Bowler’ in
ByNateOdgaard
Staff Reporter
Though Jen Daugherty doesn’t
know exactly what die future holds in
store for her, traveling is on die junior’s
agenda after her collegiate bowling
career aids at Nebraska.
Daugherty would have an opportu
nity to span die countryside if her life
long dream is fulfilled; that is, compet
ing on the professional bowlers’ tour.
“People have told me they’d be dis
appointed if I didn’t try it,” Daugherty
said of the tour. “(They) tell me I would
fare well.”
For now, though, the 20-year-old
right-hander is focusing on making a
name for herself and the Huskers in the
college ranks, whae she has had her
share of success.
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accomplishments over two years at NU
indicate, Daugherty is one of the
nationh top collegiate bowlers.
Daugherty, fiom Bloomington, 111.,
made an immediate impact at
Nebraska her freshman year. She
helped guide the Husker women to the
NCAA Championships and a runner
up finish. She earned first-team All
American honors, and was also named
honorable mention bowler of the year.
Last year, Daugherty was named
MVP at the NCAA Championships,
which Nebraska won. She was again
named an All-American.
Daughertyfc success has not gone
unnoticed. After a preseason practice
last summer, NU Coach Bill Straub
informed Daugherty that she had
received a full-ride scholarship for the
1997-98 school year, becoming the
first NU collegiate woman bowler to
earn this distinction.
Daugherty and the Huskers are off
to a strong start this year. Nebraska
rolled to the title in theirJirst touma
ond, individually, to teammate Kim
Claus.
Daugherty has the talent and mind
set to achieve stardom, Straub said. But
what impresses Straub most is
Daugherty’s sound demeanor and
enthusiasm on the floor.
“She has a way about her to keep
people from getting too down on them
selves, and she keeps people from get
ting too high. That’s a core quality,”
Straub said.
Teammate Lori Hillman agreed
Daugherty is a strong leader.
“She gets everybody pumped up,”
the sophomore said. “She helps us with
our game if we have difficulty. She
knows what she Is doing.”
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performs well under pressure,” she
said.
Daugherty accepts die leadership
role on the team. She does whatever it
takes to help her teammates relax, she
said.
“I do think they look to me,”
Daugherty said. “You get loud, you get
rowdy, you do stupid things. I like to
goof off - it loosens everybody up.
“That’s important when you’re
bowling at a crucial point in the tourna
ment.”
Though staying loose is a key fac
tor while competing, Daugherty said,
it’s essential to remain focused
throughout a match. Ninety percent of
one ’s mental game, she said.
“In this sport, your mentality has to
be so good,” Daugherty said. “I feel
I’ve excelled mentally.”
Daugherty has also made great
strides physically since becoming a
Husker, she said. She praised Straub
for improving her techniques and
strength.
“Bill exposes you to new aspects of
the game. He’s helped me reach a new
level,” said Daugherty, whose average
stands at 215.
Despite four hours of practice a day
and a schedule that forces her to travel
throughout the school year, Daugherty
has performed well in the classroom, as
welL She holds a 3.0 GPA.
Daugherty offers the complete
package, Straub said
“We’re lucky to have her in the
bowling world,” he said
MU hopes
to hang in
MISSOURI from page 9
win the last three weeks. The Tigers
defeated last season’s Big 12 cham
pion Texas 37-29 on Oct. 18 in
Columbia and then defeated previ
ously unbeaten Oklahoma State 51
50 in double overtime on Oct. 25 in
Stillwater, Okla. Last week, the
Tigers defeated Colorado 41-31 in
Boulder, Colo.
“There’s no doubt about it,’I
Osborne said of Missouri’s victory
over Colorado. “It wasn’t a fluky ^al
where Colorado had a bunch of
turnovers, it wasn’t a case where
Colorado deserved to win the game.
Missouri outplayed them and it real
ly was very physical.”
ine Key to tne ngers success
this season is their junior quarter
back Corby Jones, who leads the
team in rushing with 701 yards and
12 touchdowns, Jones also had com
pleted 52.8 percent of his passes for
1,360 yards this season and eight
touchdowns.
Jones, who was recruited by
Nebraska and played in his first col
lege game against the Huskers in
1995, has impressed Osborne.
“Corby Jones has really matured
as a quarterback, he’s throwing the
ball much better this year,” Osborne
said. “He’s running very well and
knows how to run their offense.” ( |
After the last three wins, the
Tigers are guaranteed their first win
ning season since 1983, which has
made Smith happy.
“You could see the confidence
level each week getting better,” he
said. “The last three weeks, we
played outstanding football. They’re
playing hard, they’re playing together
..•y and they’re fighting for each other.
Our confidence level is very high. If
players believe they have a chance to
do it, they can go out and do it”
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NEBRASKA JUNIOR BOWLER Jen Daugherty looks forward to a professional bowling career after she completes
her college career. For now, however, she leads the Haskers in their first season of NCAA competition.
NU works on ‘jitters’
WOMEN from page 9
we’ve been trying to do,”
Sanderford said. “What was accept
able behavior or play before might
_ not be accept
able now with
a new coach
ing staff
“I know
it’s hard to
change
something
you’ve done
i for a long
yiiitHt, time, so I
RUBIK appreciate
what they’ve
done.”
NU’s rebounding and transition
games rank high on the list of
dungs Sanderford hopes to change.
