“I wish I was rich, so I could go out to breakfast at the Glenwood everyday,” Jill Robinson said. “I hate going home to eat cereal or oatmeal, or fruit. I mean I don’t really hate them, I just want greasy potatoes and eggs sometimes.”
“You can make that stuff at home,” her roommate Andrea Gustafson said.
“Yeah, but then I’d have to clean up afterwards,” Robinson replied.
Robinson is one of the best players in Oregon softball history and has some of the biggest games of her career on the horizon.
But right now the slugger who heads to the plate with Simon-and-Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” blaring from the speakers at Howe Field is worried about something else.
Getting breakfast after a grueling morning practice at the Moshofsky Center.
That’s just the way Robinson is.
She lives in the now; she is off the wall.
A conversation with the affable superstar is a joy ride ranging from topic to topic, from her dogs, to her life with her roommate Gustafson, to her fiancé.
She holds Oregon’s all-time career home run record (33), and the Ducks’ single season home run record (15). In addition to those accomplishments, Robinson is one of the most down-to-earth athletes to put on a Duck uniform.

On her dogs
Robinson has three dogs, a miniature Doberman Pinscher (Pumpkin), and two Dachshunds (Patches and Buddy). Three dogs are unusual for any college student, let alone a student-athlete. But for Robinson, it’s not so strange.
“I love to talk about my dogs,” Robinson said. “We couldn’t get enough I guess. We started out with one, but then we decided she was lonely. So we got her a friend.
“We ended up breeding Patches because she was so unique and beautiful. We didn’t mean to end up with the third one, but there was one puppy left. My fiancé fell in love with it and now we have three.
“Now we’re going to have them for a long time.”
Gustafson is not always as in love with the dogs as Robinson. She often has a shorter fuse when it comes to their noise and ruckus than her roommate. According to Robinson, Gustafson yells at them more than anyone else.
“Sometimes I want peace and quiet,” Gustafson said. “And Pumpkin is always in the blinds barking.”
“Yeah, she always has her head in the blinds, looking out of the window,” Robinson added. “Trying to protect our house.”

Robinson said the dogs are almost therapeutic for them because they always love the roommates no matter what’s going on in the rest of the world or life.
“They don’t care if we’re having a bad day,” Robinson said. “They just want to love us and kiss us.”

On living with ‘Gus’
The two teammates are almost inseparable. They live together, play together and hang out together. They never seem to get in each others’ way. Robinson said that living with her teammate is pretty relaxing for the most part.
“Both Andrea and my fiancé have it made in the shade,” Robinson said. “They’ll watch the game on T.V. and I’ll cook for them and serve them..” Robinson said that she can hardly get to watch anything she wants on television because Gustafson and her fiancé are always watching either WCW wrestling or the Trail Blazers. However, she does enjoy viewing the occasional Ricki Lake or Jenny Jones with her roommate, while consuming pitchers of Kool Aid.
“Those are the shows we watch together,” Gustafson said. “We watch that and drink Kool Aid.”
“Yeah, I have to stop drinking that stuff,” Robinson said. “I drink too much of that stuff, like a pitcher a day.”
Gustafson and Robinson also enjoy the late night hang-out sessions where they make each other laugh. Gustafson said that what makes Robinson so unique is the fact that she is random. Robinson will say something out of the blue and make everyone laugh.
“The thing about me is that I’m disgusting; therefore I can’t tell you why I’m random,” Robinson said. “That quote right there should say something. People are going to say ‘what is wrong with Jill Robinson?’”

On her fiancé
Robinson really doesn’t hold much back, especially about her soon-to-be husband. Ryan Wolgamott was a baseball player at Western Oregon University when he met Robinson at a Civil War party at Oregon State.
According to Robinson, it was far from love at first sight. In fact, she didn’t even really think much of him in the beginning.
“I really didn’t think he was that good looking when I first saw him,” Robinson said. “I fell in love with him on my third date.”
Robinson said that Ryan tries to be the coach off the field, always telling her and Gustafson what they are doing wrong and how to correct it. She said he’s always trying to be tough at home.
But Oregon fans will remember her as a great hitter; her roommate and fiancé will remember her as a comedian, but all Robinson wants to be remembered is as a good person and someone who cared.
“Why leave that legacy,” Robinson said. “Why be stuck up? Why not give something back, show some appreciation.”