NEBRASKA 2013-14 Women’s Golf
NEBRASKA 2013-14 Women’s Golf
SOPHOMORES
Morgan Smejkal, Cassidy Stelzmiller, Cassie Deeg, Hannah Luebke
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA WOMEN’S GOLF Women’s Golf Directory
Head Coach......................................................................... Robin Krapfl Golf Office Secretary............................................................ Karin Fusco Golf Office Phone........................................................... (402) 472-1415 Golf Office Fax................................................................ (402) 472-9399 Golf Office Address:................................................................................. 202C Nebraska Coliseum P.O. Box 880146 Lincoln, NE 68588-0146
Media Relations Directory
Assistant A.D./Media Relations: Keith Mann.................. (402) 472-2263 Women’s Golf Media Relations Contact: Jeff Griesch ..... (402) 472-7775 ................................................................................jgriesch@huskers.com Media Relations Fax Number:........................................ (402) 472-2005 Media Relations Mailing Address:............................................................ University of Nebraska Media Relations One Memorial Stadium P.O. Box 880123 Lincoln, NE 68588-0123 Internet Addresses.......................... Huskers.com / ThisIsNebraska.com
Athletic Department Directory
General Athletic Department Phone...................................... (402) 472-4224 Director of Athletics: Shawn Eichorst...................................... (402) 472-3011 Athletic Director Emeritus: Tom Osborne............................... (402) 472-3011 Exec. Assoc. A.D.: Marc Boehm.............................................. (402) 472-3011 Sr. Assoc. A.D.: Bob Burton...................................................... (402) 472-5663 Sr. Assoc. A.D./Academics: Dennis Leblanc............................ (402) 472-2042 Sr. Assoc. A.D./SWA: Pat Logsdon........................................... (402) 472-3011 St. Assoc. A.D./Performance, Strategic Research: Steve Waterfield....................................................................... (402) 472-3011 Assoc. A.D./Athletic Medicine: Dr. Lonnie Albers......................(402) 472-2276 Assoc. A.D./Community Relations: Chris Anderson.................. (402) 472-7771 Assoc. A.D./Facilities & Events: Butch Hug............................. (402) 472-1950 Assoc. A.D./Capital Projects: John Ingram.............................. (402) 472-1000 Assoc. A.D./Football Operations: Jeff Jamrog........................ (402) 472-3116 Assoc. A.D./Huskers Athletic Fund: Paul Meyers................... (402) 472-2367 Assoc. A.D./Compliance: Jamie Vaughn................................. (402) 472-2042 Assoc. A.D./Diversity, Student-Athlete Recruitment & Leadership Initiatives: Jamie Williams......................................... (402) 472-3011 Assoc. A.D. /Life Skills: Keith Zimmer ......................................... (402) 472-4616 Asst. A.D./Ticketing: Holly Adam.................................................(402) 472-3111 Asst. A.D./HuskerVision: Shot Kleen...................................... (402) 472-4645 Asst. A.D./Media Relations: Keith Mann................................ (402) 472-2263 Asst. A.D./Marketing, Licensing, Concessions: Michael Stephens.................................................................. (402) 472-0775
Board of Regents
Timothy Clare, J.D........................................................................ Lincoln Hal Daub...................................................................................... Omaha Howard Hawks............................................................................ Omaha Bob Phares.......................................................................... North Platte Jim Pillen.................................................................................Columbus Robert Schafer............................................................................Beatrice Kent Schroeder, J.D.....................................................................Kearney Bob Whitehouse........................................................................ Papillion Eric Reznicek................................................................ Nebraska-Lincoln Martha Spangler..........................................................Nebraska-Omaha Moses Moxey.............................................................Nebraska-Kearney Jeremy Hosein................................................ Nebraska Medical Center
Notice of NCAA Probation
From 2007 to 2010 the University of Nebraska unintentionally reimbursed student-athletes for recommended textbooks as well as required textbooks through a failure to properly administer and monitor book scholarships. Only reimbursement for required books is permissible under NCAA rules. As a result, the NCAA placed the University of Nebraska on two-year probation, beginning in January of 2012. The NCAA did not impose additional penalties such as loss of scholarships, forfeiture of games, or a ban on postseason play. Rather, as a condition of probation, Nebraska will continue to educate student-athletes and staff thoroughly on NCAA bylaws and will notify prospective student-athletes of its probationary status.
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln does not discriminate based on gender, age, disability, race, color, religion, marital status, veteran’s status, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
Senior Steffi Neisen searches for her fourth straight WGCA Scholastic All-America honor while leading the Huskers on the course in 2013-14.
Table of Contents
General Information/Coaches/Staff...................................................1-5 Coach Robin Krapfl................................................................................2 Assistant Coach Mike Schuchart............................................................3 Chip-N Club Boosters.............................................................................3 Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst.....................................................4 Executive Associate A.D. Marc Boehm..................................................5 Associate A.D./Live Skills: Keith Zimmer................................................5 Senior Associate A.D./SWA: Pat Logsdon..............................................5 2013-14 Outlook, Roster & Schedule.................................................6-7 Husker Golfers..................................................................................8-14 Steffi Neisen..........................................................................................8 Katelyn Wright.......................................................................................9 Cassie Deeg.........................................................................................10 Morgan Smejkal...................................................................................11 Cassidy Stelzmiller...............................................................................12 Hannah Luebke/Abbie Hunke..............................................................13 Yoorim Kang/Jordan Chael..................................................................14 adidas..................................................................................................15 Big Ten Conference..............................................................................16 Big Ten Opponents..............................................................................17 2012-13 Season Review..................................................................18-20 Husker History................................................................................21-29 Year-by-Year Results.......................................................................21-24 All-Time Honors & Awards..................................................................25 All-Time Letterwinners........................................................................26 Individual & Team Records..................................................................27 Conference History..............................................................................28 Nebraska in the NCAA Championships................................................29 This is Nebraska..............................................................................30-48
General Information
Location..............................................................................Lincoln, Neb. Population..................................................................................264,501 Enrollment....................................................................................24,610 Founded ........................................................................... Feb. 15, 1869 Chancellor.......................................................... Harvey S. Perlman, J.D. President..................................................................... James B. Milliken Colors.........................................................................Scarlet and Cream Nickname..............................................................Cornhuskers/Huskers Conference.................................................................................. Big Ten Affiliation ....................................................................... NCAA Division I
Golf Quick Facts
Head Coach/Years..........................................................Robin Krapfl/26 2012-13 Top 10 Finishes.................................................................. 4/11 2012-13 Top Five Finishes............................................................... 1/11 2012-13 First-Place Finishes............................................................ 0/11 Big Ten Finish..............................................................................11th/12 NCAA Regional Finish..................................................Did Not Compete Letterwinners Returning/Lost........................................................... 6/1
Media Information
All student-athlete and coaching staff interviews must be arranged through Director of Media Relations Operations Jeff Griesch at (402) 472-7775. Generally, the Huskers will practice from 1:30 to 5 p.m. at courses throughout Lincoln. Contact the Media Relations Office to verify practice times and sites. The best time to reach Coach Robin Krapfl for interviews is weekday mornings at (402) 472-1415. For up-to-date coverage of NU women’s golf, visit Huskers.com, the official website of the University of Nebraska Athletic Department. In addition to updated results, statistics and meet recaps, you can find photos, player and coach biographies, schedule and roster information and weekly releases. The site also features webcasts produced by the Husker Sports Network of Nebraska men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball and football, along with Sports Nightly, which airs Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m., central time.
About This Publication
The 2013-14 Nebraska women’s golf guide was written and designed by Director of Media Relations Operations Jeff Griesch with editing assistance from Assistant Media Relations Directors Matt Smith and Jeremy Foote. The guide was produced in Adobe InDesign CS6. The covers were created by Jeff Griesch with photography by Scott Bruhn. Photo credits to Scott Bruhn and BreAnna Haessler. On the cover: The 2013-14 Nebraska women’s golf team - Front row (from left): Morgan Smejkal, Abbie Hunke, Yoorim Kang, Jordan Chael. Middle row: Cassie Deeg, Steffi Neisen, Katelyn Wright. Back row: Hannah Luebke, Cassidy Stelzmiller.
The mission of the University of Nebraska Athletic Department is to serve our student-athletes, coaches, staff and fans with Integrity, Trust, Respect, Teamwork and Loyalty.
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Robin KRAPFL
Head Coach (27th Season)
Nebraska (1984)
“The short game separates good players from great ones and can be a huge equalizer in team competition. I really stress the importance of practice from 80 yards in.”
Honors & Awards 2005 University of Nebraska Combined Campaign Honorary Chair 1993-94 Big Eight Coach of the Year 1990-91 Big Eight Coach of the Year TPI Certified Golf Fitness Instructor NCAA Championship Appearances (3) 2006 NCAA Championships (20th/24) 2003 NCAA Championships (22nd/24) 2000 NCAA Championships (19th/24) NCAA Regional Appearances (11) 2008 NCAA Central Regional (T10th/21) 2007 NCAA West Regional (15th/21) 2006 NCAA Central Regional (8th/21) 2003 NCAA Central Regional (5th/21) 2002 NCAA Central Regional (19th/21) 2001 NCAA Central Regional (10th/21) 2000 NCAA West Regional (9th/24) 1997 NCAA West Regional (14th/20) 1996 NCAA West Regional (T11th/20) 1995 NCAA West Regional (12th/20) 1994 NCAA West Regional (16th/19) Krapfl’s Career Numbers
Year Meets Wins Top Five Top 10 Conf. NCAA 1987-88 11 0 7 11 5th -1988-89 12 2 6 10 4th -1989-90 11 3 7 10 5th -1990-91 10 0 3 7 3rd -1991-92 10 0 4 8 7th -1992-93 10 0 5 7 4th -1993-94 12 3 6 10 4th -1994-95 12 1 8 10 3rd -1995-96 12 0 5 9 t3rd -1996-97 12 2 6 9 3rd -1997-98 10 1 3 8 6th -1998-99 10 0 3 8 8th -1999-00 13 3 8 12 3rd 19th 2000-01 12 1 3 11 5th -2001-02 12 1 3 8 7th -2002-03 13 0 8 11 5th 22nd 2003-04 11 2 4 9 10th -2004-05 11 1 2 7 7th -2005-06 13 2 9 11 t4th 20th 2006-07 12 3 6 9 4th -2007-08 13 1 4 11 6th -2008-09 11 2 4 8 10th -2009-10 11 0 5 9 8th -2010-11 11 0 2 7 10th -2011-12 11 0 5 9 6th -2012-13 11 0 1 4 11th Totals 297 28 127 233 -- --
A Tradition of Success
Coach Robin Krapfl continues to emphasize the principles of achieving excellence on and off the course in her 27th season as Nebraska's head coach. It shows. Since Krapfl took the reins in 1987, the Huskers have: Earned a nation-leading 64 WGCA Scholastic All-America honors. In 1992, all five of Krapfl’s starters were honored with this distinction. It was the first time in women’s college golf history that a team had accomplished such a feat. Again in 2003, five Nebraska starters earned Scholastic All-America honors. Won 102 academic all-conference awards. Produced two NCAA All-Americans, two conference champions, the 1990 Edith Munson Award winner, a twotime TrueTemper Scholastic Award honoree, one Big 12 Golfer of the Year, one Nebraska Student-Athlete-of-the-Year and 23 all-conference (16 Big Eight, 6 All-Big 12, 1 All-Big Ten) awards. Qualified for 11 NCAA Regionals. Participated in the first three NCAA Tournaments in school history with trips in 2000, 2003 and 2006. Regularly finished in the top half of the conference standings. Posted a team GPA of 3.71 in 2006-07, the fifth-highest team GPA in the nation. Despite the past success of NU's program, Krapfl believes the best is yet to come.
Huskers Take Aim at 12th NCAA Regional
In their first season of Big Ten Conference competition in 2011-12, the Huskers just missed an NCAA Regional berth while finishing sixth at the Big Ten Tournament. Madeleine Sheils earned All-Big Ten honors while tying for third at the Big Ten Championships. She also earned a spot in the NCAA Central Regional as an individual. Nebraska had its streak of three consecutive NCAA Regional bids end in 2008-09, but the Huskers will focus on earning their 12th regional bid since 1994 in 2013-14. NU advanced to its third consecutive regional in 2008, qualifying as the No. 17 seed in the NCAA Central Regional in Austin, Texas. The Huskers missed a berth to the fourth NCAA Championships in school history by just one stroke, finishing in a tie for 10th with a score of 903 on the University of Texas Golf Course. NU qualified for regionals on the heels of a solid sixth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships in Stillwater, Okla. Along with their strong play on the course, all five starters in Nebraska’s lineup earned academic All-Big 12 recognition. In 2006-07, NU earned a second straight NCAA Regional bid with a fourth-place Big 12 finish. NU claimed three team tournament titles, led by All-Big 12 performer Elli Brown. NU also led the conference with five academic All-Big 12 selections.