To improve NU’s presence in
the paint, Sanderford hopes to go
' - with a bigger lineup at times,
using the height of 6-2 freshman
Amanda Cleveland. Juniors Cori
McDill (6-1) and Kate Benson (6
2), who saw little court time last
season, could also become factors
in the on the boards.
Along with rebounding, the
defepive-toKrf^jw^wi^ew
resents an important factor to the
success of Sanderford’s high
scoring, up-tempo system.
“The thing that’s been most
difficult for these players to real
ize is that die best time to attack is
when the other team’s running up
the floor,” Sanderford said.
“They’ve been patterned to get the
rebound, give it to the point guard
right away and set up the offense.”
Senior forward Jami Kubik
said die Huskersmust take better
care of the ball in order for
Sanderford’s system to work.
“At the tempo that Coach
Sanderford wants us to play,
turnovers are going to be an
issue,” Kubik said. “We need to
know when to push it and when to
hold it back.”
Just who will be running the
show for the Huskers at the offen
sive end does not worry
Sanderford. LaToya Doage, NU’s
point guard in 1996, completed her
eligibility. But Sanderford said the
Huskers’ lack of a true point guard
shouldn’t hurt their game plan.
DeForge, Nicole Kubik and
Schwartz will shoulder a great deal
of Nebraska s ball-handling duties.
Howeyer, Schwartz won’t play in
tonight’s preseason game because
of surgery she had Monday.
But in Sanderford’s fast-paced
offensive scheme, the responsibili
ty to fill will often fall to a different
player every time down the court.
Sanderford also wants to see
greater offensive production from
Rogers, Thompson and both
Kubiks, but the load ultimately
falls to DeForge, who led
Nebraska with 17.5 points per
game last season. 1
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ly making an effort to be a leader,”
Sanderford said. “She under
stands the game as well as any kid
I’ve had in my 20 years coaching.
But I think more than anything
else, Anna DeForge has a burning
desire inside of her to finish her
career on an upswing.
“We’re going to win some
games because she can make the
plays down the stretch. I really
believe that”"
Huskers back in contention
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Sunday against either top-seeded
TexasTA&M, No. 4 seed Texas or No.
5 seed Colorado.
If the Big 12 opponents are like
the rest of NU opponents this season,
scoring against the Huskers could be
difficult. NU has scored 72 goals this
season, while only giving up seven,
which is a NU record for the fewest
number of goals allowed in one sea
son.
Senior goalkeeper Rebecca
Hombacher has allowed five goals,
which is a tie for the nation’s lowest
number of goals allowed. Her 0.33
goals against average is third-best in
the nation. NU coach John walker
said Nebraska needs to be at the
same level going into the tournament
as they have been in the last 12
games.
“We want to continue the streak
we’re on,” NU Coach John Walker
said. “The same quality we had
against Duke and Minnesota is
what’s required to beat teams in the
Big 12.”
Walker said what will separate
the winners from the contenders is
~ciefehse. Nebraska’s team defensive
ra&khtf has held a lot of the confer
ence’s best goal scorers in check.
Iowa State’s Jo Hinks, who leads the
conference in scoring, failed to have
a shot on goal in the Huskers’ 7-0
win over the Cyclones. Baylor’s scor
ing duo of Molly Cameron and
Courtney Saunders combined for
only one shot on goal in a 2-1 loss to
Nebraska.
“From now on,” Walker said,
“defense is what’s going to win
games. We are not going to beat any
body 5-0 anymore. We just don’t
wont to give up a soft goal.”
There is a good chance the team
NU faces in the championship could
be No. 4 seed Texas or No. 1 seed
Texas A&M. Uppinghouse said the
team would not be happy with any
thing less than another conference
championship trophy.
“We have to treat this like it is our
season,” Uppinghouse said.
“(Whining the tournament) was one
of the goals we had at the beginning
of the season. The team would be dis
appointed if we didn’t come out with
a repeat”
Team signs Coloradan
By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
The state of Colorado has
produced a lot of soccer talent
over the last couple of years,
which Nebraska has tapped
into.
That tapping has helped to
sign another recruit: Kelly
Rheem, a senior from Littleton,
Colo., has verbally committed
to play for the Huskers next
season. Rheem is a senior and
plays for Arapahoe High School
in Littleton, where she has been
named to the Colorado All-state
team the last three years.
Rheem is hoping she can
live up to the standards set by
another Arapahoe graduate*
Kari Uppinghouse.
“When Kari went there is
when I first knew about
(Nebraska);’ Rheem lg|||MM|
helped in my decisiOTnRimo
bit. I knew how they were doing
because of (Kari).”
Nebraska has two Colorado
players on this year’s roster.! |
Besides Uppinghouse, who fin
ishes her career this seasqnj^
Lindsay Eddleman hails from
Lakewood, Colo.
Rheem will come to
Nebraska as a forward. She has
played with the under-17
United States National Team. r
Rheem’s club team, the
Lakewood Fury, won the West
Regional Championship last
season and earned a birth in the
Final Four.
Rheem said it was important
for her to make her college
choice before her high school
soccer season this spring. She
chose Nebraska after also look
ing at several East Coast
schools including Duke,
Virginia and Vanderbilt.
Rheem said she is impressed
with Nebraska’s program, but a
big part of her decision was NUt f
HHMhn Walker.
“I like John a lot aS| hi
coach,” Rheem-said. “Out of all
the schools, I see myself fitting
in there.”