NU Track and Field Names 2005 Captains

Lincoln, Neb. - The University of Nebraska track and field team elected eight athletes to serve as captains during the 2005 season. The group of four men and four women have accounted for a total of seven All-America honors and three individual Big 12 championships through their careers.

Husker women appointed captains included two seniors, Christi Lehman (Newton, Kan.) and Anne Shadle (South Sioux City, Neb.), one junior, Ashley Selig (Lincoln, Neb.), and one sophomore, Priscilla Lopes (Whitby, Ontario). Lehman (2003 indoor pole vault) and Shadle (2004 indoor 1,000 meters) are both former Big 12 champions, while Lopes (sprints/hurdles), Selig (pentathlon/heptathlon) and Lehman have each earned All-America honors over the course of their careers. Lopes won the 2004 indoor national title in the 60-meter hurdles.

Senior Dusty Stamer (Grand Island, Neb.) leads the men’s quartet of captains after earning 2004 outdoor All-America recognition as a member of Nebraska’s school-record-setting 4x100-meter relay. Seniors Richard Davidson (Lewisville, Tex.), who claimed third place in the 110-meter hurdles at last year’s Big 12 Outdoor Championships, and Kyle Goerl (Hutchinson, Kan), who placed eighth in the decathlon at the same meet, were also elected. The lone non-senior to be named a men’s captain, junior Nic Petersen (Omaha, Neb.), earned eighth place in the pole vault at last year’s Big 12 Indoor Championships.

"We have a good mix of captains that have a lot of character, are good students and have competed on the conference level, and some on the national level," Head Coach Gary Pepin said. "It’s a good group of young student-athletes that should represent both the team and University of Nebraska very well."

NU opens its 2005 indoor season Jan. 14-15, when it hosts the Holiday Inn Invitational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track.