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The Huskers produced one of the best seasons in school history in 2005-06, with a 20th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Nebraska also posted its best-ever score at the NCAA Championships by firing a 1,221 over four rounds, 18 strokes better than the 1,239 NU shot at the 2000 NCAA Championships. The final-round 299 was NU’s best NCAA Championships mark in history. The 2005-06 Huskers finished eighth at the NCAA Central Regional after entering as the No. 15 seed in the 21-team field. The Huskers also tied for fourth at the Big 12 Championships at the Country Club of Lincoln. NU also produced the best team stroke average in school history (304.88). Stephanie Ruiz earned second-team All-Big 12 honors and finished in a tie for 38th at the 2006 NCAA Championships. In 2003, the Huskers played host to the NCAA Central Regional, held at Lincoln's Firethorn Golf Club. Nebraska was ranked 19th going into the tournament, but ascended to fifth place to qualify for the NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind. The Huskers closed the season strong by finishing 22nd at the NCAA Championships. NU finished with a four-round total of 1,281 led by Sarah Sasse’s 40th-place showing. Krapfl, a native of West Point, Neb., has been associated with the Husker program since 1979 when she played collegiate golf for Nebraska (1979-82). A three-year letterwinner, she graduated from Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984. Krapfl went on to become a PGA Professional at The Country Club of Lincoln, where she worked as an assistant under head professional and former Husker coach Jerry Fisher. Krapfl also worked under Fisher as an assistant for the Huskers from 1984 to 1987. As head coach, Krapfl has guided the Huskers to 28 tournament titles. She is only the third coach in Nebraska women's golf history, following former men's coach Larry Romjue and Fisher. She is married to Richard Krapfl and the couple has two sons, Robert and Ryan.
Coach Krapfl’s Career Titles (28)
1988 Huskie Classic 1989 Michigan State Classic 1989 Husker Classic 1990 Rio Rico Invitational 1990 Mizzou Invitational 1993 Husker Classic 1994 Midwest Classic 1994 UNT/SMU Invitational 1994 Husker Classic 1996 Lady Lion Invitational 1996 Big 12 Fall Preview 1997 Colorado Invitational 1999 Big 12 Fall Preview 1999 Lady Razorback Invitational 2000 Oklahoma Invitational 2000 Alltel Husker Invitational 2001 Heather Farr Memorial 2003 Chip-N Club Invitational 2003 Highlands Ranch Intercollegiate 2004 Chip-N Club Invitational 2005 Chip-N Club Invitational 2006 Baja Invitational 2006 Chip-N Club Invitational 2006 Bronco Invitational 2007 Mountain View Intercollegiate 2008 Bronco Invitational 2008 Chip-N Club Invitational 2008 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational (Tie)
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Mike Schuchart
Assistant Coach (12th Season)
Schuchart’s Honors Played in Three U.S. Opens Played in Four PGA Championships Three-Time Champion on Nike Tour Finished Fifth at 1993 Hardee’s Invitational (PGA Tour event) Nike Tour Championship Winner (1994) Nebraska Golf Hall of Fame Inductee (2010) Three-Time Nebraska PGA Player of the Year Member of National PGA Cup (1992) Nebraska Open Champion (2002, 2003) Nebraska Teacher of the Year (2003) Nebraska PGA Section Club Professional Champion (2003, 2005) Nebraska Amateur of the Year (1984)
Nebraska (1985)
Former Husker and professional golfer Mike Schuchart returns for his 12th season as an assistant coach for the women’s golf squad at his alma mater. Schuchart helps the Huskers with all aspects of their games. Schuchart adds years of professional experience to the Husker staff. Schuchart is a 19-year PGA member with extensive playing experience on both the PGA and Nationwide tours. During his time on the Nike Tour, he was a three-time champion, including the 1994 Nike Tour Championship. He has also played in three U.S. Opens and four PGA Championships. He has been named the Nebraska PGA Player of the Year three times and was a member of the National PGA Cup in 1992, which represented the United
States internationally. His best showing on the PGA Tour was a fifth-place finish at the Hardee’s Invitational in 1993. In 2010, Schuchart was inducted into the Nebraska Golf Hall of Fame. In addition to playing golf, Schuchart designed the Prairie golf putter MS-1. Developed for fast greens, the putter is shorter from heel to toe and is face balanced. Schuchart lettered for the men’s squad in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985. Mike and his wife, Felicia, have a 14-year-old son Keegan. Schuchart and his family reside in Lincoln.
Chip-N Club Boosters The Chip-N Club is the official booster club of Nebraska women’s golf. Each year, the club assists in sponsoring NU’s fall tournament, which is a two-day, 54-hole event. In 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008, Nebraska captured tournament titles at Wilderness Ridge Golf Course. In 2006, the Huskers won a fourth straight team title at Yankee Hill Golf Club. After competing at the Chip-N Club Invitational at Woodland Hills Golf Club in 2007, the Huskers captured the 2008 Chip-N Club crown at Wilderness Ridge Golf Course. The 2013 event will return to Wilderness Ridge, Sept. 9-10, after spending the past two seasons at the Country Club of Lincoln. The Chip-N Club will also play host to Nebraska Women’s Golf Fundraiser Scramble at Quarry Oaks Golf Club in Ashland on Sept. 29, as a qualifier for the Acura Alumni Team Championship.
Chip-N Club Advisory Board
Dana Knopik Kayla Knopik Kari Mangan Brian McHugh
Cathy Nelson Angie Troske Deb Wilbeck
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Shawn Eichorst
Director of Athletics (First Season)
Eichorst at a Glance
Administrative Experience
Nebraska, Director of Athletics Miami, Director of Athletics Wisconsin, Deputy Athletic Director Wisconsin, Executive Associate Athletic Director Wisconsin, Senior Associate Athletic Director South Carolina, Senior Associate Athletic Director Wisconsin-Whitewater, Director of Athletics
Educational Ledger
Marquette, J.D. Wisconsin-Whitewater, B.A. (Business)
Family
Family
2013-present 2011-12 2009-11 2007-09 2006-07 2004-06 1999-2003 1995 1990
Wife: Kristin; Sons: Jack, Joseph, Bennett
Shawn Eichorst was named the 14th Director of Athletics of the University of Nebraska by Chancellor Harvey Perlman on Oct. 4, 2012. Eichorst leads a tradition-rich athletic program of 24 varsity athletic teams, 600-plus student-athletes and more than 275 fulltime employees. Eichorst succeeded legendary Nebraska football coach and Athletic Director Tom Osborne and officially assumed his duties on Jan. 3, 2013. “I am honored to have the opportunity to join the University of Nebraska family,” Eichorst said. “Nebraska is an outstanding academic institution with one of the strongest athletic departments in all of college sports. Most importantly, everyone here is committed to keeping the welfare of our student-athletes at the heart of everything we do. I am humbled by the responsibility and opportunities that lie ahead and will work diligently to carry on the rich tradition of Husker excellence set forth by Coach Osborne and so many others.” Perlman said it was Eichorst’s commitment to putting studentathletes first that made Eichorst stand out. “When I asked him how I would be able to measure his success if he were here five years from now,” Perlman said, “his response was that if the coaches and student-athletes had been successful and nobody knows his name, it would be a success.” Although his preference is to serve and lead diligently from the background, Eichorst has already canvassed the state promoting Husker Athletics and Nebraska’s tremendously talented studentathletes making more than 70 appearances across Nebraska and visiting eight other states in just his first seven months. Eichorst emphasizes academics first and is proud to acknowledge Nebraska’s nation-leading 307 Academic All-Americans, including eight who earned the honor in 2012-13. In fact, he has invited all of the academic honor winners back to campus for a reunion in November. He has met with each college dean on campus and uses his monthly radio show and his Connecting on Campus column to promote campus, coach and student-athlete academic and community successes. More than 200 Husker student-athletes were honored at the academic recognition banquet this spring while 188 were named academic All-Big Ten in 2012-13. During Eichorst’s first semester at Nebraska in the spring of 2013, women’s bowling, coached by the legendary Bill Straub, won a national title and Rhonda Revelle’s softball team advanced to the Women’s College World Series. The women’s basketball team, coached by Connie Yori, completed a run to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the second time in program history
Wisconsin-Whitewater (1990)
and the women’s tennis team, coached by Scott Jacobson, made an appearance in the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history and earned a share of the Big Ten title. Tennis player Mary Weatherholt finished runner-up at the NCAA Singles Championship, the highestever finish for a Nebraska tennis player. In addition to women’s tennis, two other Nebraska teams added Big Ten titles in the spring of 2013, as the women’s gymnastics team, coached by Dan Kendig, won its second-straight Big Ten title and third-straight conference title overall. The men’s track and field team, coached by Gary Pepin, claimed the outdoor team title. In the summer of 2013, three facility projects were completed: Memorial Stadium, which expands to accommodate more than 90,000 football fans and will include the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory (NAPL) and the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3) research facilities; Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln, where the Husker men’s and women’s basketball teams will be permanent tenants; and the renovated Bob Devaney Sports Center, where volleyball, men’s and women’s gymnastics and the wrestling team will compete. Construction for each of these three facilities began with Osborne at the helm. Athletic Director Emeritus Osborne continues to provide Eichorst with counsel on a number of items including the East Stadium research initiatives. The collaborative research that will take place within an athletic facility shared by academics and athletics is believed to be the first of its kind and sets the tone for the leadership role Nebraska has taken in the Big Ten Conference and nationally. Eichorst came to Nebraska after spending 18 months as the Director of Athletics at the University of Miami. He was named the 12th Director of Athletics at Miami on April 12, 2011 and served until Oct. 4, 2012 when he was hired by Nebraska as a Special Assistant to Chancellor Perlman. In his first year as Director of Athletics at Miami, Eichorst helped grow the academic reputation as well as the fan base. Under his watchful eye, the Hurricane Club grew by more than 500 members, surpassing 5,000 members nationwide. More than $19 million in student-athlete support was generated in 2011-12 and an additional $14.2 million in capital gifts was raised toward the new Center for Athletic Excellence facility, scheduled for completion in the fall of 2013. During his tenure, both the Hurricane men’s and women’s basketball programs advanced to the postseason, with the women posting the highest national ranking in school history at No. 5, advancing to the NCAA second round. The women’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the fourth straight season and the baseball program extended its NCAA postseason appearances streak to 40 consecutive seasons. The women’s soccer team posted the first NCAA postseason win in program history, while the volleyball team advanced to the NCAA postseason for the third straight year and finished the season ranked 15th in the nation. Before his appointment at Miami, Eichorst served from 2009 to 2011 as the Deputy Athletics Director at the University of Wisconsin, where his responsibilities under Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez included serving as the department’s Chief Operating Officer and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the highly successful athletics program. At Wisconsin, Eichorst was involved in the design and planning of a new ice hockey and swimming facility completed in the fall of 2012, as well as with the Student-Athlete Performance Center in the north end zone of Camp Randall Stadium. He joined the Badgers’ staff in 2006 as a Senior Associate Athletics Director and was promoted to Executive Associate Athletics Director in 2007. Eichorst has experience with three BCS conference institutions
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previously serving as University of South Carolina’s Senior Associate Athletics Director for Administration from 2004 to 2006. With the Gamecocks, Eichorst oversaw daily operations of the department and supervised the football and baseball programs. The football team was bowl-eligible each year during Eichorst’s tenure, and the baseball program competed in the 2004 College World Series. Additionally, he coordinated and supervised multi-million dollar facility projects, including a state-of-the-art football training facility. Eichorst served as the Director of Athletics at his alma mater, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater until 2003. Under his tenure, UW-Whitewater developed into one of the nation’s top Division III athletic programs, with four top 10 percent National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Directors Cup finishes; one NCAA team championship; two NCAA team runner-up finishes and five individual national champions. The program also featured 38 Academic All-America selections, seven NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winners and 74 All-Americans. A native of Lone Rock, Wis., Eichorst was an all-conference defensive back, a three-time letterwinner and 1990 team captain for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team. He graduated magna cum laude in business from UW-Whitewater in 1990 and earned a law degree from Marquette University in 1995. He practiced law in Milwaukee before accepting the position at Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is a past member of the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee and State Bar of Wisconsin Board of Governors. He also previously served as an assistant adjunct professor of law at Marquette University Law School, where he taught classes in sports law. He currently serves on the Marquette University National Sports Law Institute Board of Advisors. In 2006, he was awarded the Sports Law Alumnus of the Year by Marquette. He also is a graduate of the Sports Management Institute and serves on its Executive Committee. Eichorst and his wife Kristin have three sons: Jack, Joseph and Bennett.
