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IT WAS A RETURN to the NCAA Championships for the Nebraska’s men gym
nastics team, as the Huskers finished third overall.
Gymnastics team
treasures memories
By John Gaskins
Staff writer
When the Big Red faithful look
back on the 1999 Nebraska gymnas
tics teams’ seasons, scores of memo
ries will flash through their mind.
There was the night the lights
went out in Lincoln - April 22, when
Jason Hardabura, the 23-year-old
sophomore sensation from Ontario,
flew through the air off the high bar
and touched down to a barrage of
home-arena roars as he became only
the second NU gymnast to win the
national championship in the individ
ual all-around as a sophomore.
There was the night the lights
went out in Columbia, Mo. - March
27, when the NU women strung
together the most dominant and high
est-scoring performance in the history
of the program to ensure sixth-year
coach Dan Kendig his sixth consecu
tive Big 12 Conference
Championship.
There were plenty other memories
. the teams will be proud of for years to
come, considering the fact that with
the exception of the 1990 seasoi^
(when the men captured that nation®
title and the women finished fifth) no
two NU gym teams made such suc
cessful runs in the same season.
me memories ail came to an end
the weekend of both teams’ NCAA
Championship competitions in
Lincoln (men) and Salt Lake City
(women). Both teams made an indeli
ble mark in Nebraska history, and on
the national gymnastics scene by
making it to the final round of the
championships.
In the end, the men failed to take
advantage of their home floor and win
Coach Francis Allen's ninth national
title and sixth at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center, but did capture third
place.
The women overcame the home
floor advantage of Utah in Salt Lake
to pull into their second Super Six in
three seasons, and finish sixth once
again.
Before their impressive but ill
fated runs at the their national cham
pionships, both teams put together a
late-season charge in the months of
March and April that made it seem for
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Considering
. owr injuries
this year, it
was one hell
of a year ”
Francis Allen
NU gymnastics coach
a while that neither team was beatable.
The women actually started their
run in late January. In a triangular
with Washington and Arizona in
Seattle, the team hit their lowest score
of the season in a double loss. It was
exactly the kind of night Kendig
thought the team needed, in hindsight,
to get a hot streak going.
“I think the team grew up in
Washington,” Kendig said.
“Sometimes a meet like that is exactly
what a team needs to motivate them to
do better. They learned a lot from it,
I and made sure it didn’t happen again.”
f . And “it,” a loss, didn’t happen for
the rest of the regular season. The
Huskers reeled off nine straight meet
victories, ending at the Big 12, before
they were finally outscored by fourth
ranked Michigan in their regional
championship in Lincoln. But their
second-place showing got them back
to nationals for the fourth time in five
years.
The men started their run in mid
March after the injury bug bit them in
road meets at Oklahoma and Brigham
Young University and handed them
tough losses.
Beginning with a hard-fought vic
tory over then-No. 1 Penn State in
Lincoln, the Huskers, despite using an
astonishingly thin lineup of six gym
nasts, won their last four meets,
including their conference and
regional championships, before
nationals.
“Considering our injuries this
year, it was one hell of a year,” Allen
said. “It should be damn near impossi
ble to win the national championships
with only six guys.”
But NU almost did.
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