June 7, 2003 / contact: Erin Smith / phone: (402) 472-7781 / fax: (402) 472-2005 / e-mail: [email protected] 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 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 at the Big 12 March 28-29 Stanford Invitational ...... No Team Scoring April 4-5 ...... 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 ...... No Team Scoring April 24-26 ...... No Team Scoring 2003 NCAA Indoor runner-up Eric Eshbach in the , third-place finisher at the April 25-26 ...... 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 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 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 5,549 is slated to begin at 11:30 p.m. Central Nebraska Sports Information Anne Shadle 10:36.49 time. 116 South Stadium Na’Tassia Vice 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 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. Championships. In the final Team Power Rankings, Nebraska fared well, with the women Carl Myerscough did his usual routine, winning the shot put in record- coming in at No. 4 and the men ranking seventh. setting fashion. He claimed the Ed Weir Stadium record and improved his The North Carolina women are atop the women’s power rankings, trailed NU school record to 69-5 1/4. by UCLA, LSU and Nebraska. Nenad Loncar led the Huskers with a silver in the 110-meter hurdles, Tennessee leads the men’s power rankings, followed by UCLA, Florida, running a time of 13.74. David Davis Jr. finished sixth in a time of 14.03. and Florida State. Anne Shadle set a school record in her third-place effort in the 3,000- The Team Power Ranking is a unique system of ranking teams on the meter steeplechase, clocking a time of 10:36.49. basis of quality of athletic performance, team depth and dual-meet scoring Amanda Moreley and Na’Tassia Vice each contributed second-place potential. The system rates teams in the same fashion as a decathlete or finishes in the hammer throw and high jump, respectively. hepthatlete. Points are assigned for two athletes in each event contested in James Bowler ran another solid race in the 1,500 meters, with a third- a dual meet and points are assigned on the basis of quality of performance. place finish in 3:43.36. Chris Burns came from behind in the 800 meters to The top person in each event has his/her points doubled to adjust for the clinch the final spot to nationals in 1:49.70. value of the number one performer on each team in a dual meet. The points Eric Eshbach did what he needed to do to make it to the NCAA for all events are then totaled for the ranking score. Championships, clearing 16-11 to finish fourth in the pole vault and qualify for the national championships. Shelley-Ann Brown also had a good showing at the regional meet, finishing Huskers Earn Mondo Midwest Regional Honors third in the 100-meter hurdles in 13.42. Ineta Radevica and Becky Breisch were named the Mondo Outdoor Midwest Regional Co-Athletes of the Year and Gary Pepin was honored as NU Women Soar in Rankings; Men Drop the Mondo Outdoor Midwest Regional Coach of the Year, as voted on by the Division I Coaches Association of the U.S. Track Coaches Association. The Nebraska women have climbed to a No. 4 ranking in the Trackwire Breisch and Radevica each collected dual wins at the Midwest Regional Top 25 after solid showings at the Big 12 Championships and the NCAA Championship. Breisch won the shot put (57-6 1/4) and the Midwest Regional Championships, while the men dropped from No. 11 all (181-5), while Radevica won the long jump (21-7 1/4) and the triple jump the way to No. 25. (44-11). Radevica was also a member of the NU 4x100-meter relay team On the women’s side, LSU remained on top of the standings, while Texas that finished third at the regional meet and automatically qualified for the stayed at the No. 2 spot and UCLA remained No. 3. NCAA Championship meet. The Arkansas and Auburn men are tied for the No. 1 spot in the poll, Pepin was named the women’s regional coach of the year, while Phil followed by USC in third and UCLA at No. 4. Lundin was named the Midwest Regional men’s coach of the year after The Trackwire 25 projects a hypothetical score for the NCAA meet, leading the Minnesota men to a regional championship title. factoring in injury reports and other variables supported by information The athletes and coaches will be recognized at the Mondo coaches’ gathered from coaches and NCAA-qualifying competitions across the country. banquet Monday night held prior to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. This projection is generated by scoring the Dandy Dozen, a power ranking Nebraska Track and Field PAGE 3

The New NCAA Championship Process Nenad Loncar is also a solid newcomer for the Huskers, ranking 11th in the The NCAA has added a qualifying round to all field events in 2003, 110-meter hurdles. Loncar also has invaluable international experience that should making the process for winning a national championship a two-day help him make it through his first NCAA appearance. event, rather than one. To be the best in your event, you have to be in top form for two days. The 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships In the throws and the horizontal jumps, the competitors will each This time last year the Nebraska women returned from the national have three attempts in the preliminaries to make the final cut for the championships with a ninth place finish, while the men finished 19th. finals of their event. In the finals, the event will begin all over and the As a freshman, Becky Breisch finished second in the discus (181-11) and eighth previous performance will no longer count. In the finals of the event, in the shot put with a throw of 62-9 1/2. competitors will have three attempts and then another set of finalists Carl Myerscough had a strong showing, as well, taking the silver in the discus will be declared to make their final three attempts for final places. with a throw of 202-7 and was also eighth in the shot put with a throw of 62-9 1/ In the pole vault and high jump, the bar will be set at a certain 2 after straining his pectoral muscle in the preliminaries. standard and they will begin jumping until they have eliminated the Artur Wszelaki garnered All-America honors in the javelin with a fourth-place set number of competitors that do not reach the finals. Once again, in finish, throwing it 243-4. the finals the process begins all over and the normal process for those Senior Melissa Price won the silver in the women’s hammer throw with a mark events will take place. of 212-9 to help pace the Huskers. In some of the running events, competitors must be in top form Shelley-Ann Brown also claimed All-America honors with a solid fifth-place three out of the four days, competing in a prelim, semifinal and final. finish in the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 13.38. The 10,000-meter run will be the only event where there is only one Krisztina Kovesi was 11th in the triple jump with a mark of 41-11 1/2 and Kyle final without a preliminary round of any type. Odvody was 16th in the high jump, clearing a height of 6-10 3/4. Lesley Owusu did not advance to the finals of the 400-meter dash, finishing Been There, Done That 11th in the preliminaries with a time of 52.55. James Bowler did not advance past Sixteen of the 23 NU athletes competing at the NCAA Outdoor the preliminaries of the 1,500 meters with a time of 3:45.40, finishing seventh in his Championships have competed in one or more NCAA Championship heat. event previously. Derek Zachary made it to the finals in the 110-meter hurdles, but came up a They have 21 All-America honors among them, led by Ineta Radevica little bit short, finishing ninth in the finals with a time of 13.98, but did receive All- with five top-eight finishes. America honors in the event. Experience counts for a lot at the NCAA Championships, although it is certainly not a determining factor for performance. Noteworthy Rematches Carl Myerscough definitely has experience on his side, with four Becky Breisch and Carl Myerscough will face off against their fiercest rivals at All-America honors and two national championships in the shot put the NCAA Outdoor Championships, and both of them have losses to avenge. under his belt. Those were indoors, however, and this is his chance to Breisch came within an inch of the discus national title as a freshman, but was prove he can be just as dominating outdoors. just shy of UCLA’s Chaniqua Ross. Breisch is leading the nation with her throw of Eric Eshbach had a terrific performance at the 2003 NCAA Indoor 192-7 at the Texas Relays and Ross is currently fourth on the national list with a Championships, but has struggled throughout the outdoor season, mark of 183-6. clearing his season-high 17-10 1/2 at the opening meet of the outdoor Ross, however, will not be far from home, however, winning state titles at season at the Stanford Invitational. Laguna Creek High School in nearby Elk Grove. Shaun Kologinczak and Kyle Odvody have earned All-America Myerscough reignites his constant battle with Missouri’s Christian Cantwell in honors in the men’s high jump, but all three of their honors have been the shot put ring. The two have gone back and forth through indoors and outdoors, indoor. Kologinczak came out strong to begin the outdoor season, with Myerscough coming out on top at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Cantwell, winning the Texas Relays with a height of 7-3, but has struggled a little however, holds the most recent victory at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in bit down the stretch of the season. Odvody came on strong for the Austin, Texas. The two did not face off at the NCAA regional championships since regional meet after he let down at the Big 12 Championships to win Missouri was shipped out to the Mideast Regional. This will mark the first time the regional title and clear his season-best height of 7-2 1/4. the two have seen each other since the conference championships. Krisztina Kovesi also made a strong run through the 2003 NCAA Breisch and Myerscough both like to win and don’t take losing lightly, so look Indoor Championships, winning bronze in the triple jump and for both of them to but on a very competitive effort. collecting her first All-America honor. Senior Shelley-Ann Brown will compete in her final NCAA Three of a Kind Championship event in Sacramento and will try to better her fifth- The Huskers will be well-represented in the high jump, and that should make place finish in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor jumps coach Gary Pepin very happy. The Nebraska men will take three of the spots Championships. in the high jump, with Kyle Odvody, Shaun Kologinczak and Travis Baker all Amanda Moreley and James Bowler each competed at the 2002 competing in the national meet. NCAA Outdoor Championships, but did not make the finals in their Odvody has had the best performance as of late, winning the NCAA Midwest events. Regional with a height of 7-2 1/4. Kologinczak has the best performance of the season, however, clearing 7-3 to win the Texas Relays. NCAA Newcomers Baker is the surprise performer of the year for the Huskers, clearing 7-1 at the Seven Huskers will experience the NCAA Championships for the NCAA regional for a fourth-place finish and his first trip to the NCAA Championships. first time in their careers. On the women’s side, Na’Tassia Vice will represent NU in the high jump. Vice Freshman Ashley Selig comes into the meet as the highest ranked enters the competition tied at No. 14 in the country. Her best mark of the season of the eight, with a No. 5 national ranking in the heptathlon. is 5-11, set at the Nebraska Wesleyan Open. She finished second in the regional As a senior, Casey Thom makes his first national appearance in the competition, clearing 5-10 1/2 for a chance to compete at the national meet. decathlon and comes into the meet ranked 10th and packed with experience. Nebraska Track and Field Friday, May 19,PAGE 2000 4 Multi-Talented Athletes Finally Take Center Stage Midwest Regional Championships. She placed a third to earn a trip to Ashley Selig and Casey Thom will represent the Huskers in the multi- Sacramento for a chance to run among the elite collegiate steeplechase events at the NCAA Championships for the first time in each of their competitors. careers. The Huskers were not represented in the distance events at all during the Selig is a freshman from Lincoln, Neb., and conquered a career-best NCAA Indoor Championships, and these three competitors have a chance performance in the heptathlon at the Big 12 Championships, where she to make a great statement for the Husker distance crew. scored 5,549 points and automatically qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Record-Setting Season The Lincoln Lutheran product ranks fifth nationally in the heptathlon The Huskers have rewritten several sections of the track and field record and finished second at the Big 12 Championships behind Missouri’s Fiona book this season. Asigbee. Selig also finished shy of Asigbee at the Big 12 Indoor Becky Breisch began the outdoor season throwing the discus an Championships in the pentathlon, but by a much smaller margin of eight unbelievable 192-7 at the Texas Relays for a Nebraska record as well as a points. Her performance in the pentathlon at the indoor conference meet Texas Relays record. was her career best and totaled 3,971 points. At the K.T. Woodman Classic, Christi Lehman returned to her record- Thom has had an equally impressive senior campaign, finishing fourth at setting ways, clearing 12-11 1/2 in the pole vault along with teammate Alissa the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 7,522 points. The mark was his Koerner. Lehman wouldn’t let that record stand, however, as she rewrote it career best in the decathlon and automatically qualified him for the NCAA at 13-2 1/4 at the Midwest Regional Championships. Championships. Thom is currently ranked 10th in the nation in the event Although he didn’t rewrite the NCAA record as he had hoped, Carl and can definitely be a contender at the outdoor national meet. Myerscough did set an NU and Ed Weir Track Stadium record in the shot The senior from Hastings, Neb., finished fourth at the Big 12 Indoor put at the regional meet with a throw of 69-51/4. Championships with a lifetime-best performance in the heptathlon with With the new pit length, Anne Shadle put together a record-setting 5,312 points. performance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the regional meet with a Unfortunately for the multi-event athletes, the competitors do not get a time of 10:36.49. chance to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships, so this is their The men’s 4x110-meter team set a new school record stage and their one opportunity for a national title and All-America honors. as well at the Penn Relays with a time of 56.32. The women’s 4xMile relay team also set a school record at the Drake Relays, with a time of 20:29.62. Pole Vaulters Set Bar High The Drake Relays marked the first time NU has ever run the event, making it an instant school record. Christi Lehman and Eric Eshbach are two of the greatest pole vaulters in During the indoor campaign, Nebraska saw five records broken. David Nebraska school history. They each hold the school indoor and outdoor Davis Jr. got NU started, claiming the school record in the 60-meter hurdles records and each has the potential to get in another big jump before the in a time of 7.70 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. season comes to a close. Lehman rewrote the women’s pole vault record nearly every week of the Lehman has recently been successful, clearing the current school record indoor season, but topped it off at the 13-3 3/4 mark. In the men’s pole vault, of 13-2 1/4 at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships to win the Eric Eshbach got off to a slow start, but went on a run to end the indoor title. She won the Big 12 Indoor Championships and won the silver at the season with a school record 18-3 3/4 for the silver at the NCAA Indoor Big 12 Outdoor Championships. She finished 14th at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Championships earlier this season, clearing 12-11 1/2. Myerscough saved his best for last, setting a school-record mark at the Eshbach had a stellar indoor season, winning the silver at the NCAA national meet. Myerscough threw the shot put a remarkable 70-6 1/4 to Indoor Championships with a height of 18-3 3/4 to improve his school repeat as the national champion. record. He started the outdoor season with a strong mark of 17-10 1/2 at the Stanford Invitational, but has had a rollercoaster of a season since. The Orangefield, Texas, native no-heighted at the Big 12 Championships Husker Women Bring Home Big 12 Silver; Men Take Bronze and came back at the Midwest Regional Championships for a fourth-place Becky Breisch and Ineta Radevica led the Nebraska women at the Big 12 finish, clearing 16-11. Eshbach was a senior indoors, but has one season Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas, May 17-19, with golds in two remaining of outdoor eligibility and will be available to compete outdoors events a piece. Breisch won titles in the shot put and discus, while Radevica in 2004. earned championships in the long and triple jumps. The Texas women ran away with the team title with 188 points and seven championships. Nebraska easily won the silver with 130 2/3 points and five Distance Runners Making Impact For Huskers individual titles, followed by Kansas State with 83 1/3 points and two titles. James Bowler, Chris Burns and Anne Shadle will all take the oval for an The men’s battle posed a bigger challenge and the Huskers came up short extended period of time at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, competing of host team Texas, as well as Texas A&M. The Longhorns posted 132 for Nebraska in the distance events. points for the win, supported by three individual titles. Texas A&M just James Bowler finished just short of making the finals in the 1,500 meters edged out NU with 115 points and two top finishes. Nebraska was third at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships, but is just hitting his stride at with 113 points and three first-place finishes. the end of the 2003 outdoor season. Bowler ran a time of 3:43.43 at the Big The Husker men were led with an outstanding performance by James 12 Championships to upset Colorado’s Jorge Torres for the conference title Bowler in the 1,500, who beat defending champion Jorge Torres, while Carl in the 1,500 meters. He also ran a time of 3:43.36 at the Midwest Regional Myerscough and Artur Wszelaki won the discus and the javelin, respectively. to finish third and qualify for the NCAA Championships. Amanda Moreley got the Huskers off to the right start with a win in the Burns qualified for his first-ever NCAA Championship meet in the 800 first event of the meet, the women’s hammer throw. Moreley finished her meters in a much more unique way, coming from the very back of the pack Big 12 career with a phenomenal career-record mark of 195-8. in the final 200 meters of the Midwest Regional Championships to earn a In the multi-events, the Huskers received clutch performances from berth at the national meet. freshman Ashley Selig in the heptathlon and senior Casey Thom in the Anne Shadle claimed the NU school record in the 3,000-meter decathlon. Selig was just eight points shy of the pentathlon title at the Big steeplechase in her best race of the season with a time of 10:36.49 at the 12 Indoor Championships, and put on an outstanding show in the heptathlon, Nebraska Track and Field Friday, May P19,AGE 2000 5 finishing second with 5,549 points, just behind Fiona Asigbee of Missouri. Husker Hurdlers On A Roll Thom finished third in the decathlon with a career-best and automatic- The NU men showed what they were capable of in the hurdles at the qualifying mark of 7,522. Ward Haylett Invitational, and they haven’t slowed down since. The Huskers Nenad Loncar and David Davis Jr. made an impressive stand for the have since placed three athletes in the finals of the 110-meter hurdles at the Huskers in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing second and third, respectively. Big 12 Championships and two in the finals at the Midwest Regional Loncar’s time of 13.65 was the second-best mark in school history. Davis Championships. ran a career-best time of 13.75 in the preliminaries to finish behind Texas At the Big 12 Championships, David Davis Jr. led Nebraska in the A&M’s Chris Pinnock. Freshman Courtney Jones also made the finals in the preliminaries of the 110-meter hurdles, finishing second in his heat with a hurdles, taking seventh in 14.24. time of 13.75. Nenad Loncar dominated his heat with a time of 13.84 and NU also put on its biggest performance of the season in the men’s 400- Courtney Jones made the finals with a time of 14.25. meter hurdles, sending three Huskers to the finals. Mark Harrison ran a Loncar would prove he was the best of the three in the finals, however, stellar third-place time of 51.66, but was disqualified for a trail leg violation. flying over the hurdles in 13.65 for a second-place finish and a new Yugoslavian Danny Hill was right behind him with a time of 52.13 for the final third- national record. Loncar’s mark qualified him to represent his country at the place finish. Andy Nelson took the No. 7 spot in 53.95. 2004 in Athens and was the second-best mark in school The women high jumpers had a successful meet, with Na’Tassia Vice and history. Sara Jane Baker tying Kansas State’s Morgan High for the silver, clearing a While Davis’ mark of 13.84 didn’t have quite the impact of Loncar’s, his height of 5-8 3/4. preliminary mark (13.75) did register as the fifth best in school history. At the Midwest Regional Championships, Loncar had another Where They Stand outstanding run, finishing second behind Texas A&M’s Chris Pinnock, with Becky Breisch continues to lead the nation in the women’s discus with a time of 13.74 in the finals. Davis had a much stronger preliminary than her mark of 192-7 and is second in the shot put behind 2003 NCAA Indoor final, running 13.68 in the prelims. He clocked a time of 14.03 in the finals Champion Laura Gerraughty. for a sixth-place finish. Carl Myerscough took over the top mark in the country in the shot put with his throw of 69-5 1/4 at the regional meet. Wszelaki Represents Huskers in In the men’s 110-meter hurdles, Nenad Loncar is currently 11th on the Artur Wszelaki won the title, heaving the javelin 236- NCAA list with a time of 13.65. David Davis Jr. is ranked 13th in the nation 10 on his final attempt for his best mark of the season. He fell short at the with a time of 13.68. NCAA Midwest Regional, finishing seventh, with a throw of 218-9, and had James Bowler’s run of 3:43.36 in the 1,500 meters at the regional ranks to rely on his conference mark to give him an at-large bid to the national 18th among NCAA competitors. meet. Shaun Kologinczak sits at No. 10 nationally, clearing a height of 7-3 in Wszelaki started the season strong at the Stanford Invitational, throwing the high jump at the Texas Relays in April. Kyle Odvody is right behind him the javelin 235-10 for his first title of the season. He finished second at the tied at No. 14 with his leap of 7-2 1/4 at regional. Travis Baker is tied at 21st Texas Relays with a mark of 229-10, before finishing fifth at the Penn in the high jump. Relays. Eric Eshbach is sixth nationally with a previous height of 17-10 1/2 at the The junior has a personal-best mark of 246-3 and finished fourth at the Stanford Invitational. 2002 NCAA Championships with a throw of 243-4. He is capable of a large Artur Wszelaki improved his standing with a mark of 236-10 in the throw and will need a strong performance at the NCAA Championships to javelin at the conference championships to put him at ninth on the national repeat his All-America honors. list. Casey Thom is ranked 10th in the men’s decathlon with his performance Husker Season Winding Down of 7,522 points at the Big 12 Conference Championships. With the format change for the NCAA Championships and the addition On the women’s side, Ineta Radevica has continued her impressive marks of the regional championships, the outdoor season has gotten even longer. from the indoor season, securing the No. 2 spot in the triple jump and the After an extended season, the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championships are fifth spot on the long jump list nationally. finally here. Krisztina Kovesi is not far behind Radevica in the triple jump, claiming a The Huskers have been in-season for 23 weeks, beginning on Jan. 17-18 tie for the No. 7 spot in the triple jump on the national list. Vesna Kostic is at the Wildcat Invitational in Manhattan, Kan. Now only four critical days tied at No. 19 in the women’s long jump. remain. The Huskers who made it past the NCAA Regional test will travel Freshman Ashley Selig is ranked fifth in the women’s heptathlon with her to Sacramento, Calif., to compete at the NCAA Championships, June 11-14. score of 5,549 at the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas. Leann Boerema is behind Breisch on the shot put list with the 15th-best mark in the nation going into the NCAA Championships. Shelley-Ann Brown improved on the NCAA list with her time of 13.23 at the regional championships, and is now sitting at No. 14. Na’Tassia Vice is tied at No. 14 among NCAA high jumpers with a mark of 5-11. In the pole vault, Christi Lehman is tied at No. 17 nationally, clearing a school-record height of 13-2 1/4. Amanda Moreley is 16th on the NCAA descending order list in the hammer throw. Anne Shadle is ranked 27th on the national steeplechase list with a time of 10:36.49 at the regional meet. The NU 4x100-meter relay is ranked 18th, made up with Radevica, Kostic, Authea Chambers and Brown. 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championships Schedule of Events June 11-14 2003 | Hornet Stadium | Sacramento, Calif.

