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- ....... --- . -... ........ .^ " Sue Tidball * Award for Creative Humanity This annual award is presented to one, two or three people (students, faculty or staff at UNL). It recognizes significant contributions to the development of a humane, educationally creative, just, and caring community on the UNL campus. Nominations for the award may be submitted by anyone associated with UNL. More information, nomination forms, and guidelines arc available at: • lFC-Panhellcnic. NU 332 • Residence Hall front desks, RA's & Maintenance offices • Most college, school and division offices • Student Involvement offices, NU 200 & ECU 300 • Culture Center, 333 N. I4lh St. • Human Resources, Admin. 407 • Facility Maintenance & Landscape Service offices • Office of Student Affairs, Admin. 106 • Cornerstone, 640 N. 16th 68508 - 476-0355 • Website: hltp://www.unl.cdu/tidball/ Nominations arc due February 14,2000 Husker’s pressure stuffs Buffs WOMEN from page 16 “The key to the game was defi nitely (Nebraska’s) quickness,” Barry said. “You can’t even compare Nebraska and Oklahoma. Nebraska’s speed if a lot greater. That hurt us.” Neither team scored in the first two minutes, 43 seconds of the game. The floodgates opened when Kubik stole the ball from Nightengale and fed to Peterson, who hit her only shot of the night to put NU up 11-4 seven minutes into the game. Kubik closed out a 11-0 run one minute later by hitting two of her own jumpers. NU led 15-4. The closest CU got the rest of the way was to 17 10 with 8:45 left. Went hit a 3-point er 13 seconds later, and the Huskers were in the clear. Went came off the bench to score 11 points or more for the third con secutive game, finishing with 12. Her fourth 3-pointer gave the Huskers their biggest lead of the night at 70-43 with 5:56 left in the game. Four Huskers scored in double figures, including Kubik, Went, Schwartz (16 points) and center Casey Leonhardt, who finished with 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. “Kubik had her best game of the year,” NU Coach Paul Sanderford said. “She was solid on both ends of the floor. What I liked most about her tonight was that she smiled a lot.” NU gymnasts deserve recognition MERRIHLW from page 16 aged a dismal 1,382 fans last year for home women’s gymnastics events. Because of the low attendance, Lincoln was passed over for Boise, Idaho, to host the women’s NCAA finals this year. The fact that a top-ranked colle giate team would spend time during its hectic schedule to go out into the com munity made me wonder: Why is the attendance so bad here, when it is one of the most watched sports during the Summer Olympics? The lack of awareness about the team is the main problem. Because of the number of varsity sports offered by the university, it is hard for the less popular sports to compete with the press time that money-making sports like football, volleyball, and some times basketball, enjoy. Unlike football, volleyball and basketball, the admission to get into the gymnastics events is free to all stu dents. Why didn’t I ever attend a meet before I started working for the Daily Nebraskan? I once had the idea to go to a gym nastics event last year with some of my buddies to check out the flexible “chicks” in swimsuits. But I never did, and I chalked that up to pure laziness on my part. TTiis year, however, I was assigned to cover women’s gymnastics. I quick ly realized that I missed out by not going to the events last year. They are arguably the best athletes on campus. It is amazing what the gymnasts can do. Sometimes it seems like they should be in the movie “The Matrix” for all of the acrobatics they do. It baffles my mind how it is human ly possible. Do they have a shot at raising atten dance? Yes. They have the talent and the personality to make people come back, if they get the initial chance to prove it. Whatever is wrong with sports today, gymnastics gives a glimpse of how sports once were and how they should be. People owe it to themselves to wit ness a sport in its purest form. An opportunity like this doesn’t come along too often. Tennis coach upbeat about Huskers’ lineup By Rob Petzold Staff writer The Nebraska men’s tennis team will travel to Houston this weekend to open its spring season. NU will be playing the University of Texas-San Antonio and Rice on Saturday afternoon. Coach Kerry McDermott is looking forward to getting the season underway. “I feel real good about the upcoming season,” McDermott said. “Our players have been practicing real hard, and I feel that we will be a good team, although I do not want to make any predictions yet.” The Comhusker players are also anxious to start the season. They will be extremely motivated when they face Rice. The Owls have beaten NU the last two years. “I look for this match to be a revenge match,” McDermott said. Senior captain Andrew Weise is looking forward to getting another shot at Rice. “Losing to Rice the last two years has made our team more focused this year,” Weise said. “Last season we weren’t focused going into our match with them since we played without one of our key players, Joe Kim.” Weise feels good about NU’s W I look for this match to be a revenge match.” Terry McDermott NU men’s tennis coach chances to win the two matches. He expects junior Kai Reike to give the Huskers an added boost. “Kai has the ability to be a great player,” Weise said. “He has been playing really well lately.” Reike, who is from Nordhorm, Germany, is confident about NU’s chances this weekend. “I would like to beat Rice. They’re a very good team,” Reike said. “They are a few places ahead of us in the rankings. I think we can beat them this year.” The Huskers are going into the spring season ranked 63rd in the nation. Although Rice is No. 1 on the Huskers’ hit list, Coach McDermott is by no means taking the University of Texas-San Antonio lightly. “They’re a good, solid team,” McDermott said. “I expect a solid match from them.” NU softball second in Big 12 From Staff Reports After coming within one run of the College World Series, the Nebraska softball team got pegged as the No. 2 team in the Big 12 Conference coaches poll, released Tuesday. Defending conference champion Oklahoma, which finished the 1999 season at 40-16, garnered the most points with 81, while the Cornhuskers had 73 points. Missouri was third with 57, while Kansas and Texas rounded out the top five with 52 and 51 points, respectively. Texas A&M (42), Texas Tech (38), Oklahoma State (26), Baylor (16) and Iowa State (14) completed the list. ANNOUNCING World Wide Web • College • Independent Study * • Learn at your own pace anywhere anytime. • Complete your coursework on the World Wide Web. | • Interact with your Instructors and other students on t|in UIamIJ ui^l me wopni wine well. • Submit assignments using your own Well directory. Twenty-eight newly released World Wide Web courses help you solve scheduling problems, complete graduation requirements, make up deficiencies or just get ahead. Enroll at anytime. 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