I Si
Nathan McKinney
Archery range
offers release,
fosters champs
Last year was the year of the
national title.
After years of preparation and
focus, the Comhuskers took aim
and hit the bull’s eye for a champi
onship.
But this column isn’t about foot
ball. It’s about archery.
Although I never have been close
to a national title, many archers in
the Lincoln area have made it to
championships.
Archery has been a popular and
highly competitive sport in the Lin
coln area.
In fact, Lincoln has one of the
oldest and largest archery clubs in
the nation—The Prairie Bowmen.
The club was founded in the
1950s and spans more than 30
acres in the southwest comer of
Lincoln.
The archery range at Prairie
Bowmen contains two multi-tar
get courses designed much like
golf courses, except they are in
wooded areas.
Each target is scored depending
on where the arrow hits. During
each shot the archer is faced with
new obstacles, such as shooting
around bushes, up hills or down
from simulated treestands.
Many people picture archers
standing in one place, shooting at
one round target. However, after
finishing a long archery course, a
new picture will be gained of ar
chery as a sport of mental and
physical endurance.
It’s an ancient sport requiring
coordination of muscles, brain and
vision.
Archery is a skill that even seems
to involve a sort of mental telepa
thy guiding an arrow to its target.
Dave Ronono, a Nebraska
graduate and competitive archer,
said archery was' a sport for men
and women alike, with separate
divisions for hunters and target
archers, skilled or novice.
He said becoming nationally
competitive might take some ex
pensive equipment, but the begin
ning archer could get into the sport
for next to nothing.
Ronono said archery was a great
sport for students looking for a
release from the daily grind.
When everything is working
right, school is the furthest thing
from anyone’s mind.
If you would like to learn more
about archery, Prairie Bowmen is
having its annual jamboree Aug.
25 and 26.
If you are interested in compet
ing in any of the events, call Daric
Stadler at 475-2114.
Nebraska football will always
be the biggest sport in town, but if
you’re looking for something to do
on Sundays or another reason to
put off homework, pick up a bow.
McKinney Is aseniorlaw student and a
Daily Nebraskan columnist.
-
By Vince D’Adamo
StaftReporter
When Phil Ellis redshirted as a
freshman in 1991, he just wanted a
chance to play.
He wanted to show players,
coaches, fans and most of all —him
self, that he was one of the best line
backers at Nebraska and in the na
tion.
Now after four years of work, sweat
( and pain, the senior linebacker from
‘ Grand Island is being mentioned
among the elite linebackers in the
1 nation.
Ellis is on the preseason watch list
for the Butkus Award, which goes to
the nation’s top linebacker.
Trev Alberts, now a linebacker for
the Indianapolis Colts, was the last
Nebraska player to earn the Butkus
Award, and linebackers coach Craig
Bohl said Ellis deserved to be men
tioned in the same breath as Alberts.
Although Ellis has been put on the
watch list for the Butkus, he will
continue alternating with teammate
Doug Colman at linebacker.
Ellis said the internal competition
for playing time was one of the main
reasons he had continued to improve
as a player with the Huskers.
“There’s always pressure to per
form, whether I start ahead of Doug,
or he starts ahead of me,” Ellis said.
“But it makes us perform better. Plus
the coaches know that both Doug and
I can get the job done. So it’s a good
situation.”
After being inserted as the starting
middle linebacker for the final five
games, including the Orange Bowl,
Ellis blossomed last season.
He recorded 33 tackles during that
See ELLIS on 12
Nebraska linebacker Phil Ellis tackles wingback Jacques Allen during the Cornhuskers’
second scrimmage of the season on Aug. 17. Ellis has been named to the preseason watch list
for the Butkus Award.
Tourney presents classic matches
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Nebraska volleyball coach Terry
Pettit said the best volleyball might
not be played at the State Farm
NACWAA Volleyball Classic.
But he said the tournament would
be filled with quality athletes doing
extraordinary things.
No. 2 Nebraska opens the season
against Penn State at 7:30 p.m. Fri
day at the NU Coliseum. The Lady
Lions ended Nebraska’s season a year
ago with a 3-1 win in the Mideast
Regional.
No. 1 Stanford plays Cal-State
Northridge at 5 p.m. in the first game
Friday. The winners advance to play
at -7:30 p.m. Saturday with the conso
lation game set for 5 p.m.
