Cagerstie mark,
tankers finish last
By Pete Wegman
Shades of the past-the Cornhusker basketball and swim teams
completed Big 8 play Saturday with conference records identical to
those posted last year.
Coach Joe Cipriano and his Husker cagers lost to Iowa State on
the road Saturday night, 82-69, to finish fourth in the Big 8 with a
7-7 conference mark, 14-12 overall.
The 1974-75 season was the third in the last four years in which
the basketball team has finished with an overall mark of 14-12 and
a conference record of 7-7.
Freshman winner
The swim team, under the direction of coach John Reta,
competed in the Big 8 swim meet Friday and Saturday at
Oklahoma State and finished last in the meet for the fourth
consecutive year. However, freshman Bryan Moss became the
Huskers' first individual champion since 1968, placing first in the
100- and 20(tyard breaststroke events.
The basketball squad was once again led by junior guard Jerry
Fort against the Cyclones. Fort tossed in 20 points to pace
Nebraska, while Iowa State's Hercle Ivy, the nation's fifth leading
scorer, was the game's high-point man.
Ivy, with 12 first half and 19 second half points, managed to
score 31 points despite sitting on the bench for over 10 minutes.
Good first-half shooting
Iowa State won the game with their first half shooting. The
Cyclones, hitting on 64 per cent of their shots in the first half,
took a 46-3 1 halftime lead.
Freshman guard Tom Norman, in one of his first starting roles
for the Cyclones, hit on eight of nine field goal attempts in the first
half. Norman finished 10-13 from the field for 20 points.
The game was remarkably foul-free as only 18 fouls were called,
eight on the Huskers.
Sophomore forward Bib Siegel was the Huskers' leading
rebounder with 10, while adding 10 points. Siegel has been the
Huskers' leading rebounder in nine of their last ten games.
525 points
Fort finished the season with 525 points, the third highest total
in one season in Nebraska cage history. Fort has now scored 1 ,369
career points (a Nebraska record) with one year of eligibility
remaining.
The game was the last for Husker seniors Steve Erwin and Kent
Reckeway.
While the Husker basketball team was losing to Iowa State, the
swim team was also having its problems. The swimmers were sixth,
ahead of Colorado, after the Friday night qualifying sessions
(Kansas State does not have a swim team), but finished seventh.
Moss was the lone Husker tanker to qualify for the NCAA
nationals March 27-29 at Cleveland State.
Conference record
Moss set conference records while winning the 100- and
200-yard breaststroke events. He broke the mark in the 100-yard
breaststroke Friday night with a time of 58.21 5.
Saturday he kicked more than two seconds off the time for the
200-yard race, posting a conference mark of 2:09.10. The old mark
had been set in preliminaries earlier Saturday.
The meet was won by Kansas for the eighth consecutive year.
Iowa State placed second while Oklahoma came in third.
Other Husker point-scorers were freshman Pat Murphy, sixth in
the 1,650-yard freestyle and the 400-yard relay team, which also
finished sixth.
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Kansas won the Big 8
basketball crown for the
second consecutive year with a
74-63 win over Oklahoma
Saturday. The Jayhawks, with
an 11-3 league mark, face
Notre Dame Saturday night in
A women's intramurals
table tennis singles and doubles
tournament will be held
Tuesday at the Union. Singles
competition begins at 6:30
p.m. and the doubles start at 8
p.m.
Registration for the single
elimination tournament will be
6 to 6:30 p.m. at the Union.
Contestants must supply their
own paddles and balls, or
check equipment out at the
recreation office, 1740 Vine,
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. Tuesday.
The Men's Intramural
Handball Doubles final match
was held last week. Terry Waite
and Larry Sather,
independents, defeated Steve
Anderson and Garth Harrison,
Alpha Tau Omega, 21-2 and
21-0 to claim the
championship.
Duties, roles changing
New athletic trainer hired
From waterboy to professional; from cigar
man to one who handles medical programs and
sports injuries. . . the role of the athletic trainer
is changing.
' And with the changes, more trainers are being
added to sports teams across the country.
A UNL physical therapist recently has been
added to the staff of athletic trainers for the
Cornhusker sports teams.
Dennis Sealey earned his certificate from the
National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA).
Sealey will assist Head Athletic Trainer Paul
Schneider and George Sullivan, athletic trainer,
in working with UNL teams. Sealey had the
highest score in the nation on the (NATA) exam.
Certified trainers
The four-hour exam was designed in the
1960s to standardize requirements for becoming
an athletic trainer, Sealey explained. Most college
and professional sports teams now require their
trainers to be certified.