Wednesday, June 11 All Times Central Friday, June 13 All Times Central RUNNING EVENTS Nebraska Athletes RUNNING EVENTS Nebraska Athletes 12:25 pm 100 M Dash W Prelims 12:00 pm 100 M Hurdles Heptathlon Ashley Selig 12:45 pm 100 M Dash M Prelims 5:00 pm 200 M Run Heptathlon Ashley Selig 1:05 pm 800 M Run W Prelims 9:00 pm 4x100 M Relay W Final 1:30 pm 800 M Run M Prelims Chris Burns 9:10 pm 4x100 M Relay M Final 2:05 pm 100 M Hurdles W Prelims Shelley-Ann Brown 9:25 pm 400 M Hurdles W Final 2:30 pm 110 M Hurdles M Prelims Loncar, Davis 9:35 pm 400 M Hurdles M Final 3:00 pm 100 M Dash Decathlon Casey Thom 9:50 pm 3,000 M Steeplechase W Final 7:45 pm 4x100 Relay W Prelims Nebraska 10:10 pm 3,000 M Steeplechase M Final 8:05 pm 4x100 Relay M Prelims 10:25 pm 400 M Dash W Semis 8:30 pm 3,000 M Steeplechase W Prelims Anne Shadle 10:40 pm 400 M Dash M Semis 9:00 pm 3,000 M Steeplechase M Prelims 10:55 pm 100 M Dash W Final 9:30 pm 400 M Dash Decathlon Casey Thom 11:05 pm 100 M Dash M Final 9:55 pm 400 M Hurdles W Prelims 10:20 pm 400 M Hurdles M Prelims FIELD EVENTS 10:50 pm 100 M Dash W Semis 12:00 pm Hammer Throw W Final 11:05 pm 100 M Dash M Semis 1:00 pm High Jump Heptathlon Ashley Selig 11:20 pm 5,000 M Run W Prelims 3:30 pm Shot Put Heptathlon Ashley Selig 12:00 pm 5,000 M Run M Prelims 4:00 pm Discus W Final 6:30 pm Javelin M Final FIELD EVENTS 8:00 pm Pole Vault M Final 12:00 pm Discus W Qualifying Becky Breisch 8:45 pm Long Jump M Final 1:00 pm Pole Vault M Qualifying Eric Eshbach 8:55 pm Long Jump W Final 3:45 pm Javelin M Qualifying Artur Wszelaki 9:00 pm Javelin W Final 4:00 pm Long Jump Decathlon Casey Thom 9:30 pm Shot Put M Final 5:30 pm Shot Put Decathlon Casey Thom 6:30 pm Long Jump M Qualifying Saturday, June 14 7:00 pm Hammer Throw W Qualifying Amanda Moreley 4:40 pm 800 M Run Heptathlon Ashley Selig 9:15 pm Long Jump W Qualifying Radevica, Kostic 9:00 pm 100 M Hurdles W Final 10:05 pm Javelin W Qualifying 9:10 pm 110 M Hurdles M Final 10:35 pm Shot Put M Qualifying Carl Myerscough 9:20 pm 400 M Dash W Final 9:30 pm 400 M Dash M Final Thursday, June 12 9:40 pm 1,500 M Run W Final RUNNING EVENTS 9:50 pm 1,500 M Run M Final 12:15 pm 200 M Dash W Prelims 10:00 pm 200 M Dash W final 12:40 pm 200 M Dash M Prelims 10:10 pm 200 M Dash M Final 1:05 pm 800 M Run W Semis 10:20 pm 800 M Run W Final 1:25 pm 800 M Run M Semis 10:30 pm 800 M Run M Final 1:45 pm 100 M Hurdles W Semis 10:40 pm 5,000 M Run W Final 2:00 pm 110 M Hurdles M Semis 11:00 pm 5,000 M Run M Final 2:15 pm 110 M Hurdles Decathlon Casey Thom 11:20 pm 4x400 M Relay W Final 2:55 pm 400 M Dash W Prelims 11:30 pm 4x400 M Relay M Final 3:15 pm 400 M Dash M Prelims 8:00 pm 400 M Hurdles W Semis FIELD EVENTS 8:15 pm 400 M Hurdles M Semis 12:00 pm Long Jump Heptathlon Ashley Selilg 8:30 pm 200 M Dash W Semis 12:00 pm Hammer Throw M Final 8:45 pm 200 M Dash M Semis 1:40 pm Javelin Heptathlon Ashley Selig 9:00 pm 1,500 M Run W Prelims 4:00 pm Discus M Final 9:25 pm 1,500 M Run M Prelims James Bowler 6:30 pm High Jump M Final 9:50 pm 1,500 M Run Decathlon Casey Thom 8:00 pm Pole Vault W Final 10:15 pm 4x400 M Relay W Prelims 8:55 pm Triple Jump M Final 10:40 pm 4x400 M Relay M Prelims 9:15 pm Triple Jump W Final 11:00 pm 10,000 M Run W Final 9:30 pm Shot Put W Final 11:40 pm 10,000 M Run M Final 9:35 pm High Jump W Final

FIELD EVENTS 12:00 pm Pole Vault W Qualifying 12:15 pm Discus M Qualifying 3:25 pm Discus Decathlon Casey Thom 3:30 pm High Jump M Qualifying Odvody, Baker, Kologinczak 5:55 pm Pole Vault Decathlon Casey Thom 6:00 pm High Jump W Qualifying Na’Tassia Vice 6:30 pm Triple Jump M Qualifying 7:00 pm Hammer Throw M Qualifying TBA Javelin Decathlon Casey Thom 9:15 pm Triple Jump W Qualifying Radevica, Kovesi 10:30 pm Shot Put W Qualifying Breisch, Boerema Women’s NCAA Roster

Name Event(s) Yr. (I/O) Hometown (High School/Other School)

Leann Boerema Shot Put Sr. Clinton, Iowa (Clinton)

Becky Breisch Shot Put, Discus So. Edwardsburg, Mich. (Edwardsburg)

Shelley-Ann Brown 100m Hurdles, 4x100 Sr. Pickering, Ontario (Dunbarton)

Authea Chambers 4x100 Jr. Kingston, (Immaculate Conception)

Vesna Kostic 4x100, Long Jump Sr. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (The 11th Gymnasium/Belgrade)

Krisztina Kovesi Triple Jump Sr. Szigetszentmiklos, Hungary (Jozsef Attila/Schola Europa)

Christi Lehman Pole Vault So. Newton, Kan. (Hesston, Hesston, Kan.)

Amanda Moreley Hammer Throw Sr. Auburn, Wash. (Auburn)

Ineta Radevica 4x100, Long & Triple Jump Jr. Kraslava, Lativia (Kraslava/Univ. of Lativia/Wichita State)

Ashely Selig Heptathlon Fr. Lincoln, Neb. (Lincoln Lutheran)

Anne Shadle 3,000-meter Steeplechase So. South Sioux City, Neb. (South Sioux City)

Na’Tassia Vice High Jump Jr. Mesquite, Texas (Poteet)

Pronunciation Guide Becky Breisch ...... (BRYSCH) Leann Boerema ...... (BORE-mah) Authea Chambers ...... (Ah-THEE-a) Vesna Kostic ...... (Cost-TICK) Krisztina Kovesi ...... (koe-VAY-see) Christi Lehman ...... (LAY-man) Ineta Radevica ...... (Ih-NET-a) (Rada-VEACH-a) LEANN B OEREMA BECKY BREISCH Shot Put Shot Put Senior Sophomore Clinton, Iowa Edwardsburg, Mich. (Clinton) (Edwardsburg)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: Shot Put, 54-4 Indoors: Shot Put, 56-4 1/2 Outdoors: Shot Put, 53-0 1/4; Discus, 148-9 Outdoors: Shot Put, 58-1; Discus, 192-7 Honors: NCAA All-American: Big 12 Shot Put Champion, 2000 (O); Academic All-Big 12 2003 Indoor Shot Put (2000, 2001, 2003); Verizon Academic All-District VII Second Team 2002 Outdoor Shot Put 2002 Outdoor Discus NCAA Championships: Honors: 2002 (I): Shot Put, 52-10 1/4 (10th) 2001 (I): Shot Put, 47-0 3/4 (14th) NU Record Holder in the Discus; Big 12 Discus Champion, 2002 (O), 2001 (O): Shot Put, 49-7 1/4 (18th) 2003 (O); Big 12 Shot Put Champion, 2003 (I); 2003 (O); NCAA 2000 (O): Shot Put, 48-2 3/4 (16th) Midwest Regional Champion in Discus and Shot Put, 2003 (O); 2003 Mondo Midwest Regional Co-Athlete of the Year Big 12 Championships: NCAA Championships: 2003 (I): Shot Put, 52-3 3/4 (3rd) 2003 (I): Shot Put, 54-4 (6th) 2003 (O): Shot Put, 49-7 3/4 (5th) 2002 (I): Shot Put, 49-9 (17th) 2001 (I): Shot Put, 52-0 (2nd) 2002 (O): Discus, 181-11 (2nd); Shot Put, 53-11 (8th) 2001 (O): Shot Put, 51-2 3/4 (4th) Big 12 Championships: 2000 (I): Shot Put, 51-5 3/4 (2nd) 2000 (O): Shot Put, 51-3 3/4 (1st) 2003 (I): Shot Put, 56-4 1/2 (1st) 2003 (O): Shot Put, 55-11 (1st); Discus, 180-10 (1st) 2003: Leann Boerema made the NCAA Outdoor Championships 2002 (I): Shot Put, 53-8 1/4 (2nd) by automatically qualifying in the shot put with a fourth-place finish 2002 (O): Discus, 182-8 (1st) at the regional championships, throwing a mark of 50-5 1/2... threw 2003: Becky Breisch has improved on an outstanding freshman her best outdoor mark of 52-10 at the Texas Relays, where she year, collecting three Big 12 Championships, two NCAA Midwest finished third... took fifth place at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, Regional Championships and one All-America award going into with a throw of 49-7 3/4... during indoors, Boerema launched a the NCAA Outdoor Championships... she won NCAA Regional titles lifetime best throw of 54-4 to win the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in the shot put (57-6 1/4) and the discus (181-5)... took Big 12 on Feb. 15... at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships, threw the Outdoor crowns in the discus (180-10) and the shot put (55-11)... shot 52-10 1/4 for a 10th-place finish, her best finish at an NCAA unleashed an incredible school-record throw of 192-7 to win the Championship meet... took the bronze at the Big 12 Indoor Texas Relays discus title... threw a career-best mark of 58-1 in the Championships with a mark of 52-3 3/4... was second at the Holiday shot put to win the Ward Haylett Invitational... earned All-America Inn Invitational, Jan. 25, with a throw of 49-3 1/4... was named to the honors at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships with a sixth-place Verizon Academic All-District VII Second Team for her 3.476 GPA finish in the shot put, with a mark of 54-4... won the Big 12 Indoor and was a finalist for the 2003 Nebraska Female Student-Athlete of Championship title in the shot put with a throw of 56-4 1/2... won the the Year. 2002: Boerema missed the 2002 season due to elbow Holiday Inn Invitational with an automatic-qualifying mark of 53-11 surgery. 2001: Threw an indoor season-best and NCAA provisional- 1/4... was second at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a qualifying mark of 52-6 3/4 in the shot put at the Nebraska Last mark of 50-10 1/4. 2002: Breisch had a great freshman season, Chance meet... finished 14th in the shot put at the NCAA indoor meet claiming two All-America honors and a Big 12 Championship… (47-0 3/4)... placed second in the shot put at the Big 12 indoor meet finished second in the discus at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor National (52-0)... was fourth in the shot put at the Big 12 outdoor meet (51- Championships with mark of 181-11... finished eighth at the outdoor 2 3/4)... finished 18th in the shot put at the NCAA outdoor meet (49- national championships in the shot put with a mark of 53-11… broke 7 1/4). 2000: Won the Big 12 outdoor shot put title with a mark of 51- the Big 12 Outdoor Championship meet record in the discus with 1 3/4, before advancing to place 16th at the NCAA meet... tossed a a throw 182-8... best outdoor performance of the season in the shot personal-best mark of 53-0 1/4 in the Indiana State, Kansas State came at the Stanford Invitational where Breisch threw a mark of 54- and Wichita State quadrangular (then the third-longest throw in 8… was second in the shot put at the Big 12 Indoor Championships Nebraska history)... placed second at the Big 12 indoor meet with with a season best mark of 53-8 1/4... finished 17th at the NCAA a mark of 51-5 3/4. 1999: Received a medical hardship after Indoor National Championships with mark of 49-9. High School: competing in one meet because of a pinched nerve in her neck. High Placed first in the shot put (46-9 3/4) and discus (158-3) at the 2001 School: Was the 1998 Drake Relays shot put and discus champion... Michigan Division 3 state meet... her mark in the discus set a new named High School Girls MVP of the Drake Relays... 1998 Iowa all-class state meet record and ranked 10th among U.S. prep Class 3A state champion in the shot put and third-place finisher in athletes in 2001... also won the discus (155-5) at the Midwest Meet the discus... named the 1997 Gatorade Iowa Girls’ Track and Field of Champions... her prep-best mark of 48-4 1/2 at the Midwest Meet Athlete of the Year... was the 1997 Drake Relays champion in the of Champions ranked eighth among prep athletes in 2001... was the shot put... 1997 Class 3A state champion in the shot put and placed 2001 Michigan Gatorade Athlete of the Year... also claimed state sixth in the state in the discus. Personal: High school coaches were titles in the shot put and discus in 1999 (42-8 1/2; 151-5) and 2000 Bob Lueders and Dave Schutte... mid/moderate special education (48-2 1/2; 156-11)... set state indoor record in shot put (47-2) in and coaching major... parents are Lonny and Lori Boerema... born 2000... posted the second-longest Michigan prep throw of all time Personal: Aug. 25, 1980. in both the shot put and discus. Major is general studies... parents are Mike and Mary Breisch... born March 16, 1983. meters (24.17) and led off the second-place 4x400m relay team at SHELLEY-ANN B ROWN the Big 12 indoor meet... placed 17th in the 60 meters at the NCAA 100 meter Hurdles, 4x100 indoor meet (7.47)... ran personal-best indoor times in the 200 Senior meters (24.04) and 60-meter hurdles (8.56)... finished seventh in the 100 meters at the Big 12 outdoor meet (11.79) and helped NU’s Pickering, Ontario 4x100-meter relay team place seventh... posted personal-best (Dunbarton) outdoor times in the 100 meters (11.65) and a season-best in the 100-meter hurdles (13.58)... named Nebraska’s most improved female track athlete. 2000: Anchored the 4x100-meter relay team that placed fifth at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships (45.67)... ran a season-best 14.01 in the 100-meter hurdles in a triangular Personal Bests: against Indiana State, Kansas State and Wichita State. High School: Indoors: 55m, 7.14; 60m, 7.36; 200m, 24.04; 60m Hurdles, 8.20 Did not compete in track during her final year of high school because Outdoors: 100m, 11.65; 100m Hurdles, 13.34, 13.23w; 200m, of a teachers’ strike in Ontario... placed third at the 1998 Canadian 24.07, 23.85w Junior Nationals in the 100-meter hurdles and took second in the NCAA All-American: 100 meters... was the 1998 OFSAA 100-meter dash champion. Personal: High school coach was David Hunt... majors are biological 2002 Outdoor 100-meter Hurdles sciences and English... parents are Clifton and Lena Brown... born Honors: March 15, 1980. Big 12 Champion 60m Hurdles 2002 (I); Academic All-Big 12 (2001, 2002, 2003) AUTHEA C HAMBERS NCAA Championships: 4x100 2003 (I): 60m Hurdles, 8.34p Sophomore (I), Junior (O) 2002 (I): 60m Hurdles, 8.30p Kingston, Jamaica 2002 (O): 100m Hurdles, 13.38 (5th) 2001 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.47p (Immaculate Conception) Big 12 Championships: 2003 (I): 60m , 7.56 (8th); 60m Hurdles, 8.34 (4th) 2003 (O): 100m Hurdles, 13.57 (5th); 4x100m, 46.64 (5th) Personal Bests: 2002 (I): 60m, 7.47 (2nd); 60m Hurdles, 8.20 (1st); 4x400m, 3.42.90 (6th) 2002 (O): 100m, 11.82w (6th); 110m Hurdles, 13.31w (3rd) Indoors: 60m, 7.59; Long Jump, 19-8; Triple Jump, 42-1 1/4 2001 (I): 60m 7.39, (3rd); 200m, 24.17 (6th); 4x400m, 3:41.38 (2nd) Outdoors: 100m, 11.84, 11.97w; Long Jump, 20-5 3/4; Triple Jump, 42-2 3/4 2001 (O): 100m, 11.79 (7th); 4x100m, 45.50 (7th); 4x400m , 3:45.98(8th) Big 12 Championships: 2000 (O): 4x100m, 45.67 (5th) 2003: Shelley-Ann Brown automatically qualified for the NCAA 2003(I): Triple Jump, 42-1 1/4 (4th); Long Jump, 19-6 (6th) Outdoor Championships in the 100-meter hurdles by running a 2003 (O): Long Jump, 20-5 3/4 (4th) time of 13.42 and finishing third at the NCAA Regional... recorded 2002 (I): 60m, 10.99 (Injury) (8th); Long Jump, 18-7 3/4 (8th); an outstanding wind-aided time of 13.23 in the preliminaries at the Triple Jump, 40-3 1/2 (3rd) regional meet... also helped the NU 4x100-meter relay team 2002 (O): 100m, 12.13w (8th); Triple Jump, 41-10 3/4 (4th) automatically qualify for the national meet, anchoring the relay to a 2001 (O): Triple Jump, 40-1 1/2w (6th) third-place finish in 44.77... finished fifth at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.57... had 2003: Authea Chambers will compete at the NCAA Outdoor a disappointing prelim at the NCAA Indoor Championships, finishing Championships as a member of the Husker 4x100-meter relay 15th with a time of 8.34 on the 60-meter hurdles... got off to a great team... ran a wind-aided time of 11.97 in the 100-meter dash at the start in 2003, winning both the 60-meter dash and the 60-meter Texas Relays... took fourth place at the Big 12 Outdoor hurdles at the Kansas State Invitational... set her first NCAA Championships with a career-best leap of 20-5 3/4 in the long provisional mark in the hurdles in her win at the Northern Iowa jump... took eighth in the triple jump at the NCAA Regional meet with Invitational... doubled wins in the 60 dash and hurdles at the adidas a leap of 42-2 3/4... finished fourth in the triple jump at the Big 12 Classic and the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a leap of 42-1 1/4 and was sixth in the Indoor Championships, Brown was fourth in the hurdles and eighth long jump with a mark of 19-6... won silver in the 60-meter dash in the 60-meter dash... ran a season-best time of 8.21 in the hurdles. (7.53) and bronze in the triple jump (40-10 1/2) at the Frank Sevigne 2002: Brown earned All-America and Big 12 Championship honors Husker Invitational... was third in the long and triple jumps at the in 2002 with great performances in the sprints and hurdles… Holiday Inn Invitational. 2002: Chambers took four top-eight finishes finished fifth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with time of at the Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor Championships... she ran a 13.38 in the 100-meter hurdles… took third place in the 110-meter lifetime best time of 11.84 in the 100-meter dash in the outdoor hurdles at the Big 12 Championships with a wind-aided time of conference championship prelims and finished eighth in the finals 13.31... was sixth in the 100-meter dash at the conference with a wind-aided time of 12.13… set a season-best outdoor long championships with a wind-aided time of 11.82... best legal time jump with her leap of 19-8 1/4 against Kansas State, Oregon and of the outdoor season came in the Big 12 Championship Wyoming... ran personal best time in the 60-meter dash (7.59) preliminaries with a time of 11.84 in the 100-meter dash… ran a during the indoor season at the Big 12 Championships in the personal-best 13.34 in the 100-meter hurdles in the NCAA semifinals... finished eighth in the 60-meter dash finals at the Championship prelims... during the indoor season, Brown set a conference meet as a result of an injury... took eighth in the long jump school record and won the Big 12 Championship with a time of 8.20 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with mark of 18-7 3/4. 2001: in the 60-meter hurdles... was second at the indoor conference Finished sixth in the triple jump at the Big 12 outdoor meet with a mark meet in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.47... competed in the of 40-1 1/2... recorded a season-best mark of 41-5 3/4 in the triple NCAA Indoor prelims of the 60-meter hurdles (8.30)... season-best jump at the Kansas Relays... redshirted indoors. High School: Was indoor 200-meters time came at the Frank Sevigne Invitational, the 2000 Jamaican girls triple jump champion (40-9 3/4)... finished where she ran 24.33. 2001: Finished third in the 60 meters (7.39) second in the triple jump (41-1) and third in the long jump (19-7) at at the Big 12 indoor meet after running a personal-best time of 7.36 the 2000 Jamaican Junior Championships... was the triple jump in both the prelims and semifinals... also finished sixth in the 200 champion in the 2000 Carifta Games with a personal-best mark of 42-6... member of the 2000 Jamaican World Junior Team... finished Stevanovic... major is finance... parents are Zivorad and Zagorka sixth in the triple jump (41-8 3/4) at the Jamaican National Kostic... born Aug. 15, 1979. Championships. Personal: High school coach was Mark Prince... major is accounting with a math minor... mother is Doreen Chambers... born Jan. 16, 1981. KRISZTINA K OVESI Triple Jump VESNA K OSTIC Senior Long Jump, 4x100 Szigetszentmiklos, Hungary Senior (Jozsef Attila/Schola Europa) Belgrade, Yugoslavia (The 11th Gymnasium/Belgrade)

