Mike Kluck
No glamour
needed to be
a role model
Who is your hero?
If you are a male reading this
column you probably would have
said somebody like Michael Jordan,
Joe Montana or Nolan Ryan.
But if you are a female reading
this, and your response follows a
national trend, more than 70 percent
of you would have said somebody
like your mom, grandmother, aunt
or older sister.
When I first heard about who
people look up to - which happened
to be before a WNBA game - the
information really disappointed me.
Not because women in this
country don’t have a sports or
national figure to admire. But
because when I answer that ques
tion, my dad didn’t come to my
mind.
Why must my hero be somebody
who can slam a ball through a hoop
or throw a 50-yard touchdown pass
or a 100-mph fastball?
Why do I look up to people who
have million-dollar contracts, shoe
endorsements and are cheered by
thousands of people every time they
take the court or field of competi
tion?
Is there something wrong with
looking up to a simple man whose
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My father will never have thou
sands of people cheering for him.
The only ones who stand and wait
for him are the 1,400 swine he feeds
every morning. My dad owns a hog
operation and farms about 700
acres.
There is no offseason for him.
His job is a seven-day-a-wjeek, 365
day-a-year employment. He usually
starts his day at 8 a.m., and if he’s
lucky he calls it quits about 7 p.m.
However, depending on the season,
those days can be a lot longer.
There’s no training camp or time
off for a sprained ankle or finger.
He will never see a shoe con
tract, and the only shoes he ever
wears at work are boots - usually
covered in pig crap.
He does all this not for fame or
fortune, but to see that his family,
including me, is taken care of.
■* I was adopted, but that hasn’t,
made a difference in my father’s
eyes. He has always stood by me just
like my two brothers and my sister.
Even though he hasn’t always
agreed with the things I have done,
including the time I quit teaching to
go back to school when I was 28, he
has been there to support me.
I turn 31 Tuesday, and in the near
future I hope to be covering some
body like a Jordan, Montana or
Ryan. But more than anything else, I
hope to try to live up to the standards
that my hero - my father - has set for
me.
Kluck is a journalism gradu
ate student and the Daily
Nebraskan sports editor.
Huskers remain unbeaten
By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
Five Nebraska soccer players
scored goals in a pair of wins this
weekend that
improved the
Cornhuskers’
record to 4-0
and steered the
team in the right
direction. ^
On Sunday
the No. 6
Huskers dis
posed of No. 14
Vanderbilt 2-0
in front of 183
fans on a muggy, 90-degree after
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noon in Nashville, Tenn. The
Huskers were powered by goals
from sophomore Isabelle Momeau
and junior Kim Engesser.
NU senior goalie Rebecca
Hornbacher collected her first
shutout of the year, facing only
three shots the entire game.
On Friday Nebraska defeated
Colorado 5-1 in Boulder, Colo.
Nebraska coach John Walker
said Vanderbilt’s field was narrow
er than the Huskers’ field, giving
the Commodores an advantage. He
said the Commodores played a
defensive game, waiting for
Nebraska to attack the goal and
then counter-attacking. The Husker
defense held the counter-attack in
check for 90 minutes.
“They were tough to break
down,” Walker said. “It was a diffi
cult place to play. They sat on their
end of the field and waited for us to
come at them.”
NU did come at the
Commodores and recorded seven
shots on goal, but the Huskers did
n’t convert on any of their first-half
chances, leaving the scored tied at
zero at the half. The scoring
drought continued for both teams
until Nebraska scored its two goals
in the last 15 minutes of the game.
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l-BACK, Ahman Green fends off a scout team defender Friday during Nebraska’s scrimmage at Memorial
Stadium. Green rushed the ball four times for 29 yards.
Injury knocks out Gibson
■ The redshirt freshman
is expected to miss the
entire season.
ByAntoneOseka
Senior Reporter
For the early part of fall football
camp, injuries riddled the Nebraska I
backs.
Now, the wingbacks are begin
ning to thin.
In a scrimmage on Friday, third
team wingback John Gibson suffered
a season-ending knee injury. Gibson,
a redshirt freshman from Papillion,
tore an anterior cruciate ligament dur
ing an awkward play in which he was
n’t even hit, Coach Tom Osborne
said.
“He was definitely one of our top
two or three receivers,” Osborne said.
“If we lose him for the season, it’s
a significant loss. It’s really a tragic
thing.”
