley Music Festival two years ago.

“I was the festival coordinator for WVMF 2014,” said Jones. “I worked with a partner to plan the festival: book artists, plan cultural workshops, schedule events, work with campus organizations, develop a marketing campaign and all the odd jobs that come with planning an arts and culture event.”

Though working with WVMF in the past, this will be the first year for Jones and the rest of Trucks Go Easy to perform at the festival.

“We are excited to be on a stage with professional sound and lights — up from the underground,” said Jones.

The band has played the Eugene house party and venue circuit heavily since their formation.

“We have set up so many house shows at this point,” said Jones. “But really, Trucks is a down-and-dirty band, and we are excited to perform anywhere and everywhere.”

Led by wavy, psychedelic guitars and oscillating, funky bass, “down-and-dirty” is a pretty spot-on description of the band’s style. It’s easy to tell Trucks Go Easy is a band filled with soul.

“I love playing with these guys, because we all have a great time on stage together,” said Jones. “It’s easy for us to have fun, and I think that translates to and engages the audience.”

Catch Trucks Go Easy at 2:45 p.m. in the Memorial Quad.

THE NOUNSAbout a year ago, The Nouns were a

formidable and rising presence on the Eugene music scene. The live hip-hop ensemble attracted an enviable following within months of forming, playing in Portland and winning Cozmic Pizza’s Phi Psi Battle of the Bands.

But they seemed to vanish, laying low and playing only occasional small gigs.

Mohammed “BigMo” Alkhadher, the band’s rapper and frontman, attributes this to lineup changes following “difference of opinion,” though he’s mum about the detail.

“For the most part, the sound didn’t match how we wanted to sound,” he said. “I’ve never been in a band before and I understand this happens often.”

The new members of The Nouns are Alvin Johnson on keyboards and Alistair Gardner on the drums. Both members play in other projects: Johnson in Soul Vibrator and Alvin & the Chipfunks, and Gardner in Era Coda.

“Alvin has added so much to the composition of all the songs,” said Alkhadher. “And Alistair’s a machine on the drums. It’s phenomenal how good he is.”

This new lineup has been eating up gigs. They’re playing at Willamette Valley Music Festival, and the following Friday they’ll appear at Hamstock on the University of Oregon’s Humpy Lumpy Lawn. Thanks to their recent win at the Ethos Magazine’s Bandest of the Bands, they’ve got a spot at the Campus Block Party on June 3.

Among the other prizes at Bandest of the Bands was six hours of recording time at Ninkasi Studios, which the band intends to take advantage of to record an EP before Alkhadher graduates.

When asked about whether his graduation spells the end of The Nouns, Alkhadher was optimistic.

“The distance can make things harder,” he said. “But every opportunity we get, we’re all gonna rock together.”

Catch The Nouns at 5:15 p.m. in the Memorial Quad.

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THE OUT & ABOUT MUSIC SERIES

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The Out & About music series is a new addition to the Willamette Valley Music Festival. Throughout the weekend, artists will be invited to record acoustic versions of their songs at campus radio station KWVA. The videos of these performances will later be available on YouTube and through WVMF’s social media.

“I think it will give people an opportunity to see a different aspect of the bands, a different side to them, the different sounds that they can produce, their versatility,” said Aidan D’Angelo, the Out & About coordinator. “Also it will give [the performers] a nice video to show potential promoters or bookers recordings of the bands.”

The first series will be recorded on May 7. This is the first year of the Out & About series, but D’Angelo hopes it will be an ongoing part of the festival.

“Next year when we’re booking the WVMF, we’re going to be asking bands perhaps to come in during the fall and winter terms to kind of start promoting the festival, and also work with KWVA whenever they bring a band into their studio for their live sessions,” D’Angelo said.

Out & About performances will not air live on KWVA, but all stage performances at the WVMF will be broadcast live on the station.

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After a successful weekend at the Payton Jordan Invitational, Titan Twilight, Penn Relays and OSU High Performance Meet, Oregon track and field will be back at Hayward Field for its final regular season home meet.

The Oregon Twilight begins May 6 and Oregon expects to continue its success, after three relay wins and Athlete of the Meet recognition for Raevyn Rogers at Penn.

Besides earning three Penn Wheels in the women’s 4x100, sprint medley relay and women’s 4x400 relay this weekend, Oregon also excelled in hurdles. Sasha Wallace won the women’s 100 hurdles in 13.24.

At OSU, Ben Thiel took a hurdles win of his own in the 400 hurdles, 53.02. In the

men’s steeplechase, Chris Mulverhill earned a win, beating second place by over ten seconds, 9:07.71.

At the Titan Twilight, Oregon took home six field event wins. Cullen Prena and Drake Brennan each set personal bests in the discus and shotput, respectively.

The Ducks wrapped up the past weekend at the Payton Jordan where Sam Prakel won the second section of the men’s 1,500.

Though Oregon saw much success at the four weekend meets, the Twilight should pose more of a challenge for the Ducks in field events, especially where numerous unattached throwers are competing.

But in the sprints, Oregon has a clear advantage in the Twilight. Not only did the Penn Relays wins serve as a confidence

boost – the women’s 4x400 running the fastest for Oregon this season and seventh fastest in the NCAA – the competition also gave the Ducks a taste of what’s to come.

Head coach Robert Johnson said before the weekend that these away meets give his athletes the opportunity to compete against rivals and other competitors before facing them at the NCAA championships.

The Oregon Twilight has that same appeal.

