Triumph over pain
elevates Watchorn
WATCHORN from page 10
on the scout team. Football was
hard to concentrate on when
there were visions of a father who
wasn’t there anymore.
Watchom bottled everything
up for three seasons and kept
quiet and tense on the held. He
“got into drinking a lot” and got a
minor in possession ticket
because of it
Then came Thanksgiving at
his family’s house. Everything he
had bottled up exploded out
“I just beaked out,” Watchom
said. He threw a explicit-filled
tirade and ended up on the floor
shaking.
"Ever since then, I’ve felt so
much better,” Watchorn said.
“And after we lost our seniors on
the secondary, I figured it was
time for me to step up. I’ve always
wanted and knew I could play,
and I want to be a role model to
the younger guys.”
He hit the held harder. He hit
the weights harder. And he
opened up.
“Troy's not an extroverted
guy,” cornerback Keyou Craver
said. “He's one of the guys you
have to get to know, and then he
opens up I’m a probing guy, and I
started to probe at him a lot He
has a great sense of humor. He
loves to sing. Very comical”
Craver said himself,
Watchom, Finley and comerback
Erwin Swiney hung out a lot and
“sing like crazy.” TTiat gets them
through hard times.
Finley has found a confidant
in Watchom for four years, but
especially after his grandfather
died last year.
“Troy came up and said a cou
ple things,” Finley said. "He talked
about how to handle things like
we’ve had to handle. He’s there for
all of us as a friend. We’ve gotten
close over the years. He’s a good
friend to have.”
Finley and everyone have
noticed Watchom’s dedication the
past year and aren’t the least bit
surprised at his booming success.
His change in both play and
attitude has inspired a secondary
that has been burned on the field
and in the press.
"When he produces, it
changes the momentum of the
game,” Finley said. “He has a lot
more confidence in himself now,
and now all of us want to go out
there and get picks.
“He lives the way life should
be lived - happy. He laughs a
whole lot Nothing gets him down
now.”
When you’ve lived the life
Watchom has and are making the
plays he does, not much can.
"Everything I’m going through
now is a privilege,” Watchom said.
“It’s like I’m living a dream.”
QBs have different
styles, same results
CROUCH from page 10
in the NU offense.
“He is a guy that teams need
to focus on in order to beat that
team,” Frazier said.
Both quarterbacks lived off
their versatility, and Crouch
looks up to his predecessor.
Crouch said he didn’t pat
tern his game after Frazier, who
started as a true freshman, but
understands what made him so
successful.
"He was a strong leader,”
Crouch said. “And that was
known from day one as a fresh
man.”
Crouch was not given the
opportunity to start as a fresh
man, with Scott Frost leading
the Huskers in 1997, but his
leadership abilities have shown
through in the past three sea
sons.
Frazier and Crouch have
their similarities and they have
their differences. But both have
the same outlook on the
Heisman.
Frazier said he would tell
Crouch to “go out and play and
don’t worry about voters,”
because “the Heisman trophy is
the Heisman trophy and the
best man is going to win.”
And Crouch said that was
exactly what he had been doing
and would continue to do.
“However the voters handle
it -1 will be all right with that,”
Crouch said. “It is not a situa
tion where I will be angry or
depressed because I know that I
will have given it my best shot.”
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Sport Clubs
BY VINCE KUPPIG
Nebraska tennis player Jorge Abos Sanchez
looks to continue his winning ways this weekend
at the ITA Mid-American Championships in Tulsa,
Okla.
The ITA Mid-American Championships starts
today with the qualifying session. The main draw
starts Friday and wraps up Monday.
The main draw will consist of the region’s top
64 single players and 32 doubles teams from about
15 schools.
Abos Sanchez is coming off a great perform
ance at the ITA All-American Championships,
where he went 6-2 and reached the main draw.
“Now, he’s practicing even harder. (His per
formance) has gotten him excited to do as well as
he did,” Coach Kerry McDermott said. “He’s play
ing with more confidence. If he can play with con
fidence, the sky’s the limit."
Although the favorite for the Comhuskers has
to be Abos Sanchez, McDermott said several other
Huskers had the potential to pull some surprises.
“We're hoping to get two or three of our kids at
least to the quarterfinals,” McDermott said. “Then
hopefully, maybe go all the way.”
As a team, McDermott is hoping the
Comhuskers will make a statement to the rest of
the region.
"(We want) to show the rest of the region that
we are a good team and that if they play Nebraska,
watch out,” McDermott said.
In women’s tennis action, the duo of juniors
Katarina Balan and Amy Frisch lost in the first
round of the qualifying session at the Rivieria
Women's All-American Championships in Riviera,
Cal, on Wednesday. The duo went 2-0 in the pre
qualifying session before falling to 7th seeded duo
from Texas A&M, 6-1,6-1.
Up next for the women's team is the ITA Central
Championships in Omaha on Nov. 1-5, their final
tournament of the fall season.
This Weekend at Home
Show your support for the NU Crew club. The
group’s annual Erg-A-Thon will begin Friday
at 8:00 p.m. and continue for 36 hours in front
of the Nebraska Union.
The Tae Kwon Do club will also be on the
Union Plaza this Saturday. The club will be
holding the first Board Break-A-Thon.
Sunday, NU Women’s Soccer club takes on
Drake at 1:00 p.m. at Whittier Field. (22 & W)
On the Road
Women’s Rugby travels to Ames, IA on
Saturday, competing against ISU.
Results
Women’s Rugby went 1-1 this past weekend
at the Dakota Days Round Robin. UNL
defeated Northern State University 25-0 and
lost to USD 15-0.
NU Crew placed well at the American Royal
Fall Rowing Classic held this ppst weekend in
Kansas City.
Novice Womens 8 First
Novice Mens 8 Second
Novice Mens 4 Second
Novice Mens 4 Third
Varsity Mens Pair Second
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