Nohea Tano, Karin Lundqvist, Lily Kahumoku, Maja Gustin, Lauren Duggins and Melissa Villaroman are all enrolled and on the last lap toward degrees. Kim Willoughby is in school and about to take the first lap of her third and fourth University of Hawai'i sports.

Willoughby, the 2003 national player of the year in volleyball, is on a track scholarship her final year of eligibility. Coach Carmyn James, intrigued by Willoughby's "superior level of explosive fitness and intensity," envisions her in the heptathlon next semester. Part of her cross training this semester will be to run cross country.

"Kim likes the idea of heptathlon," James said. "She wasn't as excited about cross country."

All members of the track team, with the exception of throwers and vaulters, are on the cross-country roster and will participate in at least two meets. They follow a different training regimen than the travel squad.

Cross country gives Willoughby time to enhance her fitness base and work on technique for the heptathlon events — high jump, 100-meter hurdles, shot put, 200 meters, long jump, javelin and 800 meters.

Willoughby will start her new career slowly after having surgery for a stress fracture in her shin following her professional season in Puerto Rico this winter. Freshman Bianca DeBartolo, a heptathlete up from Australia, will be her training partner.

James admits Willoughby is worried about the 800 — "all heptathletes are" — but believes she will be solid in the sprints and shot. The coach expects the jumps to be Willoughby's best events and can't wait to see her throw the javelin.

"That's kind of like the spike at the very end," James says. "We'll have to work on her approach, but she definitely has the snappy release. She's going to get her wrist up and just be 'whacking' it."

Most of the other 'Bows will also be "moonlighting." Tano and Kahumoku will run the scoreboard at matches. Duggins, now student teaching, will help out in media relations and she and Villaroman, who will work in marketing, also will assist in the practice gym.

Karin Lundqvist, a year away from medical school, is tutoring. Maja Gustin is concentrating on finalizing her inter-disciplinary degree.