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I understand there are better people than
me,1 just want the team to win”
Kristie Bilecky
NU women’s tennis player
By Jay Saunders
I Staff Reporter
Kristie Bilecky has proven an ath
lete doesn’t have to be in the public
eye to make a huge impact for her
team.
Bilecky, a senior
.on the Nebraska
women’s tennis
team from
Vacaville, Calif.,
transferred to Ne
braska after two
seasons at Cal
State-Sacramento
Junior College.
Bilecky After two years in
Sacramento,
Bilecky knew it was time for a change.
“I was unhappy with the program
there,” Bilecky said. “Tennis is taken
more serious here. I knew it was what
I wanted.”
Bilecky made an instant contribu
tion last year, playing No. 5 and 6
singles and No. 3 doubles. But this
year, a talented freshman Comhusker
class bumped Bilecky out of NU’s ro
tation. Instead of having her ego
bruised by not playing, she has done
everything in her power to help this
year’s young squad.
“I try to make everyone feel re
laxed,” Bilecky said. “I understand
there are better people than me, 1 just
want the team to win.”
NU Coach Scott Jacobson at
tributes a big part of the team’s 15-7
record to the help of Bilecky. Jacobson
said his job is made easier by Bilecky’s
rapport with the rest of the players.
“She has a more powerful impact
on her peers than I can ever have,”
Jacobson said. “She brings a certain
comfort level to the players. She is
truly interested in the people in the
program.”
As an education major, Bilecky
hopes to become a high school teacher
in the future. She said she hopes a lot
of what she does with the younger
players will help her future career.
“When I have something to say,
people usually listen,” Bilecky said.
“I try to let the younger players know
everyone has to go through this.”
Part of the responsibility of being
a teacher is also being a leader. Bilecky
said leaders are people who will say
what they need to say and respect what
others have to say about themselves.
She doesn’t know if she is a leader cm
this year’s team, but Jacobson said he
has no doubt.
“She is truly a leader,” Jacobson
said. “She is accepting of others, non
judgmental and always trying to find
the bright side. We can all aspire to
be a little bit more like Kristie.”
Notes:
The Nebraska women will be the
sixth seed at the Big 12 Conference
tournament which begins Thursday.
NU will play No. 11-seed Iowa State
in the first round. If the Huskers win
they play third-seed Texas A&M in
the second round.
The Nebraska men’s team is the
eighth seed and will play either Baylor
or Texas Tech. If NU wins it will play
Texas, the tournament’s top seed.
NU golf team in fourth
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s golf team
moved up one spot to fourth after the
second round of the Big 12 Tourna
ment in Lawrence, Kan.
The Comhuskers, who shot a sec
ond-round score of 313 Monday for a
two-day total of 624, are 18 strokes
behind leader Texas (606) entering die
tournament’s final round today. Tfexas
A&M is second with a score of 616
and Oklahoma State is third with a
622.
“We had a real shaky start and
didn’t play very well on the front
nine,” NU Coach Robin Krapfl said.
“We’d definitely like to move up to
second and obviously our goal is to
finish as high as we can get.”
Freshman Elizabeth Bahensky,
who was in sixth after the First round,
moved into a three-way tie for third
with a round of 77 on Monday.
Bahensky has a total of 153 for the
tournament. NU’s Hanne Nyquist also
shot a 77 pn Monday and is in sixth
place with a 154. Nyquist ended her
round with a triple-bogey on No. 18.
Texas’ Heather Bowie leads the
tournament with a 139 after Firing a
round of 68 on Monday.
Other Nebraska scores: Rachelle
Tacha is in ninth with a 156; Shirin
Homecker is tied for 43rd with a score
of 165 and Maureen Regan is tied for
51st with a 169.
Beck may leave for ABL
BECK from page 7
changes, that’s what my emphasis is
and what my focus is on. When I’m at
liberty to discuss something, I will.”
Anne Cribbs, ABL vice president
for sponsorship and community devel
opment said the league wasn’t ready
to make a comment. Cribbs said Beck
was one of a number of candidates
interviewed for the opening.