Personal Bests: Indoors: Triple Jump, 44-1 1/4; Long Jump, 20-1; 60m, 7.88 Personal Bests: Outdoors: Long Jump, 20-1 1/2; Triple Jump, 43-7, 44-0 3/4w Indoors: 60m, 7.48; Long Jump, 20-9 1/4; Triple Jump, 40-4 NCAA All-American: Outdoors:100m 12.08; Long Jump, 21-1 1/4; Triple Jump, 39-6 2003 Indoor Triple Jump NCAA Championships: Honors: 2003 (I): Long Jump, 19-8 3/4 (11th) Big 12 Champion Triple Jump 2002 (I), 2001 (I), 2001 (O); Honors: Academic All-Big 12 Second Team (2003) Academic All-Big 12 (2001) NCAA Championships: Big 12 Championships: 2003 (I): Triple Jump, 44-1 1/4 (3rd) 2002 (I): Triple Jump, 40-7 3/4 (13th) 2003 (I): 60m, 7.55 (7th); Long Jump, 20-9 1/4 (2nd) 2002 (O): Triple Jump, 41-1 1/2 (11th) 2003 (O): Long Jump, 19-8 3/4 (t6th); 4x100m, 46.64 (5th) 2002 (I): Long Jump, 19-8 3/4 (2nd) Big 12 Championships: 2002 (O): Long Jump, 19-11 1/2 (2nd) 2003 (I): Long Jump, 19-10 3/4 (5th); Triple Jump, 42-4 (3rd) 2001 (I): Long Jump, 18-8 1/2 (7th) 2003 (O): Long Jump, 19-8 3/4 (6th); Triple Jump 44-0 3/4 (3rd) 2001 (O): Long Jump, 20-5w (5th); 4x100m, 45.50 (7th) 2002 (I): Long Jump, 19-3 1/2 (6th); Triple Jump, 42-7 1/2 (1st) 2000 (O): Long Jump, 16-9 3/4 (21st); 4x100m, 45.67 (5th) 2002 (O): Long Jump, 18-10 (8th); Triple Jump, 42-8 3/4 (2nd) 2001 (I): Long Jump, 19-1 1/2 (4th); Triple Jump, 41- 2 1/4 (1st) 2003: Vesna Kostic qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships 2001 (O): Long Jump, 20-0 1/2 (8th); Triple Jump 42-2 3/4 (1st) automatically in the 4x100-meter relay and by wild card in the long 2000 (I): Long Jump, 18-8 (7th); Triple Jump 40-2 1/4 (5th) jump... jumped a season-best wind-aided mark of 20-10 3/4 at the 2000 (O): Long Jump, 18-9 1/4 (8th); Triple Jump 40-3 1/4 (4th) NCAA Midwest Regional Championships for a seventh-place finish... tied Krisztina Kovesi for sixth place in the long jump at the Big 12 2003: Krisztina Kovesi automatically qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a leap of 19-8 3/4... was the lead Championships in the triple jump, earning her way with a fourth- runner for NU’s fifth-place 4x100-meter relay team at the conference place finish in the regional triple jump competition with a season- championships and the third-place team at the regional best leap of 43-7... won the bronze in the triple jump (44-0 3/4) and championships... took third place in the long jump at the Ward was sixth in the long jump (19-8 3/4) at the Big 12 Outdoor Haylett Invitational... finished 11th at the NCAA Indoor Championships... finished fifth at the Kansas Relays in the triple Championships in the long jump with a mark of 19-8 3/4... improved (40-11)... earned her first All-America honors at the 2003 NCAA her personal-best mark in every event she competed in during Indoor Championships, where she claimed the bronze in the triple indoors... Kostic was second at the Big 12 Championships in the jump with an outstanding career-best leap of 44-1 1/4... had one of long jump with a mark of 20-9 1/4 and was seventh in the 60-meter her best meets of the season when it counted most at the Last dash with a time of 7.55... took silver in the 60 meters at the adidas Chance Qualifier, setting then-lifetime personal bests in the triple Classic, the Holiday Inn Invitational and the Kansas State Invitational... and long jumps... jumped an automatic-qualifying mark in the triple won the long jump at the Holiday Inn Invitational. 2002: Kostic ended jump with a leap of 43-2 1/4 at the last chance meet... was third at her 2002 season with a lifetime long jump of 21-1 1/4 in the MAL Cup the Big 12 Championships in the triple (42-4) and fifth in the long IAAF in Hungary in July... finished second in the long jump at the jump (19-10 3/4)... took silver in the triple jump at the Frank Sevigne outdoor Big 12 Championships with a jump of 19-11 1/2… indoors Husker Invitational, the Kansas State Invitational, the Holiday Inn she led the team in the long jump with a distance of 19-8 3/4 at the Invitational, the Northern Iowa Invitational and the adidas Classic. Big 12 Championships for a second-place finish… in the triple 2002: Kovesi finished in 11th place in the triple jump at the NCAA jump, she jumped a lifetime best of 39-4 at the indoor conference Outdoor Championships… recorded her outdoor season-best championship meet. 2001: Finished fifth in the long jump at the Big mark in the long jump at 20-1 at the Pimona Pitzer Invitational… her 12 outdoor meet with a wind-aided leap of 20-5... ran the first leg on best triple jump of the season came in the Kansas State, Oregon, the 4x100-meter relay team that finished seventh (45.50) at the Wyoming Quadrangular with a distance of 43-2 1/2, a provisional- league’s outdoor meet... placed seventh in the long jump (18-8 1/ qualifying standard… during the indoor season, Kovesi notched her 2) at the Big 12 indoor meet... notched an indoor season-best leap season best long jump (19-3 1/2) at the Big 12 Championships with of 18-10 3/4 in the long jump at the Northern Iowa Invitational. 2000: a sixth-place finish… in the triple jump, she led the team winning the Ran the second leg on the 4x100-meter relay team that placed fifth Big 12 Championship with a season best of 42-7 1/2... wrapped up at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships... recorded an outdoor the indoor season with an 13th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor season-best long jump of 19-6 3/4 in a quadrangular against Championships with a jump of 40-7 3/4. 2001: Won the triple jump Indiana State, Kansas State and Wichita State... ran an indoor at both the indoor (41-2 1/4) and outdoor (42-2 3/4) Big 12 Conference season-best time of 7.66 in the 60-meters at the Nebraska Open... meets... her leap at the league’s outdoor meet was a season-best posted a season-best long jump of 18-9 at the Nebraska Open. In and NCAA provisional-qualifying mark... her mark at the indoor Yugoslavia: Placed first in the long jump at the 1998 Balkan Junior league meet was an indoor personal best... finished fourth in the Championships. Personal: Coach in Yugoslavia was Ljubisa long jump at the Big 12 indoor meet and eighth outdoors... notched a season-best indoor long jump of 19-8 at the Northern Iowa Invitational... named Nebraska women’s most valuable team Amanda Moreley performer. 2000: Placed eighth in the long jump (18-9 1/4) and Throws fourth in the triple jump (40-3 1/4) at the Big 12 outdoor meet... Senior finished fifth in the triple jump at the Big 12 indoor meet (40-2 1/4) and placed seventh in the long jump (18-8)... finished second in the Auburn, Wash. long jump and third in the triple jump at the Hungarian Under-23 (Auburn) Championships in June. Personal: High school coach was Matyas Mutschler... major is international business... parents are Tibor and Agnes Kovesi... born Sept. 13, 1979.

