June 7, 2003 / Track and Field contact: Erin Smith / phone: (402) 472-7781 / fax: (402) 472-2005 / e-mail: [email protected] Nebraska Heads to Sacramento In Search of National Championship Twenty-three members of the Nebraska track and field team will compete at the Indoor Schedule NCAA Outdoor Championships, June 11-14, at Hornet Stadium at the University of Jan. 17-18 Wildcat Invitational ....................................... 1st (m) California, Sacramento. (Manhattan, Kan.) .......................................... 1st (w) Sacramento was born with the Gold Rush, and several Huskers have their minds set Jan. 24-25 Holiday Inn Invitational...... No Team Scoring (Bob Devaney Sports Center) on finding gold at the NCAA Championships. Carl Myerscough, Becky Breisch, Ineta Feb. 1 Northern Iowa .............................. No Team Scoring Radevica and several others have realistic expectations of bringing home the top prize (Cedar Falls, Iowa) from the biggest meet of the season. Feb. 8 adidas Classic ....................... No Team Scoring Myerscough is already a two-time NCAA Indoor Champion in the shot put and the (Bob Devaney Sports Center) four-time All-American has his eyes focused on his first NCAA Outdoor title. Myerscough Feb. 15 Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational ..... 1st (m) (Bob Devaney Sports Center) .............. 1st (w) finished second in the discus and eighth in the shot put in 2002, but decided not to Feb. 22 KSU Open .................................... No Team Scoring compete in the discus this time around so he could focus on winning the shot put. Feb. 28-March 1Big 12 Indoor Championships ................ 1st (m) Breisch has won the shot put and the discus in back-to-back competitions at the Big (Bob Devaney Sports Center) ................. 2nd (w) 12 Outdoor Championships and the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships and will March 8 Last Chance Qualifier ................... No Team Scoring try to carry her momentum into her third NCAA appearance. The sophomore finished March 14-15 NCAA Indoor Championships .................... 3rd (m) (Fayetteville, Ark.) ........................................ 11th (w) second at the 2002 national meet in the discus, coming up shy of the title by one inch. She also finished eighth in the shot put at the 2002 outdoor championships and sixth at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships. Outdoor Schedule Radevica is on a roll as well, claiming titles in the long and triple jump at the Big 12 March 28-29 Stanford Invitational ..................... No Team Scoring April 4-5 Texas Relays ................................... No Team Scoring Championships and the Midwest Regional Championships. The Latvian was the runner- April 5 Emporia State Relays .................... No Team Scoring up in the triple jump at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships and is a five-time All- April 12 K.T. Woodman Track Classic ........................ 1st (w) American. Not only will she compete in both horizontal jumps, but she will compete (Wichita, Kan.) ........................................... 2nd (m) as a member of NU’s 4x100-meter relay team. April 17-19 Mt. SAC Relays ............................. No Team Scoring Several others who could finish high and score big points for the Huskers include April 16-19 Kansas Relays ................................. No Team Scoring April 24-26 Penn Relays .................................... No Team Scoring 2003 NCAA Indoor runner-up Eric Eshbach in the pole vault, third-place finisher at the April 25-26 Drake Relays .................................. No Team Scoring 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships Krisztina Kovesi in the triple jump, 110-meter May 3 Ward Haylett Invitational .................. 1st (w) hurdlers Nenad Loncar and David Davis Jr. and All-American javelin thrower Artur (Ed Weir Track Stadium)..................... 1st (m) Wszelaki. May 10 Nebraska Twilight ................ No Team Scoring With 1,088 athletes entered for the 2003 NCAA Championships, a new qualifying- (Ed Weir Track Stadium) May 17-19 Big 12 Outdoor Championships ................. 2nd (w) round format was put into place. In the running events, athletes will still go through (Austin, Texas) .............................................. 3rd (m) preliminaries and finals, and in some cases semifinals, with the exception of the 10,000 May 30-31 NCAA Midwest Regional Championship . 