Husker Duo Earns All-Big 12 Honor

After leading Nebraska at the Big 12 Championships last week, Jerry Posch and Mark Tate were named to the All-Big 12 squad in a vote of Big 12 head coaches, the league office announced Monday. Posch and Tate are just the second Nebraska tandem to earn all-league honors since the formation of the Big 12 in 1996. 

 

Posch and Tate joined Dinko Verzi and Markus Bergerheim as the only Huskers to earn All-Big 12 Conference honors in doubles action. Verzi and Bergerheim were selected to the team in 1998, and the following year, Verzi became only the fourth Husker ever ? and the only Husker during the Big 12 era ? to earn all-conference accolades in singles action.

 

Posch, a native of Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, and Tate, a native of The Woodlands, Texas, formed one of six teams selected to the all-league squad. Thirteen players were selected to the All-Big 12 singles team including Travis Helgeson of Texas, who was named the league’s player of the year. Ivan Puchkarov of Oklahoma State and Conor Pollock of Texas A&M were selected as the league’s newcomer and freshman of the year, respectively, while Sam Winterbotham of Colorado and Michael Center of Texas shared coach-of-the-year honors.

 

Together Posch and Tate led the Huskers in doubles victories, and accounted for nearly one-third of the squad’s cumulative doubles points. While posting eight victories at the No. 1 doubles position this season, the pair recorded two Big 12 wins. Their victories were well-deserved as they worked hard to defeat the No. 51-ranked tandem of Texas A&M’s of Brett Joelson and Bryan Wooten, 9-7, and Texas’ Callum Beale and Travis Helgeson, 9-8.