CHRISTI L EHMAN Personal Bests: Pole Vault Indoors: 20-poind , 63-3 1/4 Outdoors: Hammer Throw, 195-8 Sophomore Newton, Kan. Honors: (Hesston) Big 12 Champion 20-pound Weight Throw 2002 (I); Big 12 Champion Hammer Throw 2003 (O) NCAA Championships: 2002 (O): Hammer Throw, 175-7 (19th) Personal Bests: Big 12 Championships: Indoors: Pole Vault, 13-3 3/4 2003 (I): 20-pound Weight Throw, 58-7 1/4 (3rd) Outdoors: Pole Vault, 13-2 1/4 2003 (O): Hammer Throw, 195-8 (1st) Honors: 2002 (I): 20-pound Weight Throw, 60-5 3/4 (1st) Nebraska School Record Holder Indoors and Outdoors in the Pole 2002 (O): Hammer Throw, 193-11(2nd) Vault; Big 12 Champion Pole Vault 2003 (I); Academic All-Big 12 (2003); 2001 (O): Hammer Throw, 164-9 (7th) NCAA Midwest Regional Pole Vault Champion, 2003 (O) 2003: Amanda Moreley makes her second-ever appearance at the NCAA Championships: NCAA Championships, automatically qualifying in the hammer 2003 (I): Pole Vault, 12-11 1/2 (14th) throw by finishing second at the regional championships with a throw of 186-8... had an outstanding Big 12 Outdoor Championship Big 12 Championships: meet, where she took the gold with a lifetime-best performance of 2003 (I): Pole Vault, 13-3 1/2 (1st) 195-8... was fifth in the hammer throw at the Texas Relays with a 2003 (O): Pole Vault, 12-10 (2nd) throw of 188-6... finished fourth in the elite section of the hammer 2002 (I): Pole Vault, 11-10 (5th) throw at the Stanford Invitational with a mark of 189-1... was just shy 2002 (O): Pole Vault, 11-9 (6th) of making the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw... 2003: Christi Lehman won the Midwest Regional title in the pole best mark of the indoor season in the weight throw was 63-3 1/4 at vault with an NU school record 13-2 1/4 to qualify for the NCAA the Last Chance Qualifier... won the bronze in the weight throw at Outdoor Championships... took silver at the Big 12 Outdoor the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a throw of 58-7 1/4... won the Championships with a vault of 12-10... previously tied the NU school Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational weight throw (62-9 1/2) and the record outdoors with Alissa Koerner at 12-11 1/2 at the K.T. Woodman Northern Iowa Invitational (58-9 1/4). 2002: Moreley set a then- Classic... finished 14th in her first trip to the NCAA Indoor personal-best and provisional-qualifying mark at 193-11 for a Championships, clearing 12-11 1/2 before exiting the meet... set second-place finish at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships behind the Nebraska school indoor record in the pole vault four times in former Husker Melissa Price... she also finished 19th at the NCAA 2003, with the final mark being 13-3 3/4 at the Last Chance Outdoor Championships… won the B Section of the hammer throw Qualifier... won her first Big 12 title in the pole vault with a mark of (189-0) at the Stanford Invitational, which was nearly a 17 foot 13-3 1/2... set her first school record at the Holiday Inn Invitational, improvement over her previous best... led Nebraska in the weight throw where she went 12-9 1/2 to win the event... also won titles at the adidas Classic (13-1 1/2), the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a provisional-qualifying mark of 62-1 at the Nebraska Last (13-0 1/4), the KSU Open (12-7 1/2) and the Last Chance Qualifier. Chance Meet… won the Big 12 indoor with a throw of 60-5 3/4. 2001: 2002: As a freshman, Lehman set a season-best outdoor pole vault Placed seventh in the hammer at the Big 12 outdoor meet with a mark of 12-5 1/2 at the Kansas State, Oregon, Wyoming mark of 164-9... notched a season-best hammer mark of 172-1 in Quadrangular… scored in both the indoor (5th) and outdoor (6th) the Kansas, Kansas State, Wyoming Quadrangular... recorded a Big 12 Conference Championship meets... she led the team season-best mark of 57-7 in the 20-pound weight throw at the Tyson indoors with her provisional-qualifying and season-best height of Invitational. 2000: Tried the 20-pound weight throw for the first time 12-5 3/4 at the adidas Invitational… finished second at the Wildcat during the indoor season and threw a then-personal-best mark of Invitational and won the Prairie Wolf Invitational. High School: 42-2 at the Nebraska Wesleyan Open... redshirted during the Claimed the pole vault title at the 2001 Kansas Class 3A state meet outdoor season to learn the hammer throw. High School: Finished with an all-time state best vault of 12-7, which ranked 11th among second at the 1999 Washington Class 4A state meet in the 300- prep athletes in 2001... won Class 3A state titles in 1999 and 2000 meter hurdles (44.15)... claimed seventh in the 100 meters (12.55) (11-0)... finished fifth at the 2001 (12-0 3/ at the 1999 Class 4A state meet... finished sixth in the 100 meters 4)... named the 2001 Lynette Woodard Kansas Female Athlete of and fifth in the 400 meters at the 1998 Class 4A state meet. the Year... finished second at the 2001 Junior Olympics (11-10 3/ Personal: High school coach was Theresa Haynes... major is pre- 4)... took third at the 2000 Junior Olympics (11-0)... placed fourth in medicine and sociology... parents are Brian and Julie Moreley... the pole vault as a freshman at the 1998 Class 3A state meet... was born Dec. 1, 1980. the all-around state champion at the 2001 Kansas state gymnastics meet. Personal: High school coach was Darrin Bryant... major is nursing... parents are Barry and Sharon Lehman... brother Cory Lehman threw the javelin for the Huskers in 1999 and 2000... born Aug. 8, 1982. INETA RADEVICA ASHLEY SELIG Long Jump & Triple Jump; 4x100 Heptathlon Junior Freshman Kraslava, Latvia Lincoln, Neb. (Kraslava/Univ. of Latvia/ (Lincoln Lutheran) Wichita State Univ.)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: Long Jump, 21-0 1/2; Triple Jump, 44-4 1/4 Indoors: Pentathlon, 3,971; 800m, 2:11.78; Long Jump, 18-7 3/4 Outdoors: Long Jump, 21-0 3/4, 21-7 1/4w; Triple Jump, 44-11, 45-0 1/2w Outdoors: Heptathlon, 5,549; 400m Hurdles, 59.58; 100m Hurdles, 14.44 NCAA All-American: Big 12 Championships: 2003 Indoor Long Jump 2003 (I): Pentathlon, 3,971 (2nd) 2003 Indoor Triple Jump 2003 (O): Heptathlon, 5,549 (2nd) 2002 Indoor Long Jump 2002 Indoor Triple Jump 2003: Ashley Selig’s freshman campaign has been nothing less 2002 Outdoor Triple Jump than amazing, after taking silver at the Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor Honors: Championships in the pentathlon and the heptathlon, respectively... put on a phenomenal performance in the 800 meters to come within Big 12 Champion Long Jump 2003 (I), 2003 (O); eight points of Missouri’s Fiona Asigbee’s title at the Big 12 Indoor Big 12 Champion Triple Jump 2003 (I), 2003 (O); NCAA Midwest Championships, where she scored a personal best 3,971 points... Regional Champion in Long Jump and Triple Jump, 2003 (O); it was Asigbee who stole Selig’s chance again at the conference 2003 Mondo Midwest Regional Co-Athlete of the Year outdoor Championships, when Selig put on an outstanding NCAA Championships: performance with 5,549 points to automatically qualify for the NCAA 2003 (I): Long Jump, 20-10 3/4 (4th); Triple Jump, 43-10 1/2 (5th) Outdoor Championships... also qualified for the NCAA regional with 2002 (I): Long Jump, 20-6 1/4 (6th); Triple Jump, 43-6 (4th) her time of 59.58 in the 400-meter hurdles, but due to injury she 2002(O): Long Jump, 20-2 1/4 (10th); Triple Jump, 43-10 (2nd) chose to rest through the regional meet... ran 59.58 in the 400 hurdles to win the Ward Haylett Invitational... finished third in the Big 12 Championships: Gold Division of the Heptathlon at the College Station Relays with 2003 (I): Triple Jump, 44-4 1/4 (1st); Long Jump, 21-0 1/2 (1st) a score of 5,180 points... won the Kansas Relays heptathlon 2003 (O): Triple Jump, 45-0 1/2 (1st); Long Jump, 20-9 1/4 (1st); competition with 5,954 points... indoors, finished fifth in the 60- 4x100, 46.64 (5th) meter hurdles at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... took third 2003: Ineta Radevica will be the busiest NU athlete at the 2003 in the pentathlon at the Kansas State Invitational to open her NCAA Outdoor Championships, as she competes in the long jump, collegiate career.. High School: Selig missed the 2002 Nebraska triple jump and the 4x100-meter relay... won the gold in the triple (44- Class B State Championships due to a severely strained hamstring 11) and long jump (21-7 1/4) competitions at the Midwest Regional suffered following the district competition where she won three Championship... ran the second leg on NU’s 4x100-meter relay that individual events and ran on the winning 4x400-meter relay... ended took the bronze at the regional championships... named the Mondo the 2002 season as the 100-meter state leader with a time of 14.6... Midwest Regional Co-Athlete of the Year with Becky Breisch... is on the seven-time Class C gold medalist was the 2001 Class C and a roll, capturing titles in the triple jump with a mark of 44-4 1/4 and all-class gold medal champion in the 400-meter dash (56.48), 100- the long jump with a leap of 21-0 1/2 at the Big 12 Championships... meter hurdles (14.81) and 300-meter hurdles... also ran the anchor leaped her outdoor PR in the long jump at the Ward Haylett leg on the winning Lincoln Lutheran 4x400-meter relay (4:04.06)... Invitational, with a mark of 21-0 3/4... led the country in the triple jump at the 2000 Class C state meet she won both hurdles (14.39 and for most of the indoor season... leaped to a fourth-place finish in the 45.18), was runner-up in the 400, and anchored the third-place long jump (20-10 3/4) and a fifth-place finish in the triple jump (43- 4x400-meter relay... as a freshman she won her first state Class C 10 1/2) at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships, gaining two more title in the 300-meter hurdles and was second in the 100-meter All-America honors... won Big 12 indoor titles in the long jump (21- hurdles, sixth in the 400-meter dash and tied for seventh in the high 0 1/2) and the triple jump (44-4 1/4) with career-best NCAA automatic jump... had a successful record competing in summer track and qualifying marks... set her first nation-leading mark in the triple at field meets for the Lincoln Youth Track Club where she was 44-3 1/4 at the Northern Iowa Invitational... won titles in both the long consistently one of the top age-group heptathlon athletes in the jump and triple jump at Northern Iowa Invitational, the adidas country... her best 400-meter hurdle time of 1:02.74 came in the Classic, the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and the Big 12 prelims of the 2001 USATF National Youth Athletics Championship Conference Championships. At Wichita State: Radevica transferred where she finished fourth (1:03.30)... her best heptathlon score to Nebraska following a season of high performances at Wichita (4,674) came at the 2001 World Youth Championships held in State... finished fourth in the triple jump at the 2002 NCAA Indoor Debrecen, Hungary, where she placed 15th in a very strong field... Championships with a season-best mark of 43-6... also placed was the 11th-highest scoring high school heptathlete in 2001... was sixth in the long jump (20-6 1/4) at the indoor NCAA meet... won both the 2000 USATF National Youth Athletics intermediate girls (age 15- the long jump (season best 20-9) and triple jump (43-5 3/4) at the 16) champion in both the 400-meter hurdles (1:03.03) and the 2002 Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championships... captured heptathlon (4,212)... that summer she was the runner-up in both the both horizontal titles at the Missouri Valley outdoor meet with marks intermediate girls 400-meter hurdles (1:02.91) and the heptathlon of 20-6 1/2 in the long jump and a mark of 43-10 1/2... was the NCAA (4,436) at the USATF National Junior Olympics Championships... outdoor triple jump runner-up (43-10) and was also 10th in the long 2000 Cornhusker State Games Female Athlete-of-the-Year. jump (20-2 1/4). In Latvia: Competed in the 2000 World Personal: High school coach was Sue Ziegler... major is pre- Championships in Santiago, Chile in the long jump, but did not medicine... parents are Tom and Cindy Selig… uncle is NU Senior advance to the finals… Latvian national champion in the 2000 long Associate A.D. Joe Selig... born Feb. 23, 1984. jump (20-2 1/2) and the 2001 triple jump (42-1 1/2)... recorded long jump then-personal best of 20-9 1/4 at a meet in Daugavpils, Latvia in 2000. Personal: Major is undecided... parents are Valerit and Inna Radevica... born July 13, 1981. ANNE SHADLE NA’TASSIA VICE 3,000m Steeplechase High Jump Sophomore Junior South Sioux City, Neb. Mesquite, Texas (South Sioux City) (Poteet)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: 1,000m, 2:52.30; Mile, 4:52.20; 3,000m, 9:59.68 Indoors: High Jump, 5-10 3/4 Outdoors: 1,500m, 4:29.96; 3,000m Steeplechase, 10:36.49; 800m, 2:12.09 Outdoors: High Jump, 5-11 Honors: Honors: Nebraska School Record Holder in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase; USATF Junior National High Jump Champion (2001); Academic All-Big 12 (2002, 2003) Academic All-Big 12 Second Team (2003) Big 12 Championships: NCAA Championships: 2003 (I): 1,000m, 2:52.30 (4th); DMR, 11:48.69 (4th) 2002 (I): High Jump, 5-9 1/4 (12th) 2002 (O): 3,000m Steeplechase, 10:57.28 (6th) Big 12 Championships: 2003: Anne Shadle set the Nebraska school record in the 3,000- meter steeplechase en route to automatically qualifying for her first 2003 (I): High Jump, 5-7 3/4 (t5th) NCAA Championships, with a time of 10:36.49 and a third-place 2003 (O): High Jump, 5-8 3/4 (t2nd) finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships... ran a 2002 (I): High Jump, 5-8 1/2 (3rd) 2002 (O): High Jump, 5-7 (6th) career-best time of 4:29.96 in the 1,500 meters at the Kansas 2001 (I): High Jump, 5-8 3/4 (2nd) Relays... won the silver in the steeplechase at the Ward Haylett 2001 (O): High Jump, 5-9 1/4 (4th) Invitational... struggled at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, finishing ninth in the steeplechase... finished fourth in the 1,000- 2003: Na’Tassia Vice has come on extremely strong at the end of meter run in 2:52.30 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... was a the 2003 season, winning the silver and automatically qualifying for member of the NU team that finished fourth the NCAA Championships at the regional meet, clearing a height at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... ran a personal-best 2:52.30 of 5-10 1/2... also tied for silver at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 1,000 meters at the Northern Iowa Invitational, where she took with a height of 5-8 3/4... cleared a career-best height of 5-11 at the silver... clocked a PR time of 4:52.20 in the at the Holiday Nebraska Wesleyan Open, April 25... won the high jump at the K.T. Inn Invitational. 2002: Shadle finished an unexpected sixth at the Woodman Classic, going 5-9 1/4... tied for fifth at the Big 12 Indoor Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase... Championships with a mark of 5-7 3/4... won the Frank Sevigne in the 800, recorded a season-best time of 2:19.78 at the K.T. Husker Invitational, clearing 5-10 for a season-best mark... also Woodman Invitational... helped set a Nebraska school record in the cleared 5-10 at the adidas Classic for the silver. 2002: Although 4x1,600 meters with a team time of 20:08.00 at the Drake Relays... ran slowed all season with a back injury, Vice led the Husker high a season indoor best of 5:05.89 in the mile at the Nebraska Last jumpers with a height of 5-9 1/4 at the KSU, Oregon, Wyoming Chance Meet... in the 1,000 she ran a season-best time of 2:58.79 Quadrangular... finished sixth at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, at the Prairie Wolf Invitational... during the 2002 cross country jumping a height of 5-7… during indoors, she jumped 5-10 3/4 at season she was fourth in the first meet of the season and finished the Nebraska Last Chance Meet, which was her personal best and 39th at the NCAA Midwest Regional. High School: Claimed the a provisional-qualifying mark... finished third at the Big 12 Indoor Nebraska Class A state title and all-class gold medal in the 1,600 Championships (5-8 1/2) and took 12th place at the NCAA Indoor meters at the 2000 (5:01.94) and 2001 (5:02.12) state meets... Meet with a height of 5-9 1/4. 2001: Won the high jump at the USATF captured the all-class gold-medal in the 3,200 meters (10:48.87) junior national meet with a season-best mark of 5-9 3/4... placed at the 2001 state meet... finished second in the 3,200 meters at the fourth in the high jump (5-8) at the USA vs. Great Britain junior dual 2000 state meet... ran a personal-best time of 4:37.14 in the 1,500 in England... finished second in the high jump at the Big 12 indoor meters at the Great Southwest Classic in Phoenix, Ariz... won Class meet (5-8 3/4)... recorded an indoor personal-best leap of 5-9 3/4... B cross country titles in 1998, 1999 and 2000... named the 2001 placed fourth at the Big 12 outdoor meet (5-9 1/4). High School: Nebraska Gatorade Track and Field Female Athlete of the Year. Placed second in the high jump (5-10 1/2) at the 2000 USA Junior Personal: High school coach was her father, Steve Shadle... major Nationals... her high jump of 5-10 1/2 ranked fourth in the nation is exercise science... parents are Steve Shadle and Colleen Sernett- among high school athletes in 2000... was fourth in the high jump Shadle... born Dec. 1, 1982. (5-6) at the 1999 Texas Class 4A state meet... placed second in the high jump (5-9 1/4) at the USA vs. Canada junior dual meet in Montreal in 2000. Personal: High school coach was Doug Robinson... major is broadcasting... parents are Gary and Shauntel Vice... born Aug. 16, 1982. Women’s Outdoor School Records Track Events Event ...... Time ...... Athlete ...... Date 100-Meter Dash ...... 0:11.03 ...... ...... Oct. 4, 1982 200-Meter Dash ...... 0:22.17 ...... Merlene Ottey ...... June 20, 1982 400-Meter Dash ...... 0:50.14 ...... Ximena Restrepo ...... Aug. 5, 1991 800-Meter Run ...... 2:01.26 ...... Sharon Powell ...... Sept. 3, 1988 1,500-Meter Run ...... 4:12.38 ...... Lisa Darley Graham ...... April 18, 1992 3,000-Meter Run ...... 9:07.39 ...... Fran ten Bensel ...... June 4, 1993 5,000-Meter Run ...... 15:45.29 ...... Sammie Resh Gdowski ...... July 2, 1990 10,000-Meter Run ...... 32:34.71 ...... Sammie Resh Gdowski ...... April 21, 1990 Marathon ...... 2::38:45.0 ...... Karlene Erickson ...... June 21, 1986 100-Meter Hurdles ...... 0:12.85 ...... Rhonda Blanford ...... June 15, 1985 400-Meter Hurdles ...... 0:55.38A ...... Linetta Wilson ...... June 2, 1989 3,000-Meter Steeplechase ...... 10:36.49...... Anne Shadle ...... May 31, 2003

Relays Event ...... Time ...... Athletes ...... Date 4x100-Meter Relay ...... 0:43.44 ...... (Burke, Blanford, Thacker, Ottey) ...... June 4, 1983 4x200-Meter Relay ...... 1:33.0 ...... (Travis, Stewart, Porter, Lucas) ...... April 24, 1992 4x400-Meter Relay ...... 3:29.61 ...... (Travis, Stewart, Lucas, Porter) ...... June 6, 1992 4x800-Meter Relay ...... 8:36.61 ...... (Seaton, Stricker, Schubarth, Essington) ...... April 25, 1981 4x1,500-Meter Relay ...... 18:50.00 ...... (Shepherd, Elwood, Mazzitelli, Stelling) ...... April 15, 1995 4x1,600-Meter Relay ...... 20:08.00 ...... (Handrup, Biehl-Vacek, Lucas, Shadle) ...... April 25, 2002 800-Meter Medley Relay ...... 1:36.05 ...... (Blanford, Thacker, Burke, Ottey) ...... April 9, 1983 1,600-Meter Medley Relay ...... 3:49.84 ...... (Porter, T. Wilson, Lucas, Darley Graham) ...... March 16, 1991 Distance Medley Relay ...... 11:26.21 ...... (ten Bensel, J. Johnson, DeNaeyer, Stelling) ...... April 23, 1993 4x100-Meter Shuttle-Hurdle Relay ...... 0:55.44 ...... (Brown, Livesey, Pretorius, Waibel) ...... April 28, 2001 Field/Multi-Events Event ...... Metric ..... Imperial ...... Athlete ...... Date High Jump ...... 1.89 ...... 6-2 1/4 ...... Cris Hall ...... June 3, 1992 Pole Vault ...... 4.02 ...... 13-2 1/4 ...... Christi Lehman ...... May 30, 2003 Long Jump ...... 6.81 ...... 22-4 1/4 ...... Angela Thacker ...... May 11, 1984 Triple Jump ...... 13.74 ...... 45-1 ...... Nicola Martial ...... June 3, 1995 Shot Put ...... 18.79 ...... 61-7 3/4 ...... Tressa Thompson ...... April 22, 1998 Discus ...... 58.69 ...... 192-7 ...... Becky Breisch...... April 4, 2003 Hammer Throw ...... 66.81 ...... 219-2 ...... Melissa Price ...... May 18, 2002 Javelin (old) ...... 61.34 ...... 201-3 ...... Denise Thiemard ...... May 14, 1983 Javelin (new) ...... 55.16 ...... 181-0 ...... Cassi Morelock...... April 21, 2000 Heptathlon ...... 5,936 ...... Cris Hall ...... June 3-4, 1992

Key: A=altitude (above 1,000 meters) 2003 Nebraska Outdoor Performance List 100-meter dash 4x800-meter relay 1. Shelley-Ann Brown 0:11.88p May 18 1. Selig, Jones 2. Vesna Kostic 0:12.54 April 18 Wageman, Gaffigan 8:58.76 April 26 3. Ashley Freeman 0:12.62 April 12 Wind-aided: 4xMile relay Shelley-Ann Brown 0:11.74w May 3 1. Shadle, Gaffigan Authea Chambers 0:11.97pw April 4 Pancoast, Handrup 20:29.62# April 24 Vesna Kostic 0:12.13pw April 4 Distance Medley relay 200-meter dash 1. Shadle, Jones 1. Cheryl Harmon 0:24.46 April 12 Wageman, Handrup 11:53.00 April 24 2. Authea Chambers 0:24.80 April 12 3. Ashley Selig 0:25.48 March 20 High Jump Wind-aided: 1. Na’Tassia Vice 5-11 (1.80)* April 25 Ashley Selig 0:25.10w* May 17 2. Sara Jane Baker 5-9 1/4 (1.76) May 17 Ashley Freeman 0:25.61w April 12 3. Ashley Selig 5-8 (1.73)* May 17

