Tuesday, March 10, 1937
Daily Nebraskan
Page 9
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By Rich Cooper
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women's gymnastics
team added another record to its string
as the Cornhuskers defeated Iowa State
185.8 to 173.6 Friday night at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
The Huskers set a new sports-center
record for team score.
Nebraska ranked No. 7 in the nation,
raised its team average to 185.1. Nebras
ka coach Rick Walton said the average
is the fifth or sixth best in the nation.
Nebraska, led by sophomores Crystal
Savage and Jeaneane Smith, swept
every event. Savage won the all-around
with a 37.6 and Smith finished second
with a 37.2.
Walton said the Huskers started well
in the first two events, scoring a 47.1 on
vault and 47 on uneven bars, but on the
next event, balance beam, four Huskers
fell, and averaged 9.0.
Walton said if the Huskers had
scored a 47 on beam they probably
would have scored a 188 all-around.
"We started real well on the first two
events, probably the best we had done
all year on those events," Walton said.
"When we came to beam, we went from
great to just average.
"When a team has a good set on
beam they usually are going to have a
good score," he said.
Walton said he was particularly happy
with freshman Michelle Bryant's perform
ance. The freshman from Blue Springs,
Mo., scored a 9.4 on bars, 9.2 on beam
and 9.25 on floor exercise. Before the
end of the season, Walton said, she has
a strong chance of becoming an all
arounder once she settles down on the
vault. ' , '
Walton said next wekend's meet
against Missouri will be important be
cause the Huskers haven't put together
a complete meet where there was a
team average of 47.
"We are getting better," Walton
said, "but we have not peaked, and the
next four meets we are going to need
solid performances to get into the final
six teams at the NCAA Championships."
Walton said last year's meet against
Missouri was a good meet because both
teams scored their highest scores of
the season. Since this is the last home
meet of the year, Walton said the
Huskers should score their best of the
season.
The men's team was in Ames, Icwa,
this weekend for the Big Eight Triangu
lar against Iowa State and Oklahoma.
Coming into Friday night's meet the
Huskers had not defeated the Sooners
in Big Eight competition.
But Friday night Nebraska changed
that and defeated the Sooners 280.95 to
278.25. Iowa State finished with a 257.
For the third consecutive meet, Nebras
ka's Tom Schlesinger won the all
around with a 57.2. Teammate Kevin
Davis finished second with a 57.0, and
Oklahoma's Mark Steves was third with
a 56.25. ' -
The Huskers won the meet when
Neil Palmer and Davis tied for first
with a 9.7 on the high bar. Freshman
Bob Stetler finished first in the floor
exercise with a 9.65 and finished second
on vault with a 9.4.
Next weekend Nebraska will travel
to Minneapolis to take on Minnesota
and Wisconsin in a triangular meet.
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Robinson said she needs to concen
trate on two junipers in particular to
win: Wendy Brown and Evette Base of
use.
"They're both people I've jumped
against since 10th grade," Robinson
said, "so I'm real familiar with their
styles of jumping and how they do in
big competitions."
Although concentrating on the NCAA
championships as the task at hand,
Robinson said, she is thinking about
the upcoming outdoor season. She said
her goals are to make 44 feet in the
triple jump and break her personal
best of 20 12 feet in the long jump.
Robinson said her training is carry
ing her closer to meeting those goals.
"My drills and strength work, in con
trast to last year, are coming along
really well," Robinson said. "There's
just some technical matters that I need
to clean up before I can get into the
44-foot range consistently."
Robinson said her consistency is one
of her primary concerns for the upcom-
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"We started in December and I
jumped 41-8," Robinson said. "I didn't
come back to 41 until February. There
was a lapse there, and then I came back
to 41-11 in March."
Robinson said she expects to improve
as the season progresses. Her problem
has been jumping only to the level of
her competition and not to the limit of
her ability, she said.
Robinson, who transferred from El
Camino, Calif. Junior College last year,
was elected as a team captain this sea
son. A first-year team member has
never before received that honor, she
said.
"I believe that the family structure
that we've built on the team has a lot to
do with it," Robinson said. "I think of
everybody on the team as my close fam
ily members. Being away from home you
have to do that."
After graduation, Robinson said, she
is setting her sights on the 1992 Olym
pic Games. The triple jump is not an
official event yet, but it probably will
be by 1992, she said.
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