IHuskers set goals
Women gymnasts spring for the top
I By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s women’s gymnastics
team may end this season in the
same city they ended the 1986-87
season in, Coach Rick Walton said,
but with one m^jor difference.
At last season's NC1A Champion
ships in Salt Lake City, the Com
huskers ended their season 10th in
the country. This year their goal for
the tournament, which will be in
Salt Lake City again, is higher.
“The girls tell me they want to
finish in the top
five,” Walton said,
who is entering
his fifth year as
coach of the wo
men’s team.
The return of
the entire 1986
87 team, two Walton
freshman recruits and a year of
NCAA experience make that goal
attainable, he said.
“I think it is (realistic),” Walton
said. ‘‘Most teams that have recru
ited well this season don’t have eve
rybody coming back like we 1o. Our
experience should give us an ad
vantage.”
The addition of freshmen Laura
Saviski from Illinois and Lisa Me
Crady from Min
nesota will be the
only changes from
last season’s
squad. Walton said
he expects the two
new gymnasts to
compete right a-_
way. Savage
“They’re pretty talented,” he said.
“They are going to help us out a lot
this year, especially in some areas
tfhere we lacked a little depth in
the past. The floor exercise is an
event that they could help out in.”
Among those returning to the
team this season are sophomore
Michele Bryant, who finished 27th
in the all-around at the NCAA Cham
pionships last
season; junior
Crystal Savage,
who placed 31st,
and junior Jean
eane Smith, who
finished 39th.
Walton said in-_
dividual scores Smith
and the team score might have been
higher at the NCAA Championships
had the Huskers not competed in
the first rotation, where the scoring
traditionally is tighter because the
judges are getting a feel for the
scoring.
Savage posted the highest indi
vidual score in the all-around, a
37.8, on the team last season. Smith
was a close second, twice scoring a
37.75.
Walton said it is h *d to predict
which gymnasts will be in the hunt
for the individual all-around title
this season.
“It’s awfully hard to say at this
point,’’ he said. “It all depends on
who has a good season, who avoids
the nagging injuries and who is hot
that particular night.”
This season’s schedule is not yet
complete, but Walton said he is try
ing to schedule more home meets to
help increase fan support.
One of the home meets is tenta
tively called the Runza Invitational,
and it will feature Nebraska, Brigham
Young and Denver. Other teams on
the Huskers’ schedule include Utah,
Arizona State, Penn State and Ohio
State.
Three other teams besides Ne
braska — Iowa State, Missouri and
Oklahoma — compete in women’s
gymnastics in the Big Eight Confer
ence. Walton said this season's Big
Eight race should be interesting.
“It will be tough,” Walton said.
“Oklahoma is going to be strong,
we’re going to be strong, and Mis
souri has added a couple of recruits.
We won the title last season and
we’d like to win it again.”
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