The Eichorst family (clockwise): Kristin, Shawn, Jack, Bennett and Joseph.
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Marc BOEHM
Keith Zimmer
Executive Associate A.D. 11th Season Kansas State (1984)
Associate A.D./Life Skills 26th Season Wayne State (Neb.) (1985)
A member of the Nebraska Athletics senior administration since May 2003, Marc Boehm (pronounced BAME) serves as executive associate athletic director and is the top assistant to the athletic director. Boehm fulfills the director’s responsibilities in his absence and also serves as the department’s chief operating officer. Boehm oversees the efforts of several areas within athletics, including marketing, media relations, HuskerVision, facilities and events. Boehm also oversees the Nebraska men’s and women’s basketball programs and the Husker soccer program. He also played a major role in the athletic department’s negotiations for its contract extension with IMG College Sports. To date, it is the largest multi-media rights contract in college athletics. As the primary administrator for the NU basketball programs, Boehm played an integral role in the hiring of Tim Miles as the Huskers’ new coach in March of 2012. He has also played a lead role during the men’s and women’s basketball programs move into Pinnacle Bank Arena in 2013-14. He also worked to help develop Nebraska’s new practice facility - the Hendricks Training Complex - which opened in October of 2011. Boehm has worked to create a fan-friendly atmosphere at men’s and women’s basketball, leading the Husker men’s program to shatter season ticket sales records for both programs as they move into the new arena. In fact, the men sold out season tickets for 2013-14 in early May, shattering the previous record for season tickets sold by well over 2,500. Under Boehm’s supervision, Coach Connie Yori’s women’s basketball program has enjoyed the most success in school history over the past five years. The Husker women have advanced to a pair of NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in 2009-10 and 2012-13, while producing the three highest single-season win totals in NU history over the past four years. Yori’s 2012-13 Huskers made their second NCAA Sweet 16 trip in the past four years, while finishing the Big Ten regular-season runner-up. Yori was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year, while NU’s 25 victories were the second-most in school history, trailing only the 2009-10 Huskers’ 32-2 campaign that included a perfect 16-0 Big 12 campaign. In 2009-10, Yori captured 2010 National Coach-of-the-Year honors by leading the Huskers to a Big 12 record-tying 30-game winning streak and the 2010 Big 12 regular-season title. NU ranked in the top 10 in the final national polls and seventh nationally in home attendance with 7,390 fans per game. In conference play, NU led the league with 11,383 fans per game. The Husker women have earned three NCAA Tournament trips in the past four years and have played for three conference titles during that span. The men have added four postseason trips during Boehm’s tenure, including a trip to the 2011 Postseason NIT. Boehm, who played a significant role in aiding Nebraska’s functional transition to the Big Ten Conference in 2011-12, was also instrumental in conceptualizing and developing the Husker Nation Pavilion, which is the premier pregame event around home football games. Boehm also took the lead role in obtaining First National Bank and Ameritas as premier sponsors for the Nebraska Athletic Department for a combined deal worth more than $7 million over a three-year period. First National Bank and Ameritas joined Pepsi and adidas as premier corporate sponsors for Husker athletics. Boehm held the same position at Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2003. Boehm assisted in the rise of the Panthers’ basketball program with the men’s team posting back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament. During construction of the Panthers’ new athletic facilities, Boehm played a central role in Pitt’s athletic teams moving to the UPMC Sports Performance Complex, Heinz Field and the Petersen Events Center. Boehm served as interim athletic director at Pittsburgh for nearly five months before coming to Nebraska. During that time, he hired men’s basketball head coach Jamie Dixon. Boehm also spent five years as associate executive director of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. He directed and managed a 125-member fund-raising committee of Arizona business people responsible for generating more than $4.5 million in cash and in-kind partnerships. Previously he spent four years as associate executive director and public relations director of the Sun Bowl from 1987 to 1991. Born in Grand Island, Boehm earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Kansas State in 1984 and added a master’s degree in sports management from St. Thomas (Fla.) University in 1985. Boehm and his wife, the former Janelle Broderick of Minot, N.D., have three boys, Broderick, Christian and Lukas John.
In his 26th year serving Nebraska Athletics, Keith Zimmer leads Nebraska’s Life Skills unit within the department. He also serves as the sports administrator for the men’s and women’s golf program while playing in key role in continuing relationships with members of Nebraska’s Letterwinners N Club. Zimmer, who started at Nebraska in 1987, carries 25 years of life skills and student services experience and provides support to all current Nebraska student-athletes in addition to providing life skills guidance to former student-athletes. Components of the Husker Life Skills program include individual student-athlete meetings, major life skills events, facilitation of two zero-credit seminars, community outreach, graduate school assistance and postgraduate scholarships. Life Skills annually coordinates an Involvement Fair, Student-Athlete Career Fair, Networking Night, Senior Retreat and Leadership Breakfast. Zimmer, who worked in Nebraska’s Academic and Support Services area from 1988 to 2006, is regarded as a national leader in the life skills area. He received one of the top honors in college athletics in September of 2006, when he was chosen for the Dr. Gene Hooks Award as the Life Skills Administrator of the Year. Zimmer has also served as an NCAA Life Skills trainer and is active with the National Consortium for Academics and Sport. Zimmer continues to serve as the advisor of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and remains active in the Ventures In Partnership program, where student-athletes are integrated into various outreach initiatives with Lincoln Public Schools. Zimmer also pioneered the annual “School is Cool” Jam, which reached more than 100,000 middle-level students in the 12-year existence of the event. He is an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and Mortar Board and has received the Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Service to Students. Zimmer earned his bachelor’s degree at Wayne State College and his master’s in education from Springfield (Mass.) College. Zimmer and his wife, Michelle, have two sons, Logan and Caden.
Pat LOGSDON Senior Associate A.D./SWA 34th Season Nebraska (1989) A member of the Nebraska Athletic Department since 1979, Pat Logsdon currently serves as Senior Associate Athletic Director and is a member of Nebraska’s senior management team. She also serves as the Senior Woman Administrator to the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference and serves on the Big Ten Sports Management Council. Logsdon’s duties include oversight on all administrative issues and operational functions of the Athletic Director’s office, including the areas of Human Resources, Department Travel and the Department’s Gender Equity Plan. She also oversees equipment and serves as a liaison to adidas. In addition, Logsdon manages student-athlete end of season evaluations and exit interviews. She also serves as the sport administrator for volleyball, softball, and men’s and women’s gymnastics. Previously, Logsdon spent 23 seasons in football operations, including six seasons as NU’s director of football operations, the first female in Division I to serve in that capacity. She handled organization of all recruiting functions, supervised compliance activities and coordinated all football administrative operations, including travel and practice operations. Logsdon earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Nebraska in 1989.
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More Experienced Huskers Ready to Climb
Senior leadership, more experience and greater depth in competition both in practice and tournaments are expected to help the Nebraska women’s golf team climb the ladder in the Big Ten Conference in 2013-14. Last season, Nebraska’s nine-player roster lacked both seniors and sophomores. This season, two extremely experienced seniors and four sophomores with solid experience of their own will make up the nucleus of the Husker lineup. “We were probably the youngest team I have ever coached last year,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “We didn’t graduate anybody this year, so having six players with lineup experience is definitely going to help us a lot this year.” Nebraska’s more experienced 2013-14 team starts with seniors Steffi Neisen and Katelyn Wright. Neisen enters her fourth full season in NU’s lineup with 96 rounds of experience. The three-time WGCA Scholastic All-American has played in a trio of conference tournaments and is a twotime Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner. After producing two of the top five freshman and sophomore stroke averages in school history, Neisen struggled at times as a junior. However, her career 77.58 stroke average ranks among the top 10 players in Husker history. “It is hard to believe Steffi is a senior already. I’m excited to see how she closes out her career,” Krapfl said. “She has the all-around skills to have a great year. It is great when your senior leaders really stay committed to getting better and have the desire to do everything they can to lead the team to a successful year.” Wright led the Huskers with a 77.39 stroke average as a junior. The Incline Village, Nev., native has played 89 competitive rounds as a Husker in her career and owns a 78.86 average. She played the best golf of her career last fall, when she notched a 75.13 average through 15 fall rounds, including a pair of top-five tournament finishes and a Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week award on Oct. 11. Wright battled health issues during the spring portion of her junior season but still represented the Huskers for the second time at the Big Ten Tournament. “Katelyn has put herself in position to have an outstanding senior season,” Krapfl said. “It starts with hard work for Katelyn, whether it is on the course, in workouts or any other area that can help her become a better player. Katelyn has taken charge and put in the hours. It is pretty exciting to see her grow as a person and a leader.” Without the benefit of having any juniors on this year’s roster, the leadership load for the Huskers will again fall on Wright and Neisen. However, a sophomore class that includes third-year returners Morgan Smejkal and Cassidy Stelzmiller will be much more prepared for the grind of the collegiate season than last year’s team. Add to the mix true sophomores Cassie Deeg and Hannah Luebke - Nebraska’s top two finishers at the 2013 Big Ten Tournament - and the Huskers enter the season with not only more experience, but also more talent and depth than a year ago. Stelzmiller earned WGCA Scholastic All-America and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar awards last season, while finishing in a tie for 50th at the Big Ten Tournament. The Placerville, Calif., native managed an 81.64 stroke average. “Cassidy was probably our most improved player last year, and we look for that to just continue,” Krapfl said. “She probably possesses the best short game on the team, and has good length, too. Cassidy has a very bright future, if she continues to work hard.” Smejkal could be another one of NU’s most improved golfers this year. The Columbus, Neb., native carried her improvement through the summer of 2013, when she captured the Nebraska State Women’s Match Play championship. Smejkal finished with an 81.56 stroke average through 25 rounds as a redshirt freshman.
Steffi Neisen owns one of the top 10 career stroke averages in Nebraska history. The three-year starter is NU’s most experienced golfer and is a leader on and off the course. The three-time WGCA Scholastic All-American is a two-time Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner.
“Morgan gained some valuable playing time last season and really made a huge jump in her game over the summer,” Krapfl said. “She has an excellent work ethic and is a sponge for knowledge of things that will grow her game. I look to Morgan to be one of our most improved players this year, as she begins to trust and is able to play without thinking so much.” Deeg was arguably Nebraska’s steadiest player in 2012-13. The true freshman from Hugo, Minn., produced NU’s No. 2 stroke average (77.71), which ranked among the top rookie seasons in school history. She also led the Huskers with her tie for 32nd at the Big Ten Tournament. Deeg recorded a trio of top-20 finishes during the fall, including a career-best 10thplace effort at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial. She added Nebraska’s best individual round of the season with a 69 in the first round of the Golfweek Conference Challenge in the second tournament of her career. “Cassie is due to have a huge breakout,” Krapfl said. “She has a very high golf IQ and the overall skills to be a great player. I love her attitude, desire and personality. It will be exciting to see how much she improves this year as her comfort level rises.” Luebke emerged late in her true freshman campaign after battling a back injury in the fall season. The native of Germnay earned a lineup spot in NU’s final two tournaments of the season, finishing in a tie for 38th at the Big Ten Tournament. “Hannah got off to a slow start last season, as she battled illness while adjusting to a different culture,” Krapfl said. “She started to make big strides toward the end of the season. Hannah has tremendous upside. It will be exciting to watch her grow and develop. With her extreme length, she has the potential to dominate courses once the rest of her game matures. “Last year we only had two players who had ever played a collegiate round. This year, we head into the year with two seniors with some high caliber experience and four other players who have a year of real lineup experience under their belts. We think that is going to make a major difference for us.”