The Ducks will get the chance to take on professional athletes as a way to test their skills against the best of the best before heading into one of the toughest parts of the season.

The Twilight begins Friday, May 6, with the first event at 1:30 p.m.

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Oregon sprinter Marcus Chambers edges out Ultimate Speed Athletics’ Daveon Collins to win the 4x100m race at the Oregon Relays on April 16, 2016. (Adam Eberhardt)

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Casey Martin was uncertain the Eugene Country Club would be willing to host the NCAA Golf Championships when the topic came up in 2014.

After the club hosted one of six NCAA regionals that year, NCAA officials encouraged the Oregon men’s golf head coach to bid on the 2016 championships at the Eugene Country Club. But hosting would restrict club members from using the course for several weeks in May during some of the best conditions of golf season.

“Initially, my response was ... I can’t foresee a country club in their peak season giving up two to three weeks of their golf course,” Martin said.

As it turned out, interest between the NCAA and Eugene Country Club was mutual. Martin received positive feedback from club general manager Rich Spurlin, and the club’s board of directors voted unanimously in favor of hosting. The NCAA ultimately selected Eugene Country Club as the site for the women’s championships May 20-26 and the men’s championships May 27-June 1.

In addition to three weeks of NCAA presence at the Eugene Country Club, a major clubhouse renovation will immediately follow the end of championships. Although the golf course will remain open, members likely won’t be able to use other amenities until June 2017.

The decision to renovate was voted on by all members, with approximately two thirds voting yes. Spurlin estimates 650 families play golf at the club, and 50 who are only social members. Both the NCAA Championships and renovations will restrict what members can do at the course.

“For a lot of members, this is their home,” Spurlin said. “It’s an exciting time but disruptive.”

Course superintendent Chris Gaughan has seen the benefits of hosting an event at Eugene Country Club. He was a caddy the last time the club hosted NCAA Championships in 1978 and was in attendance for the 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship and 2014 NCAA Regionals.

The course has hosted numerous tournaments, but its reputation grew, especially after 2014.

“This was the toughest regional even though it wasn’t the longest,” Gaughan said. “Everyone was talking about it, so there was a lot of buzz.”

As superintendent, Gaughan is tasked with getting the course up to NCAA standards for the championships. This includes growing and trimming the rough and raking sand traps. Those things come easy to Gaughan. It’s the weather that will be the most unpredictable, something Gaughan and the club staff will have no control over.

“If it gets wet, all that time and effort you put into it goes away,” Gaughan said.

But if nature cooperates, Spurlin and Gaughan believe the championships will build on the club’s success of hosting the 2014 regional. Hosting championships will allow members to watch elite amateur golfers in their backyard and also give them an opportunity to volunteer in the event.

“For members, it’s a big deal,” Gaughan said. “It’s fun when you get involved and host.”

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The Eugene Country Club will host the NCAA Golf Championships this year from May 20-June 1. (Adam Eberhardt)

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Oregon women’s golf has gone to six straight NCAA Regionals — soon to be seven — and has advanced to the NCAA Championships twice.

Yet Oregon head coach Ria Scott says this team is different.

“This is probably the most confident I’ve ever been with any golf team in my nine years coaching,” Scott said.

It’s a bold statement, considering her 2014-15 team obliterated the program’s single-season scoring average (it dropped from 298.61 to 292.66) and won two tournaments in the spring. This year’s team only won one tournament, but did have four top-five finishes.

That 2014-15 team also had a solid run in the Pac-12 Tournament, finishing second. In this year’s conference tournament, Oregon finished eighth.

“It definitely wasn’t the best finish on the last day,” junior Cathleen Santoso said about Oregon’s Pac-12 results. “But we know we’ve all got the game to play well.”

Despite their disappointing finish, the Ducks’

attention now turns to the NCAA Regionals. They were recently awarded the five-seed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where the regionals will be hosted.

Oregon’s season comes down to three rounds of golf. The team needs to place sixth or better in its region to advance to the NCAA Championships.

The Ducks understand what these next rounds mean for their season.

“I think it’s just making sure that we understand that every shot counts at regionals because we don’t know how our score will be compared to the whole field,” Santoso said. “It’s the most important tournament of the year and you just need to make sure every shot is your best.”

The Baton Rouge regional is host to an impressive field. Six teams are ranked in the top 25 nationally, according to golfstat.com, with No. 4 Duke receiving the one-seed.

Also highlighting the field are No. 5 Florida, No. 11 Arizona State, No. 13 Washington and No. 24 South Carolina. Oregon is ranked 20th heading into regionals.

Oregon will head to Baton Rouge with the top five scoring leaders from this year’s team. Caroline Inglis and Cathleen Santoso will be the top two, freshmen Petra Salko and Kathleen Scavo will hold down the middle spots, and Marcella Pranovia will anchor the back of the rotation for the Ducks.

The team headed to Baton Rouge on Monday, May 2 to get as much practice as they can in before NCAA Regionals begin on Thursday.

Scott has said at times this year that the veteran leadership this season has been the best she’s ever had. But she cites other aspects of the team as the source of her confidence.

“This team has more depth, tournament experience and success than the previous two teams that I’ve coached at the national championship,” Scott said. “What makes it really exciting is that once we get to nationals, they could leave a real dent in other people’s plans.”

The road to the national championships begins Thursday, May 5.

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Caroline Inglis is one of the Ducks top scorers heading into the NCAA Regionals May 5. (Adam Eberhardt)

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