Wrestlers’ title
hopes crushed
with disappointing
finish at NCAAs
Matt Miller/DN
NU WRESTLER TEMOER TERRY finished his final season by earning All-American honors for the third time. Terry, one of the
winningest wrestlers in NU history, racked up a 19-2 record last season.
ByLisaVonnahme
Staff Reporter
Nebraska Wrestling Coach Tim
Neumann said this could have been the
year for the Comhuskers to bring home the
national title for the first time in school his
tory.
Instead, NU, which was plagued by
injuries all season, ended its season with a
21st place finish at the NCAA
Championships in Cleveland March 19
21.
“I hate to dwell on it,” NU Coach Tim
Neumann said. “We didn’t meet our
expectations.”
The finish was especially disappoint
ing for the four seniors who led this year’s
team, Neumann said.
Seniors Jeramie Welder, Brad
Canoyer, Temoer Terry and Ryan Tobin
combined for the most wins of any senior
class in NU history.
“I had some great matches during the
year,” Tobin said. “I can’t do much about it
now, but the program will keep getting bet
ter.”
Of the 10 NU wrestlers, seven quali
fied for the national tournament. Tobin and
Terry earned All-America honors for the
third time, finishing fourth and sixth.
Neumann said new weight changes,
men wrestlers, two individual Big 12 titles
and the naming of Tobin as the Student
Athlete of the Year.
Brad Vering (177 pounds) and J.R.
Plienis (heavyweight) were the first pair of
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Canoyer(134 Tobin joined
pounds).
“All three were too small for their
classes,” Neumann said. “Brad Canoyer
was essentially a 126-pounder wrestling at
141.”
While the finish at the national tourna
ment was disappointing for the team,
Neumann said, the 1997-98 season was
highlighted by the emergence of two fresh
Vering as a Big 12 Champion when he won
the title in the 190-pound weight class.
Looking to next year, Neumann said he
hopes to have an “innocent” team.
“By that I mean we have a group of
guys who only know about winning,”
Neumann said. “They’ve won state titles
and national titles. They’re all hungry to
compete.”
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Returning All-Americans
give bowlers bright future
By Sarah Dose
Staff Reporter
With only one returning senior
next fall, there would be reason for
NU Bowling Coach Bill Straub to be
a little nervous.
But he’s not.
After finishing second nationally,
the NU bowling team will return next
season with three All-Americans,
only one of whom is a senior
“We had a good core, a good
squad this season,” Straub said. “The
team that beat us won the national
championship. Our team was good,
but it just worked out that they beat
us.”
The Comhuskers’ three returning
All-Americans include juniors Kim
Claus and Jen Davis. The lone senior
on the team will be Jen Daugherty,
who claimed a second-place individ
ual title at nationals.
Straub said the rest of the squad is
ready to compete, too.
“Two or three other girls are wait
ing with the skill and potential to per
form well,” Straub said. “We have a
good nucleus so our team will be
strong again.”
Not only will key returnees bene
fit the team, but new recruits will also
have their places.
“We just signed the top high
school bowler in the nation,” Straub
said. “Our recruiting is going well.
Diandra might be getting most of the
attention, but we’ve got some other
good ones, too.”
Diandra Hyman, from Dyer, Ind.,
will compete with the Huskers next
season.
Straub said Hyman, Daugherty,
and the rest of his team give him a
positive outlook for the upcoming
season.
“I just can’t be disappointed,” he
said. “If everyone just works hard, we
should be fine.”
