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ROSEMONT, Ill. --- Seniors Sam Chamberlain and Ethan Lottman were named to the B1G Men's Gymnasts to Watch List announced Thursday, along with 12 other gymnasts from around the conference.
Chamberlain, a senior from Franklin, Ohio, looks to be Nebraska's top performer on parallel bars, after setting the NU record last season with a score of 15.50. In 2015, Chamberlain qualified for the individual parallel bars event finals at the 2015 Big Ten Championships. At the 2015 NCAA Championships, he made it to the event semifinals, where he barely missed out on a chance to compete at the event finals competition the following day.
Lottman, an Omaha, Neb., native competed in every meet last season and had a successful postseason as well. He competed at the NCAA Championships on pommel horse where he qualified for the event finals. There, Lottman finished fifth on pommel horse with a score of 14.45. He earned his first career All-America honors, becoming the first All-American on an individual event since 2013.
In addition to earning All-America honors in competition, Lottman also claimed second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America accolades in 2015.
Chamberlain and Lottman look to help lead the team back to the NCAA Championships and get another shot at making it to the finals competition in their final year at Nebraska.
As a team, Nebraska is ranked No. 7 on the B1G Men's Gymnastics Preseason Coaches Poll.
BIG TEN MEN’S GYMNASTS TO WATCH LIST
Bobby Baker, So., ILL
Chandler Eggleston, So., ILL
Matthew Loochtan, Sr., IOWA
Andrew Botto, Jr., IOWA
Dmitri Belanovski, So., MICH
Emyre Cole, Fr., MICH
Paul Montague Jr., Sr., MINN
Yaroslav Pochinka, So., MINN
Ethan Lottman, Sr., NEB
Sam Chamberlain, Sr., NEB
Sean Melton, So., OSU
Jake Martin, Jr., OSU
Trevor Howard, Sr., PSU
Dominic DiFulvio, Jr., PSU
BIG TEN MEN’S GYMNASTICS PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
1. Ohio State
2. Penn State
3. Illinois
4. Michigan
5. Minnesota
6. Iowa
7. Nebraska