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daily nebraskan
thursday, april 10. 1980
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Swimmers
By Pat Beecham
Three UNL swimmers will compete in
the AAU national championships this
weekend, and UNL assistant swimming
coach Pat DiBiase expressed optimism
about their chances.
"All three of our swimmers have good
chances at placing in this meet,- he said.
"They score the top 16 places and all are
capable of finishing in the top 16."
Tim Boyd will compete in the SO- and
100-yard freestyle, Mike Hayhurst in the
50-yard freestyle and Skip Grantham in the
100-yard butterfly. None of these swim
mers attended the NCAA meet but DiBiase
said that may be an added incentive for
them to do well at AAU.
"The guys that dont attend the NCAA
meet really get psyched up for this meet:
And this meet is not as team-oriented so
there is a little more emphasis on individual
achievement."
To qualify for the AAU meet, swimmers
had to meet qualifying times during the
season. Many of the swimmers who quali
fied for the NCAA meet had met qualify
ing times, but will not compete at the AAU
meet. This may lead some to believe that
the AAU meet is for second-stringers, but
DiBiase said that this is not the case.
"The NCAA may be a little tougher in
some events, but times are just as fast or
faster in this meet as they were in the
NCAA meet," he said.
Redshirts can compete
DiBiase also said that good swimmers
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who are not college students should also
help make the AAU meet interesting.
"There will be a lot of good high school
swimmers and swimmers who swim in
clubs that are very good at this meet."
DiBiase also said some redshirt swim
mers, who are unable to compete for their
school this year, will swim.
Grantham, for example, is a redshirt.
DiBiase said the transfer student from
Minnesota has been working hard during
the season, even though he hasn't been eli
gible, and should do well at the meet.
He said the same situation exists for the
Husker divers who were redshirted. They
could not compete during the season, but
qualified for the AAU meet through a zone
qualifying meet.
Divers expect tough competition
Two Husker redshirts, Dave Goodwin
and Dave Keane, qualified for the meet
Goodwin in the one-meter and the three
meter events and Keane in the one-meter
event. They will be joined by Scott
Hinrichs, who competed in the NCAA
meet, and Lance Green. Hinrichs qualified
in the one-meter event and Green qualified
in the three-meter event. All four divers
will also compete in the 10-meter tower
dive.
DiBiase said all the divers have a good
chance at scoring in the meet.
"All four of these guys have an excel
lent chance at finishing near the top," he
said. "They've been running and working
out and should be in good shape for the tough competition.
meet. "Our divers are fired up for the meet.
He said that, like the AAU swimming Especially the redshirts, since they couldn't
meet, the diving meet will also have some compete in many meets before this."
Huskers sweep Creighton
The Husker baseball team won both
ends of a doubleheader against Creighton,
1-0 and 5-1, Wednesday afternoon at Buck
Beltzer Field.
Husker pitcher Tim Burke, now 5-3 on
the season, allowed only two hits in the
first game.
Greg Schafer lead off with a triple and
Joe Scherger sacrificed him in for Neb
raska's only run in the first contest. The
Huskers had four hits and no errors.
Creighton had one error.
In the second game, Schafer singled,
Chris Chavez walked, and Scherger hit a
triple to bring two runs in. Scherger then
went home on a wild pitch.
Soccer team finishes second, third
The UNL soccer team opened its spring
season by taking a third place at the Jay
hawk Invitational March 29 and 30 at
Kansas State.
Nebraska played Rockhurst in its first
game, losing. 1 -0. The Huskers then beat
Benedictan in a shoot-out after regular
play ended in a 0-0 tie.
The second-ranked NAIA team in the
nation, Rockhurst, won the tourney with
Kansas State in second, and the Huskers
in third.
This past weekend the UNL soccer team
traveled to the Iowa State Invitational at
Ames, losing 4-2 in double overtime
to'Cyclones for second place.
To reach the finals UNL beat Drake 2-0
and Northern Iowa 4-0.