1st (w) meters. The field events, however, will require athletes to be ready to compete not just (Ed Weir Track Stadium) ....................... t3rd (m) one day, but two, since they must go June 11-14 NCAA Outdoor Championships . (Sacramento, Calif.) NU’s NCAA Qualifiers through a complete qualifying round to Name Event Mark get to the finals, where they will compete Nebraska Track and Field Staff Women (12) in preliminaries and finals again. Head Coach (Jumps) ........................................................... Gary Pepin Leann Boerema Shot Put 52-10 The NCAA Championships begin Asst. Head Coach (Distance) ............................................. Jay Dirksen Becky Breisch Discus 192-7 at 12 p.m. Central on Wednesday with Pole Vault, Multi-Events ......................................................... Rick Attig Throws ........................................................................... Mark Colligan Becky Breisch Shot Put 58-1 the qualifying round of the women’s Shelley-Ann Brown 100-meter Hurdles 13.23 Sprints, Hurdles, Relays .................................................. Billy Maxwell Authea Chambers 4x100-meter Relay 44.77 discus, and the running events begin at Sprints, Hurdles, Relays .................................................... Matt Martin Vesna Kostic Long Jump 20-10 3/4 12:25 p.m. with the women’s 100 meters. Administrative Assistant .................................................. Doug Martin Krisztina Kovesi Triple Jump 44-0 3/4 Team champions will be crowned after Track Secretary ............................................................... Rhonda Kunz Christi Lehman Pole Vault 13-2 1/4 the meet has concluded Saturday, June Track Office Phone ..................................................... (402) 472-6461 Track Office FAX ........................................................ (402) 472-9361 Amanda Moreley Hammer Throw 195-8 14. The last scheduled event on Ineta Radevica Long Jump 21-7 1/4 Ineta Radevica Triple Jump 45-0 1/2 Saturday is the 4x400-meter relay, which Ashley Selig Heptathlon 5,549 is slated to begin at 11:30 p.m. Central Nebraska Sports Information Anne Shadle Steeplechase 10:36.49 time. 116 South Stadium Na’Tassia Vice High Jump 5-11 In the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Lincoln, NE 68588-0123 Track Contact: Erin Smith 4x100-meter Relay 44.77 Championships, the NU women finished Phone: (402) 472-7781 Men (11) ninth with 21 points, while the men FAX: (402) 472-2005 Travis Baker High Jump 6-10 finished 19th with 14 points. The South James Bowler 1,500 meters 3:43.43 Carolina Gamecocks won the women’s www.Huskers.com Chris Burns 800 meters 1:49.13 title last year, while the Louisiana State David Davis Jr. 110-meter Hurdles 13.75 Tigers captured the men’s title at their Eric Eshbach Pole Vault 17-10 1/2 Shaun Kologinczak High Jump 7-3 home track in Baton Rouge, La. Nenad Loncar 110-meter Hurdles 13.65 Carl Myerscough Shot Put 68-10 1/2 Where to Find the Action Kyle Odvody High Jump 7-0 All results throughout the NCAA Casey Thom Decathlon Artur Wszelaki Javelin 236-10 Outdoor Championships can be found Nebraska Track and Field PAGE 2 at http://www.hornetsports.com/ncaa/results.asp. The results will be posted as soon as each event is available. Trackwire 25 Satellite feeds will also be available on June 14th at 9 p.m. CST with as (released June 5, 2003) many highlights as possible and at 1 a.m., June 15th with a full highlight WOMEN MEN package. Coordinates for the feed is SBS 6, Transponder 05, Downlink 1. LSU (65) 1. Arkansas (56) Frequency 11823MHz (H). 2. Texas (56) Auburn (56) 3. UCLA (53) 3. USC (38) Nebraska Women Capture Inaugural Midwest Regional 4. Nebraska (41) 4. UCLA (34) 5. South Carolina (37) 5. Mississippi State (33) Championship Title 6. Florida (34) 6. Tennessee (32) The Nebraska men and women made up for a less-than-perfect Big 12 7. Indiana (33) 7. South Carolina (31) Championship meet by competing on a much higher level at the NCAA 8. North Carolina (32) 8. Florida (30) Midwest Regional Championship at the Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium in 9. Stanford (21) 9. LSU (26) Lincoln, Neb. Kansas State (21) Eastern Michigan (26) The Husker women put on a show for their home crowd, taking the first- 11. Florida State (20) 11. Stanford (21) USC (20) Georgia (21) ever regional title with an all-around team effort, led by Ineta Radevica and 13. Oregon (19) Texas Tech (21) Becky Breisch. Miami (19) 14. Texas (19) The men finished tied for third with Texas Tech behind Minnesota and 15. Washington State (18) 15. TCU (17) Texas A&M, respectively, and the teams claimed 19 automatic bids to the 16. Auburn (17) Colorado State (17) NCAA Outdoor Championships. 17. Penn State (16) 17. Minnesota (16) Radevica won the regional title in the triple jump (44-11) and the long 18. Tennessee (15) Pennsylvania (16) jump (21-7 3/4) and helped pace the NU 4x100-meter relay team to a third- Cal Poly (15) 19. Baylor (15) place finish and a trip to the NCAA Championships. 20. Arizona State (14) 20. Indiana (14) Rice (14) 21. Oklahoma (13) Breisch claimed the regional titles in the shot put (57-6 1/4) and the Yale (14) 22. UTEP (12) discus (181-5) to help bring home the team championship for the Huskers. 23. SMU (13) Texas A&M (12) Radevica and Breisch were named Mondo Midwest Regional Co-Athletes Georgia (13) Houston (12) of the Year for their efforts. 25. Arkansas (11) 25. Nebraska (11) Christi Lehman added another title to her resume, clearing a school- Oregon (11) record height of 13-2 1/4 to win the regional championships. SMU (11) Kyle Odvody had one of his best meets of the year, clearing 7-2 1/4 in the high jump for a regional title as well. He was followed in fourth place by teammate Travis Baker, who cleared 7-1 for the automatic bid to the NCAA of the top 12 athletes and relay squads in each NCAA event.