CAMPBELL from page 16 , -
duced winning records, he produced _
winning players. With the likes of Bobby •;
Jackson (Minnesota Timberwplyes) and
Bernard Gamef, who playe^ two seasons i
at NU, Campbell has shown he canrelate \
well with his athletes. •
Husker center Kimani Ffriend said ,,
he met Campbell and was impressed.
“He is a cool guy,” said Ffnend, who
said Campbell will start working with
the players in their individual workouts.
“He was laid-back and very confident.
He will get along well with the playetrs.”
Campbell had a shaky relationship
with former NU Coach Danny NeO, as
Campbell said Nee had “burned
bridges” in a Daily Nebraskan story last
year on Husker recruiting.
Not so with Collier.
“I’ve known Barry Collier for a long
time and have great respect for him as a
coach,” Campbell said. “I know the state
of Nebraska quite well, and this is a
tremendous opportunity for me. The
University of Nebraska wants to win and
be the best, and I hope to contribute to
that goal.”
goes back t&Ogallala High School,'
♦/where she eifjbyed 'a storybook ath
letiGgateefyCO^etin^in basketball,
• taring her senior year in basket
ball, Buchholz led the state in scor
mg (2f;7) and steals (7.6); She also
,. placed fourth in the high jump at the
state track meet. _/' ^
V Most importantly, ahe led the
Indians to the Class B state basket
ball title over national power house
V South SipuxCityrThe victory over
the Cardinals, Buchholz laid,
opejned the door for her athletic
career at Nebraska. . ,/i
“It was probably the South Sioux
game that got everybody’s atten
tion,” Buchholz said. “It was a pretty
big game, nof necessarily for me, but
for the town. \
“It let everybody know that
Western Nebraska is out there.”
Corahusker Basketball Coach
Paul Sanderford said-hfe paid atten
tion to Buchholz ever since she went
to the Huskers summer basketball
camps.
Sanderford asked Buchholz to
walk on and play for NU.
According to Sanderford, it hurt
Buchholz in recruiting because she
didn’t play all-star basketball. She
played.softball " , . ^
“Sne played with an dll-star soft-* '
ball team every sumpier and didn’t i
go to the camps where they evaluate
individual talent,” Sanderford said. ,
Instead of playing for the presti- ;
gious Daubart Pinnacle All-Stars
basketball team, Buchholz played
104 games over the course of one
summer with the North Platte 1
Sensation softball team. The team
consisted of western Nebraska’s best
players. ; i
Buchholz somewhat regrets not
playing for the Pinnacle all-star team
but said not playing helped get the
attention of Nebraska Softball !
Coach Rhonda Revelle. i
“I was coming here because of
basketball, then towards the very end i
he (Sanderford) started talking to
Revelle,” Buchholz said. “She said
we’re just happy that you’re coming i
to the university, and sometimeTff i
you want to come by and practice we
can talk about it.” .
Revelle had no idea how bad she i
was actually going to need i
Buchholz.
After Cindy Roethemeyer tore
her anterior cruciate ligament, i
Revelle had no choice but to call on '
Buchholz, despite the fact she had 1
been working out with just the bas
ketball team.
, “When Cindy went dpwnr we felt
hat our numbers were low, and the
me area that we webe thin wakthe
nfield,” Revelle said.'
;* Spnderford gave Revelle the
ipptoval to t$ke Buc&hp 1 z,.She
vorked out with the team’for about
bur weeks before actually playing.
While the softball team was in
California right before spring break,
Buchholz was with the basketball
:eam in Kansas City for the Big 12
oumament.
After NU lost to Iowa State,
Buchholz jumped on a plane to San
Francisco before joining the team: in
San Jose, Calif. She ended up getting
o bed at 3:30 a.m. The softball team
eft at 7 a.m. to start play in the first
)f their three games that day.
In less then 12 hours, Buchholz
vent from mop-up duty against ISU
o making a game-winning stop over
op-10 California.
Buchholz never thought she
vould have the immediate impact
hat she did in softball, but said she
>wes it all to her teammates.
“My team really helped me out a
ot in adjusting to things and telling
ne on every play what I need to do,”
3uehholz said. “They’ve been a big
lelp in letting me adjust.”
Revelle is not surprised that
3uchholz is making such an impact
$ freally felt
\vh'en I watched
■ her: play that she
t',
is a play-maker.”
Rhonda Revelle
NU softball coach
\ >
in softball.
“I really felt when I watched her
play that she is a play-maker,”
Revelle said. “She makes things hap
pen and she plays with a lot of confi
dence, so she really hasn’t surprised
me.
If Buchholz were forced to
choose between pne of the two
sports she said it would be one of the
hardest decisions in her life.
For now Buchholz plans to play
both sports for the remainder of her
career at Nebraska.
“Right now I’m on scholarship
for basketball,” Buchholz said. “So
next year I might have to do a little
bit more for basketball because
they’re providing my schooling.
“Maybe down the lines it will be
softball. It just kind of depends how
basketball goes.”
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