Wednesday, november 19, 1975
daily nebraskan
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crfh professor breaks
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women s marathon rnork
By Scott Jones
Sylvia Wiegand accomplished a first re
cently, but you wouldn't know it from
talking to her.
Wiegand, assistant professor of mathe
matics at UNL, is the first woman in Ne
braska to run a marathon in less than four
hours. She finished the 26-mile, 385-yard
Tri-States Marathon in Falls City, Neb,,
Oct. 19 in 3 hours, 54 minutes and 34
seconds, 46th of 64 entries.
But Wiegand, whose husband Roger
finished 13th, said she wasn't impressed
with her feat.
"I feel kind of bad about it because no
woman had ever run under that time (in
Nebraska), but my husband ran one hour
faster," she said. "Overall it wasn't a good
time."
Slow and steady
Wiegand, 30, describes her running style
as "slow and steady" and ran five miles a
day and 15 miles on weekends to prepare
for her first marathon. She said she thinks
more women should run.
"I think they should run more because
it's supposed to be true that women have
more endurance for long distance running
than men," she said. "Actually, that's one
of my pet peeves because I talked to a girl
on the track team and she said their coach
wouldn't let them run long distances."
She said running is "a very nice thing to
do. You can get a fair amount of exercise
in an hour."
In addition to aiding fitness, she said
running can help women stay in condi
tion before and after childbirth.
"I know people who have a lot of
trouble losing weight after their baby," she
said. "I gained a huge amount and lost it
all quickly, probably due to the running."
Ran pregnant
Wiegand ran two miles a day until three
weeks before and a month after giving
birth to her only child, David, about 16
months ago.
She said her husband had no objections
and the doctor said "anything I'd been
doing before I could continue to do."
Jogging around Nebraska's track eight
months pregnant, however, caused some
humorous situations, shesaid.
"There were a lot of people, coaches
and other runners, who never said anything
to me but after the baby they noticed
something different and asked me about .
it," she said. "They were probably kind of
shocked."
Wiegand and her husband have doctor
ate degrees in mathematics and began run
ning three years ago when they came to
Nebraska from Wiscons'n.
Mountain climber
Her husband was an active mountain
climber in Wisconsin, but began running
when he found no slopes in Nebraska, she
said. Still, they both like the move.
"I think the people are very nice and
Lincoln is a pretty town," she said. "To
tell the truth, if he lived closer to the
mountains he wouldn't get much work
done."
Her husband finished 709th out of
about 2,200 last year in the Boston
Marathon.
"1 think giving birth was harder, more
painful (than the marathon)," she said.
Five other members of the UNL Math
Dept. also ran in the Tri-States Marathon.
Women 's gymnastics team
optimistic about fifth season
By Susie Reitz
With the "best team in the five years of
women's gymnastics here," UNL women's
gymnastics coach Karen Balke says she is
excited about the season.
The girls are better now than at the
end of last year," Balke said. Several attend
ed camps last summer and took lessons this
fall, she said.
Twelve women were selected last week
for the team based on try outs which began
Nov. 1 , she said.
Junior Carol Lundeen and sophomores
Sandy Czaplewski, Peggy Newport and
Kathi Ruddick are scholarship all-around
gymnasts returning to the team.
Newport was elected team captain Mon
day at practice, Balke said.
Newport taught gymnastics at camps
around the country last summer. Ruddick
worked for a week under Southern Illinois
University coach Herb Vogel, "a nationally
recognized coach," Balke said.
Freshman Barb Baker and junior Carla
Gerbig are new team members on scholar-
Baker, an Omaha Burke graduate, was
offered a scholarship based on high school
performance, according to Balke. Gerbig,
a Grandview Junior College graduate, trans
ferred to UNL this year. Both are all-around
gymnasts.
Other team members include freshmen
Cindy Anderson (balance beam), Kim
Jones (vault), Vicki Newport (vault), Tami
Rimpley (beam), Mary Scott (vault, paral
lel bars) and Deb Sensenig (floor exercise).
The team's first appearance will be an
intersquad meet Dec. 5 at 4:15 p.m. in
Women's P.E. Bldg. 123, Balke said. The
squad also will perform at the Dec. 6 UNL
Washington home basketball game.
The team's first competitive meet is
Dec. 13 at Emporia, Kan. Competing will
be Emporia State, Central Missouri State,
Kansas State and Wichita State, Balke said.
Assistant UNL coach Tim Matthews,
freshman from Omaha, gave the team
lessons in October before regular practices
began, Balke said. Manager is freihman Kit
Farrell.
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Photo by Tad Kb
Sara Wiegand, math instructor, became the first woman in Nebraska to
run the marathon in less than four hours.
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