Women swimmer’s season called a success
By Lori Griffin
Staff Reporter
Although his team has a 3-4 dual
record this year, Nebraska women’s
swimming coach Ray Huppcrt called
the season’s first three months a suc
cess.
Huppcrt said the Comhuskers,
who are predominately made up of
freshman and sophomores, have
come a long way since losing their
season-opening dual meet to Colo
rado St. in Fort Collms Nov. 5.
“I’m real pleased and excited
where we arc but we have a long way
to go,’’ he said.
Nebraska hasn’t accomplished all
the goals it has set for the season,
Huppcrt said.
“We arc just scratching the sur
face.’’
But more than half of this year’s
team has already produced nearly 48
lifetime best swims, Huppcrt said.
“I am pleased but not content with
what has been happening with the
team,’’ Huppcrt said. “I have been
especially pleased with our meets at
home this season.”
Nebraska is 2-0 in home meets.
The Huskers defeated Southern Illi
nois and Iowa at home. Nebraska’s
other win came against Indiana in the
National Dual Meet Championships
al Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Dec. 3.
The Huskers lost to Alabama and
Arizona at the National Dual Meet.
Nebraska also f inished 3rd in the Sun
Devil Classic Nov. 18 and 19 al
Tempo, Ariz. The Huskers’ other
dual loss came against then nation
ally ranked Arizona Stale.
‘I’m real pleased
and excited
where we are but
we have a long
way to go.’
— Huppert
Nebraska began the season by fin
ishing 2nd in the Big Eight Invita
tional Oct. 28 and 29 in Ames, Iowa.
Defending Big Eight champion Kan
sas won the meet.
4 ‘The Southern Illinois meet was a
big boost,” Huppert said.4 4 We swam
well al Colorado Slate but lost. We
swam better al Arizona Stale and
have improved from the first meet.”
Nebraska has shown improvement
throughout the season, Huppert said.
”... and that is a big factor in our
future success,” Huppert said. “All
of our meets were the same. We pro
gressed well and if you arc a coach all
you like to sec is the team continuing
to improve.”
Freshmen Kelly Fox and Laura
Wilbom have made an impression on
Huppert. Huppert said he is also
impressed with the perlormancc of
junior Kathy Barragan.
“These three have all swam life
time bests and have performed
well,” Huppert said.
Freshman Laurel Hill, a sopho
more academically, has swam life
time bests in all her events, Huppert
said. .
“I think (swimming lifetime
bests) has given her confidence,”
Huppert said of Hill’s performance.
“Laurel sal out of swimming last
year (alter graduating from Ralston
High) because she did not think she
was good enough to perform at the
college level.
“But she has become a strong part
of our program. And we were excited
to have her tryout.”
The Huskers need to work on their
technique, particularly their turns, it
they want to be considered a favorite
to dethrone Kansas as conference
champ, Huppert said.
“After (the first semester) the
team has had the opportunity to see
what they can do,” Huppert said.
“But there arc some major things we
have got to do if we want to look as if
we can be the conference champs.
“It has been a fun semester.”
Nebraska will travel to San Diego,
Calif., Dec. 31 to compete in the Cal
San Diego Collegiate Invitational.
The Huskcrs will also compete in the
San Diego Senior Invitational Jan. 6
and 8.
Nebraska mainly will be using the
trip loCalifornia as a training period,
but the scores will count toward the
Huskcrs’ season record, Huppert
said.
Huppert said he is putting more
emphasis on the training aspect of the
California trip than how the Huskcrs
score.
“The score will count on our rec
ord but we don’t want that to intcrlerc
with our training,” Huppert said.
“We want to leave there with a
couple of wins.”
NU swimmers to face Olympians,
international field in '88 U.S. Open
By Lori Griffin
Staff Reporter
Six members of the Nebraskaa
men’s swimming and diving team
will face former Olympians and for
eign swimmers in one of the toughest
challenges of the season Dee. 18-20.
The Huskers will compete in the
1988 U.S. Open at the Indiana Uni
vcrsity-Purduc University Natato
rium in Indianapolis, ind.
Comhusker senior Mike Irvin and
juniors Scan Frampton and Jaco
Kruger will make the trip. Sopho
more Peter Williams, freshmen Rhctl
Talbert and Ryan Bell round out the
Husker contention.
Nebraska men’s swimming coach
Cal Bent/, said he is looking for the
Huskers to improve on their fifth
place finish in the university division.
"We want to place higher than
fifth, which we placed last year,”
Bent/said. ‘‘And we can only do that
by swimming faster than the other
people.
“If we make a smooth transition,
we’ll swim fast,” Bent/ said. “There
will be some of the top swimmers in
the world at the meet and the pool is
one of the finest facilities around, so
we’re looking forward to a very fast
and competitive atmosphere. We arc
not going down there with the idea of
swimming slowly.”
Teams from many countries, in
cluding China, Canada and Hungary,
will be competing in the international
meet. Bent/ said.
In last year’s IJ.S. Open held in
Orlando, Fla., Williams startled the
swimming world by finishing the 50
meter freestyle in a lime of 22.65
seconds. At the time, that was the
eighth fastest performance in history.
Williams then came back to the
same pool in April and unofficially
broke the world record with a 22.18
clocking. But because Williams is a
citizen of South Africa, the record
was never recognized by FINA, the
governing body of swimming. Wil
liams now ranks second on the all
time list. Matt Biondi, a 1988 gold
medal winner in the Seoul Olympics,
holds the world record time of 22.14.
If more Huskerscan qualify for the
NCAA championships at the U.S.
Open, Bentz said, then the first half of
the season may be considered a suc
cess.
“We finished the season 3-1 (in
dual meet competition) and qualified
nine different people in different
events. If we can qualify more at this
meet, then it is going to be an excel
lent season,” Bentz said.
Huskers will have
‘extra test’ today
By Mark Derowitsch
Senior Reporter
Although some of the Nebraska
men’s basketball team have begun to
take final exams, coach Danny Nee
said the whole team will have an
extra test Saturday.
But the Comhuskers’ exam won’t
be in the classroom. Instead, Ne
braska will play Furman on the bas
ketball court in a game Nee said he
thinks is one of the most important on
the Huskers’ schedule.
“Nebraska has to be able to get a
team on the floor that’s able to con
centrate on basketball for 40 min
utes,” Nee said. “Furman plays hard,
and if we’re not ready, we’ll be in
trouble.”
Tipoff is set for 7:35 p.m. at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Nee said the Huskers need guard
Eric Johnson, forward Beau Reid and
center Rich King to play belter offen
sively in order to win.
Johnson leads the Huskers with a
15.3 points per game average, while
King and Reid are averaging 10 and
8.2 points per game, respectively.
‘ ‘Those arc the throe key players
for us,” Nee said. “1 think we have to
get them involved to be successful.”
Furman, 3-2, is ied by guard David
Brown. Brown, a 5-fool-10 senior
from Darlington, S.C., is averaging
18.2 points per game this season.
Brown also leads the team in
three-point shooting, connecting on
18-36 shots.
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