Ted Harris Season 1996-97

Honors and Awards

• 1997 Second-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American
• 1997 Spring Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll 
• 1996 All-American (Still Rings)
• 1996 NACGC Scholastic All-American
• 1996 Fall Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll 
• 1996 Big Eight End-of-the-Year Honor Roll
• 1995 NACGC Scholastic All-American
• 1995 Big Eight End-of-the-Year Honor Roll

1997: Senior Season
Ted Harris qulaified once again for the NCAA Championships, placing 10th in the still rings with a score of 9.70. Harris opened up his senior campaign placing third in the still rings with a score of 9.35.  Against Oklahoma and Brigham Young, Harris captured a second-place finish with a score of 9.625, his highest at that point in the season. He captured his first victory of the year in a dual against Iowa, posting a 9.75 mark. Harris continued his winning ways against Minnesota, as the senior still rings specialist placed first with a score of 9.675. In his final regular-season home appearance, Harris placed second in the still rings with a score of 9.725, against Penn State. At the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships, Harris picked up his third victory of the season posting a score of 9.85 in the still rings. Harris earned a berth at nationals with a third-place score of 9.80 on the still rings at the West Regional in Albuquerque, N.M. A standout in the classroom, Harris earned second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors and Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) accolades.

1996: Junior Season
At the NCAA Championships, Harris earned All-America honors on the still rings with a third-place finish (9.80). Harris began the 1996 campaign with a third-place finish on the rings (9.6) at the Rocky Mountain Open. He won four still rings titles, the first coming against rival Oklahoma with a 9.6 score.  He went on to win the next two rings events against New Mexico (9.725) and at Minnesota (9.80). In a three-way meet with Oklahoma and the Olympic Training Center, Harris placed second with a 9.725 mark. In the Huskers' last regular-season meet, Harris won the still rings against eventual national champion Ohio State. In the post season, Harris finished second on the still rings (9.5875) at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships. He easily ran away with the rings title at the West Regional with a 9.85 score, 0.75 points better than the second-place finisher. He was a 1996 Big Eight End-of-the-Year Honor Roll member.

1995: Sophomore Season
The former walk-on continued to impress, as he equalled the school record of 9.90 on the still rings at the NCAA team finals (tied with Jim Hartung and Scott Johnson). Harris posted career-best marks 11 times in 1995, including six times on his specialty, the stil rings. Harris recorded a 9.50 or better on the rings in 12 of 14 meets, including the last 11 and scored 9.60 or better nine times. Other than the season-opening meet, Harris' still rings score counted toward NU's team total in every meet. At the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships, Harris claimed runner-up honors on the still rings with a then-career-best 9.75 in the individual event finals. At New Mexico, Harris produced a still rings mark of 9.70 to help NU to its highest still rings (38.90) and team scores (230.075) during the 1995 regular season. At that same meet, Harris also posted career bests on the pommel horse (9.00) and parallel bars (8.80). Harris tied for seventh on the still rings (9.50) at the Gold's Challenge in Santa Barbara. Harris was named to the 1995 Big Eight End-of-the-Year Academic Honor Roll.

1994: Freshman Season
Harris came up big with a then-career-best still rings performance (9.45) at the Big Eight Championships. Harris also posted a 9.40 score on the rings at the Stanford Invite. At the Big Eight Triangular, he posted a 9.35 rings mark. Harris also competed on the parallel bars and pommel horse at two meets. A standout in the classroom, Harris was named to the Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight Honor Roll.

Prior:
Harris finished fifth in the all-around at the 1991 Nebraska state meet, behind former teammates Richard Grace and Jason Christie.  He also earned USGF All-Region IV status and was tabbed as an Academic All-State gymanst while at Kearney High.

Personal:
The son of Robert Harris and Bill and Susie Roux, Ted was born May 22, 1975 in Lincoln, Neb.  A 1993 graduate of Kearney High School, the finance major has two sisters, Amy and Emily, and one brother, Matt.  Amy signed a letter-of-intent to play golf for the Huskers in 1997-98. Ted carried a perfect 4.0 GPA and is the student-athlete's representative to the NCAA. As a member of that committee, he was instrumental in the vote to continue to support all Olympic Sports as NCAA Championship events.