TRACK & FIELD
Robin Trimarchi/Daily Nebraskan
Katie Fletcher, Nebraska women’s cross country team captain, stretches
before running.
Small-town Kansas runner
captains cross country team
By Benji Greenberg
Staff Reporter
Distance runner Katie Fletcher has come a
long way since arriving at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln from a small Kansas town.
Fletcher is a native of Lakin, a town of about
2,000 residents in southeastern Kansas.
“Coming from a small school in Kansas to
Nebraska was a big adjustment to make,”
Fletcher said. “I had to make big adjustments
“4 ft
I don’t think about being
captain. I feel it doesn’t matter
becase I’m part of a whole
team. We have a young team
this season with a lot of dedi
cated runners.
Fletcher
captain
NU women's cross country team
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both mentally and physically, and I had to
adjust to more extensive training.”
She has risen from obscurity to be named
captain of this year’s Nebraska women’s cross
country team. The team begins its season Sat
urday by hosting the Woody Greeno-Nebraska
Invitational at Pioneers Park.
She said being elected captain by her team
mates is no big deal.
“I don’t think about being captain. I feel it
doesn’t matter because I’m part of a whole
team,” the redshirt sophomore said. “We have
a young team this season with a lot of dedicated
runners.”
Coach, Jay Dirksen, said she is a hard worker,
a leader by example. She enters the season as
the top runner on the defending Big Eight
champion women’s team.
“Katie’s respected by her teammates and
not only that, but she’s also very enthusiastic
and an all-around good person,’’ said Dirksen,
the 1989 women’s cross country Big Eight
Coach of the year. “We have a fun team this
year with no real star, but we have a lot of
depth.’’
Fletcher said she believes she can accom
plish anything, and that belief boosts her con
fidence.
She is looking forward to this season after
placing sixth at the Big Eight meet, fifth at the
NCAA District V meet and 37th at nationals
last season, she said. She was the 26th Ameri
can runner to place nationally, which put her
one away from being named an All-American.
“We are all excited to start the 1990 season,
and we all have a positive attitude,” Fletcher
said.
The recent heat wave has hindered the
team’s preparation for Saturday’s invitational
against most of Nebraska’s small colleges and
Big Eight Colorado, Fletcher said.
“It’s been difficult... because the heat is
not advantageous to running distances,” she
said. * ‘And with the heat, we haven’t been able
to have quality training.”
Along with being a cross country runner,
Fletcher also runs distance events for the Ne
braska women’s indoor and outdoor track teams.
Fletcher said she prefers cross country run
ning over track and field running because of the
unique courses and terrain versus just running
around a track.
Nebraska is predicted to repeat as confer
ence champion, but Fletcher said for that to
happen, the Comhuskers must outperform Kansas
State.
“And we hope to do the best we can do at
nationals,” she said.
Softball
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was three years ago. At Kearney State,
she was an NAIA All-American, but
that was Kearney State.
Then Cuddeford transferred, for
various reasons.
“I kind of always wanted to play
here, and 1 wanted to graduate from
Nebraska,” she said.
She had trouble adjusting to the
intensity of Division I.
‘‘At first, I about dropped dead at
practice,” she said.
She didn’t have games to look
forward to, either, having to sit out a
season as a transfer.
She went to Kearney Slate partly
because she wanted to play basket
ball as well as softball, she said.
“Everybody said I wasn’t big
enough to play Division I basketball,
but I could play softball,” she said.
Although Cuddeford i. 5-foot-5,
she is a power hitter.
“Size is deceiving sometimes. I
like to say its the quickness of the
bat,” she said. “It’s more technique
than size and how strong you are.”
Cuddeford said she’s more pre
pared for this season than she was last
fall. There were questions when she
transferred, she said, but people be
gan to understand why she left when
she became a starter for the Huskers.
“I don’t think you need to be All
Big Eight to be understood,” Cudde
ford said. ‘ ‘The people nearest to me
didn’t have trouble with my transfer
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national championship, instead of
six,seven oreight individual goals.
So instead of being bitter, she
wants to be better. Right now, she’s
trying to get back to where she
was.
“I’m not playing as well as I
want,” Barsness said. “That should
have been expected.”
Should have been.
“It’s harder to come back than I
thought it was going to be,” she
said.
She has to think about all the
little individual movements again,
she said, after she thought she had
them perfected.
‘‘I didn’tthink I’d have to break
down my fundamentals,” she said.
It’s early, though. Once Bareness
can break down her fundamentals
and build them back up, her status
might change. Nebraska has about
30 games left, including one game
Friday and two Saturday in the
Baden-Mizuno Invitational.
Can she be content as a reserve?
She partially answered that. One,
she wants to be belter. Two, she is
putting team goals first.
‘4 Just being on this team is more
than a lot of players could dream
of,” she said.
Bareness could turn out to be
Nebraska's most important player.
If Hall misses time with herchroni
cally ailing back or, heaven forbid,
someone goes down with a knee
injury, Bareness will have to step
in.
Then having a fifth-year senior
who once had 1,121 attacks and
465 kills in a season will be vital.
Or she could spend most of the
season on the sideline. If she doesn’t
get much playing time, then she
won’t be part of too many great
stories, other than the courageous
comeback.
Butas long as she’s a part of one
story that begins, “The Nebraska
Comhuskers won the 1990 NCAA
volleyball championship by defeat
ing ...Linda Bareness doesn’t
mind.
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