400-meter dash Pole Vault 1. Cheryl Harmon 0:55.13 April 12 1. Christi Lehman 13-2 1/4 (4.02)#* May 30 2. Ashley Selig 0:57.28 May 13 2. Alissa Koerner 12-11 1/2 (3.95)* April 12 3. Ali Jones 0:57.38 May 13 3. Stephanie Teeple 12-5 1/2 (3.80) April 12

800-meter run Long Jump 1. Anne Shadle 2:12.09* April 12 1. Ineta Radevica 21-0 3/4 (6.42)* May 3 2. Ali Jones 2:12.64p* May 18 2. Authea Chambers 20-5 3/4 (6.24)* May 18 3. Ashley Selig 2:13.56 May 18 3. Vesna Kostic 20-2 1/2 (6.16) May 30 Wind-aided: 1,500-meter run Ineta Radevica 21-7 1/4 (6.58)w*May 30 1. Anne Shadle 4:29.96* April 18 Vesna Kostic 20-10 3/4 (6.37)wMay 30 2. Ann Gaffigan 4:31.90 April 18 3. Kathryn Handrup 4:41.37 April 12 Triple Jump 1. Ineta Radevica 44-11 (13.69) May 31 5,000-meter run 2. Krisztina Kovesi 43-7 (13.28) May 31 1. Kathryn Handrup 17:26.42 March 28 3. Authea Chambers 42-2 3/4 (12.87) May 31 2. Ann Gaffigan 17:41.30 March 28 Wind-aided: 3. Jeni Fortino 19:10.24* May 3 Ineta Radevica 45-0 1/2 (13.73)wMay 19 Krisztina Kovesi 44-0 3/4 (13.43)wMay 19 10,000-meter run 1. Kayte Tranel 35:50.10* March 28 Shot Put 1. Becky Breisch 58-1 (17.70)* May 3 100-meter hurdles 2. Leann Boerema 52-10 (16.10) April 5 1. Shelley-Ann Brown 0:13.42 May 31 3. Dani Wendell 46-11 1/2 (14.31)*May 13 2. Maggi Escudero 0:14.14 May 3 3. Ashley Selig 0:14.44p* May 3 Discus Wind-aided: 1. Becky Breisch 192-7 (58.69)*# April 4 Shelley-Ann Brown 0:13.23pw* May 30 2. Jennifer Cowher 159-1 (48.50) May 13

400-meter hurdles Hammer Throw 1. Ashley Selig 0:59.58* May 3 1. Amanda Moreley 195-8 (59.64)* May 17 2. Maggi Escudero 1:03.59p* May 18 2. Tia DeSoto 182-7 (57.09)* May 3 3. Vicki Janovec 175-5 (53.47)* May 17 3,000-meter steeplechase (3.66 meter pit) 1. Anne Shadle 10:36.49*# May 31 Javelin 2. Ann Gaffigan 10:47.42 May 31 1. Emily Wolken 155-5 (47.37)* May 3 2. Brynn Lervold 141-5 (43.10)* April 5 4x100-meter relay 3. Sara Jane Baker 122-3 (37.27)* May 18 1. Kostic, Radevica Chambers, Brown 44.77 May 31 Heptathlon 1. Ashley Selig 5,549* May 17-18 4x400-meter relay 2. Sara Jane Baker 5,065* May 17-18 1. Selig, Baker 3. Casie Witte 4,725 May 17-18 Escudero, Harmon 3:44.65 May 3 NCAA Competitors in Bold * - personal best # - school record ! - all-time Big 12 record p - preliminaries 2003 Outdoor Season Review Texas Relays College Station Relays April 2-5, 2003 March 20-21, 2003 Mike A. Meyers Track & Field/Soccer Stadium - Austin, Texas Anderson Track and Field Complex - College Station, Texas High Jump (Section A): t5. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-8 3/4. Pole Vault (Section Heptathlon (Gold Division): 3. Ashley Selig, 5,180. A): t2. Christi Lehman, 12-7 1/2. Long Jump (Section B): 5. Authea Chambers, 19-3 1/2. Shot Put (Section A): 2. Becky Breisch, 55-7 1/2; Stanford Invitational 3. Leann Boerema, 52-10. Discus (Section A): 1. Becky Breisch, 192- 7. Discus (Section B): 3. Jennifer Cowher, 156-6. Javelin (Section B): March 28-29, 2003 3. Emily Wolken, 150-8. Hammer Throw: 5. Amanda Moreley, 188-6. Cobb Track and Angell Field - Palo Alto, Calif.

Shot Put (Elite Section): 2. Becky Breisch, 55-9; 5. Leann Boerema, KT Woodman Invitational 50-7 1/4. Shot Put (B Section): 3. Dani Wendell, 46-4 3/4. Discus (Elite April 12, 2003 Section): 2. Becky Breisch, 173-8. Hammer Throw (Elite): 4. Amanda Cessna Stadium - Wichita, Kan. Moreley, 189-1. Javelin: 5. Emily Wolken, 149-11. 100-Meter Dash: 5. Ashley Freeman, 12.62. 200-Meter Dash: 4. Cheryl Euler State Farm/Emporia State Relays Harmon, 24.46. 400-Meter Dash: 2. Cheryl Harmon, 55.13. 800-Meter April 5, 2003 Run: 1. Anne Shadle, 2:12.09; 2. Ali Jones, 2:12.87; 5. Renee Wageman, Zola Witten Track/ Fran Welch Stadium - Emporia, Kan. 2:15.05. 1,500-Meter Run: 1. Ann Gaffigan, 4:38.68; 3. Kathryn Handrup, 4:41.37. 100-Meter Hurdles: 3. Ashley Selig, 14.81; 4. Maggi Escudero, 14.88; 5. Casie Witte, 15.10. 400-Meter Hurdles: 3. Maggi Escudero, 100-Meter Dash: 4. Ashley Freeman, 12.77. 200-Meter Dash: 3. Ashely 1:04.33. 4x400-Meter Relay: 2. Nebraska (Jones, Escudero, Wageman, Freeman, 25.78. 400-Meter Dash: 2. Cheryl Harmon, 57.1. 1,500-Meter Harmon), 3:53.70. High Jump: 1. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-9 1/4; 2. Sara Jane Run: 5. Kim Pancoast, 4:52.1. 4x400-Meter Relay: 1. Nebraska (Witte, Baker, 5-7; 3. Casie Witte, 5-5. Pole Vault: 1. Christi Lehman, 12-11 1/2; 2. Baker, Harmon, Selig), 3:51.0. High Jump: 2. Sara Jane Baker, 5-5; 3. Alissa Koerner, 12-11 1/2; 3. Stephanie Teeple, 12-5 1/2. Long Jump: 1. Casie Witte, 5-5. Pole Vault: 4. Stephanie Teeple, 11-5 3/4. Javelin: 3. Authea Chambers, 20-0 1/4; 4. Casie Witte, 19-9 1/2. Shot Put: 2. Dani Brynn Lervold, 141- 5. Wendell, 43-10. Hammer Throw: 5. Jamie Senkbile, 132-2. Javelin: 5. Brynn Lervold, 127-1. Team Scoring: 1. Nebraska, 154 1/3; 2. Iowa, 138 1/3; 3. Wichita State, 117; 4. Texas-Arlington, 88; 5. Missouri-Kansas City, 48 1/3.

Kansas Relays April 16-19, 2003 Memorial Stadium - Lawrence, Kan.

800-Meter Run (unseeded): 5. Renee Wageman, 2:14.38. High Jump: 3. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-7. Triple Jump: 5. Krisztina Kovesi, 40-11. Shot Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 55-10 1/2; 4. Leann Boerema, 48-4 3/4. Heptathlon: 1. Ashley Selig, 4,954; 2. Sara Jane Baker, 4,679.

Nebraska Wesleyan Open April 25, 2003 Abel Stadium Field - Lincoln, Neb.

400-Meter Dash: 2. Casie Witte, 59.29. 800-Meter Run: 5. Michaela Lenihan, 2:22.9. 100-Meter Hurdles: 1. Casie Witte, 14.84. High Jump: 1. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-11. Pole Vault: 1. Alissa Koerner, 12-3; 2. Stephanie Teeple, 12-3; 5. Susan Stroud, 10-9. Long Jump: 2. Casie Witte, 18-5. Hammer Throw: 1. Amanda Moreley, 187-3; 2. Tia DeSoto, 178-1; 3. Vicki Janovec, 162-5. Javelin: 1. Emily Wolken, 141-5; 2. Brynn Lervold, 117-7.

Drake Relays April 23-26, 2003 Drake Stadium/ Jim Duncan Track - Des Moines, Iowa

Long Jump (University): 4. Ineta Radevica, 20-8. Triple Jump (University): 2. Ineta Radevica, 44-0 1/2. Shot Put (Special): 4. Leann Boerema, 51-6 1/2. Hammer Throw (University): 3. Amanda Moreley, 181-0.

Penn Relays Becky Breisch was named the Mondo Midwest Regional Co-Athlete of the April 22-26, 2003 Year after winning the discus and the shot put at the NCAA Midwest Regional Franklin Field - Philadelphia, Pa. Meet. Breisch also took both titles at the 2003 Big 12 Outdoor Championships. Triple Jump (Championship): 3. Krisztina Kovesi, 43-2 3/4. Triple Jump (College): 4. Authea Chambers, 40-9. Shot Put (Championship): 1. Becky Breisch, 183-5. 2003 Outdoor Season Review Nebraska Twilight May 10, 2002 Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium - Lincoln, Neb.

800-Meter Run: 1. Anne Shadle, 2:14.00; 2. Ali Jones, 2:14.66; 4. Renee Wageman, 2:18.67. 1,500-Meter Run: 1. Kayte Tranel, 4:56.56; 3. Jeni Fortino, 5:09.71. 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: 2. Ann Gaffigan, 10:58.73. High Jump (Indoors): 1. Sara Jane Baker, 5-9 1/4; t2. Casie Witte, 5-7 1/ 4; t2. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-7 1/4; 4. Ashley Selig, 5-5 1/4. Pole Vault (Indoors): 1. Christi Lehman, 13-0 1/4; 2. Alissa Koerner, 13-0 1/4; 3. Stephanie Teeple, 12-0. Shot Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 52-6 3/4; 2. Leann Boerema, 46-9 1/2; 3. Dani Wendell, 46-2 1/2. Discus: 1. Becky Breisch, 170-6; 5. Jennifer Cowher, 125-0. Hammer Throw: 3. Amanda Moreley, 175-11; 4. Tia DeSoto, 175-8; 5. Vicki Janovec, 158-8.

Concordia Twilight May 13, 2002 Concordia University - Seward, Neb.

400-meter dash: 1. Ashley Selig, 57.28; 2. Ali Jones, 57.38; 3. Renee Wageman, 59.81. 1,500-meter run: 3. Kayte Tranel, 4:47.36. High Jump: t1; Sara Jane Baker, 5-8; t1. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-8. Pole Vault: 1. Alissa Koerner, 12-6; t2. Christi Lehman, 12-0; t2. Stephanie Teeple, 12-0. Long Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 20-7 1/2; 2. Vesna Kostic, 19-7 1/4; 3. Krisztina Kovesi,19-6 1/2; 4. Ashley Selig, 18-4 1/4; 5. Casie Witte, 18-3. Triple Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 43-1 3/4; 2. Krisztina Kovesi, 42-8 1/2; 3. Authea Chambers, 41-5 1/2. Shot Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 54-0; Dani Wendell, 46-11 1/2. Discus: 1. Becky Breisch, 183-7; 2. Jennifer Cowher, 159-1. Hammer Throw: 1 Amanda Moreley, 191-2; 3. Tia DeSoto, 168-6; 5. Vicki Janovec, 165-9. Javelin: 1. Emily Wolken, 150-7; 4. Brynn Lervold, 130-4.

Ineta Radevica leads the Huskers, automatically quali- Big 12 Outdoor Championships fying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in three May 17-19, 2003 events. Radevica won the triple jump and long jump at Mike A. Meyers Track & Field/Soccer Stadium - Austin, Texas the inaugural NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, May 30-31, at Ed Weir Track Stadium in Lincoln, Neb. 110-Meter Hurdles: 5. Shelley-Ann Brown, 13.57. 400-Meter Hurdles: 8. Maggi Escudero, 1:04.46. 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: 6. Ann Gaffigan, 11:08.91. 4x100-Meter Relay: 5. Nebraska (Kostic, Harmon, Escudero, Brown), 46.64. 4x400-Meter Relay: 7. Nebraska (Escudero, Baker, Jones, Harmon), 3:48.89. High Jump: t2. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-8 3/4; t2. Sara Jane Ward Haylett Invitational Baker, 5-8 3/4. Pole Vault: 2. Christi Lehman, 12-10; 5. Alissa Koerner, May 3, 2003 12-0. Long Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 20-9 1/4; 4. Authea Chambers, 20- Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium - Lincoln, Neb. 5 3/4; 6. Krisztina Kovesi, 19-8 3/4; 7. Vesna Kostic, 19-8 1/4. Triple Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 45-0 1/1; 3. Krisztina Kovesi, 44-0 3/4. Shot 100-Meter Dash: 1. Shelley-Ann Brown, 11.74. 400-Meter Dash: 1. Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 55-11; 5. Leann Boerema, 49-7 3/4; 7. Dani Wendell, Cheryl Harmon, 55.22. 5,000-Meter Run: 4. Kathryn Handrup, 17:30.87. 46-10 3/4. Discus: 1. Becky Breisch, 180-10; 6. Jennifer Cowher, 152- 100-Meter Hurdles: 1. Shelley-Ann Brown, 13.52; 5. Maggi Escudero, 11. Hammer Throw: 1. Amanda Moreley, 195-8; 4. Vicki Janovec, 175-5; 14.14. 400-Meter Hurdles: 1. Ashley Selig, 59.58. 3,000-Meter 8. Tia DeSoto, 172-3. Javelin: 7. Emily Wolken, 144-10. Heptathlon: 2. Steeplechase: 2. Anne Shadle, 10:46.28. 4x100-Meter Relay: 1. Ashley Selig, 5,549; 8. Sara Jane Baker, 5,065. Nebraska (Kostic, Radevica, Chambers, Brown), 45.24. 4x400-Meter Relay: 2. Nebraska (Selig, Baker, Escudero, Harmon), 3:44.65. High NCAA Midwest Regional Championships Jump: t3. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-8 3/4; 5. Casie Witte, 5-7. Pole Vault: 1. May 30-31, 2003 Christi Lehman, 12-9 1/2; 5. Alissa Koerner, 12-0. Long Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 21-0 3/4; 2. Authea Chambers, 19-9 3/4; 3. Vesna Kostic, 19- Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium - Lincoln, Neb. 9; 4. Krisztina Kovesi, 19-8 1/4. Triple Jump: 2. Ineta Radevica, 44-1 1/ 4; 3. Krisztina Kovesi, 43-4 1/2; 4. Authea Chambers, 41-11 1/2. Shot 110-meter hurdles: 3. Shelley-Ann Brown, 13.42. 3,000-Meter Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 58-1; 4. Leann Boerema, 51-10. Discus: 4. Jennifer Steeplechase: 3. Anne Shadle, 10:36.49; 6. Ann Gaffigan, 10:47.42. Cowher, 153-6. Hammer Throw: 1. Tia DeSoto, 187-4; 3. Amanda Moreley, 4x100-Meter Relay: 3. Nebraska (Kostic, Radevica, Chambers, Brown), 182-7. Javelin: 1. Emily Wolken, 155-5. Team Scoring: 1. Nebraska, 44.77. High Jump: 2. Na’Tassia Vice, 5-10 1/2. Pole Vault: 1. Christi 205.5; 2. Kansas State, 125; 3. Missouri, 122.5; 4. Colorado State, 114.5. Lehman, 13-2 1/4; 7. Alissa Koerner, 12-10 1/4. Long Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 21-7 1/4; 7. Vesna Kostic, 20-10 3/4. Triple Jump: 1. Ineta Radevica, 44-11; 4. Krisztina Kovesi, 43-7; 8. Authea Chambers, 42-2 3/ 4. Shot Put: 1. Becky Breisch, 57-6 1/4; 4. Leann Boerema, 50-5 1/2. Discus: 1. Becky Breisch, 181-5. Hammer Throw: 2. Amanda Moreley: 186-8. Javelin: 8. Emily Wolken, 149-8. 2003 Outdoor Season Review

Big 12 Outdoor Championships May 17-19 • Austin, Tex.

1. Texas ...... 188 2. Nebraska ...... 130 2/3 3. Kansas State ...... 83 1/2 4. Missouri ...... 83 5. Baylor ...... 81 6. Kansas ...... 59 1/2 7. Texas A&M ...... 44 8. Colorado ...... 42 9. Oklahoma ...... 36 10. Texas Tech ...... 32 1/2 11. Iowa State ...... 26 12. Oklahoma State ...... 11

Nebraska’s Big 12 Champions: Becky Breisch (Shot Put, Discus), Amanda Moreley (Hammer Throw), Ineta Radevica (Long Jump, Triple Jump)

It has been a season of broken records for NU sophomore Christi Lehman. Lehman most recently broke the outdoor school record in the pole vault, clearing 13-2 1/4 at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships for a first-place finish and a trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

NCAA Midwest Championships May 30-31 • Lincoln, Neb.

