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collective bargaining agreement
could roll over into next season, forc
ing any rookie to put his career on
hold
Former NU guard Erick
Strickland who plays for the Dallas
Mavericks, said Lue should stay at
Nebraska, if only because of a possi
ble lockout
“I’m going to be quite honest”
Strickland said. “With the situation
that’s occurring in the league, it
wouldn’t be a good idea for him to
come out now. Uncertainty about
what the collective bargaining agree
ment will be is going to be important
With stuff like that, he could get
caught in a sham deal.”
But a lockout is not among Lue’s
top concerns, he said.
“It’d just give me time to work on
my game,” Lue said
If Lue does declare himself eligi
ble for the draft today, he could
change his mind and stay in college.
But Lue said once he makes a deci
sion, he will not change it
“Whatever it is, I’m sticking with
it,” Lue said. “I’m not going to be
changing my mind after I decide.”
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Softball player’s
heart is in game
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By Darren Ivy
Assignment Reporter
If Nebraska designated hitter
Christie McCoy had only one last
wish, she would choose to be placed
on a softball field.
“It’s like a safety zone,” McCoy
said. “I feel safe when I am there. I
just love it. I can’t wait to get back to
the field to practice. I could do bat
ting practice for hours and hours and
not get tired of it.
“I get this feeling in my heart that
I just can’t explain. It brings out the
best in me.”
McCoy’s love of softball, her
desire to find strengths in people and
her belief in team unity have helped
the Comhuskers (26-8) to their sec
ond-best start in school history.
The senior from San Mateo,
Calif., doubles as a pitcher and a des
ignated hitter. This season as a pitch
er she is 3-0 with a 3.43 eamed-run
average.
But it is her bat that makes her a
real tnreat, said Assistant coacn Lon
Sippel.
“She is able to change the out
come of the game with one swing of
a bat,” Sippel said.
As the designated hitter, McCoy
is second on the team in RBIs (25),
hits (36) and home runs (9) and third
on the team in batting average (.340).
Although McCoy is one of the
top offensive players on team, her
coaches said she brings even more to
the team as a person.
“She has undying enthusiasm for
the game,” Coach Rhonda Revelle
said. “It is infectious. It does a lot to
bring about team chemistry. She’s a
good friend to a lot of people.”
McCoy said she doesn’t go out of
her way to make friends. She said it’s
just her personality.
Her personality and the team’s
philosophy of team unity have
meshed well.
“I believe you can find some
thing special in everybody,” McCoy
said. “Everyone on this team has
unique strengths, and if you take the
time to find those it is going to help
you and them.”
For McCoy, her outgoing person
ality helped her adjust as a transfer in
I get this feeling
in my heart that I
just can’t explain.
It brings out the
best in me.”
Christie McCoy
designated hitter
the fall of 1997 from the College of 1
San Mateo (Calif.).
McCoy chose College of San
Mateo after her SAT score fell short
of the required Division I figure.
She had hoped to attend San Jose
State, but looking back she said she
is glad it worked out the way it did.
“Usually you get a gut feeling
about where you want to go after
high school,” McCoy said. “I didn’t
have that.”
But at junior college, McCoy
said, she matured a lot. When the
time came to transfer, McCoy said,
she looked for a “strong, solid pro
gram, it just nappenea mat Kevene,
who used to coach at San Jose State,
was looking for a pitcher and caught
wind of McCoy.
“We hit it off immediately,”
McCoy said. “I talked 20 minutes on
the phone with Rhonda and then I
went downstairs and told my parents,
‘I am going to Nebraska.’
“When you feel confident in a
coach, you feel confident in the pro
gram.”
Once McCoy arrived in Lincoln
she said she fell in love with every
thing - the school, her teammates,
the complex and the town.
Playing softball since she was 6
years old, McCoy said she has never
been on a team like this year’s squad.
“I’m 23, but it is like we are all
one age,” McCoy said. “We are more
than teammates. We are like sisters. I
would die for any of them.
“Our team has something spe
cial. I think that it is going to carry us
a long way.”
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