Fierce competition expected
■ Huskers prepare for
USA Indoor Track and
Field Championships.
By Jamie Suhr
Staff writer
Fierce.
That’s how Nebraska sprinter
Dwayne McClary described the level
of competition at the USA Indoor
Track and Field Championships in
Atlanta today and Saturday.
He and nine other Huskers will
be competing head-to-head with
some of the country’s top Olympic
hopefuls.
Steve Smith, NU sprints and
multi-events coach, said the meet
will give the athletes an opportunity
to run on a faster surface and banked
track. It’s the same type of track they
will be using at next weekend’s
NCAA Indoor Championships in
Fayetteville, Ark.
For McClary, this is his final
chance to qualify for nationals in the
200 meters, and he’ll have to do it
against the best.
“I’m not intimidated,” McClary
said. “Hopefully they’ll do their best,
so I’ll do my best.”
McClary will be running the 200
meters side-by-side with teammate
Chris Chandler. The two will battle
1999 Champion Rohsaan Griffin.
Chandler, the reigning 200-meter
Big 12 Indoor Champion, is the
favorite. His time of 20.72 seconds,
best in the college ranks this season,
is the fastest time on the entry list.
Chandler also claimed the con
ference’s 60-meter title but will sit
out the event in order to save his legs
for nationals.
Husker high-jumpers Carrie
Braness and Jessica Thompson are
coming off impressive performances
at the conference championships.
Hometown favorite Tisha Waller, a
local school teacher, will be back to
defend her title.
Braness wanted to compete in
Atlanta, rather than taking a week off
before nationals, so she lobbied the
coaches for the chance to go up
against the best.
“It’s my last chance since I’m a
senior,” Braness said. “I want to have
fun and be able to compete with
those people. I need to get oriented to
that atmosphere.”
Braness said she is at the best she
has ever been. The numbers don’t lie.
^ I’m not
intimidated.”
Dwayne McClary
NU sprinter
She jumped better than six feet in
each of her last three meets, includ
ing a personal-best 6-0 Vi at the Big
12 Conference Championships. ’
Six-time All-American Dalhia
Ingram will be competing in the long
jump and triple jump. She claimed
both titles at the conference champi
onships.
Freshman shot-putter Leann
Boerema will be making her first
appearance at the USA Indoor
Championships. Boerema set a per
sonal-best by throwing 51-5 XA, good
enough for second-place at the Big
12 Conference Championships.
Rounding out the field for the
Huskers is the women’s 4-by-400
meter relay team, which will also be
competing in Atlanta. The team,
composed of Cheryl Harmon, Lesley
Owusu, Jelena Stanisavljevic and
Stella Klassen automatically quali
fied for nationals with a time of
3:34.44
Gymnastics team on winning streak
■ Fifth-ranked Huskers
have won their last nine
meets.
By Jason Merrihew
Staff writer
Heading into its last regular-sea
son road meet, the fifth-ranked
Nebraska women’s gymnastics team
is red hot. The Comhuskers, coming
off a school record 196.775, are on a
nine-meet winning streak.
The Huskers travel to Corvallis,
Ore., for the Shanico Inn-vitational
tonight at 9.
The Shanico Inn-vitational is
held by 24th-ranked Oregon State.
The Beavers have compiled a 7-5
meet record through the course of the
season, including a 195.10 to 194.80
loss to conference foe Stanford.
Tenth-ranked Brigham Young
should provide Nebraska with its
toughest challenge. The Cougars are
4- 6 on the season. BYU will be look
ing for redemption after coming off a
loss to in-state rival Southern Utah.
The Cougars were outscored by the
Thunderbirds 194.425-194.25.
Seattle Pacific will round out the
quadrangular field. The Falcons are
5- 6 on the season, including a
182.425 victory over Alaska
Anchorage on Monday.
“We’re excited to be in a meet like
this,” NU Coach Dan Kendig said.
“There are three teams in the top 25.”
Because of a complex way of fig
uring out rankings, the Huskers need
to keep three top road scores and
three top home scores and throw out
the top score and average the remain
ing five.
“It’s an away meet we need to do
well at,” Kendig said. “We need to
stay focused and hit our routines.”
The confidence level on the team
is pretty high, especially coming off
one of the best months in the pro
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0 in the month of February.
“We know we’re just as good as
any other team, if not better,” Senior
Nicole Wilkinson said.
NU will be led by senior All
American Heather Brink. Brink is
coming off a very impressive
Masters Classic showing with a first
place 39.575 in the all-around, giving
her five all-around crowns this sea
son.
Junior Amy Ringo also has been
hot for NU. Ringo set a career high in
the all-around at the Masters Classic
with a second-place score of 39.225.
“We haven’t had a meet where we
had the best possible score we can
achieve,” Brink said.
NU basketball still
has a chance at A&M
By Joshua Camenzind
Staff writer
Onti game remains in the
Nebraska men’s basketball regular
season, and it is a road game at Texas
A&M.
Casual observers might write off
the game and automatically mark 18
in the Cornhusker’s loss column
heading into the Big 12 Tournament.
Not so fast.
NU, 11-17 overall and 4-11 in the
Big 12, showed signs of hope in
Wednesday night’s loss to Missouri
in Columbia. To go along with that,
the Aggies (7-19 on the season and
3-12 in Big 12 play) are not one of
the higher profile teams in the Big
12.
These all combined give the
Huskers, the only Winless Big 12
team on the road, hope.
“Usually, in die past games it has
been ugly for us on the road,” for
ward Louis Truscott said. “But to
come up and lose a tight game
(Wednesday night) will give us
something to look forward to.”
While Nebraska has lost by an
average of 20.5 points on the road,
that margin is usually reached well
before halftime.
The loss to the Tigers, in which
NU had Mizzou fans on the edge of
their seats through much of the sec
ond half, was different. But was it the
best NU has played on the road thus
far?
“By far,” Guard Matt Davison
said. “We came in here and compet
ed hard. We got after them pretty
well. I don’t think they expected it to
be that close of a game at halftime.”
•* I don’t think
they expected it
to be that close
of a game at
halftime.”
Matt Davison
Husker guard
Nebraska trailed by only two at
halftime after Davison hit a running
three-pointer at the buzzer.
Then the Huskers had to go into
the locker room and they lost the
edge.
“We have to be focused playing
on the road,” Center Kimani Ffriend
said. “That is one of our downfalls,
and we are not doing that.”
Nebraska will travel to A&M
early just as it did for the Missouri
game to get practice time on the
Aggies home floor. NU Coach
Danny Nee said before the Mizzou
game he is hoping the new routine
will provide a spark on the road.
“We’re going to practice at
Missouri and practice at Texas A&M
just to get them out of here and try to
do anything to get more repetitions
on the court we are playing on,” he
said.
NU Notes: Ffriend broke the
Huskers season free-throw mark
with his 10 attempts at Mizzou, giv
ing him 217 on the season. The
record of 212, set by Bill Johnson in
1953-54, was the longest streak in
the NU record book.
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