1. Nebraska ...... 103 2. Texas ...... 96 3. Kansas State ...... 53 4. Baylor ...... 44 5. Rice ...... 41 6. Montana State ...... 28.5 7. Southern Methodist ...... 28 8. Kansas ...... 27.25 9. Texas Christian ...... 26 10. Texas A&M ...... 25.5 Anne Shadle set the Nebraska school record in the 3,000- meter steeplechase at the Midwest Regional Championships Nebraska’s NCAA Midwest Regional Champions: Becky Breisch (Shot Put, Discus), Ineta Radevica (Long Jump, Triple with a time of 10:36.49 and a third-place finish to qualify for the Jump), Christi Lehman (Pole Vault) NCAA Championships. Men’s NCAA Roster

Name Event Yr. (I/O) Hometown (High School/Other School)

Travis Baker High Jump Jr. Hoxie, Kan. (Hoxie)

James Bowler 1,500 Meters Jr. Alcester, Warwickshire, England (Alcester Grammar/Oxford Brookes)

Chris Burns 800 Meters Sr. Ontario, Calif. (Ontario)

David Davis Jr. 110m Hurdles Sr. St. Joseph, Mo. (Central/Missouri-Kansas City)

Eric Eshbach Pole Vault Jr. Orangefield, Texas (Orangefield)

Shaun Kologinczak High Jump Sr. Houston, Texas (Oak Ridge)

Nenad Loncar 110m Hurdles So. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Economics H.S./University of Physical Education)

Carl Myerscough Shot Put So. Hambleton, England (Millfield School)

Kyle Odvody High Jump Jr. Malmo, Neb. (Wahoo)

Casey Thom Decathlon Sr. Hastings, Neb. (St. Cecilia) Artur Wszelaki Javelin Jr. Kotobrezeg, Poland (Z.S.M.)

Pronunciation Guide Eric Eshbach ...... (ESH-bock) Shaun Kologinczak ...... (Call-o-GIN-zak) Nenad Loncar ...... (Nuh-NOD LAWN-char) Carl Myerscough ...... (MY-ers-coe) Kyle Odvody ...... (Odd-vod-EE) Casey Thom ...... (TOME) Artur Wszelaki ...... (are-TUR wush-lock-EE) TRAVIS BAKER JAMES BOWLER High Jump 1,500 Meters Junior Junior Hoxie, Kan. Alcester, Warwickshire, England (Hoxie) (Alcester Grammar/ Oxford Brookes)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: High Jump, 6-11 3/4 Indoors: 800m, 1:53.00; 1,500m, 3:45.24; Mile, 4:05.84; 3,000m, 8:17.79 Outdoors: High Jump, 7-1 Outdoors: 800m, 1:50.83; 1,500m, 3:41.75; 3,000m, 8:09.19 Big 12 Championships: Honors: 2002 (I): High Jump, 6-9 3/4 (t8th) Big 12 Outdoor 1,500m Champion (2003); Academic All-Big 12 (2003) 2002 (O): High Jump, 7-0 1/4 (4th) NCAA Championships: 2003: Perhaps the biggest surprise performer on Nebraska’s 2002 (O): 1,500 Meters, 3:45.40 (14th) NCAA roster is Travis Baker... the junior leaped a career-best 7-1 Big 12 Championships: at the NCAA Midwest Regional for fourth-place finish to 2003 (I): Mile, 4:08.68 (2nd); 3,000m, 8:17.79 (5th) automatically qualify for the his first NCAA Outdoor 2003 (O): 1,500m, 3:43.43 (1st) Championships... finished third at the Concordia Twilight, clearing 2002 (I): Mile, 4:06.45 (4th) 6-10... tied for third place at the Ward Haylett Invitational (6-9 1/2)... 2002 (O): 1,500m, 3:45.18 (2nd) took second at the Nebraska Wesleyan Twilight... finished 10th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, jumping a career-best 6-11 3/4... 2003: James Bowler has had a spectacular season in 2003, tied for fourth place at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a highlighted by a Big 12 Championships in the 1,500 meters over height of 6-10 1/4... tied for fourth at the Holiday Inn Invitational, defending champion Jorge Torres in a time of 3:43.43... ran a time clearing 6-9. 2002: Baker leaped a season-best height of 7-0 1/4 in of 3:43.36 at the NCAA Regional meet to finish third and claim an the high jump at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships for a fourth-place automatic berth into the NCAA Outdoor Championships... ran a finish... during the indoor season, Baker jumped an indoor season- career-best time of 1:50.83 in the 800 meters at the Ward Haylett high 6-11 at the Wildcat Invitational… tied for eighth place at the Invitational... won the silver in the mile run at the Big 12 Indoor Big 12 Indoor Championships with a jump of 6-9 3/4. 2001: Championships, clocking a time of 4:08.68... finished fifth in the Recorded an outdoor season-best leap of 6-9 3/4 in the high jump 3,000 meters at the conference championships... captured the with a first-place finish at the Emporia State Relays... did not gold in the mile run at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in compete during the indoor season while competing as a 149- 4:06.77... ran his career-best time of 4:05.84 at the adidas Classic pounder on the Nebraska wrestling team. 2000: Notched a season- to finish fourth among an outstanding field... won the 3,000-meter best indoor high jump of 6-4 1/4 in a triangular against Kansas run at the Holiday Inn Invitational with a time of 8:19.61. 2002: and Tulsa and at the Nebraska Open... was awarded a medical Bowler had a great season all the way around, despite chronic hardship for the indoor season after competing in just two meets... achilles tendon problems during the indoor season… was the Big redshirted the outdoor season. High School: Was the 1999 state 12 Outdoor Championships runner-up in the 1,500 meters with a champion in the high jump (7-0 1/4), setting the Kansas Class 2A time of 3:45.18…ran a season-best and NCAA provisional- meet record in the event... was a two-time 135-pound Kansas qualifying time of 3:42.85 in the 1,500 at the Cardinal Invitational… state wrestling champion. Personal: High school coach was Randy was just 0.22 shy of making the finals of the 1,500 meters at the Kaufman... major is broadcasting... parents are Kirk and Kelly NCAA Outdoor Championships… ran a season-best 800 meters Baker... born June 26, 1980. (1:52.43) at the BMC Nike Grand Prix during the summer in England… took fourth place in the mile at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with an indoor season-best time of 4:06.45. 2001: Competed for Bromsgrove and Redditch Athletic Club... ran a personal-best time of 3:41.75 in the 1,500 meters at the Nike Grand Prix in Watford... finished third in the 1,500 meters at the British U/ 23 Championships, earning a trip to the U/23 European Championships in July, where he finished 10th... fifth in the British University Championships (3:47.33)... fifth in the UK Indoor Championships in the 1,500-meter run (3:49.35)... ran indoor 1,500-meter best of 3:45.24 in an U/23 dual vs. ... notched a personal-best time of 8:09.19 in the 3,000 meters at the Antwerp International Gala in Antwerp, Belgium. High School: Was a member of the cross country and track teams at Alcester Grammar School. Personal: Club coach is Tony Gaize... working toward a master’s degree in geography... parents are Maurice and Patricia Bowler... born Sept. 2, 1979. CHRIS BURNS DAVID DAVIS JR. 800 Meters 110-meter Hurdles Senior Junior Ontario, Calif. St. Joseph, Mo. (Ontario) (Central/Missouri-Kansas City)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: 600y, 1:11.49; 800m, 1:49.82; 1,000m, 2:26.76 Indoors: 55m Hurdles, 7.44; 60m Hurdles, 7.70 Outdoors: 400m, 48.83; 800m, 1:49.13 Outdoors: 110m Hurdles, 13.75 (13.68w) Honors: Honors: Big 12 Indoor 800m Champion (2001) Big 12 Indoor 60-meter Hurdles Champion (2003); Nebraska Indoor School Record Holder in the 60-meter Hurdles Big 12 Championships: NCAA Championships: 2003 (I): 800m, 1:53.25 (6th); DMR, 9:57.26 (8th) 2003 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.89 (14th) 2003 (O): 800m, 1:49.69 (5th) 2002 (I): 800m, 1:55.42 (fell) (8th) Big 12 Championships: 2002 (O): 800m, 1:51.23 (4th) 2003 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.70 (1st) 2001 (I): 800m, 1:49.82 (1st) 2003 (O): 110m Hurdles, 13.94 (3rd) 2000 (I): 800m, 1:50.68o (4th); 4x400m, 3:09.88o (5th) 2001 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.94 (5th) 2001 (O): 110m Hurdles, 14.09 (5th) 2003: Chris Burns refused to let his senior season end, coming from behind the pack to finish fifth in the finals of the NCAA Midwest 2003: David Davis Jr. has had a phenomenal return to the track in Regional for the final ticket to the NCAA Outdoor Championships 2003... Davis enters the NCAA Outdoor Championships as a in the 800 meters with a time of 1:49.70... ran a lifetime-best time wildcard, after finishing sixth at the NCAA Midwest Regionals and of 1:49.13 in the preliminaries of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships just missing the automatic qualifier in the 110-meter hurdles... ran and was seeded second going into the finals... the competition an outstanding preliminary wind-aided time of 13.68 at the regional, improved immensely in the finals and Burns finished fifth in before clocking a time of 14.03 in the finals... at the Big 12 Outdoor 1:49.69... took third in the 800 at the Ward Haylett Invitational... ran Championships, Davis took the bronze, in a time of 13.94, shy of a time of 1:50.18 indoors for a fifth-place finish at the adidas teammate Nenad Loncar... was a member of the first-place NU Classic... finished sixth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay team at the Kansas Relays 800 meters, clocking a time of 1:53.25... took bronze in the 800 at (57.69)... won the K.T. Woodman Classic in 13.93... finished sixth the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (1:51.44). 2002: Leading in the university section of the 110-meter hurdles at the Texas Nebraska in the 800 meters, Burns had a strong junior season... Relays... came up short at the NCAA Indoor Championships, ran a season-best time in the 800 meters (1:50.39) during the outdoor finishing 14th in preliminaries with a time of 7.89 in the 60-meter season at the Triangular meet… finished fourth at the Big 12 Outdoor hurdles... after missing all of last year with an injury, Davis set a Championships in the 800 (1:51.23)… ran a personal-best time in school record in his first race back on the track in the 60-meter the 600-yard run indoors at the Prairie Wolf Invitational… finished hurdles at the adidas Classic with a time of 7.76... he reset that eighth at the conference indoor championships in the 800 meters... record at the Big 12 Championships in 7.70 to win the crown... also posted his best time of the season in the 1,000 meters won the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in 7.77. 2002: Davis (2:28.99) at the Wildcat Invitational. 2001: Claimed the Big 12 was injured and redshirted both indoor and outdoor seasons. indoor 800-meter title with an indoor personal-best time of 1:49.82... 2001: Finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a season-best also ran a personal-best indoor time in the 1,000 meters (2:26.76)... time of 14.09 at the Big 12 outdoor meet... placed fifth in the 60- ran a season-best time of 1:49.5 in the 800 meters in an outdoor meter hurdles (7.94) at the Big 12 indoor meet... ran a season- Triangular against Kansas, Kansas State and Wyoming. 2000: best and NCAA provisional-qualifying time of 7.85 in the 60-meter Finished fourth in the 800 meters (1:50.68) at the Big 12 indoor hurdles at the Nebraska Last Chance meet. At Missouri-Kansas meet... ran a leg on the 4x400-meter relay team that took fifth at the City: Set the UMKC school record in the 55-meter hurdles (7.44), Big 12 indoor meet. High School: Finished second in the 800 60-meter hurdles (7.93) and 110-meter hurdles (14.11) in 2000... meters at the 1999 California State Meet... also placed second in was the 2000 Mid-Continent Conference champion in the 60-meter the 800 meters (1:51.15) at the 1999 Golden West Invitational... hurdles (7.93). High School: Set the St. Joseph Central High school claimed eighth at the USATF Junior National Championships in record in the high hurdles (13.82) with the ninth-fastest prep time the 800 meters (1:53.65)... was the seventh-fastest prep performer in 1998... became only the second athlete in Missouri state meet in the nation at 800 meters in 1999. Personal: High school coach history to break 14 seconds in the high hurdles... was the 1998 was Dave Cook... major is management information systems... Class 4A state champion in the high hurdles (13.91). Personal: parents are Roy and Brenda Burns... born Feb. 18, 1981. High school coach was Barry Reynolds... UMKC coaches were Dave Kreuger and Ross Flowers... major is music with a minor in communication... parents are Tyrese and Cheryl Barnett-Bey... cousin Mike Rucker played football for Nebraska (1995-98)... born Jan. 23, 1980. Federation pole vault record at the Texas District 23-3A track meet with a ERIC ESHBACH vault of 17-9 3/4 on April 13, 1999... broke his own national record at the Pole Vault 1999 Texas Class 3A state meet with a career-best vault of 18-2 1/4... Senior (I)/Junior (O) named a 1999 Track and Field News high school All-American in the pole vault... was the 1997 Texas Class 3A pole vault champion (15-6) and Orangefield, Texas placed third at the 1998 Class 3A meet (15-9). Personal: High school (Orangefield) coaches were Randy Theriot and Joe Hester... major is graphic design with a business minor... parents are Edgar and Monica Eshbach... born Feb. 4, 1981.

