Huskers Host Final Home Indoor Meet

Meet: Nebraska Tune-Up (meet schedule - pg. 5 of notes)

Where: Devaney Center Indoor Track

When: Friday, Feb. 19 (12:30 p.m.)

Live Results: http://www.huskers.com/fls/100/trackstats/10TuneUp/index.htm

 

Huskers Host Last Indoor Meet of 2010

The No. 8 men’s and No. 14 women’s Nebraska track and field teams will host their final home meet of the 2010 indoor season on Friday at the Devaney Center Indoor Track. With the Big 12 Indoor Championships under two weeks away on Feb. 26-27 in Ames, Iowa, the Huskers are set to host the Nebraska Tune-Up to conclude the 2010 home slate.

 

The one-day meet is schedule to start at 12:30 p.m. with the women’s DMR. The field events will kick off at 2 p.m. with the men’s weight throw and women’s long jump.

 

Tickets for the Nebraska Tune-Up can still be purchased at the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office, by calling 1-800-8BIGRED or by logging on to Huskers.com. For more information on each meet, check out Huskers.com.

 

Adams Lays Down Historic Time in Seattle

David Adams put on one of the top distance performances in school history on Friday, Feb. 12, at the Husky Classic in Seattle, Wash., as the junior ran the first sub-14 minute 5,000-meter race in school history at 13:55.68.

 

Adams dominated his heat, as the next closest runner finished nearly 20 seconds behind him at 14:15.24. Currently, the York, Neb., native ranks eighth in the NCAA this season.

 

Soarin’ Svane

Junior Audrey Svane nearly guaranteed herself a spot in at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships with a personal-best jump of 6-0 1/2 at the Tyson Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 13.

 

The first-attempt clearance at the height moved Svane from 12th on the NU all-time indoor performance list to a tie for seventh with Heather Smith (1984). She also moved from a tie for 13th on the 2010 NCAA performance list to a tie for seventh with Ashley Rhoades of Indiana.

 

Last Home Meet for 2010 Seniors

The Nebraska track and field team will see 22 senior make their final appearance at the Devaney Center Indoor Track on Friday at the Nebraska Tune-Up. As a part of the team since the 2006 season, the 22 athletes have brought home 11 All-America honors, two Big 12 Conference team championships, one Big 12 individual title, two top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships and five top-15 finishes at the national meet.

 

Right on Point

Defending indoor long jump champion Nicholas Gordon secured his spot at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Tyson Invitational with a second-place jump of 25-9 1/4, which exactly met the NCAA automatic standard. The Kingston, Jamaica, native is also the defending Big 12 indoor long jump champion and now ranks No. 1 in the conference and No. 4 in the NCAA this season.

Jumps-U

The Nebraska track and field team has always been a premier program for jumpers to develop under Head Coach and Jumps Coach Gary Pepin, and this year is no different. Nine of Pepin’s jumpers have already qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, including automatic qualifiers Epley Bullock (women’s high jump) and Nicholas Gordon (men’s long jump). All of Pepin’s jumper rank in the top 30 nationally in their respective event, with four of those jumpers ranked in the top 10.

 

Regional Leaders

For the third straight week the Nebraska track and field team holds the top spot on both the men’s and women’s Midwest Regional rankings, released by the USTFCCCA on Tuesday, Feb. 16. Nationally, the NU men are ranked in the top 10 for the fifth straight week at No. 8, while the Husker women stayed in the top 15 at No. 14.

 

Regionally, the Husker men are ranked No. 1 with 381.86 points, which is 31.86 points ahead of No. 2 Oklahoma (350.00).

 

For the NU women, the Huskers hold a slim 293.75-280.92 advantage over Southern Illinois, which slid up one spots from last week’s rankings.

 

Home for Hurdlers

The Nebraska track and field team has one hurdler automatically qualified and three hurdlers provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, with two each on the men’s and women’s sides. Lehann Fourie leads the way for the men, as he holds the No. 3 time in the NCAA this season at 7.70 and is joined by teammate Tyrell Ross, who is tied for the No. 22 spot at 7.91. For the women, Karyn LaCour moved into a tie for the No. 23 spot with her time of 8.35 at the ISU Classic on Saturday, Feb. 13, and is joined on the list by Arna Erega, who is tied for 26th at 8.36.

 

Willer Hits Auto Mark

In just her second meet of the season, Natalie Willer added her name to the list of automatic qualifiers in the women’s pole vault on Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Bill Bergan Invitational with a leap of 13-11 1/4. The indoor and outdoor school record holder is tied for ninth in the NCAA this season.

 

Bullock Rises to New Heights

Senior Epley Bullock locked up her spot at the 2010 NCAA Championships on Saturday, Jan. 23, at the adidas Classic with a personal-best jump of 6-1 1/2. The jump broke Bullock’s previous best by one-quarter of an inch and gave her sole possession of the No. 3 performance in Husker indoor history, after previous sharing the spot with Tammy Thurman (1988) and Kerry Doetker (1997). The mark is tops in the Big 12 Conference this season and ranks her No. 3 on the NCAA list behind Arizona’s Elizabeth Patterson (6-3 1/2) and Hawaii’s Amber Kaufman (6-3 1/4).

 

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.