Huskers in the swim for Friday meet
By Jeff Apel
Senior Editor
The picture painted by the Ne
braska men’s and women’s swim
ming teams during Friday’s Big Eight
Invitational in Lawrence, Kan., won’t
be a fair representation of how com
petitive the conference will be.
Nebraska men’s swimming coach
Cal Bent/ and women’s coach Ray
Huppert said they don’t place a lot of
faith in the meet’s outcome because
all teams involved will drastically
improve by the end of the season.
Bentz said the Comhuskcrs, who
have captured eight straight Big Eight
titles, will instead use the meet to
determine who will earn a trip to New
Orleans. Nebraska will face Tulane in
New Orleans on Nov. 14 after compet
ing against Louisiana State in Baton
Rouge, La., on Nov. 13.
“We’re prepared to swim fast,”
Bentz said. We don’t have many
meets during first semester, so we
have a lot to accomplish.”
Bentz said he is confident that this
year s team is the best he has had
during his 12 years of coaching at
Nebraska. He said the Huskers have
the talent and depth to challenge at the
conference and national levels.
“I haven’t changed my mind,”
Bentz said. “We’re going to be awe
some.”
Bentz and Huppert said they can
sense anxiety in their teams after see
ing them work through a two-month
preseason conditioning schedule.
Huppert said Nebraska will be
ready for the Big Eight Invitational.
He said the Huskers have spent the last
two months combating feelings of
fatigue and boredom by altering their
training schedule.
“When you go two months, it gets
to be a little hairy,” Huppert said.
‘‘Sometimes you have to recognize
when a change (in training) has to be
made.”
Huppert said he doesn’t place
much faith in the meet’s outcome
because the Kansas Jayhawks have
opened their season by capturing its
title each of the last 11 years that the
meet has been scored.
But Huppert said Nebraska has
proven it is a better team than Kansas
each of the last three years by defeat
ing the Jayhawks for the Big Eight
title.
“Swimming is funny,” he said. “In
other sports, winning each game plays
a role in your success. But in swim
ming we try to improve all year long
and put everything together at the end
of the season.
Iowa Stale women’s swimming
coach Ramsey van Horn said he will
approach the meet with a different
attitude than Huppert. He said the
Cyclones will enter the meet with
victory on their minds.
“We aren’t going to have our
people swimming their second or
third events. Hell, no,” van Horn said.
“We want to see our people do their
best.”
Van Horn said he’s confident that
Iowa State can challenge Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri of the meet’s
title because the Cyclones added 15
freshmen to their roster. He said the
newcomers will provide needed talent
and depth.
“We’ve got some talent,” van Horn
said. “So we’re gom*, to be better than
in the past.”
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Nebraska's Keven Lightner battles Kansas State's Don
Blackbourne.
Tackle wants field recognition
By Kent Endacott
Staff Reporter
Nebraska offensive tackle Keven
Lightner wants to be recognized for
his accomplishments on the football
field, not what he can do in the weight
room.
Lightner, a senior from Hastings
Adams Central High School, has re
ceived much publicity for being
Nebraska’s strongest player. He com
bines his 6-foot-2, 2«5-pound frame
with a 441-pound bench press and a
756-pound squat.
He also has 4.94 speed in the 40
yard dash.
Lightner said that while his size
and speed got him noticed, he wants to
be known as a great offensive line
man.
“Over the years here I think I’ve
heen a pretty good offensive lineman,
but over the years people have mostly
associated me with lifting records,”
Lightner said. “1 just want to be recog
nized as being one of the best in the
Big Eight and not just for the other
things I’ve done.”
Nebraska offensive line coach Dan
Young said Lightncr’s strength has
been showing on the field.
“Once he gets on a guy it’s hard to
get him off,” Young said. “He has a lot
of power and he can really dominate a
guy.”
Lightner said he rarely tries to fi
nesse opponents. He said he ikes to
use his strength against defensive
linemen.
“When it’s fourth and two or third
and two and coach calls an isolation
right behind me, I know all I’ve got to
do is come off hard,” Lightner said.
This year I have a lot of confidence
that I know I’m going to knock him
down, and maybe I didn’t have that
before. Coach has been going behind
me and John (McCormick) quite a bit,
it seems like.”
After lettering as a reserve his
sophomore and junior years, Lightner
said he starting to get the recognition
he has wanted. He said professional
scouts have indicated they arc inter
ested.
“They all tested me back in March
and I think they were all impressed
with what I’ve done, “ he said.
“As far as the physical testing, I
know I’m in the upper percentage in
what I can do,” he said. “I’ve got to
keep proving myself on the field.”
Lightner said he has been told he’s
not tall enough to play tackle in the
National Football League, so he will
try to be a guard.
“I’m trying to work on my football
skills, blocking techniques,” Lightner
said. “I’m not tall enough to play
tackle in the NFL, but as far as pulling
guard I’m trying to work on my foot
work because a guard has to move
around a lot more than a tackle docs.”
Lightner said he hopes to be named
to this ycar’sall-BigFjght team. Todo
that, he said, he will have to beat out
Oklahoma tackles Greg Johnson and
John Phillips.
“The Oklahoma tackles arc well
publicized, and they’re both big kids,”
Lightner said. “But I think I can do
maybe a lot more things than they can.
. . . They have a different kind of
scheme, where I have to do a lot more
pulling and things than they do. And
maybe that’s going to help me.”
Lightner said he never used ster
oids. He said because of his size and
strength he is often accused of using
the drugs.
“As much as I lift, I can’t bench
press 550 pounds,” Lightner said. “I
can lift a lot, but it’s not anything
outstanding or astronomical like
‘raids can do for you.”