SHAUN KOLOGINCZAK Personal Bests: High Jump Indoors: Pole Vault, 18-3 3/4 Outdoors: Pole Vault, 18-2 1/2 Senior (O) NCAA All-American: Houston, Texas 2003 Indoor Pole Vault (Oak Ridge) 2001 Indoor Pole Vault 2000 Indoor Pole Vault Honors: Runner-up at 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships; Big 12 Indoor Pole Personal Bests: Vault Champion (2002, 2003); Big 12 Outdoor Pole Vault Champion Indoors: High Jump, 7-3 3/4 (2000); Nebraska Pole Vault School Record Holder Indoors and Outdoors: High Jump, 7-3 1/4 Outdoors NCAA All-American: NCAA Championships: 2001 Indoor High Jump 2003 (I): Pole Vault, 18-3 3/4 (2nd) 2000 Indoor High Jump 2002 (I): Pole Vault, 17-3 3/4 (14th) Honors: 2001 (I): Pole Vault, 17-11 3/4 (4th) 2000 (I): Pole Vault, 18-0 1/2 (t5th) Academic All-Big 12 (2001); Big 12 High Jump Champion, 2001 (I) 2000 (O): Pole Vault, 16-0 3/4 (15th) NCAA Championships: Big 12 Championships: 2002 (I): High Jump, 6-10 1/4 (t11th) 2003 (I): Pole Vault, 18-1 3/4, (1st) 2001 (I): High Jump, 7-2 1/2(5th) 2002 (I): Pole Vault, 17-5 3/4, (1st) 2000 (I): High Jump, 7-1 1/2 (10th) 2000 (I): Pole Vault, 17-8 1/2 (2nd) 2000 (O): High Jump, 6-11 3/4 (16th) 2000 (I): Pole Vault, 17-3 (4th) Big 12 Championships: 2000 (O): Pole Vault, 18-2 1/2 (1st) 2003 (O): High Jump, 6-11 1/2 (t4th) 2003: Eric Eshbach has been up and down since finishing second at the 2002 (I): High Jump, 6-11 3/4 (4th) NCAA Indoor Championships... finished fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional 2001 (I): High Jump, 7-3 3/4 (1st) Championships to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships, 2001 (O): High Jump, 7-0 1/2 (3rd) clearing 16-11... did not clear a bar at the 2003 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, 2000 (I): High Jump, 7-2 1/4 (2nd) after winning the title during indoor season... won the Ward Haylett Invitational 2000 (O): High Jump, 7-0 1/2 (3rd) (16-8 3/4), the Nebraska Wesleyan Twilight (17-0 3/4), the Kansas Relays 1999 (I): High Jump, 6-11 1/2 (5th) (17-4 1/2), the K.T. Woodman Classic (17-8 1/2) and recorded his best 1999 (O): High Jump, 7-1 1/2 (5th) mark of the outdoor season at the Stanford Invitational with a height of 17- 2003: Shaun Kologinczak started off strong after rejoining the team during 10 1/2, tying for fourth place... finished tied for fifth at the Texas Relays, the outdoor season... he redshirted the outdoor season in 2002 in order to jumping 17-8 1/2... was runner-up at the NCAA Indoor Championships, compete during his final year of school work... finished tied for third at the setting a school record at 18-3 3/4... won the Big 12 pole vault title with a Stanford Invitational, clearing a height of 6-11 1/2... won the Texas Relay then-school record 18-1 3/4 mark... won titles at the Wildcat Invitational title, clearing his season-best height of 7-3... won the Nebraska Wesleyan (17-0 3/4), the Holiday Inn Invitational (17-0 3/4), the adidas Classic (17-4 1/ Twilight, clearing 7-2... tied for fourth at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships 2), and the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (17-8 1/2). 2002: Eshbach with a mark of 6-11 1/2... became a wild card entry to the NCAA Outdoor led the Nebraska pole vaulters in 2002, jumping a height of 18-1, which Championships, after finishing tied for 10th at the NCAA Midwest Regional was good for a then-school record, and an NCAA automatic-qualifying Championships with a mark of 6-11 3/4. 2002: Kologinczak competed standard during the indoor season… finished 14th at the NCAA Indoor indoors but redshirted the 2002 outdoor season… jumped a season-high Championships with a height of 17-3 3/4… won the Big 12 Indoor mark of 7-3 at the Nebraska Invitational for a provisional-qualifying mark… Championships with a height of 17-5 3/4… during the 2002 outdoor season, finished fourth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships (6-11 3/4)… tied for his best vault was 17-10 1/2 at the Texas Relays… competed at the NCAA 11th at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a height of 6-10 1/4. 2001: Outdoor Championships but did not clear his opening height... also no-heighted Claimed All-America honors with a fifth-place finish (7-2 1/2) at the NCAA at the Big 12 Championships. 2001: Earned All-America honors with a Indoor Championships... won the Big 12 indoor conference high jump title fourth-place finish in the pole vault (17-11 3/4) at the NCAA Indoor with a personal-best leap of 7-3 3/4... placed third at the Big 12 outdoor Championships... placed second at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a meet (7-0 1/2)... recorded a season-best outdoor jump of 7-2 1/2 with a mark of 17-8 1/2... received a medical hardship after suffering an ankle first-place finish at the Northwest Twilight Classic. 2000: Earned the first injury in his second outdoor meet. 2000: Claimed All-America honors with All-America honor of his career with a 10th-place finish (eighth American) a fifth-place finish (18-0 1/2) at the NCAA Indoor Championships, tying the at the NCAA Indoor Championships (7-1 1/2)... recorded a leap of 6-11 3/4 school record he set in a dual against Oklahoma... finished fourth at the Big to finish 16th at the NCAA outdoor meet... leaped a personal-best mark of 12 indoor meet with a mark of 17-3... also set the school record outdoors 7-3 1/4 in a triangular with Indiana State, Kansas State and Wichita State... with a winning mark of 18-2 1/2 at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships... placed third at the Big 12 outdoor meet with a mark of 7-0 1/2... took second placed second at the Texas Relays with a mark of 17-8 1/2... spent much to Texas’ Mark Boswell at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a mark of of the outdoor season adjusting to longer poles... named the Nebraska 7-2 1/4. 1999: Notched an indoor season-best high jump of 7-0 1/4 at the Men’s Outstanding Newcomer. High School: Broke the National High School Nebraska Open, and matched that mark the following week at the Abilene Christian, Kansas State indoor meet... placed fifth at the conference indoor CARL MYERSCOUGH meet in the high jump (6-11 1/2)... took fifth in the high jump (7-1 1/2) at the Big Shot Put 12 outdoor meet. High School: Capped a sensational high school career Junior (I), Sophomore (O) by winning the Texas Class 4A high jump at 7-0 for the second consecutive year... his season-best leap of 7-3 came at the Texas Region III-4A meet, Hambleton, England which qualified him for the state meet with the second-highest jump by a (Millfield School) prep athlete in 1998... the mark also ranks as the second-highest leap in Texas prep history... had an outstanding 1998 post-high school season with runner-up finishes at the Golden West Invitational (7-0) and the National Scholastic Invitational (7-2 1/4)... ended his season with a third-place finish Personal Bests: in the USATF Junior National Championships with a 7-0 1/4 jump... 1998 Track and Field News High School All-American in the high jump. Personal: Indoors: Shot Put, 70-6 1/4 High school coach was Tom Murray... major is electrical engineering... Outdoors: Shot Put, 69-5 1/4; Discus, 207-2 parents are Victor and Linda Kologinczak... born Oct. 13, 1979. NCAA All-American: 2003 Indoor Shot Put 2002 Indoor Shot Put 2002 Outdoor Shot Put 2002 Outdoor Discus NENAD LONCAR Honors: 110-meter Hurdles 2002 & 2003 Indoor Shot Put National Champion; Academic All-Big 12 Sophomore (2002, 2003); Big 12 Shot Put Champion (2002 (I), 2002 (O), 2003 Belgrade, Ygoslavia (I); Big 12 Discus Champion (2002, 2003); NCAA Midwest Regional (Economics H.S./Univ. of Shot Put Champion, 2003 (O) Physical Education/Belgrade) NCAA Championships: 2003 (I): Shot Put, 70-6 1/4 (1st) 2002 (I): Shot Put, 69-9 (1st) Personal Bests: 2002 (O): Shot Put, 62-9 1/2 (8th); Discus, 202-7 (2nd) Big 12 Championships: Indoors: 60m Hurdles, 7.87, 60 Meters, 7.18 Outdoors: 110m Hurdles, 13.65 2003 (I): Shot Put, 68-10 (1st) Honors: 2003 (O): Shot Put, 68-10 1/2 (2nd); Discus, 196-0 (1st) 2002 (I): Shot Put, 69-2 (1st) Yugoslavian National Record Holder in the 110m Hurdles (13.65) 2002 (O): Shot Put, 67-6 3/4 (1st); Discus, 197-7 (1st) Big 12 Championships: 2003: Carl Myerscough claimed his second national championship in the 2003 (I): 60m Hurdles, 8.02 (4th) shot put at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a throw of 70-6 1/4 for an 2003 (O): 110m Hurdles, 13.65 (2nd) NCAA meet record and was only a centimeter shy of the NCAA record... won the NCAA Midwest Regional title in the shot put with a throw of 69-5 2003: Nenad Loncar (pronounced Nuh-NOD LAWN-char) joined 1/4 to punch his ticket to the outdoor national championships... won the Big the Nebraska Track and Field Team for the spring semester and 12 discus title, launching it 196-0 for the outdoor championships... finished has been a vital addition to the Huskers... ran a Yugoslavian second to Christian Cantwell in the shot put at the conference national record time of 13.65 in the 110-meter hurdles at the Big championships, throwing it 68-10 1/2 for the silver... decided to focus 12 Outdoor Championships for a silver finish... time of 13.65 also solely on the shot put for the NCAA Outdoor Championships... won the qualified him to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games... also took discus and shot put titles at the Ward Haylett Invitational and the Stanford the silver in the high hurdles at the NCAA Midwest Regional Invitational... won the Big 12 Indoor Championship in the shot over rival Championships, clocking a time of 13.74 to automatically qualify Cantwell with a throw of 68-10... fell to Cantwell at the adidas Classic with for the NCAA Outdoor Championships... won the gold at the Ward an automatic-qualifying launch of 68-2 1/4... the next week, threw a mark Haylett Invitational in a wind-aided time of 13.73... was a member of 68-5 to win the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and tied Cantwell’s of the 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay team that won the Kansas then nation-leading mark. 2002: Myerscough was outstanding in 2002, Relay title in a time of 57.69... finished third at the K.T. Woodman bringing home a national championship in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Classic, notching a time of 14.20... ran to an eighth-place finish in Championships with a throw of 69-9, which was also a school record, a Big the invitational section at the Texas Relays (14.28)... was fourth at 12 Conference all-time indoor best, a British national indoor record, and the the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the 60-meter hurdles with a fifth-longest throw in the world in 2002… finished second in the discus at time of 8.02... ran his season-best time of 8.00 in the semifinals of the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a throw of 202-7… several days the 60-meter hurdles at the conference championships... took fifth later, placed eighth in the shot put at NCAA’s (62-9 1/2) despite injuring his place at the adidas Classic (8.15)... won bronze in his first shoulder during the discus competition... during the summer, competed in competition as a Husker at the Wildcat Invitational. In Yugoslavia: several meets, including the English Trials, European Set the Yugoslavian national junior record in the 110-meter hurdles Cup, and the XVII Commonwealth Games... won both the shot (65-0 1/2) at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile, with and discus (200-10) in the Commonwealth Games Trials by wide margins... a time of 14.07... was a member of the Yugoslavian Junior National won the bronze medal in the shot (65-4) at the Commonwealth Games... Team from 1997-2000 and began competing for the Senior was sixth in the shot (63-8 1/4) in the 2002 European Cup which was won National Team in 1999... finished third at the 2001 Mediterranean by Great Britain... at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, Myerscough Games, flying over the 110-meter hurdles in 13.90... took fifth place captured titles in the shot put (67-6 3/4) and the discus (197-7)… best at the 2001 European Junior Championships in the high hurdles outdoor throw of the season in the shot came at the Kansas State, Wyoming (13.94)... won bronze at the 2002 Balkan Indoor Championships Triangular meet, with a then-school-record mark of 67-11 3/4… also set a with a time of 7.87 in the 60m hurdles... was the 2000 Yugoslavian discus school record at the triangular with a 207-2 throw… won the Big 12 National Champion in the 110-meter Hurdles. Personal: Club Indoor title in the shot put with a throw of 69-2. 2001: Redshirted. 2000: coach in Yugoslavia was Velibor Novakovic... major is economics... Tossed a season-best mark of 64-8 in the shot put for a first-place finish at parents are Zoran and Rada Loncar... born March 6, 1981. the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... the meet was his third and final of the season... finished first in the shot put (62-1 3/4) in a dual against National Championships... finished second in the high jump to Oklahoma... placed first (64-4) in a triangular against Kansas and Tulsa, his current Husker teammate Matthew O’Brien at the 1999 Nebraska first meet as a Husker... did not participate outdoors. High School: Placed Class B state meet (6-8)... was the 1998 Class B high jump runner- second in the shot put at the 1998 World Junior Championships... finished up (6-7)... tied for fourth (6-4) at the Class B state meet as a seventh in the discus at the same event. Personal: English coach was freshman in 1997. Personal: High school coach was Randy Simon Nathan... major is art... parents are David and Angela Myerscough... Shada... major is undecided... parents are Gary and Rose Odvody... born Oct. 21, 1979. born April 23, 1982.

KYLE ODVODY CASEY THOM High Jump Decathlon Junior Senior Malmo, Neb. Hastings, Neb. (Wahoo, Wahoo, Neb.) (St. Cecilia)

Personal Bests: Personal Bests: Indoors: High Jump, 7-1 3/4 Indoors: Heptathlon, 5,312; 1,000m, 2:35.10 Outdoors: High Jump, 7-2 1/2 Outdoors: Decathlon, 7,522; Javelin, 198-7; High Jump, 6-8, 1,500m, 4:27.15 NCAA All-American: Honors: 2002 Indoor High Jump 2003 Verizon Academic All-District VII Second Team; NCAA Championships: Academic All-Big 12 (2001, 2002, 2003) 2003 (I): High Jump, 6-10 1/4 (t17th) Big 12 Championships: 2002 (I): High Jump, 6-11 3/4 (t7th) 2003 (I): Heptathlon, 5,312 (4th) 2002 (O): High Jump, 6-10 3/4 (t16th) 2003 (O): Decathlon, 7,522 (3rd) Big 12 Championships: 2002 (I): Heptathlon, 5,131 (8th) 2002 (O): Decathlon, 6,924w (5th) 2003 (I): High Jump, 7-1 3/4 (2nd) 2001 (O): Decathlon, 6,846w (7th) 2002 (I): High Jump, 7-1 3/4 (2nd) 2000 (I): Heptathlon, 5,283o (7th) 2002 (O): High Jump, 7-0 1/4 (2nd) 2000 (O): Decathlon, 6,802 (7th) 2001 (I): High Jump, 6-9 1/2 (4th) 2001 (O): High Jump, 7-0 1/2 (2nd) 2003: Casey Thom has had an amazing senior season, with his 2003: Kyle Odvody came on strong at the NCAA Midwest Regional most recent performance at the Big 12 Championships, being Championships, winning the title and leaping a height of 7-2 1/4 to one of his most impressive... won the bronze at the conference leave no room for doubt that he should be a contender at the NCAA outdoor championships with career-best 7,522 points in the Outdoor Championships... tied for 10th at the Big 12 decathlon to automatically qualify to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, only clearing 6-7 1/2 before exiting the Championships... is currently ranked 10th on the NCAA descending competition... won the Concordia Twilight, clearing 7-0... took silver order list... won the decathlon at the Kansas Relays with a solid at the Ward Haylett Invitational, leaping 6-11 1/2... captured gold at score of 7,226 points... finished sixth at the College Station Relays the K.T. Woodman Classic with a 6-11 3/4 height... had a with 7,292 points... during indoors, captured fourth place in the Big successful junior indoor campaign, matching his personal-best 12 Championship heptathlon with a career-best 5,312 points... mark of 7-1 3/4 on two different occasions... was second at the Big finished third at the Wildcat Invitational to open the 2003 season 12 Championships with a leap of 7-1 3/4, but took the silver on with 5,161 points. 2002: Leading the Huskers in 2002, Thom misses... finished 17th at the NCAA Indoor Championships, after recorded his then personal-best score in the California Invitational only clearing 6-10 1/2... won event titles at the Holiday Inn Invitational Decathlon with a score of 7,133… finished fifth at the Big 12 Outdoor and the adidas Classic. 2002: Odvody tied for 16th in the high Championships with a wind-aided score of 6,924… ran season- jump at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships with a height of best times in the 100-meter dash (11.31), 400-meter dash (49.22), 6-10 3/4… career-best performance of the season was outdoors and the 1,500 meters (4:38.83) during the 2002 outdoor season… with a 7-2 1/2 mark at the Kansas State, Wyoming Triangular… finished eighth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a season- runner-up at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a jump of 7- best score of 5,131 in the heptathlon… ran his season-best indoor 0 1/4… jumped a personal best and provisional-qualifying height 400 meters at the adidas Invitational where he clocked a time of of 7-1 3/4 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships for another second- 49.37. 2001: Finished seventh in the Big 12 decathlon with a wind- place finish… earned All-America honors by tying for seventh at aided mark of 6,846, despite battling a groin injury... recorded a the NCAA Indoor Championships with a height of 6-11 3/4... season-best mark of 4,367 in the heptathlon at the Northern Iowa finished ninth at the Mt. SAC Relays in the Invitational section. Invitational... pulled a hamstring in the long jump at the Big 12 2001: Finished second in the high jump at the Big 12 outdoor indoor meet and withdrew after two events. 2000: Placed seventh meet with a mark of 7-0 1/2... cleared an outdoor season-best 7-1 in the decathlon (6,802) at the Big 12 outdoor meet... also took at the USATF Junior National Championships... placed fourth in seventh in the heptathlon at the league indoor meet with a season- the high jump (6-9 1/2) at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... best mark of 5,283. 1999: Used redshirt year to work on decathlon recorded a season-best indoor high jump of 6-11 at the Northern events... won the Lincoln Track Club decathlon with a score of Iowa Invitational. High School: Set the then Nebraska state record 7,066 points in his first time competing in the event. High School: with a high jump mark of 7-1 1/2 at the Platteview Invitational in Was the 1998 Nebraska Class C state champion in the high jump... 2000... his state record was broken in 2002 by current Husker 1998 runner-up in the Class C long jump... Class C runner-up in athlete Aaron Plas... placed second in the high jump (7-0 1/2) at the high jump in 1997 and 1996. Personal: High school coach the USATF Junior Olympics... was the 2000 Class B and all-class was Vince Pelster... major is classics... parents are Tom and gold medal winner with a state meet record high jump of 7-0... tied Ladena Thom... born Aug. 16, 1979. for sixth in the high jump (6-7) at the 2000 Footlocker High School ARTUR WSZELAKI Javelin Junior Kotobrezeg, Poland (Z.S.M.)

Personal Bests: Outdoors: Javelin, 246-3 NCAA All-American: 2002 Outdoor Javelin NCAA Championships: 2002 (O): Javelin, 243-4 (4th)

Big 12 Championships: 2003 (O): Javelin, 236-10 (1st) 2002 (O): Javelin, 224-1 (3rd) 2003: Artur Wszelaki claimed his first-ever Big 12 title in the javelin in Austin, Texas, throwing it a season-best 236-10 for the championship... received an at-large bid to NCAA Outdoor Championships after finishing seventh at the Midwest Regional Championships with a mark of 218-9... started the season off well at the Stanford Invitational with a win, going 235-10... took silver in the university section A at the Texas Relays (229-10)... finished fifth at the Penn Relays in the College Championship division with a throw of 212-17... won the Ward Haylett Invitational (229-6). 2002: Wszelaki joined the Huskers in December of 2001, and quickly established himself as the javelin leader for the Huskers… captured fourth place and All-America status at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a season-best throw of 243-4… took third place at the Big 12 Championships with a throw of 224-1… finished third in the invitational javelin (242-5) at the Mt. SAC Relays. In Poland: Threw a personal-best mark of 246-3 in 2000… was second at the Poland Championships in 2000, and was third at the Poland Championships in 2001. Personal: High school coach was Mirek Szybowski… major is geography… parents are Czeslan and Grazyna Wszelaki… born July 1, 1979. Outdoor School Records Track Events Event ...... Time ...... Athlete ...... Date 100-Meter Dash ...... 0:10.16 ...... Chris Chandler ...... April 1, 2000 200-Meter Dash ...... 0:20.59 ...... Chris Chandler ...... May 21, 2000 400-Meter Dash ...... 0:45.38 ...... Ken Waller ...... May 20, 1991 800-Meter Run ...... 1:44.76 ...... Dieudonne Kwizera...... Aug. 18, 1989 1,000-Meter Run...... 2:18.27 ...... Dieudonne Kwizera...... Aug. 8, 1989 1,500-Meter Run...... 3:35.57s ...... Balazs Tolgyesi ...... Aug. 1, 1996 Mile Run ...... 3:55.34 ...... Balazs Tolgyesi ...... Aug. 25, 1996 3,000-Meter Run...... 7:59.01 ...... Jean Verster ...... Jan. 6, 1986 5,000-Meter Run...... 13:51.35 ...... Joe Kirby ...... April 21, 1990 10,000-Meter Run ...... 28:50.90 ...... Cleophas Boor ...... April 18, 1998 Marathon...... 2::20:19.0 ...... Wally Duffy ...... Dec. 10, 1983 110-Meter Hurdles ...... 0:13.50 ...... Willie Hibler ...... May 18, 1997 400-Meter Hurdles ...... 0:49.18p ...... Mark Jackson ...... Aug. 3, 1992 3,000m Steeplechase ...... 8:29.66 ...... Kurt Russell...... March 22, 1986

Relays Event ...... Time ...... Athletes...... Date 4x100-Meter ...... 0:39.45 ...... (Washington, Grant, Fish, Carson) ...... May 12, 1994 4x200-Meter ...... 1:23.27 ...... (Trott, Burrage, Perry, Jelks) ...... April 29, 1988 4x400-Meter ...... 3:02.81 ...... (Waller, Jackson, Marsee, Molnar) ...... June 1, 1991 4x800-Meter ...... 7:14.89 ...... (O'Callaghan, Cunningham, Humphrey, Verster) ...... April 26, 1985 4x1,600-Meter ...... 16:21.87 ...... (O'Callaghan, Perlinger, Russell, Verster) ...... April 25, 1986 4x110-Meter Shuttle Hurdle ...... 0:56.32...... (Loncar, Jones, Nelson, Davis) ...... April 25, 2003 Sprint Medley ...... 3:15.97 ...... (Adkison, Perry, Jelks, Kwizera) ...... April 28, 1990 Distance Medley ...... 9:36.39 ...... (Cunningham, Humphrey, Verster, O'Callaghan) ...... April 6, 1985

Field/Multi-Events Event ...... Metric ...... Imperial ...... Athlete ...... Date High Jump ...... 2.30 ...... 7-6 1/2 ...... Shane Lavy ...... July 18, 1999 Pole Vault ...... 5.55 ...... 18-2 1/2 ...... Eric Eshbach...... May 21, 2000 Long Jump ...... 8.15 ...... 26-9...... Robert Thomas...... April 17, 1993 Triple Jump ...... 16.51A ...... 54-2...... Edrick Floreal ...... May 18, 1986 Shot Put ...... 21.16 ...... 69-5 1/4 ...... Carl Myerscough ...... May 31, 2003 Discus ...... 63.14 ...... 207-2 ...... Carl Myerscough ...... May 4, 2002 Hammer ...... 63.16 ...... 207-2 ...... Greg Armitage ...... April 13, 1996 Javelin ...... 76.64 ...... 251-5 ...... Scott Warren ...... May 23, 1999 Decathlon ...... 7,707 pts...... Rick Schwieger ...... June 5-6, 1992