This weekend the soccer team will com
, pete in a sixteen-team tourney at Wichita
State, where they took fourth place last
year.
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Photo by Mitch Hrdticka
The UNL Rugby Club lost twice at the All-College Tournament in
Lawrence, Kan. last weekend. UNL lost to Kansas State, 64 in the first round
and was beaten by Pittsburg, Kan. College, 9-6, in the consolation game. Kan
sas University won the tournament and Missouri University was second.
"It was a big disappointment, because we went into the tournament with a
4-1 record," said Mitch Schainost, a member of the Rugby Club. He said the
team expected to do better at the Big Eight tournament this Saturday and Sun
day in Norman, Okla.
Despite disappointments, gymnast has no regrets
Gymnastics, just as any other sport, has its winners and
losers. But, unlike most sports, gymnastics has an aura of
perserverence and dedication which gives even the also
rans the look and attitude of winners.
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Take, for example, John Cor ri to re, a parallel bars
specialist from Arizona State University. Corritore was in
Lincoln last week competing in the NCAA gymnastics
championships.
Corritore wen the NCAA individual championship in
Female golfers win,
men take 12th, 21st
UNL's men's golf team competed in two meets during
spring break. The Husker golfers finished 21st at the
Morris Williams Invitational and 12th at the Houston All
American Invitational. Knox Jones was the top finisher
for the Huskers at Houston with a 72-hole score of 294.
Nebraska's women goiters took first place at the Mid
land Invitational over spring break. Jan Stanard took
medalist honors with rounds of 80 and 82.
the parallel bars in 1978 while competing for Michigan.
He sat out the 1979 season after transferring to Arizona
State.
He competed in the parallel bars competition last
week, but didn't make the cut for the individual cham
pionships, ending up in a three-way tie for 10th place, .05
out of the competition.
Not making the cut was disappointing to him, but he
said dealing with disappointment is one thing an athlete
must learn.
MI know it won't be the most disappointing thing I'll
ever face in my life," he said.
No regrets
Corritore said he has no regrets about his years in gym
nastics because the determination he learned while train
ing will eventually pay off in other ways.
A business major at ASU, Corritore said he is realistic
about the future presented to most gynlhasts, especially
for the specialist.
"For the specialist there is so little opportunity after
college," he said. "I realized I had to prepare for the life
outside the gym.
it takes a lot to compensate for what I've done, but
I have no regrets because Pm looking forward to being
a success in business.
"You can take the same skills in goal setting and apply
them to anything," he said. "You just need successful
organization of your time and skills.
Corritore plans to use the goal-setting skills he learned
by applying to Ilarvard for the MBA program and for
some overseas grants.
"Gymnastics has taught me to compete so that now
I really enjoy interviews and can excel in them," he said.
Started late
Corritore started gymnastics relatively late, as a high
school junior in 1974. He said he documented his work
outs in a journal, even though he sometimes practiced as
much as three times a day, seven days a week.
"If you want to be good, gymnastics becomes a life
style," he said.
"You get used to pushing yourself to the limit, to
find what giving 100 percent is. Most people only give
about 30 percent effort, but a gymnast knows he has to
reach 100 percent in order to win.
"You cant really pinpoint what the 100 percent is, but
it's a good feeling to go to sleep at night and know you've
hit it."
Corritore said gymnastics keeps growing because of
the efforts put out by so many.
"The things we can do now were considered impossible
five years ago. At the meet I started thinking, boy these
guys are good, I'm glad I'm getting out. Right there is the
problem. That's a bad attitude. And that kind of thing
in your subconscious is harder to overcome than any in
jury." '
This was Corritore's last meet, but he feels no great
sorrow. He's been in the gym every day since the meet,
working out for sheer enjoyment.
"The emotion I felt marching out for the national
anthem was Indescribable. I fought back tears. 1 will miss
competing, but I feel a power which will affect me the
rest of my life, he said. "I wouldn't trade it for any
thing." '
