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C Chuck Evans 3.4 3.1 F Eric PSatkowski 15.9 6.1
G Chario Davis 13.6 3.9 F Bruce Chubick 8.0 5.8
I ___ G Shamar Brown 5.2 2.4 C Derrick Chandler 9.5 6.8
I ZZ ' G Jamar Johnson 11.0 3.4
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Bruce Chubick and center Derrick Chandler)
has averaged more rebounds than Sacramento
State’s entire starting lineup so far this season.
As lor the backcourt, Nee has decided that
freshman Jaron Boone wil 1 be the regular starter
at the shooting guard position. Boone, who is
averaging 7.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per
game, beat out fellow freshmen Erick Strickland
and Andre Woolridge for the starting nod.
Nee said he was satisfied with his decision.
“It’s Boone’s spot; I’m very pleased with his
play,” he said. “I like him in the starling lineup
and I like Strickland coming off the bench — I
think he comes in and he raises our level, and I
think that’s very important.”
NCAA
Continued from Page 7
grams until 1995 failed, Papik said. Beginning
next year, the number of scholarships will be
reduced to 13.
In addition, a proposal to change a rcstrictcd
camings coach into a full-time coach failed,
Papik said.
“It didn’t pass on the basis of cost contain
ment,” he said.
A final measure decided at the convention
was to push the beginning date of the first game
from Dec. 1 to the first Friday following Thanks
giving, Papik said.
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It was considered by many
to be sort of a non-eventful
convention.
~Papik
assistant athletic director
—-99 ~
Papik said the convention was relatively
tame compared to past years.
“It was considered by many to be sort of a
non-eventful convention,” he said.
Cooper
Continued from Page 7
week I said lhai with Brown’s departure, Jones
probably will leave after he runs up impressive
numbers next year. I even wrote it in a Daily
Nebraskan column. Bob.”
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lo my car al ihc lime.
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knocked my smock off before I could argue
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with him.
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mirror, I saw a no-good, 1952, Bryant “Big
Country” Reeves’ look-a-like, sidcs-shaved,
back-buz/.cd, goldilocks-on-lop hairdo that I
didn’t want anything to do with.
I think I’ll grow my hair out from now on.
And I’ll save my sports clips for thiscolumn.
Cooper is a junior news-editorial major, the Dailj
Nebraskan wire page editor and a sports columnist.
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Nebraska freshman Jason Christie competes on the vault in a meet earlier this
season.
1996 Olympic goal may become
reality for freshman gymnast
By Phil Carter
Staff Reporter_ __
Nebraska gymnast Jason Christie is growing
by leaps and bounds.
And Comhuskcr coach Francis Allen says
that with improvement, Christie may be the
best freshman gymnast in the nation before this
season is over.
Christie, a 1992 graduate of Lincoln High
School, was a 15-time Nebraska stale high
school champion, a five-time Region IV all
around champion and a member of the U.S.
junior national team eight times.
But Christie says there is still plenty of room
to improve.
“I need to get a lot stronger,” Christie said.
“Going from high school and club to college
was a big change, but now I’m on a team with
a lot of talented gymnasts and I need to gel
stronger in order to get better.”
Christie, a highly recruited gymnast after his
senior year, began gymnastics at age seven
after getting the go- ahead from his parents.
“My older sister was in (gymnastics) and my
mom told me and my twin sister that we could
go ahead and try it,” he said. “I tried it and I
really liked it."
It was also the time, Christie said, that
Nebraska gymnastics was beginning to receive
national attention, with All-American Jim
Hartung at center stage.
“(Hartung) was definitely a major influ
ence,” Christie said. “I definitely respect his
gymnastics.”
Allen said that Christie could be the same
type of gymnast that Hartung was and someday
be a member of the Olympic team, which is
Christie’s ultimate goal.
“Undoubtedly, if he slays healthy, it’ll be the
Olympics,” Allen said. “With his academics,
he’ll be up for tfic Nissen Award, which is the
Heisman Trophy of gymnastics.
“(Jason) also has a 3.8 GPA in electrical
engineering, and he was a 4.0 student in high
school,” Allen said. “There’s nothing but good
things.”
As for Christie’s long-term goals at Ne
braska, he would like to win a national cham
pionship during his career and be a member of
the 1996 U.S. Olympic team.
“It’s definitely one of my goals to make the
Olympics,” Christie said. “Right now I have to
get stronger as an all-around gymnast in col
lege.”
For now, Christie has already exceeded the
expectations of Allen halfway through his fresh
man year.
“(Christie) has really responded well this
year,” Allen said. “He’s a legitimate 56 gym
nast. And 56 freshman arc hard to come bv.”
Coaches
Continued from Page 7
Not so, he said.
“It’s hard to say why we’re No. 1 right now,”
Gable said. “Five teams arc all in the hunt for
the top spot.”
“The coaching staffs at Penn State, Ohio
State, Arizona State, Nebraska and Iowa State
probably think they’re the top team in the
nation, he said.
Fritz said his Nittany Lion team is going for
the win this weekend.
“We expect to win it," he said. “It’s going to
be real tough.”
Ortiz said the Iowa StateCyclones would try
to take it one match at a lime.
“We’ re still preparing right now. We have to
be ready to wrestle,” he said. “We have tough
matches right away.”
II both the Cyclones and the Comhuskers
win their first-round matches, they will wrestle
each other in the second round, setting up a
rematch ol their Jan. 6 match, which Iowa Stale
won.
“(The Ncbraska-Iowa Slate match) is still a
lossup. It can go either way,” Ortiz, said. “They
(the Huskers) arc wrestling at home, so I’d think
they d have to be favored in our match.”
Both Gable and Frit/, arc looking to use the
tournament as an evaluation tool.
‘ It’s early enough in the season for us to
make some good evaluations and adjustments
to prepare for the end of the year,” Fritz said.
Gable said the tournament would give his
team a “sense of where they are” right now.
It will be good for all of the teams in
volved, he said.
