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Jumpers have opportunity to finally reach potential
By Jamie Suhr
Staff writer
Many obstacles blocked the
Nebraska menls long-jumpers liomi
reaching their potential this season,
but with a strong showing at the Big
1 i Indoor Championships on Feb.
25-26 in Ames, Iowa, all will be for
gotten.
“We haven’t done very well, but
we have the athletes that can do well
at the conference meet,” Coach
Gary Pepin said.
He said a lot of the problems
have come from a lack of practice.
Earlier in the year, Sheldon
Hutchinson and Tobyn Rucker were
both out of action for six weeks.
Rucker, who finished second in
the long jump in the Big 12 outdoor
meet, couldn’t practice because he
wasn’t enrolled in enough credit
hours.
He spent most of his time play
ing basketball to stay in shape.
“That was my fault,” Rucker
said. “I did some stupid things.”
Hutchinson didn’t practice
because of stress fractures in both
shins. He only was allowed to ride
the stationary bike.
Hutchinson, who has a long
triple jump of 51-7 feet this year, is
still dealing with the pain from the
injuries and takes Tylenol and
ibuprofen to alleviate the pain.
“It’s getting better everyday,”
Hutchinson said. “In the beginning
it hurt a lot.”
Hutchinson, said he was satis
fied with the way the season has
gone, considering his injuries.
“Sheldon is on the upswing,”
Pepin said.
“He’d be doing better if not for
his injuries.”
For Rucker, a senior, this will be
his final chance to claim the Big 12
Indoor title.
All four men’s long-jumpers
have competed in the conference
championships.
Rucker, a native of Killeen,
Texas, said he was looking forward
to competing against the
Longhorns.
“I’m from Texas, so I want to
kick their ass,” Rucker said.
Ryan Stairs, who Pepin said was
“very much on the bubble,” had his
best performance of the season last
week in the NIAC Invitational.
“He did really well last meet, but
he can do better,” Pepin said.
Pepin said Stairs had been
plagued with foot and ankle injuries
this season, hindering his distance
on jumps.
After fighting through the
injuries, Stairs will be competing in
his second conference champi
onship, despite his grandmother’s
funeral this weekend.
“She knows I love her,” Stairs
said. “She would have wanted me to
jump.”
Pepin said he was pleased with
improvements made by Daniel
Johnson in the long jump, though
his strongest event is the triple jump
where he has provisionally qualified
for nationals.
NU track teams have
different strategies
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women to long jump further than 20-feet.
Ingram’s high this season is 20-10 Feb. 5.
As a freshman, Ingram was a member
of the last NU team to win the conference
championship.
“Do you know how bad I want that
ring?” Ingram said.
NU’s Carrie Braness, who finished
second in the high jump last year, will go
jump-for-jump with Texas’ Erin Aldrich,
who has a conference best mark of 6-1 'A.
Aldrich is the two-time defending NCAA
champion.
Braness has been coming on strong
for the Huskers. In the past two meets,
she has posted personal-bests by jumping
6-feet. Equaling that mark was NU’s
Jessica Thompson, tying them for fifth in
the country.
While Ingram’s experience will lead
the women’s team, in contrast, the NU
men’s team will need a big performance
from its newcomers. The Huskers have
already taken a hit with NU shot-putter
Carl Myerscough out of the meet.
Chris Chandler is the Big 12 leader in
the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.61
seconds. Last year’s champion, UT’s
Amar Johnson, won the event last year by
Do you know
how bad I want that
ring? ”
Dahlia Ingram
Women’s track team captain
posting a time of 6.68.
But Chandler said he doesn’t worry
about who he will compete against.
“I don’t even look at the other team’s
sprinters,” Chandler said. “I try to go in
blind.”
In addition to the 60-meter dash,
Chandler will compete for the 200-meter
title. If the team needed points, Chandler
said he would compete in the 4-by-400
meter relay.
In the pole-vault, three of the top
competitors graduated from Orangefield
High School in Texas. NU freshmen Eric
Eshbach, NU record-holder and No. 2
pole-vaulter in the conference, and
Johnathan Henley will compete against
former high school teammate Jacob
Davis of Texas, the Big 12 leader in the
pole vault.
— BOWLING —
At last, NU
bowlers
have a
home meet
By Joshua Camenzind
Staff writer
This weekend will be a bright
spot for the Nebraska women’s bowl
ing team.
After nine tournaments on the
road and a top-two finish at all of
them except one, the top-ranked
Cornhuskers will have their firpt
ever Athletic Department-sponsored
home tournament in the Great Plains
Conference Classic.
NU, ranked No. 1 in the nation in
the latest Bowling Writer’s
Association of America Poll, will
face the Nos. 3-, 5- and 6-ranked
teams in the nation at the meet.
Husker Coach Bill Straub said
his team is looking forward to the
competition, and it will serve as
another test for the National
enampionships coming up.
“We are ranked No. 1 in the coun
try for good reason,” Straub said.
“The competition is terrific. There is
no conference in the country that has
this type of talent.”
Straub said, much like the rest of
the season, his team will experience
good senior leadership. He said
freshman Kari Schwager has been a
“welcome surprise.”
Schwager, a native of Chicago,
has bowled two 300 games in her
career and has a high series of 8l0.
She said the season has been a steady
progression for her.
“I started off kind of slow but
have been working hard the last cou
ple of weeks,” Schwager said.
As far as the tournament at home,
which will be held at Sun Valley
Lanes, 321 Apple Creek Road,
Schwager said it will be a good
change to compete in Lincoln.
“It will be pretty nice,” Schwager
said.
“You get to stay in your own
rooms, and it has its advantages over
the road.”
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