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In addition to the six golfers with lineup experience, Nebraska returns a pair of redshirt freshmen in Abbie Hunke and Yoorim Kang. Both golfers hope to push the six returning players for lineup positions throughout the season. The only new golfer on the Husker roster is Jordan Chael. The true freshman from Overland Park, Kan., brings impressive credentials and a ton of talent to the roster. Chael was the Kansas Class 5A state champion in the fall of 2012, while leading St. Thomas Aquinas to its third consecutive team title. She was ranked as the No. 58 player nationally in the Class of 2013 by Golfweek. “Even though we didn’t graduate any players from last year’s team, I anticipate Jordan having an immediate impact,” Krapfl said. “She is a highly competitive person with a high level of tournament experience and success. She is definitely going to make our team better and our competition better within our team.” While Nebraska’s team will be significantly more experienced than last year’s team, it will still be relatively young by Big Ten Conference standards. Last season, the Huskers finished 11th in a deep and talented Big Ten, a season after finishing sixth in their first year of Big Ten competition. “We feel a lot better about our talent, ability, experience and our team than we did at this time last year, so we’re excited about the progress we’ve made,” Krapfl said. “We expect better results on the course, and we will be challenged by another great schedule.” The Huskers open the season with the annual Chip-N Club Invitational in Lincoln, Sept. 9-10. The tournament returns to Wilderness Ridge Golf Course after being held at the Country Club of Lincoln the past two seasons. The Huskers hit the road for the first time when they travel to the Minnesota Invitational in Minneapolis, Sept. 16-17. The following week, Nebraska returns to a familiar tournament with the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational in Manhattan, Kan. It will be the Huskers’ first trip to Kansas State as a Big Ten Conference school. After making the short drive to Manhattan, the Huskers will take nearly a month off from competition to focus on
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individual improvement while preparing for the Hoosier Fall Invitational, Oct. 19-20. NU will wrap up the fall portion of its campaign the following week by traveling to the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, Oct. 27-29. The spring schedule tees off with the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 23-24. It will be the first of three straight trips to Arizona to open the spring campaign, including the Clover Cup in Mesa, March 14-16. Two weeks later, the Huskers make a return trip to Tucson, Ariz., for the Mountain View Collegiate, March 28-29. Spring season action will begin to heat up with a road trip to Texas for the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 4-6. The Huskers will get an early look at some of the Big Ten Tournament field when they travel to the Ohio State Spring Invitational, April 19-20. The 2013-14 regular season concludes with the Big Ten Tournament at the Donald Ross Course at the French Lick Resort in Indiana. It will mark the third consecutive season that the Huskers have competed at the Big Ten Tournament on the Ross Course. Nebraska will be hoping that more experience and a more talented and deeper lineup will put them in position to contend for their 12th NCAA Regional bid since 1994. NCAA Regional competitions will be held in Stillwater, Okla. (Central), Cle Elum, Wash. (West) and Tallahassee, Fla. (East) May 8-10, before Tulsa, Okla., plays host to the NCAA Championships, May 20-23. “I’m excited to see the growth and development of our team this year,” Krapfl said. “We know with the schedule we face, nothing is going to be given to us. We are going to have to go out and earn it by working hard and believing in each other. We are certainly looking forward to see what we can accomplish this season.”
Roster/Schedule Information
Nebraska’s season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational returns to Wilderness Ridge in 2013. Wilderness Ridge served as the home of the tournament in 2008, 2009 and 2010, before the Chip-N Club Invite moved to the Country Club of Lincoln in 2011 and 2012. The Huskers won the Chip-N Club Invitational title at Wilderness Ridge in 2008.
2013-14 Nebraska Roster
Name Year Hometown (Previous School) Jordan Chael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overland Park, Kan. (St. Thomas Aquinas) Cassie Deeg* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hugo, Minn. (Stillwater) Abbie Hunke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RFr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snyder, Neb. (Scribner-Snyder) Yoorim Kang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RFr. . . . . . . . . . Toronto, Ontario, Canada (North Toronto Christian School) Hannah Luebke* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stuttgart, Germany (Schickhardt Gymnasium) Steffi Neisen*** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Prague, Minn. (New Prague) Morgan Smejkal* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbus, Neb. (Columbus) Cassidy Stelzmiller* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Placerville, Calif. (Union Mine) Katelyn Wright*** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Incline Village, Nev. (Incline) * Denotes letters earned at Nebraska Head Coach: Robin Krapfl, 27th Season
2013-14 Nebraska Schedule FALL 2013 Date Sept. 9-10 Sept. 16-17 Sept. 23-24 Oct. 19-20 Oct. 27-29
Katelyn Wright posted Nebraska’s top stroke average in 2012-13. The senior will join Steffi Neisen in providing leadership to the Huskers in 2013-14.
Event (Location) Chip-N Club Invitational (Wilderness Ridge, Lincoln, Neb.) Minnesota Invitational (Minneapolis, Minn.) Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational (Manhattan, Kan.) Hoosier Fall Invitational (Bloomington, Ind.) Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown (Las Vegas, Nev.)
SPRING 2014 Date Event (Location) Feb. 23-24 Westbrook Invitational (Peoria, Ariz.) March 14-16 Clover Cup (Mesa, Ariz.) March 28-29 Mountain View Collegiate (Tucson, Ariz.) April 4-6 SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational (Dallas, Texas) April 19-20 Ohio State Spring Invitational (Columbus, Ohio) April 25-27 Big Ten Championships (French Lick, Ind.) May 8-10 NCAA Regionals (Tallahassee, Fla.; Stillwater, Okla.; Cle Elum, Wash.) May 20-23 NCAA Championships (Tulsa, Okla.) All dates and times central and subject to change.
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Steffi Neisen
Senior (Three Letters)
New Prague, Minn. (New Prague)
Outlook (2013-14)
Honors & Awards
Tied for Second in Stroke Play at U.S. Publinks Championship (2012) U.S. Publinks Championship Match Play Qualifier (2012) U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship Participant (2011) U.S. Publinks Championship Participant (2011, 2012) Four Career Top-10 Finishes Nine Career Top-25 Finishes School-Record Round of 66 (2012 Mountain View, 2nd) Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Nov. 3, 2011) No. 3 Stroke Average by a Freshman in NU History (2011) No. 4 Stroke Average by a Sophomore in NU History (2012) Tied for 41st at Big Ten Championships (2013) Tied for 25th at Big Ten Championships (2012) Tied for 28th at Big 12 Championships (2011) WGCA Scholastic All-American (2011, 2012, 2013) Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2012, 2013) Academic All-Big Ten (2012, 2013) Nebraska Student-Athlete Hero Leadership Award (2013) Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2012, 2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2011, 2012; Spring 2012, 2013) Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall 2010; Spring 2011) Four-Time First-Team All-Minnesota (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Neisen’s Career Bests
Best Finish........................................................ T2nd (Alamo, 2011) Best Event (Strokes)........................................... 214 (Alamo, 2011) Low Round................................... *66 (Mountain View, 2nd, 2012) Low First Round.......................72 (Three Times, Westbrook, 2012) Low Second Round...............................*66 (Mountain View, 2012) Low Third Round.................................................. 69 (Alamo, 2011) Career Rounds Under Par.............................................................. 5 *school record
Neisen’s career Statistics
Year 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Totals
Rounds 32 33 31 96
Personal
Strokes 2,468 2,530 2,450 7,448
Average 77.13 76.67 79.03 77.58
Low 71 66 70 66
Steffi is the daughter of Chris and Angie Neisen, and has a younger sister, McKenzie, and a younger brother, Thomas. Neisen made an early commitment to the Husker golf program, choosing Nebraska before her junior season of high school in 2009. She received offers from several Big Ten and Big 12 schools. Steffi is majoring in social science education at Nebraska, and earned WGCA Scholastic All-America honors in 2011, 2012 and 2013. She was a Big Ten Distinghuished Scholar and an academic All-Big Ten selection in 2012 and 2013. She has claimed spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll each of the last four semesters and was a two-time Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection.
The most experienced Husker, Steffi Neisen enters her senior season at Nebraska having played in the NU lineup in all 96 rounds of her career. The New Prague, Minn., native produced Nebraska’s No. 3 stroke average (79.03) as a junior. Neisen hopes to close her career strong after producing some of the top season stroke averages in school history by a freshman (77.13) and a sophomore (76.67). She owns nine career top-25 finishes, including four top-10 showings. She also set the NU school record with a second-round 66 at the Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz., March 23, 2012. In addition to her success on the course, Neisen is a star in the classroom. She will take aim at her fourth WGCA Scholastic All-America award in 2014. Neisen was a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and academic All-Big Ten selection in 2012 and 2013. She also claimed Nebraska’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award both seasons. “It is hard to believe Steffi is a senior already. I’m excited to see how she closes out her career,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She has the all-around skills to have a great year. It is great when your senior leaders really stay committed to getting better and have the desire to do everything they can to lead the team to a successful year.”
Junior (2012-13)
Neisen competed in all 31 rounds in the Nebraska lineup as a junior. However, she struggled at times as a junior and finished with a 79.03 stroke average on the year. She closed her third season in the NU lineup by tying for 41st at the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind., April 26-28. Neisen’s 79.03 stroke average ranked third among the Huskers, trailing Katelyn Wright and Cassie Deeg. Neisen notched the ninth top-25 finish of her career by tying for 22nd (78-78-70-226) at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 24-25. Her final-round 70 was a season best, helping her to a season-best tournament total of 226. She opened the spring by tying for 70th (84-82-74-240) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 10-12, before her season-best performance at the Westbrook Invite. She managed a tie for 77th (76-82-82-240) at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz., March 9-10, before tying for second with a 79 in a dual at Kansas on March 20. Neisen closed the regular season with a tie for 62nd (89-82-80-251) at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 5-7. Neisen opened her junior campaign by tying for 21st at Nebraska’s season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational with a three-round score of 237 (80-78-79). Neisen closed the 2012 fall campaign with a 227 at the Alamo Invitational, Oct. 28-30. She posted solid rounds of 75-75-77 in San Antonio to tie for 47th in a talented 15-team field. She struggled to a tie for 74th (79-77-86-242) in a loaded 18-team field at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Wolcott, Colo., Sept. 24-26. She bounced back to post a 230 (76-79-75) to tie for 46th at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 8-10, before finishing 45th with a 242 (79-83-80) at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Invitational in Springfield, Mo., Oct. 15-16. Off the course, Neisen continued to be a tremendous representative of the Husker program. She earned WGCA Scholastic All-America honors for the third straight year and claimed academic All-Big Ten accolades for the second time. Neisen was NU’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner and earned a prestigious Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award in 2013. She also captured a pair of spots on the Nebraska ScholarAthlete Honor Roll. Neisen, who owns the Nebraska single-round record with a six-under 66 in the second round of the 2012 Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz., enjoyed a strong summer of 2012. She tied for second (70-68-138) in stroke play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Publinks Championships to qualify for the match play portion of the national event for the first time in her career. Neisen’s score trailed only 2012 USC All-American Lisa McCloskey (70-67-137) in Neshanic Station, N.J.
Sophomore (2011-12)
Neisen ranked second among the Huskers with a 76.67 stroke average while playing in all 33 rounds. She produced five top-25 finishes, including a trio of top-10 showings and the first top-five finish of her career with a tie for second at the 2011 Alamo Invitational to close NU’s fall campaign. Neisen’s performance at the Alamo Invite, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, was capped by a final-round 69 on her way to a career-best 214 tournament total. She opened with an even-par 72 in the first round and a 73 in the second round. Neisen was the Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Nov. 3, 2011). She added a school-record 66 in the second round of the Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz., March 23. She had an opening-round 75 and a final-round 74 to finish with the second-best tournament total
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(215) of her career to tie for seventh. It was Neisen’s third top-10 finish of the season and fourth of her career. Neisen closed the season by tying for 25th at Nebraska’s first-ever Big Ten Tournament. She carded a 230 (76-78-76) over three rounds at the Donald C. Ross Course in French Lick, Ind., April 27-29. Neisen opened the year with a then-career-best tie for sixth (227) at the 2011 Chip-N Club Invitational at the Country Club of Lincoln. Her performance included a then-career-best-matching one-under-par 71 in the second round, which tied eventual champion Felicia Esperecueta for the best round of the tournament. Neisen managed a 34th-place finish (235) at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invite in Sammamish, Wash., Oct. 3-5. She tied for 50th (78-79-82-239) at the Lady Northern Invite in French Lick, Ind., Oct. 10-11. Neisen tied for 26th (77-81-76) a week later at the Hoosier Fall Invitational in Carmel, Ind., to help the Huskers to a fourth-place team finish in a 13-team field. After closing the fall with her career performance at the Alamo Invite, she opened the spring by tying for 48th (78-77-80-235) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 12-14. She added a tie for 40th (72-80-73-225) at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 26-27. Neisen bounced back with her third top-15 effort of the year by tying for 13th (73-78-79-230) in the BYU at Entrada Classic in St. George, Utah, March 19-20. She finished 50th (83-84-79-246) at the Ohio State Spring Invite, April 21-22, before bouncing back at the Big Ten Tournament.
