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Assistant track coach John Korky . . . said he hopes to recruit top flight field
event men.
Shooters
to aim
at Big 8
crown
by Andy R iggs
The UNL nfle team has been around for nearly fifty years
but not many persons realise that the team is ranked eighth in
the nation.
The shooters tecently defeated 23 Midwest teams in the Biy
Red Invitational Tournament. The Nebraska team shot a
combined score of 2,229, out of 2,400.
Nebraska's team also finished third Sunday in the 13th
Annual Stillwater (Okla.) Rifle Match with a total of 4,398
out of 4,800. Teams that finished ahead of the Huskers were
Houston Univeisity, 4,420, and Texas Christian University
with a 4,4 1 7 score.
Houston and TCU are rated thud and fourth in the nation
i espect ively .
The varsity team is composed of three men and a woman.
The woman, Patricia Bremer, a senior who majors in home
economics, competes with senior Bob Boomer and juniors
David Boomer and Darwin Montgomery. The coaches are
Francisco Godme and Silvio Romero.
"One thing about our team that is a little different is that
none of the members are in ROTC," coach Romero said.
ROTC supplies the nfle club with its range, coaches,
information on shooting and ammunition, he said. The nfle
team is selected from the club, he added.
"The kids do all this on their own," Romero said. "No
scholarships are offered for rifle team."
Most of the shooters have competed since high school, he
said. Of the top four shooters, only Bremer has less than five
years experience.
"I had a friend who was on the team," Bremer said, "And I
thought it was interesting and just started from scratch."
There is a special category for women, but Bremer
competes in the open division against all the men.
According to Romero, the majority of good teams around
the nation have women members.
The rifle meets are often pressure packed, Romero said,
with scores usually only a few points apart. One shot can
change the entire meet, he added.
"It is har d on nerves," Boomer said. "I'd say the shooting is
90 per cent mental. There are no spectators at the matches.
Th s makes it harder, knowing you are competing against a
team when you don't even know their score."
The equ pment that the team uses is its own. The nfles are
West German .22 caliber long rifles, which cost S400 without
sights. The nfle is only half the cost. Other expenditure's
include shooting coats and pants.
Rif'e matches are held year-round and a normal match will
last about one hour and one-half.
The team's next meet will be as host of the Big Eight
tournament April 13-15. Nebraska is the defending title
Holder,
"This is the best team Nebraska has ever had," couch
Rometo said, "and I know they will do well."
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snorts
UNL's husketb.ill 'earn will
he' horvn "d at ,i p.m. banquet
tomynt it the Legionnaire
Club.
The banquet is being given
by the Rebounders Club and is
open to the public.
Northwest Missouri State
d.-feated Nebraska's tennis
team, 9 0, in a meet held
indoors Saturday at Mary vi lie.
Mo.
It was the first meet of the
season for both teams.
After predicting three of the
four winners in the Nebraska
High School Basketball
Tournament, Dave Sittler,
sports editor of the Daily
Nebraskan, has turned down an
offer to join "Jimmy the
Greek" in Las Vegas. Sittler
did say that Willie Wonka of
the Surrealist Light People's
Party (SLPP) was a "shoo-in"
in the ASUN elections.
While Nebraska's Big Eight Conference indoor track
champions take a well-deserved week off before training for
the outdoor season, head coach Frank Sevigne and his assistant
John Korky plan to hit the recruiting trail.
It's no secret that Sevigne would like to bolster his team by
landing some top flight field event men to complement his
bnllant corps of runners.
Field events have been a weak spot the last few years on
otherwise strong Husker track teams, but Korky could be just
the man Sevigne needs to help recruit and build up that
portion of his squad.
Korky is in his first year at Nebraska after a highly
successful assistant coaching career at the University of
Texas-El Paso (UTEP).
In 1971, under Korky's guidance, UTEP became only the
third school in NCAA history to have three 60-foot
shot-putters at the same time.
A graduate of Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., and
UTEP where he received his masters degree in herpetology,
Korky is confident that Nebraska's track squad is going to see
quick improvement in the field events.
"I'm heading back East within the next two weeks to
continue our recruiting efforts," Korky said. "We have an
excellent chance of landing a boy from Long Island who is the
leading shot-putter in the East."
Korky added that two discus throwers from Illinois and
California, both prep leaders last year as juniors, have shown
interest in attending Nebraska.
"We also have two pole vaulters from Arizona and Ohio
that we think we have a chance of getting," he said. "They
have both been over 15 feet and could be a real help to our
program."
Ambitious Korky, who has found time to work on his
doctorate degree in zoology while coaching and recruiting, has
been impressed with Big Eight track during his first year in the
conference.
"Considering overall talent, I think the Big Eight ranks with
the Pacific Athletic Conference and the Western Athletic
Conference, as one of the three top track conferences in the
nation ,"
With the exuberance Korky displays when speaking of
track, and especially field events, it's evident that Sevigne did
some top recruiting of his own when he landed his new
assistant.
It is also evident that Comhusker runners will soon have
help from some weight men, jumpers and vaulters, in the near
future to help in their quest for more championships.
dove sittler
instant replay
One potential runner Husker track coaches probably will be
after is competing in their own backyard. He's Fred Carnahan
from Platte Junior College in Columbus.
Last week, Carnahan was chosen the most valuable
performer at the National Junior College indoor meet, after
setting a national junior college record in the two-mile run at
8:52.2.
Carnahan, a sophomore from Genoa, also was the national
junior college champion in cross-country last fall while
competing for Platte.
Sevigne's squad will begin training next week for the
outdoor season which should be a rugged one.
The squad's first appearance will be April 14 in a
quadrangular at Eugene, Oie., against UCLA, Washington State
and Oregon.
Junior middle distance runner Larry Climato probably
welcomes the week of rest more than any member on the
team.
Cimuto lost his shoe while running a 880-yard leg on
Nebraska's two-mile relay team in the NCAA meet.
Cimato was forced to run with only one shoe in the NCAA
meet after another runner stepped on his heel.
"His foot is really chewed up," said Coach Sevigne. "Larry
should be commended for just finishing the race. On that
board track, that's a heck of a good showing (1 :53.8) with one
shoe."
With football season still seven months away, Husker Head
Coach Tom Osborne's stomach may already feel a bit queasy
after reading the latest edition of the Football News.
Tht; national publication has tabbed the Huskers to win the
national championship in college football in 1973.
The paper also rates three other teams from the Big Eight in
its top 20: Colorado at 13, Oklahoma at 15 and Oklahoma
State at 19.
And this is March?
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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, march 13, 1973
