Two gymnasts may not compete in Seoul
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
The two best gymnasts at the
NCAA Men’s Championships last
weekend at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center won’t be wearing die U.S.
team colors at the 1988 Summer
Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
Actually, they might not be wear
ing any colors at all. They may not
even be there.
Miguel Rubio and Alfonso Ro
driguez finished as the top two all
arounders in Saturday’s competition,
and Rubio won the individual title in
the high bar. Both are sophomores
from Houston Baptist University and
both are from Spain.
But even though Rubio and Ro
driguez have qualified for the sum
mer games, the Spanish Gymnastics
Federation may prevent them from
competing because of a rule the fed
eration recently passed.
The rule specifies that athletes
must be certified members of the
Spanish Federation to compete in the
Olympics. To be certified members,
the athletes must live and train in
Spain.
“No other country has that rule —
no way,: Houston Baptist coach
Robert Dvorak said. “I think their rule
stinks.”
Dvorak said the denial of the two
athletes’ Olympic qualification
scores are a result of a personal ven
detta the Spanish Federation’s presi
dent has against Rodriguez.
Rodriguez said the federation
wants him and Rubio to return to
Spain to train and compete. Ro
driguez said that when he was choos
ing a university to attend, the federa
tion told him he could go to the United
States or the Soviet Union.
“Obviously, I chose the United
States,” he said. “Now they tell me I
have to go back, so I don’t know.”
Spain is allowed to send only two
athletes to the summer Olympics
because the Spanish national team
finished No. 17 at the World Champi
onships. According to Olympic quali
fication guidelines, teams finishing
16th to 18th are granted only two
spots in the Olympics.
Dvorak said Spain’s reluctance to
let Rodriguez and Rubio compete on
its national team is “a big mistake.”
“They’ve both gotten better since
they’ve been here,” he said. “They
could represent Spain better than
anyone. I don’t understand it. It’s like
a vendetta against these guys for
coming over here.
“These guys are the cream of the
crop over there. It drops way off alter
that. There’s just nobody else there.”
Rodriguez said his main concern is
completing his college education.
“I’ve already started two years of
school at Houston Baptist,” he said.
“If I go back to Spain, I have to start
all over again. I don’t want to have to
get my degree when I’m 40 or 45
years old. That doesn’t give me time
to do anything.”
Dvorak said he has no idea how or
when the conflict will be resolved.
“It’s a tossup right now,” he said.
“I hope it’s resolved soon, because it
would be a crime if the world couldn ’ t
see their gymnastics.”
Herbie auditions to be at Red-White game
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Football players won’t be the only
ones being evaluated at the Nebraska
Red-White spring football game Sat
urday at Memorial Stadium.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students who want to be Herbie
Husker next year will try out for the
position Saturday. The students will
put on the Herbie Husker costume and
perform before a selection committee
of Yell Squad coordinator Kris
Baack, Com Cobs president Glen
Gralheer and former Com Cobs presi
dent Rusty Harder.
Baack said 16 people applied for
the position. The committee is inter
viewing the applicants this week,
Baack said, and will narrow the
number down by Saturday. He said
season, so it discontinued the use of
Harry Husker.
The university then purchased a
new costume for Herbie Husker and
decided the Yell Squad and the Com
Cobs would combine to choose the
new Herbie.
Graiheer said the committee
would like the new Herbie Husker to
work closely with the cheerleaders.
“We’re trying to work it out so that
he will attend cheerleading camp this
summer with the cheerleaders,” he
said.
The committee will also select an
alternate Herbie Husker, Graiheer
said.
“We chose an alternate because
during basketball season you might
have games on Wednesday and Satur
day, and that’s very hard to do for one
person,” he said.
Baack said the 16 people who
applied to be Herbie Husker is more
than she expected. She said the large
number was because of increased
publicity.
Gralheer said he is glad the selec
tion of Herbie Husker was well publi
cized.
“We’re trying to open it up and
give more students a chance to be
Herbie because I think a lot of stu
dents on campus would like to be
Herbie,” Gralheer said.
Coach says Nebraska
ready for NCAA meet
WALTON from Page 15
final 10 kids,” Walton said. “And our
athletes have the abilities to be in the
finals.”
Walton said Nebraska is traveling
to Utah so it can execute well and take
advantage of its opportunities. He
said the Huskers are ready and will
put everything into the performance.
“The girls are excited about this
meet,” Walton said. “I believe they
feel they are a better team than eighth
in the country and arc out to prove it.
At this point in the season you don’t
have to motivate someone to perform
well and if you do, you’re in a world
of trouble.”
The competition begins Friday at4
p.m., with team and all-around cham
pionships staged that night. Individ
ual event finals begin at 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday.
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the committee will choose two to five
people to wear the Herbie Husker
costume at the spring game.
Gralheer said the selection of the
new Herbie will be made sometime
next week. He said thecommittee will
look for someone with the right blend
of enthusiasm and responsibility.
“We’re looking for someone with
a dynamic personality and someone
who will best represent the univer
sity,” Gralheer said. “It’s an impor
tant position because a lot of attention
is paid to Herbie, so we need a person
that is very responsible.”
Last season the Com Cobs se
lected a student to serve as Harry
Husker and the Yell Squad selected a
Herbie Husker.
But Gralheer said the university
decided to have only one mascot this
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