"The role of an athletic trainer has changed in
the past years," Sealey said, "away from the
waterboy and cigar man."
Trainers now establish medical care programs
for athletes, design methods of prevention and
handle injuries in all sports.
"The trainer is a liaison between the team
physician and the coach," Sealey explained. The
trainer can advise the coach on medical care for
his team.
This advice includes nutritional menus for
pregame meals, Sealey said. "The traditional
steak and eggs are out," he explained, "because
protein takes too long to convert into energy."
Teams are now turning to foods high in
carbohydrates such as waffles, pancakes or sweet
rolls, he said, because they supply quick energy.
Conditioning programs
Trainers' duties also include the design of
conditioning programs for athletes, in their
particular sport.
Questions about these programs are included
in the NATA exam, Sealey said, along with
testing on first aid, administration and
physiology.
The test is divided into two parts-multiple
choice and a demonstration 3f practical
application with this knowledge, such as heart
and lung resuscitation.
Sealey said his high score might reflect the
fact that he teaches a course in athletic training.
"You have to really know the material to get
it across to your students," he explained.
New program
Sealey also had a hand in proposing a new
undergraduate program for athletic training
which was designed under the physical education
department.
The proposal has gone through administrative
channels, he said, and is now at the level where
budgeting is determined.
Undergraduate training would be a good
background for those who want to take the
NATA exam, Sealey said.
Although jobs at the college and professional
level are somewhat closed now, Sealey said, the
lugh school could be the "new horizon" for
athletic trainers.
Although many high school budgets do not
allow for a trainer, a proposed national program
would require certified athletic trainers on many
high school staffs. .
If the program would be approved, he added,
many jobs would open up across the country.
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Photo by Kevin Higley
Dennis Sealey, UNL physical therapist and
assistant athletic trainer.
Instructor watches women's sports expand
Two years ago the women's athletic program at
UNL had a $3,000 budget.
"We did the best we could on that and the rest
came from our own pockets," said Gail Whitaker,
women's intercollegiate athletic coordinator.
A lull-time academic appointment offer lured
Whitaker from the east to Nebraska in 1973. She
received her BA from William and Mary College in
Virginia and an MA in physical education from Smith
College in Massachusetts.
When she came to UNL, Whitaker said, Ina
Anderson was women's athletic coordinator and the
women's athletic program was included in the
physical education department.
"Run of the mil?'
"I was what you'd call a run-of-the-mill
instructor," said Whitaker. "I was tennis coach also
but that was no big deal. We had a meager team.
There was little interest and not much funding in the
program."
Whitaker took over the athletic coordinator's
duties when Anderson took a spring semester leave of
absence in 1973,
"That semester wasn't so bad," Whitaker said. "I
had been well prepared by Anderson before she left.
It was scary at first but nothing really big happened
that I couldn't handle."
According to Whitaker, 1974 was the bombshell
vear, not only for her, but for women athletes at
UNL as well.
Took over in 1974
AndciMjii decided not to return to Nebraska and
Whitaker retained her position as intercollegiate
coordinator.
"Everything started to explode," she said. "Title
IX (legislative action on equal rights for women)
opened up and in March 1974 a Chancellor's
Commission was created to study its effects on
women's athletics at UNL."
In addition to Whitaker, committee members from
the women's physical education department were
Madge Phillips and Janette Say re.
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On May 31, 1974, Whitaker said, the committee
made recommendations that projected achievements
in the women's athletic department and a
stcp-by-step schedule of progress.
Four of the committee's recomendations have
been incorporated into the women's athletic program
this year.
"The real blockbuster," Whitaker said, was moving
the women's sports program out of the physical
education department into the athletic department.
The budget has been increased and a scholarship
program started, she said, and women's teams have a
full-time medical trainer.
Whitaker said she has noticed the growth of UNL's
women's athletic program in the expansion of her
tennis team "not just in interest but in talent as well.
"We are head and shoulders above our last year's
team talentwise," she said.
"Women's sports are growing," Whitaker said:
"Not just in the Midwest but all over the United
States. Different sports have more emphasis than
others but the program on the whole is growing."
Many duties
In addition to taking care of the growing pains in
women's sports at UNL, Whitaker has other duties.
She arranges medical and insurance policies for
women athletes, lines up transportation, is in charge
of publicity for the program and authorizes
expenditures.
"I hold the purse strings," she said.
Whitaker is also UNL's voting representative in the
Nebraska Women's Intercollegiate Sports Council
(NWISC) district six of the Association of
Intercollegiate Athletes for Women (AIAW), and
voting representative at the AIAW National
Convention.
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daily nebraskan
monday, march 10, 1975