Freshman (2010-11)
Neisen competed in the Husker lineup in all 32 rounds as a rookie and produced NU’s No. 3 stroke average (77.13) on the year. Her average ranked third all-time among Husker freshmen. Neisen closed her freshman campaign by tying for 28th (72-74-80226) at the 2011 Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo. She closed each of the first two days among the top 10 players in the 60-player field. During the fall, Neisen notched Nebraska’s second-best stroke average (77.07) trailing only junior Madeleine Sheils. Neisen’s performance in the fall included a season-best tie for ninth (77-73-73-223) at the Dale McNamara Invite in Owasso, Okla. She added a tie for 15th (75-74-81-230) at the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invite in Lawrence, Kan., after opening her career with a tie for 29th (76-79-155) at the rain-shortened Chip-N Club Invite at Wilderness Ridge in Lincoln. After struggling to a tie for 64th (78-79-81-238) at the Johnie Imes Invite in Columbia, Mo., Neisen bounced back with her best performance at the Dale McNamara Invite. She closed the fall campaign by tying for 51st (74-79-80-233) at the Alamo Invite. Neisen produced her best round and three-round tournament score of the season at the Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz., in late-March. Her season-best 54-hole score of 222 (77-74-71) included a season-best final-round 71 to tie for 30th. Neisen opened the spring by tying for 46th (78-78-75-231) at the 33-team Kiawah Island Intercollegiate in February. She followed with a tie for 56th (83-78-73-234) at the UNLV Spring Invite in Boulder Creek, Nev., March 7-9. She tied for 39th (82-75-81-238) at the BYU Entrada Classic in St. George, Utah, March 21-22. She closed the regular season with a three-round total of 238 (81-79-78) to tie for 51st at the Baylor Spring Invite, April 11-12.
High School/Amateur
One of the most accomplished junior golfers in Minnesota, Neisen came to Nebraska as a four-time first-team all-stater. She competed at the varsity level for six seasons at New Prague High School, leading the team to its first-ever state team championship as a senior in the spring of 2010. The five-time Missota Conference Player of the Year finished in the top seven at the Class AAA (state’s largest) State Tournament each of her final four seasons. A four-time first-team Class AAA (Minnesota’s largest) selection, Neisen was the state runner-up at New Prague High School in 2009. She finished four strokes out of first at the 2009 championships in June, closing her two rounds at 155 on the par-73, 5,809-yard layout at Bunker Hills Golf Course in Coon Rapids, Minn. Neisen was a medalist in more than 50 high school tournaments. She posted the state’s best stroke average (73.5) over her junior and senior seasons for Coach Matt Shetka at New Prague. She also holds the Missota Conference individual record with a round of 69. As a junior golfer, Neisen competed at the 2008 USGA Publinks Championship in Erin Hills, Wis. She earned top-10 finishes in AJGA, Pepsi Little People, PGA Junior Series events and several Minnesota Junior Girls Championships. She was the youngest player among the top-10 finishers at the Minnesota State Women’s Amateur in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Neisen was also a three-time member of both the Minnesota-Wisconsin Cup team and the Minnesota-Manitoba Cup team. Her swing coach is Chris Baisch. She was also a member of National Honor Society.
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Katelyn Wright
Senior (Three Letters)
Incline Village, Nev. (Incline)
Outlook (2013-14)
Honors & Awards
Seven Career Top-25 Finishes 58th at Big Ten Championships (2013) Tied for 48th at Big Ten Championships (2012) Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Oct. 11, 2012) Academic All-Big Ten (2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012) Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall, 2010; Spring 2011) Three-Time Member of Junior America’s Cup Team (Two-Time Captain, 2008, 2009) Four-Time Nevada Class 2A State Champion (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Callaway Junior World Championship Qualifier (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Nevada State Women’s Amateur Runner-Up (2008) Nevada State Junior Amateur Champion (2008)
Wright’s Career Bests
Best Finish..............................................T3rd (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Best Event (Strokes)................................ 217 (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Round.............................................71 (Westbrook, 3rd, 2012) ..................................................................71 (Golfweek, 1st, 2012) .................................................................. 71 (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low First Round.............................................. 71 (Golfweek, 2012) .................................................................. 71 (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Second Round.............................................. 72 (Alamo, 2011) Low Third Round........................................... 71 (Westbrook, 2012) Career Rounds Under Par.............................................................. 3
Wright’s career Statistics
Year 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Totals
Rounds 25 33 31 89
Personal
Strokes 2,002 2,609 2,399 7,010
Average 80.08 79.06 77.39 78.76
Low 73 71 71 71
The daughter of Ron and Shelly Wright (Godeken), Katelyn has one younger brother, Jordan. Katelyn is majoring in textiles, merchandising and fashion design at Nebraska. She earned academic All-Big Ten honors in 2013, along with a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2012. She was a Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011. Katelyn’s mother, Shelly was a two-time All-Big Eight golfer for the Huskers in 1983 and 1984. Her father, Ron, is also a Nebraska graduate. Wright chose Nebraska over Baylor, Wyoming and Nevada, among many others.
One of Nebraska’s most experienced golfers, Katelyn Wright returns for her fourth season in the Husker lineup. The Incline Village, Nev., native joins fellow three-year starter Steffi Neisen as the only seniors on the NU roster in 2013-14. The duo has joined each other in the Nebraska lineup for 64 consecutive rounds entering their senior seasons. Wright led Nebraska with a 77.39 stroke average as a junior, including a 75.13 over 15 fall rounds. She struggled with her health during the spring, which affected her game. After finishing in the top 20 at each of NU’s first four tournaments of the fall, Wright closed no higher than 48th in any tournament the rest of the season. Wright is hoping a healthy summer will lead to her best season as a Husker in 2013-14. She enters her senior season with seven career top25 finishes, including a tie for third at the 2012 Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. “Katelyn has put herself in position to have an outstanding senior season,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “It starts with hard work for Katelyn, whether it is on the course, in workouts or any other area that can help her become a better player. Katelyn has taken charge and put in the hours. It is pretty exciting to see her grow as a person and a leader.”
Junior (2012-13)
Wright was a leader for the Huskers on the course in 2012-13, competing in the NU lineup for all 31 rounds while leading Nebraska with a 77.39 stroke average. Wright produced four top-25 tournament finishes, including a pair of top five showings. She played the best golf of her collegiate career during the fall of 2012, leading the Huskers with a 75.13 stroke average over 15 fall rounds. She captured the first Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week award of her career on Oct. 11, after a career-best tie for third with a career-best 217 (71-74-72) at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Wright followed up her performance at New Mexico State by tying for fourth (74-74-76-224) at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial, Oct. 15-16. It marked her second straight top-five finish and her fourth top-20 effort to begin the 2012-13 season. Wright ended the fall with a 233 (81-77-75) at the Alamo Invitational, Oct. 28-30. Her opening round in San Antonio was her only score above 80 during the fall. In 12 of her 15 rounds, she posted scores of 76 or better, including a pair of one-under-par 71s and an even-par 72. The 71s came in the opening rounds of the Golfweek Conference Challenge and the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational, and matched the best rounds of her career. Wright opened the season with a tie for 11th at Nebraska’s Chip-N Club Invitational (76-76-79-231) on the par-72 layout of the Country Club of Lincoln, Sept. 10-11. She added a tie for 20th in a loaded 18-team field at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Wolcott, Colo., Sept. 24-26. Wright posted a three-round score of 222 (71-76-75) that included a career-best-tying 71 in the opening round. Wright continued to play near the top of the NU lineup during the spring despite battling her health. She closed the season by finishing 58th at the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind., April 26-28, which pushed her spring stroke average to 79.50 over 16 rounds. She opened the spring by tying for 59th (79-81-75-233) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 10-12. She added a tie for 48th (78-80-75-233) at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 24-25, before tying for 59th (77-77-80-234) at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz., March 9-10. After shooting an 83 in a dual at Kansas on March 20, Wright tied for 52nd (80-85-80-245) to close the regular season at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 5-7. Off the course, Wright earned academic All-Big Ten honors in 2013, and a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2012.
Sophomore (2011-12)
Wright was a regular in the Nebraska lineup as a sophomore, competing in all 33 rounds. The Incline Village, Nev., native showed steady improvement, posting the Huskers’ No. 5 stroke average (79.06). She produced a breakthrough effort in NU’s second spring tournament by tying for 15th with a career-best 218 (73-74-71) at the Westbrook Spring Invite in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 26-27. Her final-round 71 was a career best. She continued to build momentum by tying for 21st with a 234 (8078-76) in the BYU at Entrada Classic in St. George, Utah, March 19-20. She added a tie for 58th with a 230 (79-76-75) at the Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, Ariz., March 23-24. Wright added NU’s No. 2 finish at the Ohio State Spring Invite to close the regular season. Her 239 (77-85-77) over three rounds tied for 35th. She closed the season by tying for 48th (84-80-73-237) at the 2012 Big
Ten Tournament on the Ross Course in French Lick, Ind. Her final-round 73 was the third-best round of the tournament by a Husker, trailing only a pair of 71s by Madeleine Sheils. Over her final 15 rounds of the spring, Wright produced a 77.20 stroke average. Wright opened the year by tying for 38th (82-82-79-243) at the Chip-N Club Invitational at the Country Club of Lincoln, Sept. 12-13. She added a tie for 55th (87-78-81-246) at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invite in Sammamish, Wash., Oct. 3-5, before tying for 47th (81-79-78-238) at the Lady Northern in French Lick, Ind., Oct. 10-11. She followed with a tie for 55th (83-78-84-245) at the Hoosier Fall Invite in Carmel, Ind., Oct. 17-18, before closing the fall campaign with a 231 to tie for 51st at the Alamo Invite, Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Her effort in San Antonio included a second-round 72. Wright opened the spring campaign by finishing 80th (80-85-84-249) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 12-14.
Freshman (2010-11)
Wright posted an 80.08 stroke average in 25 rounds as a freshman. She competed inside the Husker lineup in the spring at the BYU Entrada Classic in St. George, Utah, March 21-22. She tied for 48th (83-81-77-241) in the 82-player field in Utah, while her final-round 77 counted toward Nebraska’s best team score of the 54-hole event. She added a lineup appearance at the Mountain View Collegiate later the same week in Tucson, Ariz. Wright produced a three-round score of 235 (78-82-75) to finish in a tie for 79th. Wright closed the regular season by tying for 10th (87-82-169) at the 49-player Creighton Golf Classic in Omaha. She produced her best tournament with a season-best 228 (77-74-77) to tie for 32nd at the Alamo Invite to close the fall. Wright opened the spring by tying for 93rd (81-80-79-24) while playing as an individual in a 33-team field at the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate. She also competed as an individual outside the NU lineup at the UNLV Spring Invite in Boulder City, Nev., where she tied for 52nd. Her three-round score of 232 included a season-best 73 in the final round. She opened her career with a 74 in the first round of the Chip-N Club Invitational. Playing as an individual, Wright finished the rain-shortened event at 156 in a tie for 36th. Wright earned a lineup spot at Nebraska’s second tournament of the season, but struggled to a tie for 62nd (88-82-86-256) at the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational in Lawrence, Kan. She did not travel to the Johnie Imes Invite in Columbia, Mo., but joined the team as an individual at the Dale McNamara Invite in Owasso, Okla. She finished 71st (82-80-83-245).
