Captains aim for top 101
By Vicki Burge
Staff Reporter
The three Nebraska men’s swimming team
co-captains agreed that a top-10 ranking at the
NCAA championships is a top priority.
Seniors Sean Larson and Ryan Bell, and
sophomore Doug Garland were chosen to lead
the men’s swimming team this year, and all
three are planning ahead for NCAA competi
tion in March.
Although this is a young team, with almost
half the squad being freshmen and sophomores,
Nebraska also is aiming to develop a racing
mind in a bid to capture a 12th straight Big
Eight title.
“The relays arc going to be a big part of our
competition this year,” Bell said. “We finished
fourth last year at the NCAA finals, but I think
we can be second place or better this year.
Other (teams) may laugh at that but 1 think our
team is capable.”
Personally Bell hopes to qualify nationally
in the 200-, 500- and 100-yard freestyle events,
and the 100-yard butterfly.
It is an honor to represent the team as
captain, he said.
“The guys respect you,” the senior from
Calgary, Alberta,Canada, said. “It means they
trust you and have confidence in you and your
performance.”
Though there are a few exceptional swim
mers on the team who may do well individu
ally, Bell said it still is a team sport. He added
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up their attacks, Cook said, led by outside
hitters Janice Ninemircand Dana Frcrkcr,
who had nine and seven kills, respectively.
He said Iowa Slate setter Lisa Burke
recorded four kills with a strategy Ne
braska hasn’t seen recently, dumping sets
from the back row into the middle of the
Husker defense.
But, Cook said, the Huskers never
11 inched.
“I just think our composure is really
show ing, with a lot of confidence together,”
he said. "We were like a boxer, taking
their best shots and wailing for the knock
out blow.”
Cook said Hall, Filecn Shannon and
Nikki Strieker played very w ell in deliver
ing that Imal punch. Shannon had seven
kills and Strieker had six. Nebraska com
piled a .}(X) hitting percentage and held
Iowa State to a .020 mark.
Cook said the Huskers had 12 serving
errors, all in the second and third games,
leading to the closeness of those games.
that leadership comes naturally with most of
the team members.
Larson, from Omaha, secs himself as a
middle man between the other swimmers and
the coaches. He said that usually those swim
mers who arc experiencing problems are more
likely to come to him first rather than the
coaches.
“I know what’s going on and I can sec and
work with the changes to be made,” he said.
He also considers himself in charge of enter
tainment.
, “When you swim five hours a day, it gels
boring,” he said. “You have to keep it fun. Just
a lighthearted atmosphere helps it from being
too serious.”
Bel 1 and Larson arc the only four-year sw im -
mers on the team and thus were likely candi
dates for captain. Garland, however, said he
still is unsure how he was chosen. The Houston
native said he hopes to be consistent in his
events and lead by example.
Bell and Larson both said this is the most
balanced team they have been on at Nebraska.
And while this is his final year, Bell wants to
instill a sense of long-term planning among the
younger swimmers.
“(At) Texas they do a lot of redshirting and
no one knows the swimmers until they arc
juniors or seniors and suddenly they have na
tional contenders,” he said. “I’d like to sec us
setting our sights two or three years down the
road.”
Men s and women’s teams
win bowling tournament
From Staff Reports
Both the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
men s and women’s bow ling teams were victo
rious this weekend at the five-team Midstatcs
Collegiate Bowling Tournament in Kansas City,
Mo.
UNL won the women's division by defeat
ing West Texas State in the final match 989
929. Wichita State was third, Illinois State
fourth and Colorado State fifth. It was the UNL
women’s first team victory this season.
Kim Berkc led UNL w ith a 204 average in
13 games. She also won the singles portion of
the tournament with a 645 series.
The UNL men overcame a 191-pin deficit to
defeat Wichita State in the final match. UNL
claimed a 1,110-1,014 win in that match, and
received a 100 point bonus to claim the title by
five pins.
Paul Fleming led UNL w ith a 212 average,
teammate Tom Krct/lcr averaged 211. Flem
ing also had the tournament's high game of
300, w hile Kret/ler won the singles event with
a 712 scries. L
Tyrone Byrd splashes Colorado running back Eric Bieniemy to the
AstroTurf during last Saturday’s 27-12 loss to the Buffaloes. Pat Ty ranee
(40) and Reggie Cooper are closing in to assist.
