Sheri Hastings serves as an academic counselor at Nebraska. Hastings has been with the athletic department since August of 2006. She will serve as the academic counselor for women’s basketball, soccer, men's and women's gymnastics, and bowling in 2023-24.
Nebraska women's basketball has produced a perfect 100 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) throughout Hastings' time as the Huskers' academic counselor. Since 2010, Nebraska is one of only eight schools in the nation to produce a pair of Senior CLASS Award first-team All-Americans (Kelsey Griffin, Jordan Hooper).
Before coming to Lincoln, Hastings was a mathematics learning specialist for Student Support Services at UNL. She was also a secondary mathematics teacher at Grand Island High School.
A Grand Island native, Hastings earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary mathematics from UNL in 1987. Hastings continued her education at Nebraska and earned a master’s degree in educational psychology in 1995.
Hastings and her husband, John, have three daughters, Megan, Kathryn and Abigail.