Athletes star in
‘School is Cool’
!
By Bernard Vogelsang
Staff writer
Bobby Newcombe will never give
up.
Aftqr a season of injuries, the
Nebraska Comhuskers quarterback
told approximately 13,000 elementary
and middle school students at the
Eighth Annual “School is Cool” Jam
that he was determined to work harder
than ever to play 10 times better next
season.
And similarly, Newcombe told the
students, they should not leave school if
they ever face hardships.
The jam was held Monday morning
in the Bob Devaney Sports Center to
persuade fourth- through eighth-grade
students how important education is.
Students from almost 300 schools lis
tened to speakers and watched artists
like die High Impact Squad, which per
formed spectacular slam dunks.
Lincoln Public Schools, the
University of Nebraska Athletic
Department, Golden Key National
Honor Society and Pi Lambda Theta
sponsored the jam.
Deb Dabbert, a principal at
Hawthorne Elementary School who
helped organize die event, said the NU
athletes and coaches who spoke at the
event were excellent role models.
Although they had met with adversity in
their careers, they stayed focused on
their goals, she said.
With four losses in his first season
as head football coach at Nebraska,
Frank Solich also met with hardships.
He told the students to keep believing in
themselves when things don’t go well.
“You must battle through hard
moments to get where you want to be,”
he said.
Tracy Jensen, a former NU cheer
leader who suffered a spinal cord injury
during a practice in December 1996,
gave an emotional speech about making
choices.
Jensen said that when she was lying
in the hospital, she decided that the only
way to recover from her injury was to
work hard.
Jensen told the students they also
needed to make decisions in their lives.
She encouraged them not to use drugs
or alcohol and to stay in school.
“Knowledge is power,” she said.
“The more you learn, the better your
future will be. The choice is yours.”
NU volleyball player Jaime
Krondak said the students should also
listen to their parents and teachers.
Krondak said although she still
would like to become a rock star, she
now is now working hard to get a job in
die fashion business.
“This summer, I will move to New
York. That is scary. But I will listen to
my parents’ advice because they will
always help me,” she said.
NU yell squad member Shannon
Young said the students must stay moti
vated if they want to achieve something.
“Stay determined because it might
take a long time before you improve
your skills,” he said.
Last year, Young set his consecu
tive-backflip record at 28. To show his
determination, he performed 29 back
flips at Monday’s jam.
After the jam, Derek Wilson, a fifth
grader at Pyrtle Elementary School,
said the High Impact Squad was the best
part of the morning.
Wilson said Solich and
Newcombe’s speeches also taught him
never to give up and believe in himself.
Today, more than 4,000 students
from western Nebraska will attend a
“School is Cool” Jam in North Platte.
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