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Recruits familiar with NU
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
When the Nebraska volleyball
team’s four recruits arrive next fall,
none will need to wear a name tag.
The reason is: Tania Tauke, Katie
Jahnke, Mandy Monson and Kim
Crandall should all be familiar to the
Nebraska players as well as with each
other.
Three of the players have played
with current Comhuskers. Only
Monson has not played with anyone
on the Nebraska team.
But Monson, a 6-foot outside hit
ter from Wallace, has participated in
the Nebraska volleyball summer
camps. She was selected the camp’s
MVP in the summer of 1994.
Monson, who selected Nebraska
over Kansas State, Ohio State and
Clemson, helped Wallace to a state
quarterfinal appearance as a senior.
Playing Class D-2 volleyball, she said
she hadn’t been exposed to the play
that Jahnke and Tauke had.
“All I can say is the level of com
petition might not be as good,”
Monson said, “but there are a lot of
good individuals.”
Tauke is a 6-3 middle blocker from
Abraham Lincoln High School in
Council Bluffs, Iowa. She said her fa
miliarity with the Nebraska program
made it an easy decision to come to
Lincoln.
“I was really close with the play
“A lot of the players already knew me at Nebraska.
At the other places, they wouldn’t even talk to
you”
KATIE'JAHNKE
Nebraska volleyball recruit
ers, and that helped my decision,”
Tauke said. “I played with a lot of the
players over the summer, so playing
with them won’t be new to me.”
Current Husker Renee Saunders
played with Tauke on her club team,
and Tauke said she was good friends
with sophomore Lisa Reitsma. Tauke
also has played with freshmen Jaime
Krondak and Lisa Avery.
Before signing with Nebraska,
Tauke made trips to Colorado and
Iowa State.
To prepare for next season, Tauke
said she was working on fundamen
tals with Gwen Egbert, who played for
the Huskers from 1981-82.
One of Tauke’s club teammates,
Crandall, will walk on at Nebraska.
Tauke said she'was happy that
Crandall, a 5-7 setter from Papillion
LaVista High School, would be fol
lowing her to Lincoln. Crandall has
been die setter on Tauke’s club team
for the past four years.
Jahnke led her West Bend
East High School team to a state
championship with a 49-5 record and
a No. 22 national ranking last year. She
chose Nebraska over Florida, UCLA
and Notre Dame.
“A lot of the players already knew
me at Nebraska, so that was nice,”
Jahnke said. “At the other places, they
wouldn’t even talk to you.”
The 6-foot middle blocker played
on a junior national team with Avery,
Saunders and freshman Fiona Nepo in
Puerto Rico. Another reason she chose
the Huskers was because of Coach
Terry Pettit.
“He had a plan, and he told me ex
actly where he wanted me to be in my
four years at Nebraska,” Jahnke said.
“He was honest, and I appreciated
that.”
Pettit said it was a typical recruit
ing class.
“You won’t know until four years
later how this class compares to oth
ers,” Pettit said.
Grace puts focus on Olympics
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
Richard Grace’s drive to the 1996
Olympic Games almost came to a pre
mature halt last summer.
At the Olympic Festival last July,
Grace, a former Nebraska gymnast,
decided to compete on rings when
another competitor backed out. It was
a decision he said he later regretted.
In that unscheduled routine, Grace
injured the rotator cuff on his left
shoulder.
“We thought he might be done for
good after he hurt his shoulder,” Ne
braska coach Francis Allen said.
But Grace had surgery to repair the
injury, and competed again Feb. 2-3
at the Winter Cup Challenge in Colo
rado Springs, Colo.
Grace said he felt terrible about his
19th-place finish at the challenge, but
Allen said he was pleased that Grace
was able to stay healthy.
“We’re just looking for continued
improvement up to the Olympic Tri
als for him,” Allen said.
Grace won the NCAA all-around
title last year, scoring a 58.325 and
helping the Comhuskers to a runner
up finish at the NCAA Championships
meet.
After competing for the Huskers
from 1991 -95, Grace said he was able
to focus all of his attention cm prepar
ing for the 1996 Summer Olympic
Gaines in Atlanta.
Besides the shoulder injury, Grace
recently has had to deal with another
problem, a divorce. He was married
on Dec. 16, only to separate with his
bride in early January.
“Three weeks ago I was in
shambles,” Grace said. “But I would
come into the gym and take all my
frustrations out here.”
Grace said the support of friends
and family had allowed him to focus
his attention on his Olympic dream.
“He’s back in the grind now,” Allen
said.
A product of the Cahoy gymnas
tics school in Omaha, Grace said he
decided to remain at Nebraska to pre
pare for the Olympics instead of train
ing at the Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs.
“Francis is the best,” he said. “I feel
I have to follow a tradition. I look
around the gym here, and there’s these
great gymnasts everywhere. I need to
keep the tradition alive.”
Grace’s training over the past few
months, he said, has been focused on
maintaining consistency. Even though
he cannot compete in meets with his
former Nebraska teammates, Grace
still works out daily with the Husk
ers.
“Competing instills confidence,” he
said. “It’s like starting over to go out
there and compete.”
The Winter Challenge was a pre
liminary event, but at the USA Cham
pionships on June 7-8, only the'top
14 gymnasts will advance. From there,
the top six and one alternate will be
chosen few the Olympic team at the
Olympic Trials in Boston.
“The Olympic Trials are brutal,”
Allen said. “But if he can get healthy
and clean up on routines, then he’ll
make the Olympic team.”
The competition at the Olympic
Trials, Allen and Grace said, will be
at a much higher level than the NCAA
Championships.
An All-American as a sophomore,
junior and senior, Grace co-holds the
school record on floor exercise with a
9.90. One reason he said he hoped to
make the Olympic team was to bring
more attention to the integrity of Allen
and the quality of the Nebraska gym
nastics program.
Big 8
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felt we were going to check it in.”
Oklahoma lost four straight confer
ence games from Jan. 15 to Jan. 27.
The Sooners have turned things around
recently, winning their last three Big
Eight games.
“I can’t say enough about the char
acter of our guys,” Oklahoma coach
Kelvin Sampson said.
Missouri also struggled this year,
losing four of five before rebounding
with home victories over Nebraska and
Kansas last week. Tiger coach Norm
Stewart said he was proud of his team’s
character. Missouri is 13-0 at home this
year.
“We’ve always had good people.
When we have adversity we come
closer together,” Stewart said.
Colorado, which is tied with Okla
homa State for last place in the league
at 2-6, is showing signs of life, having Saturday and a 1-point win at Kansas
won three of its last four, including an State on Feb. 7. The Buffaloes arc 3-3
84-55 win over Missouri-Kansas City under interim coach Ricardo Patton.
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