“We would like to name a head
coach soon, but we’re not ready yet,”
said Cribbs who was a part of the in
terviewing process. “I just love her
energy and enthusiasm. I could say
paragraphs about her.”
When Lowrey was fired, ABL of
ficials said they wanted to hire some
one who had more experience work
ing with top-level athletes. Before her
one-year stint at San Jose, Lowrey was
the coach at Division II Threlton State
University in Texas for 20 years.
Cribbs said another positive in
Beck’s favor is her experience coach
ing at the Division-I level. Before ar
riving at NU in 1986, Beck spent three
years each as the coach at Bradley and
Southwest Missouri State.
Gary Cavalli, the ABL’s vice presi
dent for communications and market
ing, was in Seattle Monday night and
unavailable for comment.
However, both Cribbs and Cavalli
have stated publicly that they want to
have a head coach hired before the pre
draft player combines, which begin
Thursday at the University of San
Francisco’s Koret Center.
This past year, NU opened its sea
son with a school-best nine-game win
ning streak and, at one point, was 16
1 and ranked in the Top 25. Along
with that, the Huskers defeated then
No. 9 Iowa, which was the highest
ranked opponent a Beck-coached team
has ever defeated.
However, Nebraska lost eight of its
last 11 games and, despite a 19-9 over
all record, the team was denied an in
vitation to the NCAA Tournament.
In Beck’s 11 seasons, her teams
averaged 17 wins per year and finished
below .500 only three times.
The Lasers finished last season 18
22 with a second-place finish in the
Western Division behind Portland.
San Jose was hampered when start
ing guard and former Stanford player
Jennifer Azzi, who played on the gold
medal-winning U.S. Olympic Basket
ball team, suffered a season-ending
shoulder separation in December.
Other members of the Lasers in
clude former Stanford players Anita
Kaplan, Sonja Henning and Val Whit
ing. Azzi, Henning and Whiting all
played on Stanford’s 1990 national
championship team, while Whiting
was also on the 1992 team that won
the title.
Also on the Lasers’ 10-player ros
ter is former Colorado star Jamillah
Lang.
• Unlike the National Basketball As
sociation, the ABL was organized as a
single entity that owns all the teams and
pays all the players’ salaries. Cavalli
and Gibbs, along with Steve Hams and
Bobby Johnson, organized the league
with the intent to keep the nation’s test
women basketball players playing in the
United States.
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Brown has
experience
BROWN from page 7
“I knew that he was going to be
tested a lot for the simple reason
that he was a freshman,” Nebraska
Defensive Backs Coach George
Darlington said. “But he was the
best player we had at that time at
that position. Quite frankly, he per
formed as well as we could expect
a freshman to perform.”
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound na
tive of Hacienda Heights, Calif.,
broke up 12 passes—second most
in a single season ever at NU —
and returned four interceptions for
83 yards and a touchdown against
Oklahoma, earning him Big 12
Conference Defensive Newcomer
of-the-Year honors.
“I’m glad they picked on me,”
Brown said. “It made me better as
a player and a person. I would make
mistakes but I’d just try harder on
the next play. It helped my confi
dence level a lot.”
Brown carried that newfound
confidence into spring practices,
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Huskers’ lone returning starter in
the secondary. Nebraska’s young
secondary includes only eight play
ers with any NU playing experi
ence, a junior college transfer, and
three recruits — including Joe
Walker, who is already on campus
for spring ball.
“We have a lot of young guys
who don’t have that much experi
ence on the field,” Brown said, “So
that really motivates me to get out
there and work harder.”
Brown’s hard work and leader
ship have been an important factor
in die development of the second
ary this spring, Darlington said.
“We have the potential to have
a very good secondary with younger
players,” Darlington said. “He’s
played a tremendous part in that,
and he’s done a really nice job of
leadership even though he’s only
been on campus for a year.
“You can’t just tell somebody
they have to be a leader if it isn’t
in their nature. He’s talked to kids
like Joe Walker and helped him
with things he obviously doesn’t
know yet. He’s made a real impact,
and we’ve been really pleased with
