Huskers Host Scored Meet

Huskers Host Scored Meet at Devaney Center

This weekend the No. 4 Nebraska men’s and No. 11 Nebraska women’s track and field teams will host the adidas Classic at the Devaney Center on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Other teams at the meet include: Kansas State, Missouri, Colorado State, Air Force and Wichita State.

 

The meet will be scored, with a team champion named on both the men’s and women’s side. The meet will also include unlimited entries.

 

Fans can purchase tickets on Huskers.com, by calling 1-800-8BIGRED or by stopping by the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office, located directly west of Memorial Stadium. For more information and a complete meet schedule, as well as information about the rest of the 2010 season, log on to Huskers.com.

 

Fans will also be able to catch the Huskers on Friday, as they compete in the NWU Invitational, hosted by Nebraska Wesleyan at the Devaney Center. Friday’s meet is schedule to start at 1 p.m.

 

Pepsi Pack the House Promotion this Weekend

Fans will be treated this weekend to $1 admission and $1 Pepsi products at the adidas Classic. Part of the athletic department’s ?Pepsi Pack the House’ promotion package, all fans are eligible to take part in the promotion. The $1 Pepsi products are 24 oz.

 

Fourie Fires Out

Lehann Fourie has started his junior season on the right foot, as the junior is tied for the top 60-meter hurdle time in the nation after running a time of 7.77 on Saturday, Jan. 16 at the Holiday Inn Invitational. The time was just two-hundredths of a second shy of his personal best of 7.75. Fourie is tied at the top of the NCAA list with Texas Tech’s Omo Osaghae, however, Osaghae’s time was converted from his 55-meter hurdle mark.

 

Suckstorf Strong in Debut

After transferring to Nebraska last season from Wayne State College with one year of indoor eligibility and two years of outdoor eligibility, Brett Suckstorf redshirted the 2009 indoor season so that he could compete both indoors and outdoors for the Huskers in 2010. Suckstorf made the most of his first indoor meet as a Husker, as the senior posted the third-best weight throw mark in the country at 66-6 1/2. Not only did the toss break his previous best of 64-9 3/4, but it was also the third-best performance in NU history.

 

Fans File Into the Devaney Center

This past weekend at the Holiday Inn Invitational, a total of 5,275 fans came to watch the Huskers’ opening meet of the 2010 season. The two-day attendance was the most fans that have attended a meet since the 2005 Big 12 Indoor Championships (5,205), but was more than the Big 12 Indoor Championships in 2006 and 2008.

 

In 2009, the total attendance for the year over five meets was 11,113.

 

Pepin back for 30th Season

The all-time winningest track and field coach in the history of the Big 12 and the former Big Eight Conference, Nebraska Head Coach Gary Pepin is entering his historic 30th season at NU. The longest tenured active coach in Cornhusker athletics, Pepin enters his 27th season as head coach of both the Husker men’s and women’s track teams.

 

For Pepin, last season he also passed Frank Sevigne as the longest-tenured head coach in the history of the Nebraska program, and Pepin is still at the top of his game for coaching athletes to the highest levels of competition. He was named 2009 Big 12 Men’s Outdoor Coach of the Year and the 2009 USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Men’s Outdoor Coach of the Year.

 

Atop the Conference

After winning 51 Big Eight titles during the conference’s history from 1974-1996, the Huskers have continued to dominate since moving to the Big 12 Conference for the 1997 season. NU has won a league-high 21 team titles over the Big 12’s first 13 years, including the program’s historic 100th conference team title last season at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, where the men’s team won in dominant fashion with four individual conference champions.