High School/Amateur
Wright enjoyed a stellar prep career at Incline High School in Nevada for Coach Joe Humasti. In October of 2010, Wright became just the second high school player in the history of Nevada to win four consecutive individual state titles. She won the 2009 Class 2A crown by 26 strokes with a two-under-par 142 over two rounds at the Genoa Lakes Golf Club. Her final-round 70 came in cold, rainy conditions and included a sizzling 33 on the front nine. In 2008, she won the title by a staggering 28 strokes over just two rounds, to help Incline to a state runner-up finish as a team. Wright’s stroke average for her senior season was a 72, and she led the Highlanders to their first state team title since 2002, crushing runner-up Battle Mountain by 108 strokes. As a junior golfer, Wright was a four-time qualifier for the Callaway Junior World Championships and was a three-time member of the Junior America’s Cup team. She was also twice named the captain of that team. She was the 2008 Nevada Junior Amateur champion, and was the runnerup at the 2008 Nevada Women’s Amateur. A talented all-around athlete, Wright was a member of two state championship teams (track and golf, 2009), while adding six individual state crowns (four in golf, two in track). Wright was a first-team Class 2A all-state pick as a point guard on the Incline basketball team. She was an all-region selection, team MVP and earned four varsity basketball letters. She also lettered three times in track, where she helped Incline to the 2009 Class 2A state team title. Wright scored 36 points for the Highlanders, claiming a state title as a member of the 4x400-meter relay team, while adding runner-up honors in the 400, 800 and 4x100-meter relay. As a sophomore in 2008, Wright was named the track team’s MVP after helping the 4x100-meter relay capture a state title, while adding a runner-up finish as a member of the 4x400-meter relay. Off the course, Wright was the Incline Student Body President in 2009-10, after serving as the junior class vice president in 2008-09. She was also a member of the National Honor Society.
THREE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES
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Cassie Deeg
Sophomore (One Letter)
Honors & Awards Three Career Top-25 Finishes Tied for 32nd at Big Ten Championships (2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012, Spring 2013) Minnesota Class 4AAA State Champion (2011) Five Top-20 Finishes at Minnesota State Championships . (2008-12) Six-Time Suburban East All-Conference (2007-12) Minnesota Junior Player of the Year (2011) Minnesota Match Play Champion (2011) Minnesota Publinks Champion (2011) Minnesota Junior State Girls Champion (2008) DEEG’s Career Bests Best Finish.................................10th (Payne Stewart, 2012) Best Event (Strokes).....................221 (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Round.................................... 69 (Golfweek, 1st, 2012) Low First Round...................................69 (Golfweek, 2012) Low Second Round........................70 (Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Third Round................................75 (Clover Cup, 2013) Career Rounds Under Par.................................................. 2 Deeg’s career Statistics Year Rounds Strokes Average 2012-13 31 2,409 77.71 Totals 31 2,409 77.71
Hugo, Minn. (Stillwater Area)
OUtlook (2013-14)
Cassie Deeg enters her sophomore season hoping to take her game to another level after an impressive freshman campaign. Deeg produced Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average as a true freshman and led the Huskers with her tie for 32nd at the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind., to close the season. With a year of experience and growing confidence under her belt, the Hugo, Minn., native could be poised for bigger things as a sophomore for the Huskers. “Cassie is due to have a huge breakout,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She has a very high golf IQ and the overall skills to be a great player. I love her attitude, desire and personality. It will be exciting to see how much she improves this year as her comfort level rises.”
Deeg closed the fall campaign by finishing 58th (76-80-76232) at the Alamo Invitational. Her fall stroke average of 76.33 ranked second among the Huskers. She opened the spring by settling for 76th (85-79-80-244) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 10-12, before tying for 64th (77-83-78-238) at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 24-25. Deeg produced her best tournament of the spring by tying for 38th (79-75-75-229) at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz., March 9-10. She shot an 81 in a dual at Kansas March 20, before closing the regular season with a tie for 38th (79-82-79-240) to lead the Huskers at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 5-7. Deeg opened her career with a solid year in the classroom, earning spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13.
Freshman (2012-13)
High School/Amateur
Deeg made a major impact in Nebraska’s lineup early as a true freshman, playing out of the top three spots in the Husker lineup in all 31 rounds in 2012-13. She ended the season with Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average (77.71), which included NU’s top finish at the Big Ten Tournament. Deeg’s tie for 32nd (79-80-73232) led a group of six Huskers at the conference championships. Her 79.00 spring stroke average led Nebraska. Deeg qualifed No. 1 for Nebraska’s season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational, Sept. 10-11, where she tied for 36th (8182-80-243) in her collegiate debut. She then produced three consecutive top-20 finishes, starting with a tie for 20th (69-7677-222) at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Wolcott, Colo., Sept. 24-26. Her opening-round 69 was a career best. She followed with a career-best tournament total of 221 (7570-76) to tie for 12th at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 8-10. Deeg continued her strong play by posting her first career top-10 finish with a 227 (75-74-78) to take 10th at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Invitational in Springfield, Mo., Oct. 15-16.
Low 69 69
Personal
Cassie is the daughter of Len and Katie Deeg and was born in St. Paul, Minn., on Oct. 1, 1993. Cassie has an older brother, Peter, and an older sister, Amy. Cassie is majoring in finance at Nebraska. She earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll during the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13. She chose Nebraska over Illinois, Idaho and Missouri State.
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The 2011 Class 4AAA state champion, Deeg joined fellow Minnesotan Steffi Neisen on the Husker roster. Deeg captured the 2011 individual state title while helping Stillwater Area High School to a runner-up team finish under Coach Michael O’Rourke. Stillwater added another runner-up finish in 2012, while Deeg took third individually. Deeg was a five-time top-20 finisher at the Minnesota high school state championships, including a seventh-place finish in 2010, a 12th-place showing in 2009 and a 20th-place effort as an eighth-grader in 2008. Deeg was a six-time Suburban East All-Conference selection (2007-12) on the course. On the Junior circuit, Deeg was the 2011 Minnesota Golf Association Junior Player of the Year and 2011 Minnesota state champion. She was the 2011 Minnesota Match Play champion and the 2011 Publinks champion. She was also the Minnesota Women’s Match Play runner-up in 2012. In 2008, she was the Junior State Girls champion. Her state titles qualified her for the National Junior Girls tournaments in both 2008 and 2011. Deeg was also an honor roll student.
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Hannah Luebke
Sophomore (One Letter)
Stuttgart, Germany (Schickhardt Gymnasium)
OUtlook (2013-14)
Honors & Awards Tied for 38th at Big Ten Championships (2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012) Second at BWGW International Match Play Third at German Youth National Championships Luebke’s Career Bests Best Finish.......................................... T38th (Big Ten, 2013) Best Event (Strokes)...............................234 (Big Ten, 2013) Low Round....................................... 75 (Big Ten, 3rd, 2013) Low First Round........................... 80 (Payne Stewart, 2012) Low Second Round..................................78 (Big Ten, 2013) Low Third Round......................................75 (Big Ten, 2013) Career Rounds Under Par............................................None Luebke’s career Statistics Year Rounds Strokes Average 2012-13 13 1,078 82.92 Totals 13 1,078 82.92
Low 75 75
Hannah Luebke closed her true freshman season with an impressive showing at the Big Ten Tournament. The native of Stuttgart, Germany, produced career bests with her final-round 75, her 54-hole score of 234 and her tie for 38th, which was Nebraska’s No. 2 individual finish. Her 234 and tie for 38th trailed only Cassie Deeg (232, T32nd) among the Huskers. Coach Robin Krapfl is hoping Luebke’s late-season push as a freshman will carry over to her sophomore season in 2013-14. As a true freshman, Luebke battled a back injury that limited her to playing just six rounds outside the NU lineup during the fall. She began to fully regain her strength midway through the spring season and her game began to round into form. She earned spots in the NU lineup in each of the final three events of the season, beginning with a dual at Kansas on March 20. One of the top young golfers in Germany, Luebke was the first European player to sign with the Huskers since Catha Fogelberg (Sweden) in 1997-98. Luebke is just the second German to join the Huskers in history, following in the footsteps of Shirin Hornecker (Munich, 1996-98). “Hannah got off to a slow start last season, as she battled illness while adjusting to a different culture,” Krapfl said. “She started to make big strides toward the end of the season. Hannah has tremendous upside. It will be exciting to watch her grow and develop. With her extreme length, she has the potential to dominate courses once the rest of her game matures.”
Freshman (2012-13)
Luebke closed her true freshman season as Nebraska’s No. 2 individual finisher at the Big Ten Championships in French Lick, Ind., April 26-28. Competing in the Husker lineup in just the second tournament of her career, Luebke notched a career-best tie for 38th with a career-best three-round total of 234 (81-7875). Her final-round 75 on the Ross Course was also a career best, surpassing the 78 she fired in the second round. Luebke made her first tournament appearance in the Husker lineup at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational April 5-7, to close the regular season. She finished 73rd (86-87-89-262) in Dallas, which followed a lineup appearance in a dual at Kansas on March 20, when she managed an 84.
In 13 rounds in 2012-13, including seven in the Husker lineup, Luebke produced an 82.92 stroke average. Luebke battled a back injury early in the fall season and was limited to competing in just two tournaments as an individual outside Nebraska’s lineup. She produced a solid score of 241 (80-81-80) at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial in Springfield, Mo., Oct. 15-16, to tie for 41st. Luebke competed in her first collegiate tournament as a true freshman, playing as an individual outside the Husker lineup at the season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational at the Country Club of Lincoln, Sept. 10-11. Luebke opened her career by tying for 60th in the 84-player field with a three-round score of 257 (88-87-82). Her practice time was extremely limited prior to the first tournament while she was contending with back pain. Luebke also got her academic career off to a strong start by earning a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll during the fall of 2012.
High School/Amateur
Luebke placed third at the German Youth National Championships and first at the state youth team championships. She also placed second at the BWGW International Match Play. Her high school did not sponsor golf, but she competed for the Stuttgarter Golf Club Solitude in the second Bundesliga in 2010 and 2011 for Coach Heiko Burkhardt. An outstanding all-around athlete, Luebke competed in volleyball, tennis and track and field at Schickhardt Gymnasium. At 6-foot-1, Luebke was an All-German performer as a middle blocker/outside hitter in both 2009 and 2010. She was a threetime first-team all-state volleyball player in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She was also a three-time regional champion in the heptathlon in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Personal
Hannah is the daughter of Rolf and Ulrike Luebke and was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on Nov. 28, 1993. She has an older brother, Lars. Hannah is majoring in marketing and earned a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll during the fall of 2012. She chose Nebraska over Kansas State, UNC-Greensboro, Old Dominion and Troy State.
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Morgan Smejkal
Sophomore (One Letter)
Columbus, Neb. (Columbus)
OUtlook (2013-14)
Morgan Smejkal (pronounced SMAY-kal) hopes to make a stronger impact in the Nebraska lineup in her third season with the Huskers in 2013-14. The sophomore from Columbus, Neb., competed in 25 rounds for NU as a redshirt freshman, finishing with NU’s No. 4 stroke average on the year (81.56). Smejkal continued to improve over the summer of 2013, capturing the Nebraska State Women’s Match Play title. “Morgan gained some valuable playing time last season and really made a huge jump in her game over the summer,” Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She has an excellent work ethic and is a sponge for knowledge of things that will grow her game. I look to Morgan to be one of our most improved players this year, as she begins to trust and is able to play without thinking so much.”
REDShirt Freshman (2012-13)
Honors & Awards One Career Top-25 Finish Nebraska Women’s Match Play Champion (2013) Tied for Second at Nebraska Women’s Stroke Play (2012) Academic All-Big Ten (2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2011, 2012; Spring, 2012) Two-Time Nebraska Class A All-State (2009, 2010) Two-Time Nebraska Junior Golf All-Star (2009, 2010) Member of Nebraska Four State Team (2010, 2011) Smejkal’s Career Bests Best Finish................................... T21st (Chip-N Club, 2012) Best Event (Strokes)........ 232 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five), 2013) Low Round......................................... 76 (Alamo, 1st, 2012) ................................... 76 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd, 2012) ................................................... 76 (Westbrook, 3rd, 2013) Low First Round........................................76 (Alamo, 2012) Low Second Round............ 76 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Third Round............................... 76 (Westbrook, 2013) Career Rounds Under Par............................................None Smejkal’s career Statistics Year Rounds Strokes Average 2012-13 25 2,039 81.56 Totals 25 2,039 81.56
Low 76 76
Smejkal was a regular in the Nebraska lineup through the first 25 rounds of the 2012-13 campaign. The redshirt freshman produced an 81.56 stroke average while playing each of the first 25 rounds inside the NU lineup. She did not compete in the Huskers’ regular-season finale at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 5-7, or the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind., April 26-28. Smejkal’s stroke average ranked fourth among the Huskers, and included a top-25 finish in her collegiate debut at Nebraska’s season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational, Sept. 10-11, at the Country Club of Lincoln. Smejkal produced a career-best tie for 21st with a three-round total of 237 (80-77-80) to tie teammate Steffi Neisen for the No. 2 finish among the Huskers. Smejkal competed inside the Nebraska lineup in each of NU’s five fall tournaments, posting an 81.00 stroke average. She produced the best tournament score of her career with a 232 (79-76-77) at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 8-10. Her effort in New Mexico included a career-best 76 in the second round. She struggled to an 89th-place finish at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Wolcott, Colo., Sept. 24-26. Playing in a loaded 18-team field that included nine teams ranked among the nation’s top 50, Smejkal carded a 256 (84-89-83) over 54 holes. She added a 244 (81-84-79) to tie for 49th at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial in Springfield, Mo., Oct. 15-16. Smejkal closed the fall campaign by tying for 74th in a talented 15-team field at the Alamo Invitational, Oct. 28-30. She matched her best round of the season with an opening-round 76 in San Antonio, before adding rounds of 84 and 86 to close at 246. Smejkal opened the spring by finishing 82nd (83-93-81-257) at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Feb. 10-12. She followed with a tie for 61st (82-79-76-237) at the Westbrook Invitational in
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Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 24-25. Her final-round 76 in Peoria tied her career best. She tied for 86th (81-86-79-246) at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz., March 9-10, before managing an 84 in a dual at Kansas March 20. Smejkal earned academic All-Big Ten accolades as a redshirt freshman and claimed a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll during the fall of 2012.