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who has a bruised ankle and sprained loc,
and wingback Nalc Turner who has a groin
injury. Both missed most of Saturday’s second
half as well as practice Monday.
Free safely Tyronc Byrd who has a shoul
der injury and backup strong safety Curtis
Colton who has a pulled muscle should be
available to play against Kansas.
Strong safety Reggie Cooper, who re
peatedly has been bothered by a pulled
hamstring, has missed practice. Last week
the senior was announced oneol 15 semili
nalisis for the Thorpe Award, presented an
nually to the nation’s top defensive back. It
is the second straight lime he has been
named a Thorpe scmifinalist.
Osborne said freshman I-back Derek
Brown, who separated his shoulder against
Iowa Suite, will miss this Saturday’s game,
but upped his status to possible for the Nov.
23 game at Oklahoma.
Osborne said the Huskers have a good
team, despite their loss to Colorado and
subsequent plunge in the polls.
“That’s something the players need to
hear loo,” he said.
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lion as a whole, not just art, is his
priority.
Cotton picked the sport.
“I enjoy football more," he said.
“Well, game day 1 like football more
— practice gets kind of boring."
Colton, whose newfound love is
sculpture, said he has tried to use the
emotions f rom a game in a painting.
“When 1 do that it gets kind ol
abstract,” he said, “there arc a lot of
colors, a lot of things going on. I don’t
really like it.”
Walker said he has alw a> s tried —
mentally at least — to keep “football
time” and “art time” separate.
Croel said he has difficulty keep
ing the game out of m ind during class,
but does not let one passion mix with
another on his palette.
“I keep football super far away
from my art,” he said, saying he
wouldn’t know how to mix the two.
These men who so easily toss around
men of their own size adm ittedly have
walked away from their art work in
frustration. All three agree art is more
difficult than football.
Walker is shy about his work. Even
now, when he has been interviewed
by the likes of Sports Illustrated and
The New York Times for his football
skills, he stays private about his art.
“I 'm my worst critic,” he said. “It
doesn't mauer what the professor gives
me, 1 grade myself. Sometimes I think
it should be lower. 1 ask my profes
sors to give me a little harder chal
lenge.”
Most understand, he said, though
they usually don’t like his habit of
sending finished work to the trash
can.
“I look back at things I’ve done
and don’t like it,” he said. “I’d rather
do it again. I'm supposed to have a
portfolio but I goof up so often I
throw most things away.”
But Crocl said compliments moti
vate him. Attention also attracts Col
ton, who last year sported a tall, spiked
“high top” hair cut with his name
shaved in back. This year he changed
to a more regular cut with a blonde
streak.
To Cotton, being an individual is
important. It’s not so much being
different as being himself, he said,
and art is part of that.
A down-to-earth part; Colton
doesn’t go for modern art at all.
"I like realistic,” he said, then \h(x>k
his head, “Mike likes that abstract
stuff.”
Crocl agreed.
“I’m a cra/y person, I stick with
the abstract,” he said. “Fora lot of my
work. I’ll lake two or three things I
like and blend them together.”
Crocl said his paintings arc in
demand from his teammates.
“Everybody wants me u> make some
kind of w all piece so they can put it in
their house and cover up their slams,”
he said, adding that he may hold an
art show of his work ai the end of the
season.
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Crocl said he often draws cartoons
of players.
An example, he said, was the day
sophomore Vernon Powell was greeted
by a picture of himself in the locker
room depicting the time he collided
with a goal post in practice.
Another time, outside linebackers
coach Tony Samuel walked into an
afternoon meeting last year to find a
caricature of himself in a dress on the
chalkboard.
“I think I lust laughed,” Samuel
said, trying to remember his reaction.
“It was very good. The face, the eyes,
looked just like mine.”
Samuel spun to face the possible
culprits among the laughing football
players.
“That was when Kenny was an
outside linebacker, too. It had to be
him or Mike, they were our resident
artists,” he said.
Samuel fingered Croel, known for
his practical jokes (on the day of the
interview, Croel proudly announced
that he had pul Vaseline inside Cot
ton’s chin strap).
“Every time something happens
— no matter w hat it is, if people get a
joke played on them, they’re going
blame me first,” Croel said, shaking
his head. “They just assume that I did
it, no questions asked.”
Walker recalled the caricature of
the Samuel incident well. Why?
Walker smiled.
“He picked the wrong one.”
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