McMillan Earns Big 12 Honor

Lincoln - Nebraska senior Chantae McMillan was named Co-Big 12 Female Track and Field Athlete of Week on Tuesday by the conference office. She earned the honor after setting the Nebraska school record and Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational meet record on Friday, Feb. 4 in the pentathlon with 4,378 points.

Tuesday marked the first time in McMillan's career that she has been named a Big 12 athlete of the week and is the first honor for the Huskers this season. While breaking Ashley Selig's 2006 school record of 4,336 points, McMillan automatically qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships and recorded the fifth-best all-time pentathlon score by a collegiate athlete.

A native of Rolla, Mo., McMillan shared the honor with Kansas State's Boglarka Bozzay, who broke the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and Devaney Center records in the 1,000 meters with a time of 2:45.91.

McMillan and the rest of the Huskers will now hit the road for the Texas A&M Conference Challenge in College Station, Texas. Nebraska will team with Baylor and Texas A&M for the Big 12 squad that will take on Conference USA (Houston, Rice, UTEP), the Pac-10 (Arizona, Arizona State, USC) and the SEC (Alabama, Mississippi State, Tennessee). The one-day meet starts on Saturday at Noon with both the men's and women's long jumps as well as the women's 60-meter hurdle preliminaries.