Redshirt (2011-12)
Smejkal redshirted in her first season at Nebraska. In the classroom, Smejkal earned spots on the Nebraska ScholarAthlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters of 2011-12.
High School/Amateur
A two-time Class A All-State pick and a four-time state qualifier, Smejkal captured medalist honors at seven of her 11 tournaments before finishing fourth as an individual at the 2010 Class A state tournament in Norfolk. As a junior in 2009, she tied for fifth at the Class A state tournament. She produced the No. 2 and No. 5 season scoring averages in Columbus High School history, while setting the school record for best round with a 72. In addition to her success in high school golf for Coach Anne Robertson, Smejkal was also a member of the Nebraska Junior Golf All-Star Team in 2009 and 2010, and she was a member of the Nebraska Four State Team in 2010 and 2011. Along with earning four letters in golf, Smejkal was a standout for the Columbus High School girls basketball team. As a junior in 2009-10, Smejkal earned all-state and All-Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference honors. She also holds the Discoverers record for most three-pointers made in a season. Smejkal is also a first degree black belt in Taekwondo. A member of the National Honor Society, Smejkal was an honor roll student and a two-time academic all-conference pick in golf. She also earned academic all-conference accolades in basketball in 2010. Smejkal tied for second at the 2012 Nebraska Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at the Oakland Golf Club.
Personal
The daughter of Joel and Andrea Smejkal, Morgan was born Dec. 7, 1992, in Columbus. She has a younger brother, Parker. Morgan is a marketing and management major and captured a spot on the academic All-Big Ten team in 2013. She has earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in three semesters at Nebraska. Smejkal chose Nebraska over Wichita State, South Dakota State, Creighton, Miami and South Dakota.
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Cassidy Stelzmiller
Sophomore (One Letter)
Placerville, Calif. (Union Mine)
OUtlook (2013-14)
Cassidy Stelzmiller showed flashes of impressive play as a part-time starter in the Nebraska lineup in 2012-13. Entering her third season, the sophomore from Placerville, Calif., hopes to make an even greater impact. Stelzmiller closed her redshirt freshman season by tying for 50th at the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind. She was NU’s No. 4 finisher at the event. Also a solid performer in the classroom, Stelzmiller earned a place on the WGCA Scholastic All-America team, after claiming academic All-Big Ten honors in 2013. She also has earned four spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll. “Cassidy was probably our most improved player last year, and we look for that to just continue,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She probably possesses the best short game on the team, and has good length, too. Cassidy has a very bright future, if she continues to work hard.”
Honors & Awards Tied for 50th at Big Ten Championships (2013) WGCA Scholastic All-American (2013) Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2013) Academic All-Big Ten (2013) Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2011, 2012; Spring, 2012, 2013) GolfWeek/Sagarin Top 400 (Fall 2010) Consolation Finalist at WWGA Junior National Match Play (2009)
Redshirt Freshman (2012-13)
Stelzmiller’s Career Bests Best Finish...............................T46th (Missouri State, 2012) Best Event (Strokes)........................ 234 (Westbrook, 2013) Low Round......................................... 76 (Alamo, 1st, 2012) ................................... 76 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd, 2012) ......................................................... 76 (Big Ten, 3rd, 2013) Low First Round................................ 79 (Westbrook, 2013) Low Second Round............ 76 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2012) Low Third Round......................................76 (Big Ten, 2013) Career Rounds Under Par............................................None Stelzmiller’s career Statistics Year Rounds Strokes Average 2012-13 22 1,796 81.64 Totals 22 1,796 81.64
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Stelzmiller competed in 22 rounds in 2012-13, including seven rounds in the Husker lineup. She closed her redshirt freshman campaign by tying for 50th (83-80-76-239) at the Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind., April 26-28. She was NU’s No. 4 finisher, and her final-round 76 matched her career best. Stelzmiller earned her first lineup appearance at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz., March 9-10. She tied for 68th (80-78-79-237) at the Clover Cup, which followed her career-best 234 (79-7877) to tie for 56th while playing as an individual outside the NU lineup at the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Ariz., Feb. 24-25. After shooting an 85 in a dual at Kansas March 20, Stelzmiller closed the regular season by tying for 74th (91-91-82-264) while playing as an individual outside the NU lineup at the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, April 5-7. She claimed a lineup spot at the Big Ten Championships during qualifying and closed the season with an 81.64 stroke average, which ranked sixth among the Huskers. During the 2012 fall season, Stelzmiller competed in three tournaments as an individual outside the Nebraska lineup. She made her collegiate debut at the season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational at the Country Club of Lincoln, Sept. 10-11. She tied for 55th with a three-round total of 256 (89-81-86) in the 84-player field. Stelzmiller made her second appearance as an individual at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 8-10. She posted a 238 (83-76-79) to tie for 64th in New Mexico.
Her effort included a career-best 76 in the second round on the par-72, 6,319-yard layout of the New Mexico State Golf Course. She made her final appearance of the fall by posting a careerbest tie for 46th (80-81-82-243) at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial in Springfield, Mo., Oct. 15-16. Stelzmiller produced a solid second season in the classroom for the Huskers, as a WGCA Scholastic All-American, a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and an academic All-Big Ten choice. She also earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13.
Redshirt (2011-12)
Stelzmiller redshirted in her first season at Nebraska. In the classroom, Stelzmiller earned spots on the Nebraska ScholarAthlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2011-12.
High School/Amateur
Ranked as one of the top 400 players nationally in the GolfWeek/Sagarin girls ratings in the fall of 2010, Stelzmiller advanced to the First Flight consolation final at the WWGA Junior National Match Play Championship in 2009. She competed at the California Junior Girls Stroke Play Championship and at the 80th Women’s Trans Match Play Championship in the summer of 2010. She also competed at the Women’s Trans in 2009. As a senior at Union Mine High School, Stelzmiller led the Diamondbacks to their first Sac-Joaquin Section divisional championship with a tournament-best round of 79. She won individual medalist honors by 12 strokes. Union Mine advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation Section Masters Golf Tournament, where it finished second as a team to qualify for the CIF/NCGA Northern California Championship at Stockton Country Club for the first time in school history. Stelzmiller led the Diamondbacks with a 78. The 2009 Sierra Valley Conference MVP, Stelzmiller led Union Mine to a 32-match winning streak in Sierra Valley action.
Personal
The daughter of Morris and Mary Ann Stelzmiller, Cassidy was born in Placerville, Calif. Cassidy has three older sisters, Chelsea, Madeleine and Megan. Chelsea was a senior on the UC Davis golf team in 2010-11. Cassidy is an accounting major at Nebraska and captured WGCA Scholastic All-America and academic All-Big Ten honors in 2013. She was also a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2013. She has earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in each of her first four semesters. She chose Nebraska over UC Davis.
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Abbie Hunke
Redshirt Freshman
Honors & Awards Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012; Spring 2013) Second at Nebraska’s Women’s Amateur (2013) Nebraska Women’s Match Play Quarterfinalist (2013) Nebraska Junior State Match Play Semifinalist (2012) Member of Nebraska Four State Team (2012) Fourth at Nebraska Class B State Tournament (2011) OUtlook (2013-14)
Nebraska native Abbie Hunke (Hun-kee) hopes to make her first contributions on the course for the Huskers after redshirting as a freshman in 2012-13. A high school all-stater from Snyder, Neb., Hunke used a strong work ethic to make sizable gains in her game while making the transition to collegiate golf. “Abbie’s decision to redshirt was great for her,” Nebraska
Snyder, Nebraska (Scribner-Snyder)
Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She has a lot to learn yet about the nuances of the game, but her passion to get better is outstanding. She is a great team player with a great personality and will work hard on anything we teach her.”
Redshirt (2012-13)
Hunke redshirted in her first season at Nebraska. In the classroom, she earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters.
High School/Amateur
Hunke finished fourth at the Nebraska Class B State Championships in the fall of 2011. She captured the district title after also winning the East Husker Conference individual crown for the second straight year. She led a West Point-Beemer/ Scribner-Snyder combined team to the East Husker title. Hunke
also finished eighth at the Class C state tournament in 2010, after competing for the Scribner-Snyder boys in 2008 and 2009. A solid all-around athlete, Hunke was a 5-5 guard on ScribnerSnyder’s girls basketball team. She was a three-year letterwinner in basketball and played softball in high school. Hunke produced a strong summer of 2012, advancing to the semifinals of the Nebraska Junior Match Play, while finishing sixth at the Nebraska Women’s Amateur Stroke Play. She was also a member of the Nebraska Four State Team.
Personal
Abbie is the daughter of Jeff and Missy Hunke and was born in Fremont, Neb., on June 12, 1994. Abbie has two younger sisters, Hannah and Livia. Abbie is majoring in nutrition and health sciences (pre-nursing) at Nebraska. She was the salutatorian of her high school class in 2012.
YooRim Kang
Redshirt Freshman
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (North Toronto Christian School)
Honors & Awards Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2012; Spring 2013) Ontario Women’s Match Play Quarterfinalist (2010) Can-Am Junior Matches Team Member (2011)
Kang redshirted in her first season at NU. In the classroom, she earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13.
OUtlook (2013-14)
High School/Amateur
Yoorim Kang hopes to contend for her first playing time as a Husker as a redshirt freshman in 2013-14. A walk-on from Toronto, Ontario, Kang redshirted last season but got off to a solid start in the classroom by earning spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in her first two semesters. “Yoorim needed to gain experience, while learning to take her game from the practice tee to the course,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She has improved a lot and gained a lot of playing experience in tournaments over the summer.”
Redshirt (2012-13)
A member of Team Ontario, Kang has been a regular competitor in Golf Association of Ontario tournaments. She closed 2011 teaming with Meghan McDougall to win the Ontario Women’s Four-Ball Championship with a three-under-par 69 at Sleepy Hollow Golf and Country Club in Stoufville. Kang added a seventh-place finish at the Juvenile Girls’ Championship at the Loyalist Country Club with a three-round total of 238. She added a trip to the quarterfinals in the GAO Junior Girls’ Match Play at the Barcovan Golf Club.
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In 2010, she was a quarterfinalist in the Ontario Women’s Match Play Championship. Kang was one of eight Canadians from Ontario to compete in the Can-Am Junior Team Matches in March of 2011 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. She also tied for 22nd at the Royal Canadian Golf Association’s CN Future Links Ontario Championship in Huntsville in 2011.
Personal
Yoorim is the daughter of Hyejin Kim and BongGi Kang and was born in Busan, South Korea on Dec. 15, 1994. She has one older sister, Serim. Yoorim is majoring in management and earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13.
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Jordan Chael
Freshman
Overland Park, Kansas (St. Thomas Aquinas)
OUtlook (2013-14)
Jordan Chael (pronounced SHALE) joins the Huskers in 201314 after producing a stellar prep career at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in the Kansas City metro area. Chael was the Kansas Class 5A state champion in the fall of 2012, while leading Aquinas to its third consecutive team title. She was ranked as the No. 58 player nationally in the class of 2013 by Golfweek. “Even though we didn’t graduate any players from last year’s team, I anticipate Jordan having an immediate impact,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “She is a highly competitive person with a high level of tournament experience and success. She is definitely going to make our team better and our competition better within our team.”
