Three NU
players
make team
From Staff Reports
One day after placing four
players on the All-Big 12 volley
ball team, Nebraska had three
players selected to the AVCA
District 5 volleyball team
Wednesday.
Lisa Reitsma, who was
picked as the conference’s player
of the year Tuesday, joined
sophomore middle blocker
Megan Korver and sophomore
setter Fiona Nepo as Nebraska’s
selections.
Korver was picked as the
league’s newcomer of the year
Tuesday. She transferred to Ne
braska from George Washington
this season. Kate Crnich, who
was an All-Big 12 selection, was
not selected for the team.
Three Cornhuskers earned
all-district honors marking the
eighth consecutive season that
NU has had three players on the
team. Last year Billie Winsett,
Allison Western, Christy Johnson
and Reitsma were District 5 se
lections.
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Wistrom
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All-American
From Staff Reports
Nebraska rush end Grant Wistrom
made the first-team Associated Press
All-America football team. The team
was announced Wednesday.
Wistrom, a junior from Webb City,
Mo., finished a stellar defensive sea
son with 75 tackles—20 for losses—
along with 914 quarterback sacks and
an interception he returned for a touch
down against Michigan State. He also
had two blocked kicks.
Wistrom, who was a third-team All
American last year, was picked as the
Big 12 defensive player of the year by
both the coaches and the media last
week.
Three Comhuskers, center Aaron
Taylor, guard Chris Dishman and rush
end Jared Tomich, made the second
team.
The All-America team has a Big 12
flavor in the backfield with the selec
tion of2,000-yard rushers Troy Davis
and Byron Hanspard. Davis was the
nation’s leading rusher with 2,185
yards and Hanspard finished behind
him rushing for 2,084 yards.
Colorado offensive lineman Chris
Naeole, linebacker Matt Russell, Texas
tight end Pat Fitzgerald and Kansas
State’s Chris Canty were also selected.
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Parrella craves
return to playoffs
By Peter Marhoefer
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Former
Nebraska defensive tackle John
Parrella and his San Diego Charger
teammates
have one
goal on
their
minds:
making
the play
offs.
uur
goal from
the first
day of
Parrella practice
was to
make the playoffs,” Parrella said
Nov. 24 following a 28-14 shellack
ing of Kansas City at Arrowhead
Stadium.
The Chargers’ goal of making
the playoffs might have come crash
ing down after beating the Chiefs.
With two games left in the regular
season, San Diego needs to win its
final two games and hope for some
other teams to lose as well to keep
its goal alive.
In four NFL seasons — three
with the Chargers — Parrella has
achieved many goals other players
can only dream about. He is a
starter, he has played in a Super
Bowl and he is happy.
Parrella became a starter for the
first time this year at defensive
tackle. Now, Parrella is the one to
ask for a substitute, not the one com
ing off the bench.
“We have a rotation system to
. keep us fresh,” Parrella said. “I’m
just happy to be playing.”
One game Parrella sai3 he was
lucky to play in was the 1995 Su
per Bowl, as a substitute in the
Chargers 49-26 loss to San Fran
cisco in Super Bowl XXIV.
Parrella has been playing well
this season in his quest to return to
the playoffs. He has 29 tackles —
24 of those are solo tackles — and
This is one in a series
of stories about
former NU players in
the NFL
two quarterback sacks.
Defensively, the Chargers have
struggled this season ranking 27th
out of 30 NFL teams in total de
fense. In the past two games, New
England and Pittsburgh ripped the
San Diego defense for 61 points. •
Parrella has kept ties to Ne
braska even though his football ca
reer has taken him more than 2,000
miles away.
He and his father run an automo
bile dealership in his hometown of
Grand Island during the off-season.
Through his business, he tries to
give back to the community spon
soring baseball and football clinics.
“I’m trying to do a lot and be
involved through the dealership, but
I want to do more, “ he said. “I want
to let the community know we’re
here to help.”
While playing in the NFL,
Parrella said he still keeps a close
eye on the Nebraska football pro
gram.
“I still talk to (NU Defensive
Coordinator) Charlie McBride,”
Parrella said. “He’s like a father to
me. I love that guy.”
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committed just six turnovers and
outshot UMKC 56 percent to 37 per
cent. For the fifth straight game, Ne
braska made better than 50 percent of
its field goals.
“(At halftime) we just said, 'You
have to take a little pride in it,’ and
personally be responsible (for turn
overs),” Nee said. “That was the key
to the game.
“It’s very hard to win on the road.
I was really pleased that we could come
into Kansas City and control our own
destiny. UMKC is a good scrappy,
solid basketball team.”
But the win did not come without a
lapse in second half.
After a Moore dunk put Nebraska
ahead 44-33 with 15:31 left in the
game, the Kangaroos responded with
a 17-6 run to close the gap to 55-50.
But the Huskers finished the game
with a 9-4 run to win their sixth-straight
same.
Sophomore Tyronn Lue, who is still
battling the flu, was held to seven
points in front of his hometown crowd.
Lue, a graduate of Kansas City’s
Raytown High School, who led Ne
braska averaging 19.7 points per game,
ended his streak of scoring in double
figures at eight games.
Belcher, from Mexico, Mo., also
had a below average scoring night with
just six points — all on dunks in the
first four and a half minutes of the
game.
Nebraska will have a nine-day lay
off for finals before playing No. 18
Minnesota at Bob Devaney Sports
Center Dec. 21.
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he handled himself in the interview,
indeed, he’s ready to make that step.”
Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne and
Athletic Director Bill Byme both gave
Samuel strong recommendations,
Orenduff said. The strongest endorse
ment came from the Aggie football
players.
“I wasn’t in the meeting when he
met with the players,” Orenduff said.
“Basically, what they said is they felt
he would be a player’s coach. They
were impressed with him.”
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