Jackie Wallgren enters her second year as a Life Skills assistant in the Nebraska Athletic Department in 2010-11. Wallgren serves as the Life Skills contact for track and field, football, men's tennis, men's gymnastics, soccer, wrestling and bowling. Additionally, she coordinates all individual outreach requests along with the Career Fair, Senior Retreat and the Husker Life Seminar.
Before coming to Nebraska, Wallgren served as a football operations intern at North Carolina. She earned her master's degree in exercise and sport science from North Carolina in December of 2009. Wallgren also worked as a sports information intern at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn.
Wallgren graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, receiving her bachelor's degree in business administration. She was a four-year soccer letterwinner at Wisconsin-Superior and was named the school's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.