First NU coach to lead team to title
is now Grand Marshal for state games
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Think of the Nebraska women’s
track program, and 11-straight Big
Eight Conference indoor and outdoor
championships probably come to mind.
But there was a time when the goal
of the women’s team was not to win
the Big Eight - just to beat Kearney
State.
That was the situation when Carol
Frost, who will be the Grand Marshal
at the 6th-annual Comhusker State
Games opening ceremonies July 20,
became the first official coach of the
women’s track program in 1976. Before
then, it was a club program.
Kearney State had the edge in
recruiting the state’s best athletes and
was dominant. Frost said, and the first
two of her four years at Nebraska
were spent trying to lure belter ath
letes here to beat the Lady Lopcrs.
And when Nebraska finally did, it
was a big deal, she said.
“The first time we beat Kearney
Slate was really the thing that started
swinging Nebraska toward success,’’
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So much success that in 1980
Nebraska won its first indoor and
outdoor conference titles under Frost,
a feat that has not been relinquished
since, under now head coach Gary
Pepin.
Frost, 45, left Cedar Rapids to study
at UNL from 1963 through 1967,
majoring in physical education and
math. She placed 14th in the discus at
the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
after being the gold medalist at the
1967 Pan American Games.
While at Nebraska, Frost only
competed intramurally. Her training
for national and international compe
tition was confidential, she said, be
cause a professor within the physical
education department vehemently
opposed women competing.
Frost is a member of the Midwest
Amateur Athletic Union Hal I of Fame
in basketball and was invited to the
Olympic Trials in that sport, but ac
cepted the invitation to the track and
field trials instead.
Frost said she has heard it said that
she is the one responsible for having
bum tnc Nebraska women s track
program, but “I have always thought
it was more timing than anything.”
“I would like to take some of the
credit for it, but I just happened to be
the person there at the right time,”
she said.
Frost, who now teaches at Grand
Island Senior High School and lives
in Wood River, said being chosen
Grand Marshal came as a surprise,
especially since she had not been a
head coach for some time. She did
serve as an assistant coach for her
husband, Larry, in McCook and Texas.
After a two-year hiatus, Frost also
plans to defend her two titles in the
shot put and discus at the Stale Games
this year. She will compete in the 40
to 45 age group.
Frost said she has not prepared for
the Games as much as she should --
only about three weeks - but still
she’s throwing the shot about 35 feet.
She’s been throwing her specially,
the discus, about 120 feet, “but I
would like to throw a little better than
that when I get down there,’ ’ she said.
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