Pettit said teams might not be at a
top level.
“These are obviously great
matches, but I would be surprised if
any of the teams come in playing
flawless volleyball,” Pettit said. “It’s
“These are obviously great matches, but I would
be su rprised if any of the teams come in playing
flawless volleyball,”
TERRY PETTIT
Nebraska volleyball coach
the first match of the year, and play
ers are usually geared up and excited
about that.”
Nebraska middle blocker Allison
Weston said she was very excited
about the tournament and playing
Penn State.
Weston said she had thought about
the Penn State loss every day since
Dec. 10.
“I haven’t forgotten about it,”
Weston said. “It’s a rather unpleasant
memory.”
The memory of the 12-15, 15-11,
15-9, 15-8 loss to the Nittany Lions
still lingers, but Weston said the two
matches this weekend would push the
Cornhuskers.
Pettit said the Huskers planned to
use 11 players in the tournament.
Setter Christy Johnson and Weston
should play the entire match. Stacie
Maser and Jen McFadden both shquld
see playing time at middle blocker.
Billie Winsett, Kate Cmich and
Jaime Krondak will be at the outside
hitter position. Lisa Reitsma, Renee
Saunders and Fiona Nepo also should
play.
Maria Hedbeck wi 11 be a defensive
specialist rotating in for Maser or
McFadden in the back row.
Stanford returns four of six start
ers from last year’s 32-1 national
championship team,
A fifth starter, Kristin Folkl, is
touring with the U.S. National team
and will return to the Cardinal in
mid-September.
The Lady Lions return two start
ers, Zeynep Ton and Terri Zemaitis
from last season’s 31 -4 team.
Coach Russ Rose said a different
team would take the court against the
Huskers this year.
^‘In my 17 years at Penn State this
team has the greatest potential for
growth,” Rose said. “We’ve got some
good players, but they are very young.”
Weston said the tournament should
be a measuring stick for the Huskers.
“Obviously we want to play good
and win the tournament, and we want
to tell everyone around the country,
‘We can play with Stanford, we can
play the best, we can be the best’,”
Weston said. “I think we can, but it is
so early in the season that we have a
lot of things to work on.”
By Derek Samson
Senior Reporter "
The quarterback grades from
spring and fall football are in, and
both Tommie Frazier and Brook
Berringer passed with flying colors.
But Frazier flew a little higher.
Coach Tom Osborne announced
after practice Thursday that Frazier
once again would start the season as
Nebraska’s top quarterback.
Osborne said all the grades were
Final after reviewing Films of
Nebraska’s scrimmage Wednesday—
its Final scrimmage before opening
play Thursday at Oklahoma State.
“We told them today during the
meeting, after we watched the films,”
Osborne said. “I think going in (to
Wednesday’s scrimmage) Brook re
alized he was going to need to have a
heck of a day, or Tommie would have
to have an awful bad day because of
the grade to make a significant differ
ence.”
Although the race for the top spot
was tight, quarterbacks coach Turner
Gill said the decision shouldn’t be
controversial. •
“It was fairly close,” Gill said.
“But it was pretty decisive that
Tommie graded out better •*— count
ing both the spring and fall.”
Osborne said the deciding factor
in the grading was consistency.
“Both of them played very well in
spring ball and in fall camp,” Osborne
said. “They are both players you can
win with. But the grading goes into
consistency. What usually figures into
that is turnovers. Brook had three or
four more during scrimmages than
Tommie. So consistency is a big is
sue.
“As far as pass completions and
percentage, it was pretty equal. Men
tal mistakes was pretty equal, with
Tommie having a slight edge. One
thing that did show up is that Frazier
improved his passing a great deal.”
rrazier declined to discuss the
decision with reporters, but Berringer
said he already was looking down the
road.
“My attitude this year is that it is
important that both of us get to play,”
Berringer said. “In my eyes, it’s not
who starts, but it’s who finishes. If I
don’t get to finish, then I’ll be disap
pointed.”
Osborne said Berringer would get
his. chance, beginning sometime in
the first half against Oklahoma State.
“We think Brook has played well
enough, and he deserves the opportu
See QUARTERBACKS on 14