Sports
New buildings extend fitness opportunities
By Sara Bauder
Staff Reporter
Students for the fall semester will be among
the first to use the University of Nebraska
Lincoln's new Campus Recreation/Athletic
Facility building.
According to Stan Campbell, director of
Campus Recreation, the building will provide
students with a wide selection of fitness oppor
tunities.
Campbell said the weight training and
fitness room will be 8,100 square feet of fit
ness variety.
“There will be exercise bikes, rowing and
stairclimbing machines, weight machines and
free weights,” Campbell said.
“We hope the variety of equipment will
appeal to people with different fitness
needs.”
The building will have a gymnasium area
consisting of four basketball courts, three
badminton/pickle ball courts and a suspended
jogging track. Campbell said the basketball
courts will also be marked for volleyball.
The building will also have 13 raquetball
courts which can be adapted to wallyball, one
squash court and a five-lane, 25-yard swim
ming pool.
Campus Recreation’s offices and the
equipment rental offices will also be in the
new building. Campbell said that students will
be able to check out equipment to be used in
the building if they present a student ID and a
picture ID. The equipment is available at no
cost
A number of facilities besides the new
Campus Recreation/Athletic Facility build
ings will be available to students in the fall as
well.
Cook Pavilion, which Is attached to the new
building, is an indoor football Held. Aside from
its use as a practice field for the football team,
the building is used for aerobic conditioning
classes, jogging, frisbee, and intramural events
such as indoor soccer and tug-o-war.
Campus Recreation has two gymnasium
areas with basketball/volleyball courts, a six
lane pool and lockerooms in Mabel Lee Hall as
well. Campbell said Mabel Lee would proba
bly be used more for scheduled activities than
for general student use.
In the Military and Naval Science Building,
a basketball court and a separate volleyball
court are available. The building also has a rifle
range, which is used by the rifle club and
ROTC and for an intramural rifle meet held in
the fall.
The East Campus Activities Building has
two basketball courts, a weight training and
fitness area and lockerooms.
Campus Recreation maintains a variety of
outdoor fitness facilities as well, such as tennis
courts, sand volleyball lots, basketball courts,
and two jogging and fitness trails.
The city campus office will be in the new
Campus Recreation/Athletic Facility building
and will be open on weekdays from 7:30 a.m.
until 5:30 p.m. A satellite office will operate
from the East Campus Activities Building and
will be open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
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NU success, Devaney’s pride persists
By Jeff A pel
Staff Reporter
Nebraska athletic director Bob
Devaney has long been proud of his
department’s accomplishments, and
that pride continues to grow each
year.
Devaney said he considers the
Nebraska athletic department to be
one of the best sports domains in the
country because of its overall excel
lence. The Comhuskers captured
their fifth consecutive mythical com
bined All-Big Eight sports crown this
season by claiming 10 conference
titles.
Nebraska earned conference
championships in women’s cross
country, men’s and women’s indoor
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and outdoor track, and men’s swim
ming this season. The Huskers also
earned Big Eight titles in men’s and
women’s gymnastics, football and
volleyball.
The only blemish this season was
the baseball team, which finished last
in the seven-team conference race.
“We pretty much dominated the
Big Eight in many ways,” Devaney
said.
Devaney said the Nebraska ath
letic department prides itself on
maintaining an equal balance be
tween men’s and women’s athletics.
Last season, the Huskers fielded nine
women’s sports teams and partici
pated in 10 men’s sports.
Devaney said he has no immediate
plans of trimming the number of
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women s sports even though Ne
braska is battling a budget-balancing
problem. He said the Huskers are
“stepping up” fund-raising efforts
and looking into new ways to raise
money in order to combat potential
financial woes.
Financial problems and atten
dance at non-revenue sports are the
two areas that concern Devaney the
most The Husker football team has
sold out each of its last 161 home
football games, but women’s teams
have had consistent problems draw
ing fans to their games, as have non
revenue men’s teams, such as the
wrestling, swimming and diving, and
tennis teams.
“We’re very proud of our
women’s sports, even though we
have some that don’t draw (audi
ences) very well,’’ Devaney said.
“We also have some men’s sports
that we don ’ t have great attendance at
either.’’
Devaney said Nebraska’s athletic
department adds to its excellence by
contributing to the university. He
raid the department is currently con
tributing by financing the second
phase of a student recreation center.
Phase II of the center, which in
cludes new basketball courts and a
student/faculty lounge, is scheduled
to be completed when the fall semes
ter begins. That phase will be con
nected to the center's first phase,
which consisted of an indoor football
practice field.
“We’ve completed some build
mgs,” Devaney said, “and we’re
hoping to complete some more proj
ects in the future.”
Devaney said it is important for
the entire athletic department to try to
improve. He said Nebraska’s athletic
department would run the risk of
mediocrity if it ever became satisfied
with what it had accomplished, and
didn’t try to improve.
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