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Four wrestlers make Bia Eiaht team
Nebraska placed four first-team
selections on the Phillips 66 Aca
demic AU-Big Eight wrestling team.
Jason Kelber, ranked No. 2 in
the 126-pound weight class, made
the first team for the third straight
year. Layne Billings, John Buxton
and Dave Dnoegemueller also made
the first team, while Chris Nelson
and Wall Wunder received honor
able mention.
Track athletes get last chance to qualify
Nebraska will send nine ath
letes to two different track and
field meets this weekend for one
final crack at qualifying for the
NCAA championships, March 8-9
in Indianapolis.
The women’s 1,600-meter re
lay team, consisting of Ximena
Restrepo, Shanelle Porter, Tran
quil Wilson and Kim Walker, will
compete in the Florida Last Chance
Qualifier Meet in Gainesville, Fla.
Lisa Graham (800), Meredy
Porter (high jump), Fran ten Bensel
(mile), Rick Schwieger (55-hurdles)
and Phouphet Singbandith (triple
jump) will compete at the Iowa
State Last Chance Qualifier.
— John Gardner
NU gymnasts rev up for weekend meet
Nebraska women s gymnastics
coach Rick Walton said his team is
looking to break 187 points for the
first time this season in a triangular
meet with Missouri and Iowa State
today in Ames. Iowa.
He said the Comhuskers are close
to where they should be but still
need to be more consistent, espe
cially on the balance beam. Four of
Nebraska’s six beam gymnasts fell
last Sunday and the team only had
three scores above 9.0.
— Erik Unger
The Nebraska men’s gymnas
tics team will be a little more ex
cited about this weekend’s UCLA
Invite than their coach.
Allen said he considers the Big
Eight championships more com -
petitive, even though this six-team
meet — including UCLA, Minne
sota, New Mexico, Arizona State
and Illinois — receives all the
publicity.
— Todd Cooper
Team faces
tough lineup
By Jeff Singer
Staff Reporter
Nebraska men’s tennis coach Kerry
McDermott is concerned with the
Comhuskers having to play Creighton
tonight at 6, then having to come back
to face Wichita State at 9 a.m. Satur
day.
Both matches will be held at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
McDermott said the Shockers will
give his squad a better match, so he is
going to let his reserves play doubles
against Creighton. For example, David
Moyer, not pan of the regular doubles
lineup, will team with Scott Ran
dolph at No. 1 doubles against
Creighton.
McDermott said he places more
importance on the match against
Wichita State, since a win over the
Shockers would be important for
Nebraska hopes of reaching the NCAA
championships.
The Huskers defeated the teams
last year, winning 7-2at Wichita State
and beating Creighton 8-1 in Lincoln.
Saturday’sduel will be Nebraska’s
last at home until April 13, when the
Huskers battle Big Eight rival Mis
souri.
Aarsen
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for us to goof off and when not to and
that helps us get better as team.”
Buchholz says she’s glad Aarsen
is around because she takes pressure
off the freshmen.
“Amy’s awesome,” Buchholz said.
“She’s so experienced and dedicated
to the sport — replacing her will be
quite a job.
“She’s my idol and someone I’ve
modeled myself after ever since I met
her.”
Allen said Aarsen wants to help
whenever possible.
“I really never had a coach in
diving, but when I came here l had
two — Jim and Amy,” Allen said.
“Amy made me feel part of the team
and part of the university.”
* * *
Aarsen can tell The Kids about all
the things that can happen to an ath
lete in four years. Her senior success
for the Huskers almost didn’t happen
because of injuries; it almost was
postponed, and it almost didn’t hap
pen here.
After Aarsen’s sophomore year,
then-coach Jeff Huber decided to leave
Nebraska. Aarsen started thinking
about transferring.
She decided to stay, though, and
doesn’t regret the decision.
“I felt more comfortable around
Jim after he arrived on campus, and
he seemed to take a lot of pressure off
me," Aarsen said.
The three-time All-American also
has battled injuries, but has fought
through them, another thing Hocking
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said is good for a role model.
“Sucking it up showed the new
comers what a tremendous work ethic
she has,” Hocking said.
Then, this fall, Hocking and Aarsen
talked about having her sit out as a
redshirt so she could work on harder
dives off the 3-meter board.
But talk of redshirting became just
talk after the team was hit by injuries
and illnesses. Savage came down with
mononucleosis, Allen was perform
ing inconsistently and a fourth fresh
man, Heather Morten sen, was injured,
so Aarsen went ahead and used up her
final year.
