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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, may 3, 1978
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Cipriano is the top contender for Coach of the Year
Joe Cipriano had his best year ever,
Carol Frost guided her squad to the Ne
braska State track championship and Frank
Sevigne's team almost, nipped the Univer
sity of Kansas at the indoor track cham
pionships. Cip, Frost and Sevigne are just three of
the 16 UNL varsity coaches-ten male and
eight female sports-eligible for the third
annual Daily Nebraskan Coach of the Year.
Coaches of male and female sports each
are allowed one vote for male and female
sports coaches, respectively. Coaches are
not allowed to vote for themselves.
The award, which will be announced in
the Friday Daily Nebraskan, is awarded to
the coach who best exemplifies what a
coach should be.
In the first two years, the peers of Fran
cis Allen, men's gymnastic coach, voted
him that honor. George Nicodemus, bas
ketball coach, won the first women's award
while Sig Garnett, tennis coach, earned it
last year.
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Allen still is around to repeat, but Nico
demus is in Iowa coaching women's profes
sional basketball and Garnett left to coach
in Hawaii last year.
The year has been a long one for some
coaches. Orval Borgialli and John Reta,
wrestling and swim coaches, respectively,
resigned at the end of their seasons.
Women's basketball coach, Marcia Walker,
resigned in mid-season, leaving George
Stryker with a situation no coach would
envy.
Tom Osborne put together another
squad that was a traditional challenger for
the Big Eight football title, but the season
soured with losses to Oklahoma and Iowa
State.
John Sanders' baseball squad started
strong at 7-1 but slumped to 31-20
while playing a heavier schedule -a change
of pace that may take the Huskers a few
years to get used to.
Henry Cox, in his first year at UNL,
may keep the award in tennis, as he guided
the women to a share of the Big Eight title.
Judy Schalk, women's gymnastic coach,
and Ray Huppert, women's swim coach
have seen their teams experience some
bright moments this season.
But when all the coaches have been
talked about, evaluated and scrutinized by
the sports fan in his easy chair the name of
Cip continually surfaces. A different coach,
most agree, with different moods, differ
ent strategies and different philosophies.
Cip can be the showman when it's part
of his strategy and he's shown he can be
the dictator or the liberalist. He's as unpre
dictable as are the teams he coaches. Last
year, when most prognosticators predicted
"an average" season for the Huskers, Cip
produced a winner and a 22-8 record.
It's difficult to determine how coaches
evaluate each other: what does Tom
Osborne think of Cip's success, and con
versely? This year, however, it would be a
safe bet to think Cip's peers will give him
the top vote or an extremely close second.
High jump pair to make their final home appearance
By Rick Huls
Two of UNL's all-time best high jump
ers have one more show for the home fans.
Senior Dean Herzog, third in all-time
UNL outdoor charts, and junior Doug
Phelps, first in Husker outdoor records and
tied for first with Herzog in all-time indoor
charts, will compete in the Husker's final
home meet with the University of Missouri.
Herzog, who has a best of 6-feet-10
inches outdoors this spring, said he will be
ready Saturday despite bruising a tendon
last weekend at the Drake Relays.
It may also be the last home meet for
Phelps. The 6-foot Hastings product said
he does not know whether he will be able
to compete for UNL his senior year after
being accepted to Physical Therapy School
in Omaha.
After the final home appearance, Phelps
and Herzog only have two more meets to
reach the national qualifying standard of
7-foot-l inches. The Big Eight champion
ships will be held May 19-20 at Norman,
Okla. and the United States Track and
Field Meet will be held the following week.
Both high jumpers said they were disap
pointed with their showing at the Drake
Relays. Neither cleared the opening height
of 6-feet-10 inches.
Herzog's injury was as bad as it could
have been, he said. He added he had trou
ble with the tendon before. "There were at
least six guys who could jump over 7 feet
so there was a lot of competition."
Herzog said Missouri has only one high
jumper, Andy Piper, but he cleared the 6-foot-1
0-inch height at the Drake Relays.
Phelps, who has cleared seven feet three
times outdoors and leads the big Eight
charts, said Saturday's meet at Ed Weir
Stadium will be a good warm-up for the
Big Eight championships.
"It will be hard to go 1-2 in the Big
Eight," Phelps said, "but we're hoping we
can qualify for nationals."
Herzog said that under the right con
ditions both can jump better than they
have this spring.
