Eleven NU Track and Field Athletes Graduate

LINCOLN?A collection of 11 current and former University of Nebraska track and field athletes received degrees during spring commencement ceremonies Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Included among the group were athletes who owned three individual NCAA championships, nine Big 12 titles and nine NCAA All-America honors.

Six current members of the NU track and field program, Jenna Blubaugh (Psychology), Ashlee Dickinson (Anthropology), Tom Donlin (Mechanical Engineering), Nicole Kadyszewski (Construction Management), Kelsi Murman (Business Administration) and Ashley Selig (Exercise Science), were honored with bachelor’s degrees Saturday, while former Huskers Richard Davidson (Sociology), Marcus Sedberry (Marketing), Anne Shadle (Exercise Science), Dusty Stamer (Sociology) and Danny Tylka (Biological Sciences) also received letters.

The 2006 class of graduating NU track and field athletes amassed an impressive list of accolades. Those Huskers receiving degrees collected totals of nine NCAA All-America honors, nine individual Big 12 Conference championships and three national titles.

The spring graduating class of 54 is added to the December class of 30 graduates to bring the total number of Husker student-athletes graduating during the 2005-06 academic year to 84 before summer commencement exercises in August. Nebraska continues to feature one of the highest graduation rates in the nation with an exhausted eligibility graduation rate of 93 percent.