To replace Gibson, Osborne said,
freshman quarterback Bobby
Newcombe and split end Billy
Haafke will begin working at the
wingback position.
“We’re going to have Newcombe
playing a little bit of wingback,”
Osborne said. “He is a quarterback
primarily. I think there’s some things
he can do at wingback that can help
us.” \
Freshman rush end Brandon
Wardyn also tore an ACL and will be
out the remainder of the season.
Even without the injury to
Gibson, the rest Of the offense looked
less than impressive during the scrim
mage, Osborne said.
“The first offense didn’t really
come to play,” Osborne said. “As time
went on, they did a few good things,
but I didn’t feel the focus and the
intensity was what it needed to be.”
The offense did manage some
scoring drives but lacked intensity
over the course of the afternoon.
Freshman Correll Buckhalter led all
rushers with 136 yards on 10 carries
and scored two touchdowns, while
junior I-back Ahman Green carried
four times for 29 yards.
Freshman Dan Alexander and
senior Jay Sims both returned from
injuries to the I-back position, and
freshman fullback Willie Miller
scrimmaged for the f rst time this fall.
The return of these three running
backs gives NU a much-needed shot
in the arm. Miller rushed three times
for 57 yards, while Alexander rushed
five times for 73 yards, including a
70-yard touchdown run. Sims fin
ished with three carries for 39 yards.
“Willie played very well and
seems to be back to old form,”
Osborne said. “He could be a great
player. Dan Alexander is better, and
Jay Sims did reasonably well
although he is not 100 percent. It
helps having those three running
backs return, but DeAngelo Evans
didn’t scrimmage and isn’t ready yet.”
Osborne said he thought the
defense played pretty well, especially
the first team. ' /
In the first five possessions of the
scrimmage, the first-team defense
forced four punts and had an intercep
tion. Sophomore comeiback Jerome
Peterson picked off a Scott Frost pass
on the third drive and returned it 28
yards. ,
Shevin Wiggins returned the first
punt of the day 75 yards for a touch
down.
Morneau’s goal at 75 minutes
came on assists from Jenny Benson
and Kari Uppinghouse. Engesser
added the insurance goal with
seven minutes remaining on a shot
off a Sharolta Nonen pass. The goal
was Engesser’s fourth of the season
and third of the weekend.
“I was much happier with the
quality and intensity of our play,”
Walker said. “We did well up
front.”
The Huskers also struggled in
the first half against Colorado.
For the first time this season,
NU trailed at the half to a CU team
that Walker called “very much
improved” since last year. Donna
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Huskers
expect to
win invite
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
Playing in its backyard for the
first tournament of the season has
given the Nebraska women’s golf
team confidence as the Comhuskers
open their fall schedule at the Chip-N
Club Invitational today and Tuesday
at HiMark Golf Course.
“We’re very confident about how
we are going to play this week,”
Nebraska coach Robin Krapfl said.
“We’ve been playing very well in
practice and putting up good num
bers, so we feel good about our
chances this week.”
Krapfl said NU should be the
favorite going into the tournament
with the main competition coming
from Missouri. Other teams partici
pating in the tournament include
Texas Pan-American, North Texas,
Kansas State, Oral Roberts, Missouri
Kansas City, Briar Cliff and
Creighton.
The teams will play two rounds
today with the final round on Tuesday.
Nebraska enters the tournament
wim virtually uie same imeup n nau
last year, including seniors Shirin
Homecker and Rachelle Tacha and
sophomores Hanne Nyquist and
Elizabeth Bahensky.
Krapfl said Homecker has been
the most consistent performer during
practices and will be the Huskers No.
1 golfer for the tournament.
Following Homecker will be Tacha,
Bahensky, junior Gretchen Doerr, and
Nyquist.
Homecker may be on the verge of
a breakthrough year, Krapfl said.
“She has been really hitting the
ball well lately,” Krapfl said: “If she
can continue to do what she has done
in practice, Shirin is going to have a
big year.”
One change about this year’s tour
nament is that the site has been moved
from Firethom Golf Club to HiMark,
which is known for its quality condi
tioning. HiMark does not present
quite the challenge of Firethom, and
should make for some lower scores,
Krapfl said.
“We should be able to put up some
good scores for early in the season,”
Krapfl said. “HiMark doesn’t bog you
down mentally like Firethom does, so
it should be easier for us to get our
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