Shadle Earns Big 12 Honor

Dallas, Texas ? Nebraska senior Anne Shadle was named the Big 12 Female Track and Field Athlete of the Week Tuesday for her performance at last weekend’s Stanford Invitational. Shadle received conference recognition for the first time in her track career after earning one award in cross country as a junior.

 

The South Sioux City, Neb., native recorded an NCAA-regional-qualifying time of 4:14.39 in the women’s 1,500-meter run to place second behind 2004 Olympian Nicole Teter (Nike) by a mere 1.62 seconds. Shadle’s time, which broke her previous personal best by nearly 13 seconds, propelled her to No. 2 on NU’s all-time performance list for the event.

In her final season as a Husker, Shadle claimed her first national title during the indoor season in the women’s mile at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Championships. She set the school-record mark of 4:38.23 during her finals race victory. Shadle also won the 2005 Big 12 indoor championship in the mile.

Mathew Chesang from Kansas State earned the weekly Big 12 men’s award after claiming an NCAA automatic-qualifying mark in the 10,000-meter run at last weekend’s Stanford Invitational.

The Nebraska men’s and women’s track teams are both idle this week as they prepare to compete in the Texas Relays, April 7-9 in Austin, Texas.