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Shot put duo carries Huskers
By Vince P’Adamo;
Staff Reporter
The shot put has been double
trouble for Nebraska’s opponents this
indoor track season.
Cornhusker shot putters Paulette
Mitchell and Tressa Thompson will
lead their Nebraska teammates into
this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Cham
pionships in Indianapolis, a meet in
which the Huskers are expected to
challenge for the national title.
Trips to the NCAA Championships
have become commonplace for both
Husker throwers. This is Thompson’s
third trip to the NCAA indoor cham
pionship meet. The junior from
Bloomfield placed sixth in the shot put
last year at the outdoor champion
ships.
“Every time I go, it gets sweeter
and sweeter.” Thompson said. “I’m
really looking forward to it.”
Mitchell, a senior from Council
Bluffs, Iowa, is making her fourth ap
pearance at the NCAA Champion
ships. Participating in the NCAA
championship meet has become busi
ness as usual for the five-time All
American. A year ago, she was the
national runner-up in the shot put.
“This year, it was nice because I
qualified at the first meet,” Mitchell
said. “It gave me more time to relax
and perform without the pressure.”
The Huskers won their 33rd con
secutive Big Eight championship last
month. According to Mitchell, that
serves as a motivating factor to per
form well.
“When I see the team performing
well,” Mitchell said, “it makes me feel
like I need to participate”
Nebraska throws coach Mark
Colligan said Thompson and
Mitchell’s achievements were a result
of hard work.
“They’ve done their homework and
are very good at preparing them
selves,” Colligan said. “They’ve been
smart about when to push hard.”
Great athletes are often team lead
ers. Thompson and Mitchell are no
exception.
“To compare it to another sport,
these ladies are give-me-the-ball type
Matt Mlllar/DN
Nebraska throwers Paulette Mitchell (left) and Tressa
Thompson are among the national leaders in the shot put.
They will lead the Husker women* into the NCAA
Championships this weekend in Indianapolis.
of people,” Colligan said, ‘it’s like,
'Hop on board, people. The Paulette
and Tressa train is leaving, and we’ll
carry you as far as you want to go.’”
Both throwers have thrived against
tougher competition. At the Frank
Scvigne Husker Invitational last
month, Thompson eclipsed Mitchell’s
school record in the shot put with a
throw of 57-feet.
“We both want to do well,”
Mitchell said. “So it’s a friendly rivalry
type of thing.”
NU golf team looks
toward NCAA bid
By Antone useka
Staff Reporter
Nebraska women’s golf coach
Robin Krapfl said her team was
right where it should be after its first
meet.
The Cornhuskers placed
_third at the
Texas A&M
Bookstore/
Monica
Welsh Me
morial Golf„
Tournament
on Feb. 26-27
in College
Station,
1 .-1 Texas.
Krapfl Texas
A&M won
the tournament after shooting a 932
for the meet. Southern Methodist
finished second with a 957 while
Nebraska finished three strokes be
hind at 960.
Krapfl said those teams had an
advantage over the Huskers, hav
ing played a tournament before the
Welsh Memorial.
“Those teams improved a lot be
tween the first and second tourna
ment,” Krapfl said.
Krapfl expects that of her team,
too.
“Our big area is the short game
and putting,” Krapfl said. “If we im
prove there, we improve our scor
ing.”
Krapfl said she wanted the
Huskers to average a score of
around 304 per round. To get that
average, she said, everyone must
concentrate for all 18 holes.
“We need to maintain our con
centration the entire four or five
hours that a round lasts,” Krapfl
said.
Nebraska’s going to need that
concentration as it tries to qualify
for a spot in the NC AA tournament
this spring. The Huskers missed the
tournament last year by one stroke.
That was an improvement over
1994 when Nebraska made the
NCAA West Regional for the first
time.
Like last year, Nebraska will
rack up a lot of frequent flier miles
over the course of the spring. The
Huskers do not play host to any
meets and must travel to every tour
nament before the NCAA
Regionals, which are 50 miles away
in Omaha, May 9-11.
Fifteen days after coming back
from the Ben Hogan Invite in Fripp
Island, Fla., the Huskers will travel
to Honolulu to play in the Rainbow
Wahine Invitational.
Nebraska returns to the main
land and wraps up the regular sea
son at the Utah/Dixie Classic on
April 8-9.
Next up on the Huskers’ U.S.
tour will be the Big Eight Champi-#
onships. Nebraska will be close to
home with the tournament in Des
Moines, Iowa, April 22-23.
To qualify for NCAAs, the
Huskers need a good finish at the
regional tournament at the Cham
pions Club golf course in Omaha.
“We can compete with anyone
in the region” Krapfl said. “Okla
homa State is the team to beat, but
we see them three times before
regionals.”
Three seniors will play an im
portant role in defeating the Cow
girls.
Molly Mullin, Heidi ‘Wall and
Michelle Patterson have led Ne
braska to its only two NCAA West
Regional appearances in school his
tory, and Krapfl said she hoped this
year they could make the NCAAs.
“Hopefully, it won’t get too
emotional,” Krapfl said, “I just want
to maintain an even keel.”
Spartans
come under
scrutiny
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) —
Michigan State has received an offi
cial letter of inquiry from the NCAA
about possible rules violations in its
football program.
The case stems from a 17-month
investigation of 68 allegations made
in October 1994 by Roosevelt Wagner,
a player from 1988 to 1991.
Wagner said grades were changed
to preserve eligibility, and boosters
gave players payments of up to $700.
The alleged violations occurred under
former coach George Perles, who was
replaced last season by Nick Saban.
Saban lost to Nebraska 50-10 in his
coaching debut Sept. 9.
In January, Michigan State began
imposing penalties as a result of its
own investigation. The university vol
untarily reduced the number of new
scholarships for this season from 25
to 23, cut campus visits by prospec
tive recruits from 54 to 48 and pro
hibited an assistant coach from recruit
ing.
The letter of inquiry is standard
procedure and doesn’t necessarily
mean the NCAA found potential rules
violations that were missed by Michi
gan State’s own investigation.
Michigan State received the letter
from the NCAA late last week, de
scribing possible rules violations and
asking questions about them, univer
sity vice president Terry Denbow said
Tuesday.
“We take possible violations very
seriously,” Denbow said. “They are
receiving our intense review. We in
tend to defend the university where we
believe we have not violated the
NCAA rules, and we will do the right
thing where there arc violations.”
Contents of the letter will be re
leased to the public after Michigan
State has completed its own investi
gation and learns what action the
NCAA will take, Denbow said.
