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By Sarah Dose
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s swimming
and diving team finished fourth at
Friday’s Big 12 Relay Meet. But
Comhusker Coach Cal Bentz doesn’t
think either the men’s or women’s
team had an unsuccessful weekend,
mainly because of a few outstanding
individual performances at
Saturday’s nonscored Big 12
Invitational.
“Everybody is still getting pre
pared,” Bentz said. “You have to
invest a lot of time to have a top per
formance this early in the season.
With the training we’ve been doing,
we’re in a good place. I’m just glad
the season is under way.”
Bentz said he thought last week’s
preparations were extensive, but the
team will look back on its perfor
mance and be happy. He also said he
was happy with some of the individ
ual performances of team members,
including 100-meter butterfly swim
mer Adam Pine and diver Amanda
Zins.
Pine, a sophomore All-American
from Australia, won the 100-yard
butterfly Saturday with a time of
48.20 seconds, fast enough to qualify
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I was really nervous, and I didn’t know
what to expect. But I ended up beating
people I’d never beaten before.”
Amanda Zins
Nebraska diver
him for the NCAA Championships.
He currently holds the Nebraska
record in that event with a time of
46.40 seconds, which is also the
fourth fastest time in collegiate histo
ry
“To be that close at the first meet
of the season is great,” Pine said.
“That’s going to help me down the
road. The faster you start, the faster
you finish.”
Pine will travel with part of the
Huskers to the U.S. National Team
Invitational. He said he’s looking for
ward to his trip.
“It will be a good opportunity,” he
said. “But I want to take the season
day by day.”
Bentz also had good production
from Zins, a freshman diver. Zins, a
graduate of Lincoln East, won the 1
meter springboard competition and
took fourth in the 3-meter competi
tion.
With one meet under her belt, she
said she feels more confident for the
rest of the season.
“I was excited when I won,” she
said. “I didn’t think I was going to do
that well. I was really nervous, and I
didn’t know what to expect, but I
ended up beating people I’d never
beaten before.”
Zins’ goals for the rest of the sea
son haven’t changed, though. She
said now she now feels more confi
dent that she will be able to accom
plish them.
“I think training harder made me
better,” she said. “I feel so much more
confident for this week. I guess it’s
kind of weird now. I’m not just com
peting for myself, but for the whole
team.”
Volleyball team
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I always apologized when it hap
pened.”
While in high school,
Meendering relied on sheer power.
Now playing at a higher level, Pettit
said, Meendering sometimes strug
gles to find the right technique when
attacking.
“She doesn’t always know where
it’s going,” Pettit said, “and we don’t
always know where it’s going. The
opponents don’t always know where
it’s going.”
Meendering recognizes her
weaknesses, and sees two opportuni
ties to eliminate many of her hitting
errors this week when the Huskers
face Colorado and Oklahoma on
Saturday in Lincoln. The Sooners
also defeated the Huskers three
weeks ago.
The Buffaloes enter tonight’s
match losers of three straight league
contests, dropping matches to ninth
ranked Texas, No. 15 Texas A&M,
and Texas Tech. Junior outside hitter
Sarah Lodge leads CU offensively
with 4.6 kills per game.
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“The thing about Sarah Lodge is
that she hits the ball hard, she hits the
ball high, and she doesn’t error very
much,” Pettit said.
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leyball, it’s because someone is
erroring, and she doesn’t do that. It
has to come from somewhere else on
that team.”
Meendering said the Huskers
have something to prove against the
two teams that defeated NU three
weeks ago.
“We have to show these teams
that we’re coming back,”
Meendering said. “We’re playing on
a higher level now, and we need to
say, ‘Hey we’re back, and you have to
reckon with us now.’”
Notes:
Nebraska’s match with Texas
Tech has been rescheduled for Nov.
11 at the NU Coliseum. The match,
originally scheduled for last
Saturday, was postponed because of
the bad weather conditions.
Pettit said outside hitter Jaime
Krondak, who injured her back three
weeks ago, will continue to play
sparingly. “Jaime’s progress has
been up and down, and we expect it
to be that way for the rest of the sea
son,” Pettit said.
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year.
“It’s not like they are getting sub
par athletes,” Peter said. “They are
getting All-American recruits.”
Kelsay said die Sooners have a
lot of great athletes, but just haven’t
been able to put it all together. He
said their athletic ability worries
him.
“Any time you have great ath
letes, they have die ability to put it
together,” Kelsay said. “If they put it
together, it could be abatde.”
Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne
said he doesn’t have much time to
think about the past and hasn t got
ten caught up in the sentimental
value of this year’s game. But there
have been some pretty significant
games played between NU and OU
in the past 35 years, he said.
“In that aspect, I am sad to see it
go,” Osborne said.
This NU-OU game is ironic for
Osborne, because he will be going
for his 250* win against a team that
has given him 14 of his 49 losses.
UI think it would be a great way
for him to get it since they have been
such a rival,” Frost said. “I think it
would be very special for him, and
he would realty remember it”
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