A=altitude (more than 1,000 meters above sea level); p=preliminaries; s=semifinals. 2003 Nebraska Outdoor Performance List 100-meter dash 4x400-meter relay 1. Oliver Williams 0:10.48* May 3 1. Leonard, Kelley, 2. Shelldon Simpson 0:10.53 May 3 Harrison, Nelson 3:08.39p April 25 3. Mark Anderson 0:11.17p May 3 Wind-aided 4x110-meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay Oliver Williams 0:10.43pw* May 30 1. Loncar, Jones Mark Anderson 0:11.12w April 5 Nelson, Davis 0:56.32# April 25 200-meter dash Distance Medley Relay 1. Oliver Williams 0:21.40p May 18 1. Bowler, Burns 2. Shelldon Simpson 0:21.54p* May 18 Bauman, Kamm 9:52.16 April 26 3. LeVar Norris 0:21.64p May 18 Wind-aided High Jump Shelldon Simpson 0:21.07w* May 3 1. Shaun Kologinczak 7-3 (2.1) April 5 John Kelley 0:21.13w* May 3 2. Kyle Odvody 7-2 1/4 (2.19) May 30 3. Travis Baker 7-1 (2.16)* May 30 400-meter dash 1. John Kelley 0:46.84p* May 18 Pole Vault 2. Casey Thom 0:47.98* May 17 1. Eric Eshbach 17-10 1/2 (5.45) March 29 3. Josh Leonard 0:48.76 April 12 2. Brad Teeple 16-4 3/4 (5.00) April 5 & 18 3. Nic Petersen 16-0 3/4 (4.90)* April 12 800-meter run 1. Chris Burns 1:49.13p* May 18 Long Jump 2. Lucas Bauman 1:50.21p* May 18 1. Chris Richardson 23-2 3/4 (7.08) April 12 3. James Bowler 1:50.83* May 3 Wind-aided Casey Thom 22-5 (6.83)w May 17 1,500-meter run Jesse Colburn 20-7 (6.27)w May 17 1. James Bowler 3:43.36 May 31 2. Mike Kamm 3:52.27 March 28 Triple Jump 3. Lucas Bauman 3:54.69* April 12 1. Jason Thompson 51-1 (15.57)* May 19 2. Aaron Plas 44-4 1/4 (13.52)* May 19 5,000-meter run 1. Eric Rasmussen 14:43.60 April 17 Shot Put 2. Dana Carne 15:05.59 April 17 1. Carl Myerscough 69-5 1/4 (21.16)*# May 31 3. Paul Wilson 15:15.6 April 25 2. Jess Kirchhoff 59-10 1/4 (18.24)* May 19 3. Phil Lueking 56-8 (17.27)* April 4 10,000-meter run 1. Eric Rasmussen 30:07.86* March 28 Discus 1. Carl Myerscough 202-11 (61.85) May 3 110-meter hurdles 2. Adam Patrick 167-2 (50.96) April 12 1. Nenad Loncar 0:13.65* May 19 3. Tom Donlin 142-11 (43.56)* March 28 2. David Davis Jr. 0:13.75p* May 18 3. Courtney Jones 0:14.24* May 19 Hammer Throw Wind-aided: 1. Tom Donlin 173-4 (52.83)* May 13 David Davis Jr. 0:13.68w* May 30 2. Adam Patrick 163-3 (49.75) May 10 Courtney Jones 0:14.17w* May 3 3. James Lee 160-1 (48.79) April 25 400-meter hurdles Javelin 1. Mark Harrison 0:52.04* May 3 1. Artur Wszelaki 236-10 (72.18) May 19 2. Danny Hill 0:52.13* May 19 2. Colin Damas 213-0 (64.93) April 4 3. Andy Nelson 0:52.75p* May 18 3. Zach Josephson 206-9 (63.01) May 19 3,000-meter steeplechase 1. Paul Wilson 9:23.93* May 10 Decathlon 1. Casey Thom 7,522* May 17-18 4x100-meter relay 2. Chris Richardson 7,225* May 17-18 1. Williams, Kelley, 3. Jesse Colburn 6,510* May 17-18 Norris, Simpson 0:40.36 May 3 Wind-aided Chris Richardson 7,236w* May 17-18 4x200-meter relay Jesse Colburn 6,519w* April 16-17 1. Kelley, Leonard Williams, Simpson 1:25.88 April 18 NCAA Competitors in Bold * - personal best # - school record 2003 Outdoor Season Review Danny Hill, 52.47. 4x100-Meter Relay: 2. Nebraska (Williams, Davis, College Station Relays Simpson, Norris), 41.20. 4x400-Meter Relay: 1. Nebraska (Leonard, Hill, March 14-16, 2003 Harrison, Kelley), 3:09.33. High Jump: 1. Kyle Odvody, 6-11 3/4; 2. Aaron Frank G. Anderson Track - College Station, Texas Plas, 6-9 3/4; 3. Travis Baker, 6-8; t4. Matt O’Brien, 6-8. Pole Vault: 1. Eric Eshbach, 17-8 1/2; 3. Nic Petersen, 16-0 3/4. Long Jump: 4. Chris Decathlon (Gold Division): 6. Casey Thom, 7,292. Richardson, 23-2 3/4. Triple Jump: 3. Jason Thompson, 46-9. Shot Put: 3. Kevin Johnson, 54-2; 4. Phillip Lueking, 53-5 1/2. Discus: 3. Adam Patrick, Stanford Invitational 167-2. Javelin: 4. Jesse Colburn, 191-9; 6. Casey Thom, 182-2. Team March 28-29, 2003 Scoring: 1. Wichita State, 221; 2. Nebraska, 153; 3. Texas-Arlington, 79; Cobb Track and Angell Field - Palo Alto, Calif. 4. Iowa, 63; 5. Missouri-Kansas City, 26. 800-Meter Run: 5. Lucas Bauman, 1:51.35. High Jump: t3. Shaun Kologinczak, 6-11 1/2. Pole Vault (Elite Section): t4. Eric Eshbach, 17-10 Kansas Relays 1/2. Shot Put (Elite Section): 1. Carl Myerscough, 63-9. Discus (Elite April 16-19, 2003 Section): 1. Carl Myerscough, 191-0. Javelin: 1. Artur Wszelaki, 235-10. Memorial Stadium - Lawrence, Kan. 1,500-Meter Run (Unseeded): 3. Tim Williams, 3:55.34. 5,000-Meter Run: Euler State Farm/Emporia State University Relays 4. Eric Rasmussen, 14:43.60. 4x200-Meter Relay: Nebraska (Kelley, April 5, 2003 Leonard, Williams, Simpson), 1:25.88. 4x110-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay: Zola Witten Track/Fran Welch Stadium - Emporia, Kan. 1. Nebraska (Loncar, Nelson, Jones, Davis), 57.69. Pole Vault: 1. Eric Eshbach, 17-4 1/2; 3. Brad Teeple, 16-4 3/4. Shot Put: 2. Jess Kirchhoff, 800-Meter Run: 3. Tim Williams, 1:54.0; 5. Mike Kamm, 1:55.2. 4x400-Meter 56-1 1/4; 5. Kevin Johnson, 55-3 3/4. Decathlon: 1. Casey Thom, 7,226; 2. Relay: 5. Nebraska (Richardson, Kamm, Colburn, Thom). High Jump: t5. Chris Richardson, 6,967; 4. Jesse Colburn, 6,519. Casey Thom, 6-6. Pole Vault: 2. Nic Petersen, 14-11. Javelin: 5. Jesse Colburn, 192-3. Mt. SAC Relays Texas Relays April 17-19, 2003 April 2-5, 2003 Hilmer Lodge Stadium - Walnut, Calif. Mike A. Meyers Track & Field/Soccer Stadium - Austin, Texas High Jump (Invitational): 6. Shaun Kologinczak, 6-11 1/2. Javelin 110-Meter Hurdles (Invitational): 8. Nenad Loncar, 14.28. 110-Meter (Invitational): 4. Artur Wszelaki, 220-2. Hurdles (University): 6. David Davis, 14.03. High Jump (University Section A): 1. Shaun Kologinczak, 7-3. Pole Vault (University Section Nebraska Wesleyan Twilight A): t5. Eric Eshbach, 17-8 1/2. Shot Put (University Section B): 2. Jess April 25, 2003 Kirchhoff, 57-5; 3. Phillip Lueking, 56-8. Javelin (University Section A): 2. Nebraska Wesleyan University - Lincoln, Neb. Artur Wszelaki, 229-10. Javelin (University Section B): 2. Colin Damas, 213-0. 800-Meter Run: 1. Tim Williams, 1:52.6; 2. P.J. Grosserode, 1:54.1. 5,000- Meter Run: 1. Paul Wilson, 15:15.6. 400-Meter Hurdles: 2. Casey Thom, KT Woodman Invitational 56.93. 4x100-Meter Relay: 3. Nebraska (Petersen, Teeple, Tylka, Eshbach) 44.11. High Jump: 1. Shaun Kologinczak, 7-2; 2. Travis Baker, 6-9. Pole April 12, 2002 Vault: 1. Eric Eshbach, 17-0 3/4; 2. Brad Teeple, 16-2 1/4; 5. Danny Tylka, Cessna Stadium - Wichita, Kan. 14-8 1/4. Shot Put: 4. Kevin Johnson, 51-1. Hammer Throw: 1. Tom 100-Meter Dash: 3. Shelldon Simpson, 10.57; 5. Oliver Williams, 10.65. Donlin, 167-0; 3. James Lee, 160-1. Javelin: 1. Jesse Colburn, 182-7; 2. 200-Meter Dash: 5. Shelldon Simpson, 21.64. 400-Meter Dash: 2. John Casey Thom, 178-7; 5. J.D. Kristenson, 164-7. Kelley, 48.22; 4. Josh Leonard, 48.76. 800-Meter Run: 1. Tim Williams, 1:53.83. 1,500-Meter Run: 2. Lucas Bauman, 3:54.69. 110-Meter Hurdles: Drake Relays 1. David Davis, 13.93; 3. Nenad Loncar, 14.20. 400-Meter Hurdles: 2. April 23-26, 2003 Drake Stadium/Jim Duncan Track - Des Moines, Iowa High Jump (Special): t4. Kyle Odvody, 6-10 3/4. Distance Medley Relay: 4. Nebraska (Bowler, Burns, Bauman, Kamm), 9:52.16.

Penn Relays April 22-26, 2003 Franklin Field - Philadelphia, Pa. 4x110-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay: 5. Nebraska (Loncar, Jones, Nelson, Davis), 56.32. Javelin (College Championship): 5. Artur Wszelaki, 212- 7.

Ward Haylett Invitational May 3, 2003 Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium - Lincoln, Neb. 100-Meter Dash: 4. Oliver Williams, 10.48; 5. Shelldon Simpson, 10.53. 400-Meter Dash: 1. John Kelley, 46.88. 800-Meter Run: 3. Chris Burns, 1:49.53; 5. James Bowler, 1:50.83. 110-Meter Hurdles: 1. Nenad Loncar, 13.73; 2. Courtney Jones, 14.17. 400-Meter Hurdles: 1. Mark Harrison, 52.04; 4. Danny Hill, 52.65. 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: 4. Paul Wilson, Kyle Odvody was crowned the NCAA Midwest Regional Champion, clearing 7-2 1/4 in the high jump to advance to the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championships. 2003 Outdoor Season Review 9:26.98. 4x100-Meter Relay: 2. Nebraska (Williams, Kelley, Norris, Simpson), 40.36. 4x400-Meter Relay: 1. Nebraska (Leonard, Kelley, Hill, Harrison). High Jump: 2. Kyle Odvody, 6-11 1/2; t3. Aaron Plas, 6-9 1/2; t3. Travis Baker, 6-9 1/2. Pole Vault: 1. Eric Eshbach, 16-8 3/4; 5. Danny Tylka, 15-1. Long Jump: 5. Chris Richardson, 22-5 3/4. Triple Jump: 1. Jason Thompson, 47-7 1/4. Shot Put: 1. Carl Myerscough, 68-10 1/2; 5. Jess Kirchhoff, 58-4 3/4. Discus: 1. Carl Myerscough, 202-11. Javelin: 1. Artur Wszelaki, 229-6; 2. Colin Damas, 201-3. Team Standings: 1. Nebraska, 197; 2. Colorado State, 167 1/2; 3. Wichita State, 113; 4. Missouri, 106; 5. Kansas State, 81 1/2; 6. Kansas, 53.

Nebraska Twilight May 10, 2002 Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium- Lincoln, Neb. 400-Meter Dash: 1. Lucas Bauman, 51.18. 800-Meter Run: 2. Tim Williams, 1:57.10; 3. P.J. Grosserode, 1:58.39. 1,500-Meter Run: 1. Eric Rasmussen, 4:02.71; 2. Mike Kamm, 4:14.07. 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: 1. Paul Wilson, 9:23.93. High Jump (Indoors): 1. Aaron Plas, 6-11; 2. Kyle Odvody, 6-9. Pole Vault (Indoors): 1. Eric Eshbach, 16-10 3/4; 2. Brad Teeple, 16-6 3/4; 3. Nic Petersen, 16-0 3/4; 4. Danny Tylka, 15-8 1/4. Shot Put: 1. Carl Myerscough, 66-3 1/4; 2. Jess Kirchhoff, 57-2 1/4. Discus: 1. Carl Myerscough, 189-6; 4. Adam Patrick, 155-2. Hammer Throw: 1. Adam Patrick, 163-3; 2. James Lee, 152-7; 3. Tom Donlin, 147-0. Javelin: 2. Casey Thom, 184-3; 2. Zach Josephson, 183-0; 4. Colin Damas, 177-6; 5. J.D. Kristenson, 177-1. Nenad Loncar joined the Huskers in January and currently leads the Huskers in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.65, ran at the Big 12 Championships, where he finished second. That time was also good for a Yugoslavian national record.

Concordia Twilight May 13, 2002 Concordia University - Seward, Neb. 400-Meter Dash: 1. Chris Burns, 48.83. 800-Meter Run: 1. James Bowler, 1:52.66. High Jump: 1. Kyle Odvody, 7-0; 3. Travis Baker, 6-10; 4. Aaron Plas, 6-10; 5. Shaun Kologinczak, 6-10. Pole Vault: 1. Eric Eshbach, 16-6; t4. Nic Petersen, 15-0; t4. Danny Tylka, 15-0. Triple Jump: 1. Jason Thompson, 50-4 1/2. Shot Put: 2. Kevin Johnson, 51-1 3/4. Hammer Throw: 1. Tom Donlin, 173-4; 3. James Lee, 156-0. Javelin: 2. Artur Wszelaki, 214-5; 3. Zach Josephson, 201-7; 5. J.D. Kristenson, 188-6.

Big 12 Outdoor Championships May 17-19, 2003 Mike A. Myers Stadium - Austin, Texas 400-Meter Dash: 7. John Kelley, 47.58. 800-Meter Run: 5. Chris Burns, 1:49.69; 8. Lucas Bauman, 1:50. 76. 1,500-Meter Run: 1. James Bowler, 3:43.43. 110-Meter Hurdles: 2. Nenad Loncar, 13.65; 3. David Davis Jr., 13.94; 7. Courtney Jones, 14.24. 400-Meter Hurdles: 3. Danny Hill, 52.13; 7. Andy Nelson, 53.95. 4x100-Meter Relay: 4. Nebraska (Williams, Kelley, Norris, Simpson), 40.42. 4x400-Meter Relay: 4. Nebraska (Leonard, Kelley, Hill, Harrison). High Jump: t4. Shaun Kologinczak, 6-11 1/2; t4. Aaron Plas, 6-11 1/2. Triple Jump: 2. Jason Thompson, 51-1. Shot Put: 2. Carl Myerscough, 68-10 1/2; 5. Jess Kirchhoff, 59-10 1/4. Discus: 1. Carl Myerscough, 196-0. Javelin: 1. Artur Wszelaki, 236-10; 6. Colin Damas, 210-2. Decathlon: 3. Casey Thom, 7,522; 5. Chris Richardson, 7,236.

NCAA Midwest Regional Championships May 30-31, 2003 Ed Weir Track and Field Stadium - Lincoln, Neb. 800-Meter Run: 5. Chris Burns, 1:49.70. 1,500-Meter Run: 3. James Bowler, 3:43.36. 110-Meter Hurdles: 2. Nenad Loncar, 13.74; 6. David Artur Wszelaki joined the Huskers last spring and made a Davis Jr., 14.03. High Jump: 1. Kyle Odvody, 7-2 1/4; 4. Travis Baker, 7-1. phenomenal entrance, throwing a season-best 243-4 in the Pole Vault: 4. Eric Eshbach, 16-11. Triple Jump: 6. Jason Thompson, 50- javelin at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships, where he 6. Shot Put: 1. Carl Myerscough, 69-5 1/4. Javelin: 7. Artur Wszelaki, finished fourth to receive All-America honors. 218-9. 2003 Outdoor Season Review Big 12 Outdoor Championships May 30-31 • Austin, Texas

1. Texas ...... 132 2. Texas A&M ...... 115 3. Nebraska ...... 113 4. Texas Tech ...... 90 5. Missouri ...... 80 6. Oklahoma ...... 59 7. Colorado ...... 56 8. Baylor ...... 52 9. Kansas ...... 43 10. Kansas State ...... 42 11. Iowa State ...... 27 12. Oklahoma State ...... 8

Nebraska’s Big 12 Champions: James Bowler (1,500-Meter Run), Carl Myerscough (Discus), Artur Wszelaki (Javelin)

NCAA Midwest Regional Championships May 30-31 • Lincoln, Neb.

1. Minnesota ...... 65 1/2 2. Texas A&M ...... 61 t3. Nebraska ...... 56 t3. Texas Tech ...... 56 5. Texas Christian ...... 53 6. Texas ...... 39 7. Texas El-Paso ...... 37 8. Houston ...... 35 9. Baylor ...... 33 Carl Myerscough captured the silver in the discus and eighth 10. Colorado State...... 28 place in the shot put at the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Myerscough will only compete in the shot put at the 2003 outdoor Nebraska’s NCAA Midwest Regional Champions: Carl Myerscough championships, coming in as the Midwest Regional champion. (Shot Put), Kyle Odvody (High Jump)

Eric Eshbach won the silver in the pole vault at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships. Eshbach automatically qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships by finishing fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.