Nebraska Earns 12 National Publication Awards

Lincoln -- The University of Nebraska was honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America with 23 publication awards at the annual CoSIDA Convention in San Diego, Calif., July 1-4. In all, Nebraska earned 12 honors in national competition and 11 in district competition - second only to the University of Texas' 32 total awards. Texas earned 20 national honors, followed by the University of Notre Dame's 13.

At the convention, 555 citations were presented to 133 different institutions and conferences in 74 separate contests. The number of awards varies from category to category, depending on the number of entries submitted - but there are no more than seven place winners in each division. In 2000-01, there were nearly 1,800 entries received from schools and conferences across the country.

Tanya Wright and Jeff Abele produced the Nebraska rifle media and recruiting guide, which was tabbed the best in the nation by CoSIDA. Runner-up honors went to the baseball brochure (Shamus McKnight, Jeff Abele), the cross country guide (Tanya Wright, Jeff Abele), the postseason football brochure (Chris Anderson, Jeff Griesch, Shamus McKnight) and the softball guide (Shannon Sherman, Jeff Abele).

Placing third in the nation were the football poster (Chris Anderson, Janet Denison), the women's soccer brochure (Jeff Griesch, Matt Miller, Jeff Abele) and the wrestling guide (Jerod Dahlgren, Jeff Abele), while the women's gymnastics brochure (Shamus McKnight, Jeff Abele) and track and field guide (David Wilson, Jeff Abele) finished fourth. The women's volleyball brochure (Aaron Babcock, Jeff Abele) placed fifth, and the football guide (Chris Anderson, Keith Mann, Jeff Abele) finished sixth.