* * *
Aarsen still will be around next
year, though. Tlie things she has learned
as a diver should come in handy next
year as she joins the Husker coaching
staff.
Aarsen will become a graduate
assistant coach as she completes her
degree in criminal justice.
“I’m looking forward to next year,
and it should be a different challenge
for me,” Aarsen said.
Hocking is excited about having
his star diver help him.
Amy will be a valuable asset as a
graduate assistant coach,” Hocking
said. “She has great understanding of
the mechanics involved and is an
intelligent person.”
And The Kids are glad she’ll be
reluming.
“She’ll be helpful as a coach, but
missed as diver because of every
thing she’s done,” Buchholz said. “It
will take time to get used to."
Savage said that Amy’s coaching
ability should help and, even though
she won’t be diving, she’ll still be
around to help with the rough spots.
“We’ll appreciate her as a coach,”
Allen said. “Because you never have
enough coaches.”
Along with her coaching duties
next year, Aarsen will continue to
dive in preparation for the Senior
Nationals, one step away from the
Olympics.
In order to qualify for the Olym
pics as a diver, one must place in the
top eight at the Senior Nationals twice,
a goal Aarsen said isn’t out of the
question.
“My ultimate goal as a diver is to
make the Olympics in 1992,” Aarsen
said.
Aarsen will complete her Nebraska
career with some high marks. She’s a
three-time All-American, three-time
Big Eight champion and two-time
academic All-Big Eight performer,
with the 1991 conference and na
tional championships still coming.
“When I came to college I had no
expectations and now I’m leaving as
an All-American, so my career has
been very solid and productive,”
Aarsen said. “It feels as if it went so
fast— it seems like only yesterday I
dove in my first duel meet.”
Which brings us back to the person
who called her “Grandma.”
“We’ve seen what she’s accom
plished and it inspires us to accom
plish the same things,” Savage said.
Beck
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“(Carol) Russell’s really been play
ing well lately,” Beck said. “She’s
making good passes.”
That is important to take pressure
off freshman point guard Meggan
Yedsena, Beck said. Yedsena was
tabbed as conference newcomer of
the year this week.
Kansas is led by guard Stacy Truitt
and forward Terrilyn Johnson with
10.1 ppg apiece. Johnson leads the
eague with 9.6 rpg.
Losing to the Sooners may have
benefited Nebraska in another way,
Beck said.
If the Huskers had beaten Okla
homa, they would have won second
place outright. As the second seed,
Nebraska would have faced the Soon
ers for the third time this season in the
first round of the tournament.
“If we would have beaten Okla
homa and had to play them again,”
she said, “we might have let up.”
Wrestlers
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son.”
Nebraska’s Jason Kelber is a likely
champion this season at 126. Kelber
is 27-2 and ranked second in the na
tion.
“He’s focused, healthy and hun
gry,” Neumann said. “He came close
last year, so he knows what he needs
to do.”
Last year, Nebraska’s second-place
Big Eight finish was its best since
1950 and broke a string of six fourth
place finishes.
Neumann said the Huskers need to
wrestle extremely well to win the
conference title.
“For us to win it, we have to have
everyone wrestle to their seeds and
then a little bit better, and that’s not
impossible,” he said. “This team has
always responded in tough situations,
and the Big Eight meet is never easy
for anybody.
“This is the kind of thing they look
forward to.”
Nebraska’s probable lineup:
118 — John Buxton (20-4-1, ranked No. 7)
126 —lason Kelbor (27-2, No 2)
134 — Dave Droegemueller (17-6, No. 11)
142 — Layne Billings (8-5)
150 —Todd Enger (20-12-1)
158 —lamie Penning (5-14)
167 — Tommy Robbins (10-11-5)
177 —Scott Chenoweth (11-3-1)
190 — Chris Nelson (17-3, No. 8)
Hwt. — Sonny Manley (16-8-2)
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Rec Scoreboard
Results from Wednesday's games. Alpha Tau Omega by forfeit over
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Chi Phi C by forfeit
Soccer over Beta Theta Pi.
Fraternity B Residence/Independent A
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 10, Phi Delta Cather 3 1, Roscoe Rowders 0 NU
Theta 0; Acacia 2, Delta Tau Delta 1; Tennis 7, Schramm 8 6; International
Delta Upsilon 1, Lambda Chi Alpha 0; Stars II 8, FCA 0.
Beta Theta Pi B2 4. Chi Phi B 2. Women
Fraternity C Alpha Delta Pi by forfeit over Phi Mu.
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