"Right now it's a matter of just getting
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Senior Dean Herzog, who has the third best high jump in UNL outdoor track history, will compete in his last meet for Nebraska
Saturday against Missouri.
the right weather," Herzog said. "The only
good weather was at both Texas meets."
Herzog, who was once the national prep
leader in the high jump, said he had perfect
conditions the day he leaped 7-foot-l
inches, and won the Kansas state high
school championship.
"It was 90 degrees and no wind," said
the 5-foot-l 1 inch Lansing, Kan., native. "I
had only jumped the 6-feet-9 inches going
into the state meet."
Herzog said UNL had promised him a
scholarship if he could jump one more
inch. Perennial power Kansas University
did not show any interest in Herzog until
after the record jump.
"I had though about going to Kansas
State," he said, "but I came up here and
liked what I saw."
Phelps, who started high jumping in
grade school, said he though about going to
Nebraska Wesleyan or Colorado University.
"I pretty much decided I wanted to go
to Nebraska and I wanted to try out for
freshman football top," said Phelps, who
was Nebraska's first seven-foot jumper and
the 1975 state champion.
Phelps said field events coach John Kor
ky has helped him.
"He's an excellent weight coach,"
Phelps said, "and he's great for learning
teachnique."
Herzog said he does most of his own
training to stay in shape for jumping.
"I do a lot of runnig and lifting
weights," he said. "Doug plays a lot of bas
ketball to stay in shape. He's pretty good
at dunking but 1 have a little trouble get
ting up there."
Phelps said there is a friendly relation
ship between Herzog.
"In fact, he's going to be a groomsman
at my wedding in June," Phelps said.
Six players sign Cornhusker basketball letters of intent
By Jim Hunt
Husker basketball coach Joe Cipriano
traveled to Indiana, a familiar area for UNL
basketball recruiting, to sign three of six
recruits for the 1978-79 UNL basketball
team.
Signees from Indiana are Jack Moore
and Jerry Shoecraft from Muncie Central
High School, the 1978 Indiana State High
School Champions, and Bill Cunningham
from Snyder High School in Fort Wayne.
Moore, a 5 -foot, 10-inch guard, was
named the Most Valuable Player in the In
diana State Tournament. He was a four
year starter for Muncie Central and av
eraged 21.7 points a game and 4.4 assists
this past season while earning first -team AD
State honors. Moore has a 3.6 grade point
average 2nd will major in business admin
istration.
Shoecraft, a 6-foot, 6-inch, forward,
was Central's leading rebounder with a 9.2
average a game and also averaged 1 7 points
a game. He also has a 3.6 graint point
average and also will major in business
administration .
Muncie Central is coached by former
UNL assistant Bill Harrell.
Cunningham was Fort Wayne's player
of the year in 1977-78 while leading his
conference in scoring with a 22.1 point
a game average. Last season he earned All
Sectional first team honors and was a
three-year All-Conference performer. He
has a 3.0 grade point average and will
major in art .
The addition of the three Indiana re
cruits brings the number of UNL players
from the Hoosier state to six. Other
Husker players from Indiana include Brian
Banks and Carl McPipe from Hammond
and Eric Eckelman from Muncie.
The other Husker signees include a
junior college transfer from Washington
and two other high school players.
The junior college transfer is Byron
Williams, a 6-foot, 6-inch guard-forward
from Wenstchee, Wash., Valley Junior
College. Williams set season school marks
for most points with 595. best scoring
average, 21J, and most field goals made
with 244.
Williams attended Albany, Calif., High
School and as a senior in 1976-77, he
earned All-Northern California honors and
was named East Bay Player of the Year.
Williams will be a sophomore at UNL
this fall and major in journalism. He had a
3.2 grade point average at Wenatchee
Valley.
The other two high school players are
Ray Collins and Sammy Curran.
Collins, a 6-foot 3 -inch guard, from
Mendel Catholic High School in Chicago,
led the Chicago Catholic League in scoring
with a 2 2 -point -average. He also averaged
10 rebounds a game while earning All
Area and All-Conference awards. Mendel
Catholic finished the season 20-6 for
second place in the Catholic League and a
regional championship. With a 3.2 grade
point average, he will enroll in Business
Administration .
Curran, a 6-foot 7-inch forward, from
Liberal, Kansas averaged 24.0 while earning
first team All-State and All -Conference
awards. Curran. an A student, was selected
to play in the Kansas Prep All Star game.