Former Husker Vering Earns Award

Lincoln-Former Nebraska wrestler Brad Vering has been chosen by the U.S. Olympic Committee as its 2007 Wrestling Male Athlete of the Year. Vering won a silver medal at 84 kilograms (185 pounds) at the World Championships last September to lead the U.S. Greco-Roman team to its first world title. It was the top performance by a U.S. wrestler at the competition.

 

Vering has accumulated several accolades on the national scene, including a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games and four career titles at the U.S. World Team Trials. He also competed in the 2004 Olympic Games for the U.S and is a 2008 Olympic hopeful.

 

A native of Howells, Neb., Vering became the seventh national champion in Husker history as he defeated IowaState’s Zack Thompson in a tiebreaker, 2-1, in the finals of the 197-pound bracket in 2000. He is fourth all-time on Nebraska’s career win chart with a 124-26 mark from 1997-2001. Vering was a three-time All-American and won the Big 12 Championships twice in his career.