Neumann: Kelber
adds missing piece
By Antone Oseka
Senior Reporter
There’s nothing like the feel
ing of coming home to stay, espe
cially if the return comes with a
pay raise and a ehance to win your
first national title as a coach.
Former Nebraska wrestler
Jason Kelber now returns to the
Cornhuskers as an assistant
coach.
Kelber was a lightweight
standout for the Huskers,
wrestling at 126 pounds through
out his career. He was a three
time All-American and a two
time national finalist. In 1991, he
won the national championship at
126 pounds. He ranks third all
time in Nebraska career wins with
123.
Keioer replaces t$raa henritn
as the assistant coach who deals
mostly with the lighter weights.
Coach Tim Neumann calls Kelber
“the piece that was missing.”
Neumann said he and Penrith
didn’t see eye to eye on many
issues but worked together for
seven years. With the addition of
Kelber, someone who came
through the NU program,
Neumann said it felt like the
Huskers took a huge step forward.
“It’s hard to find someone who
is that good of a wrestler who’s
here to coach and not to train,”
Neumann said.
Unlike many coaches, Kelber
has taken his hat out of the
Olympic competition ring to con
centrate solely on coaching. He
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as much clout and a pay raise,
Kelber said.
“It’s all for the team, all for the
wrestlers,” Kelber said. “I’m here ;|
to give them all I have. I’m not
competing, I don’t have the luxu
ry of thinking about myself.”
He does have the luxury of
convincing his wrestlers to think
about themselves. He said one of
the biggest things Nebraska, as a
team, has to work on is mentally
knowing it can win the national
championship.
“No matter wha^your record
is,, the slate is clean,” Kelber said
of how to mentally approach the
NCAA Championships.
“Whether you have no losses or
10 losses, it doesn’t matter. It’s
for the NCAA championship.”
The biggest thing he can add,
ne saia, is constant commence in
each athlete so he can be one of
the best wrestlers in the nation in
1998.
“We’re doing a lot of hard
work, conditioning and mental
imagery*” Kelber said. “‘The
biggest thing isjetting them know
you believe theyxan win it.”
Neumann has already started
that process.
Neumann said he did several
“spastic” things with his team this
summer that proved to them they
can be one of the best teams, if
not the best team, in the country
in 1998. One of those things was a
three-day workout that consisted
of 500 push-ups, running 100 sets
of stairs at Memorial Stadium and
doing 200 chin-ups in less than 30
minutes. Each wrestler completed
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By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
Adapting to a long Nebraska winter, which includes
snow, below-zero wind chill/acto’rsand bitter-cold tem
peratures, can take a toll On anyone - especially someone
used to the sunny beaches of California.
Jenny Benson, who played high school soccer for
Marina High in Huntington Beach, Calif., has not only
had to adjust to Nebraska Winters but college soccer as
well.
The sophomore midfielder/striker came to Nebraska
looking for a big college experience. Benson said she has
found that and much more in Lincoln.
“I love Nebraska,” Benson said. “It is teaching me a
lot about parts of the country I’ve never seen before.”
Benson was a member of a freshmen recruiting class
expected to make an immediate impact on a young
Husker team. Benson didn’t know what to expect from
Division I soccer, she said. .
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one season, Benson became Nebraska’s sixth all-time
leading scorer. Her 13 assists, which led the Big 12 coik
ference, and 11 goals helped the Huskers earn national
attention with a 23-1 record and a No. 6 ranking.
“No matter what, you can’t win in soccer without the
other 10 people on the field,” Benson said. “Our whole
team gets along amazingly well.”
This season, Benson had an extra incentive to come to
fall training camp. Junior Kim Engesser, with whom
Benson had played soccer almost her entire life, trans
ferred from Portland, Ore., to Nebraska.
Benson and Engesser, along with junior Sandy Smith,
give the Huskers a strong Huntington Beach trio.
“I came out of training camp to. help the team get as
far as we can;” Benson said. ‘T was even more excited to
come back and start playing with (Engesser) again.*'- ... '•
The excitement seems to be leading to good things on
the field. Benson has scored four goals, and has a team
high six assists in 13 games this season, and Engesser
leads the Big 12 Conference with 13 goals.
In the last six games, Benson has often put the
Huskers on the scoreboard by either dishing off to one of
her teammates for an assist or scoring herself. Three of
her goals and four of her assists have come during NU’s
recent homestand.
“This year, I’m a little more confident with myself,”
Benson said. “I know I have to be ready to play.”
Nebraska coach John Walker said Benson is good in
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six assists this season.
one-on-one situations and crosses the ball very well.
“That is the level that she is capable of playing at,”
Walker said. “She is someone.who we like to have the
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Benson said she feels comfortable handling the ball.
Ever since she started playing soccer in grade school, foot
skills have been stressed as an important part of her game,
she saicl. '
Benson may have to, refe* on her foot skills to carry her
throughout the next month of the season. Seasons are
starting to change in the Comhusker State, and soon the
temperatures will start to drop. In Huntington Beach, soc
cer games are usually only canceled because of rain.
Rain could be a best-case scenario for Benson, who is
preparing for her second Nebraska winter.
“Last year was the first time I had played in cold
weather,” Benson said. “The one negative of this place is
how cold it gets. It is tough, but you learn to fight through
it.”
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ball for 274 yards.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne also
said Frost had improved his running
game. V ^
“He is running now like an I-back,”
Osborne said. ; ~
But a run-them-over ground attack
is what Husker football is all about;
Frost said.
“I think you have to be aggressive
here,” Frost said. “Coach Osborne will
get on us if we run out of bounds. That’s
part of playing the game here. It’s a lit
tle more physical style of football -
ife.
especially at quarterback - but it’s a lot
of fun that way.”
Now that Green is healthy, he said
he is having more fun on the playing
field this season. But injury wasn’t the
only thing that hindered him last year.
After hitting the weight room two
summers ago, Green was running hear
222 pounds jiis sophomore season -
stronger, but bigger. Green has since
dropped down to about 208, Osborne
said.
The weight loss, Green said, helped
his agility.
“I’m a little bit quicker,” Green
said. *T ban make certain moves that I
couldn’t make last year. I just basically
don’t get as tired as I did last year.”
Green averaged 5.9 yards per carry
last season - down from the 7.7 he
averaged as a freshman. Now, coming
off of the foyr best consecutive games
of his career, Green may be playing his
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best ever.
“I think he’s playing every bit as
well, if not better, than his freshman
year,” Osborne said. “Freshman year,
he didn’t have time to think about it.
Now he knows he has to carry quite a
bit of the load.”
With a 193-yard performance
against Kansas State Saturday, Green
moved from 20th to eighth among
NCAA Division-I rushers, averaging
133.3 yards and pacing the NU attack,
which leads the nation with a 399.8
yards-per-game average.
But Green shuns Heisman Trophy
talk.
“I’m glad that they consider me for
that,” Green said. “But I can’t focus on
that. I have to focus on putting my team
in a spot to win the game, running the
ball hard, and practicing hard day in
and day out.”
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