Owusu grabs silver
at NCAA Championship
FROM STAFF REPORTS
For only the second time this
season, Lesley Owusu didn’t win
thfe 400 meters.
The senior sprinter placed
second to South Carolina's
Demetria Washington with a
time of 52.49 on March 10 at the
NCAA Indoor Championships in
Fayetteville, Ark.
Washington, who also
defeated Owusu at the Tyson
Invitational on February 10, won
the event with a time of52.37.
Nebraska Sprint Coach Steve
Smith said he was pleased with
Owusu’s silver-medal finish.
“Anytime you come to this
meet and place second, you’re a
great athlete,” Smith said. “She
I fought hard in an adverse situa
tion. It was a great tactical race.”
Led by Owusu, Nebraska
captured five All-American hon
ors. Eric Eshbach placed fourth
in the pole vault with a mark of
17-11 3/4.
Returning All-American
Shaun Kologinczak was fifth in
the high jump, leaping 7-2 Vz,
and senior Chris Chandler
placed lO^1 in the 60 meters, fin
ishing the event in 6.71 seconds.
The NU women were bol
stered by a fourth-place finish
from Melissa Price in the 20
pound weight throw. In only her
third competition for NU of the
indoor season, Price threw the
weight 65-3 Vz.
As a team, the Husker men
finished tied for 26^ while the
women placed 18th.
The outdoor season kicks off
March 24 when Nebraska visits
Tuscon, Ariz. for a quadrangular
with Arizona, Georgia and
Oklahoma.
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For the second year
in a row, Eric Crouch
will miss spring
football while
recovering from
shoulder surgery.
Other notable
injured indude
projected starting
centerJon
Rutherford and
projected starting
fullback Judd
Davies (back).
Davies injury casts cloud
over NU spring football
SPRING from 11
Loos, Kyle Kollmorgen and Jon
Dawson, must emerge to fill the
right-side line spots by commit
tee.
Rush ends Demoine Adams
and Chris Kelsay must rebound
from sub par 2000 seasons.
NU currently has no rover.
Lannie Hopkins, moved from
linebacker, and Josh Davis,
moved from I-back, will get shots
at the position.
The sophomore class, much
hyped as a recruiting class, needs
to start producing this spring. NU
definitely could use the help of
Hopkins at rover, T.J. Hollowell
and Ira Cooper at linebacker and
Benard Thomas at rush end.
As always, plenty of ques
tions. Far be it for anyone to
answer them now, predicting
either ultimate glory or imminent
doom.
Because the 2001 Huskers are
currently unshaped, one big mys
tery comprised of many smaller
questions.
Because Davies may heal,
Crouch may not
Because Thunder Collins just
might be the next Johnny Rodgers
... just joking, or rather doing my
part to ratchet hype levels further
skyward, making them even
harder to attain.
Because it’s March 19, the
opening of spring practice. Just
the annual start point on the road
to either answering, or failing to
answer, those ever-present ques
tion marks.
Two women's swimmers get All-American
BY KRISTEN WATERS
The Nebraska womens swim
ming and diving team broke the
water at the NCAA
Championships in Long Island,
N.Y., over the weekend, ending the
season with a ^^-place finish.
“Of course we would have
liked to have swam faster,” senior
Beth Karaisco said. “Everyone
wants to swim faster. But we did a
good job there.”
The Huskers finished their
first day of competition tied with
Cincinnati in 29th place with 12
points. NU was able to rack up 26
points on Saturday, giving them 38
points for a 23rd-place finish.
“We always swim better on the
second day of competition,”
Karacia said. “But we didn’t worry
about place because we don’t have
the numbers to compete with
Stanford and Georgia and some of
the other teams.”
Sophomore Elvira Fischer led
the wayfor the Huskers by earning
two All-American honors, giving
her a career-total of three, after she
finished the 100-yard backstroke
in 1:02.04 for eighth place on
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Friday and placed fifth in the 200
yard backstroke with a time of
2:11.27 on Saturday.
Karacia finished strong in her
final meet as a Husker as the All
American finished 44 th in the 100
yard butterfly with a time of 56.97
and placed 19th in the 100-yard
freestyle in 50.11. Karacia also
helped NU’s 200-yard medley
relay team pull in a 20*^^6 60- ^
ish in a time of 1:45.32.
“I wanted to swim faster, but
I’m not too terribly disappointed,
either,” Karacia said.
The underclassmen proved to
play a big role on the team despite
their lack of experience at the
NCAA championships.
“A lot of the underclassmen
stepped up. It may have been
intimidating for them, but they
did good,” Karacia said.
Freshman Rebecca Wolfe took
home her first All-American
honor with a seventh-place finish
in the 200-yard butterfly and
placed 32nd in the 400-yard IM.
Freshman Jacki Lobdell
walked away with an lB^-place
finish in the 1,600-yard freestyle
and a 25th-place finish in the 200
yard breaststroke, while sopho
more Keri Hehn placed 26th and
24th in the 200- and 100-yard
breaststroke.
Georgia finished first with a
score of389 followed by Stanford
and Texas. NU’s has finished in the
top 25 in nine consecutive years.
“It really went well,” Karacia
said. “It’ll give the team more
experience for the next time
around.”
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Men's golf
finishes 17th
in Louisiana
FROM STAFF REPORTS
At this point, any improve
ment is welcome.
After the men’s golf team fin
ished in last place last week in the
15-team Louisiana Classic, NU
dropped its score 18 strokes to fin
ish 17th at the El Diablo
Intercollegiate in Citrus Springs,
Fla.
Jim Troy played a major part
in the lower team score. The soph
omore improved last weekend’s
score by 10 strokes with a 36-hole
score of 147. Troy shot a second
round two-under 70 to end in 21st
place and lead the team.
However, the rest of the
Huskers couldn’t match Troy's
play, as sophomore Ryan Cooley
fired NU's second-best score with
a 153 and ended the tournament
in 73rd place.
Junior Seth Porter and junior
Blake Humbles shot two-round
totals of 154 and 155 respectively.
Toledo topped the 24-team field
with a two-round score of579.
While the men’s team contin
ued to struggle, the women’s team
fought for team recognition last
week. The Huskers shot a season
low single-round score in the sec
ond round with a 294, to sit four
stokes out of second place, but
they were unable to replicate the
score in the third round as they
shot a 311.
NU finished sixth with a
three-day total of 916 in the Betsy
Rawls Longhorn Classic held in
Austin, Texas.
Mirroring the teams pertorm
ance was junior Sarah Sasse, who
was tied for first entering the final
round, only to stumble by shoot
ing a six-over-par 78 to finish in
fifth place.
Senior Amy Roux shot up the
leader board during the final
round with 73 to end in 29th place.
Junior Amanda Sutcliffe tied for
32nd with a 235 score, and junior
Catha Fogelberg was one stroke
behind her, tied for 36th place.
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