High School/Amateur
Honors & Awards Ranked No. 58 Nationally (Golfweek, 2013) Kansas Class 5A State Champion (2012) Three Top-Three Kansas Class 5A Individual Finishes (2010, 2011, 2012) Three-Time Kansas Class 5A State Team Champions (2010, 2011, 2012) Individual Medalist at Four State Team Championship (2013) Individual Runner-Up at Four State Team Championship (2011, 2012) Missouri Women’s Golf Association State Junior Champion .(2012) . Missouri Women’s Golf Association State Junior Runner-up .(2013)
As a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Chael won the Kansas State Class 5A individual state championship in October of 2012, while leading St. Thomas Aquinas to the state team title. During her final three seasons at Aquinas, Chael won or tied for first in 21 of 27 tournaments. Chael was a four-time Kansas City Star All-Metro selection, earning first-team honors in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The native of Overland Park, Kan., was also a three-time Class 5A Regional champion, while leading St. Thomas Aquinas to three straight Class 5A state team titles. Chael finished third individually at the state tournament in 2010 and 2011. She finished fourth individually in Class 6A as a freshman in 2009. She was also the Missouri Women’s Golf Association State
Junior champion in 2012, before adding a runner-up finish in 2013. Chael took second at the AJGA Coca-Cola Junior Championship in Harbor Springs, Mich., and also posted top-five finishes at AJGA events in Springfield, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo. Chael earned individual medalist honors while leading Missouri to the 2013 Four State championship. She finished second as an individual at the Four State Team Championship in both 2011 (Beatrice, Neb.) and 2012 (Sedalia, Mo.). She took third at the PGA Junior Series Tournament at ArborLinks in Nebraska City in June of 2012. She competed at the Callaway Junior World Championships in July at Torrey Pines in California. She also finished fifth at the Future Collegiate World Tour Tournament held at The Classic Club in Palm Desert, Calif., in February, before taking seventh at the Future Collegiate World Tour Championship held at PGA National in May.
Personal
Jordan is the daughter of Ted and Brenda Chael and was born March 3, 1995. Jordan has one older brother, Andrew. Jordan has not declared a major at Nebraska. She was an honor roll student at St. Thomas Aquinas High School. Chael chose Nebraska over Iowa, Rutgers and Bradley.
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Big Ten Conference Since its inception in 1896, the pursuit and attainment of academic excellence has been a priority for every Big Ten member institution. But maintaining the conference’s status as one of the preeminent athletic conferences in the country also endures as an important component of the Big Ten student-athlete experience. Striking that balance between academics and athletics is integral to the Big Ten’s identity, and the Big Ten’s “Honoring Legends. Building Leaders.” campaign links directly to the Big Ten mission. Recognized as one of intercollegiate sports’ most successful undertakings, the Big Ten strives for success from its student-athletes not only on the field and in the classroom, but around the world as well.
Attendance The Big Ten leads all conferences with nearly five million alumni and more than 460,000 students. Big Ten fans are some of the nation’s most supportive, with nearly 9.8 million patrons attending conference home contests during the 2012-13 seasons for football, men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball alone.
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Academics All Big Ten universities have been granted Tier One Status by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a distinction awarded to just over 100 universities. Big Ten schools have produced more than 1,450 Academic All-Americans, more than any other conference, including 46 in the last academic year. For the 2011 fiscal year, the Big Ten led all conferences with over $8 billion in research expenditures, more than $2 billion more than any other conference. Successful Programs During the 2012-13 season, Big Ten institutions claimed seven national championships: Indiana men’s soccer; Michigan men’s gymnastics; Michigan men’s swimming and diving; Minnesota women’s ice hockey; Nebraska women’s bowling; Ohio State women’s rowing; and Penn State wrestling. Over the last 10 years, the Big Ten is tied for the conference lead with national titles in 14 different NCAA-sponsored championships, including bowling, cross country, fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. Student-Athlete Opportunities Big Ten universities provide over $136 million in direct financial aid to nearly 10,000 student-athletes, more than any conference. The Big Ten sponsors 25 official conference sports, 12 for men and 13 for women. The 26th conference sport, men’s ice hockey, will begin in 2013. Television Exposure Through the Big Ten’s media agreements with CBS Sports, ABC/ESPN, FOX and the Big Ten Network (BTN), nearly 1,000 Big Ten events are produced and distributed nationally on an annual basis. In 2006, the Big Ten created BTN, the first national conference-owned television network. With more than 53 million subscribers in the United States and Canada – and more outside the Big Ten region than inside – BTN allows fans to see their teams compete regardless of where they live.
Honoring Legends. Building Leaders. The mission of the Big Ten Conference has always been to excel athletically without compromising the priority our member institutions assign to their academic standards and to their commitment to student academic success. We seek to celebrate the many accomplishments of Big Ten student-athletes while continuously reinforcing each of our member institutions’ high academic standards. Striking that important balance between academics and athletics is integral to the Big Ten’s identity, and the Big Ten’s “Honoring Legends. Building Leaders.” campaign links directly to the Big Ten mission. Big Ten Administration Commissioner............................................................................................... James E. Delany Deputy Commissioner................ ...................................................................... Brad Traviolia Chief Communications Officer.............................................................................Diane Dietz Senior Associate Commissioner-Television Administration..........................Mark D. Rudner Associate Commissioner - Officiating Programs............................................... Rick Boyages Associate Commissioner - Championships....................................................... Wendy Fallen Associate Commissioner - Compliance............................................................. Chad Hawley Associate Commissioner - Governance.........................................................Jennifer Heppel Associate Commissioner - Technology......................................................Mike McComiskey Associate Commissioner - Football & Basketball Operations......................Andrea Williams Assistant Commissioner - Communications.......................................................Scott Chipman Big Ten Communications Staff Chief Communications Officer.............................................................................Diane Dietz Assistant Commissioner - Communications....................................................Scott Chipman Associate Director of Communications........................................................Adam Augustine Associate Director of Communications......................................................... Brett McWethy Assistant Director of Communications................................................................ Dan Mihalik Robert Hammel Communications Intern................................................... Sarah Andreychik Contact the Big Ten Office 1500 West Higgins Road Park Ridge, IL, 60068-6300 Phone: (847) 696-1010 Fax: (847) 696-1150 www.bigten.org
The French Lick Resort - Donald Ross Golf Course will be the host course for the 2014 Big Ten Women’s Golf Championships in French Lick, Ind., April 25-27. It will mark the third straight year that Nebraska has competed at the Big Ten Championships in Indiana.
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Big Ten Conference Opponents Big Ten Conference
Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes
Founded:.............................................................................1896 Commissioner:...........................................................Jim Delany Chief Communications Officer:.........................................Diane Dietz Assistant Commissioner - Communications:........Scott Chipman Associate Director:........................................... Adam Augustine Associate Director:............................................. Brett McWethy Assistant Director:....................................................Dan Mihalik Women’s Golf Contact (Interim):.....................Sarah Andreychik E-mail....................................................sandreychik@bigten.org Big Ten Phone:.................................................... (847) 696-1010 Mailing Address:........................................... 1500 West Higgins Road ......................................................... Park Ridge, Ill. 60068-6300 Website: ........................................................... www.bigten.org
Location: ..........................................................Ann Arbor, Mich. Enrollment: ......................................................................40,997 Colors: ............................................................... Maize and Blue President: .................................................... Mary Sue Coleman Athletic Director: ................................................. Dave Brandon Head Coach: ............................................................Jan Dowling Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (734) 615-6928 Home Course: ..................... University of Michigan Golf Course Big Ten Finish: ..................................................................... 10th NCAA Finish: ................................................... Did Not Compete Top Returnee:...................................................... Lauren Grogan Golf SID: ................................................................. Tom Wywrot Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (734) 647-1268 Golf SID E-mail:..........................................twywrot@umich.edu Website: ......................................................www.mgoblue.com
Location: ........................................................... Columbus, Ohio Enrollment: ......................................................................56,064 Colors: ..............................................................Scarlet and Gray President (Interim): ..........................................Joseph A. Alutto Athletic Director: ..................................................Eugene Smith Head Coach: .....................................................Therese Hession Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (614) 292-3809 Home Course: ......................................................Scarlet Course Big Ten Finish: ................................................................Seventh NCAA Finish: .................... Tied for 15th at NCAA West Regional Top Returnee:....................................................... Allison Harper Golf SID: .............................................................. Kendra Willard Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (614) 292-0088 Golf SID E-mail:............................................willard.57@osu.edu Website: ......................................www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com
Illinois Fighting Illini
Michigan State Spartans
Penn State Nittany Lions
Location: ................................................Urbana-Champaign, Ill. Enrollment: ......................................................................42,605 Colors: ............................................................. Orange and Blue Chancellor: ..............................................................Phyllis Wise Athletic Director: .................................................. Mike Thomas Head Coach: ........................................................... Renee Slone Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (217) 333-8610 Home Course: ..........................................Stone Creek Golf Club Big Ten Finish: ..................................................................... 12th NCAA Finish: ................................................... Did Not Compete Top Returnee:...................................................... Ember Schuldt Golf SID: ..................................................................... Josh Bates Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (217) 244-4982 Golf SID E-mail:......................................... jbbates2@illinois.edu Website: .................................................www.fightingillini.com
Location: ...................................................... East Lansing, Mich. Enrollment: ......................................................................48,800 Colors: ............................................................ Green and White President: .....................................................Lou Anna K. Simon Athletic Director: ......................................................Mark Hollis Head Coach: ..............................................Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (517) 432-1438 Home Course: ............................ Forest Akers West Golf Course Big Ten Finish: .....................................................................Third NCAA Finish: .................Tied for Ninth at NCAA Championships Top Returnee:..................................................... Christine Meier Golf SID: ...................................................................Ben Phlegar Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (517) 355-2271 Golf SID E-mail:......................................phlegarb@ath.msu.edu Website: ............................................... www.msuspartans.com
Location: ...................................................... University Park, Pa. Enrollment: ......................................................................42,294 Colors: ............................................................... Blue and White President: ........................................................ Rodney Erickson Director of Athletics:......................................... David M. Joyner Head Coach: .................................................... Denise St. Pierre Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (817) 863-2396 Home Course: .................... Penn State Blue and White Courses Big Ten Finish: .................................................................. Fourth NCAA Finish: ......................Tied for 19th at NCAA East Regional Top Returnee:................................................... Christina Vosters Golf SID: .......................................Ryan Hickey & Arielle Sargent Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (814) 865-1757 Golf SID E-mail:........... rjh1994@verizon.net & ans26@psu.edu Website: ................................................ www.gopsusports.com
Indiana Hoosiers
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Purdue Boilermakers
Location: ........................................................ Bloomington, Ind. Enrollment: ......................................................................40,354 Colors: ........................................................ Cream and Crimson President: .....................................................Michael McRobbie Athletic Director: ....................................................... Fred Glass Head Coach: ........................................................ Clint Wallman Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (812) 855-7543 Home Course: ............................ Indiana University Golf Course Big Ten Finish: ......................................................................Fifth NCAA Finish: .............................. 18th at NCAA Central Regional Top Returnee:.......................................................Elizabeth Tong Golf SID: ........................................................Melanie Schneider Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (812) 856-2939 Golf SID E-mail:.............................................ms48@indiana.edu Website: ................................................... www.iuhoosiers.com
Location: ......................................................Minneapolis, Minn. Enrollment: ......................................................................50,883 Colors: ............................................................Maroon and Gold President: ...............................................................Dr. Eric Kaler Athletic Director: ............................................ Norwood Teague Head Coach: ....................................................Michele Redman Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (612) 625-6063 Home Course: ........ Tournament Players Club of the Twin Cities Big Ten Finish: ...................................................................Eighth NCAA Finish: ................................................... Did Not Compete Top Returnee:.....................................................Carmen Laguna Golf SID: ............................................................... Brian Deutsch Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (612) 625-4090 Golf SID E-mail:...........................................deuts060@umn.edu Website: .............................................. www.gophersports.com
Location: ..................................................... West Lafayette, Ind. Enrollment: ......................................................................39,637 Colors: ......................................................... Old Gold and Black President: .............................................................Mitch Daniels Athletic Director: .............................................. Morgan J. Burke Head Coach: ........................................................ Devon Brouse Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (765) 494-4311 Home Course: .......................... Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex Big Ten Finish: .........................................................Tied for First NCAA Finish: ...............................Third at NCAA Championships Top Returnee:............................................................ Aurora Kan Golf SID: ............................................................... Tanner Lipsett Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (765) 494-3197 Golf SID E-mail:......................................... .tlipsett@purdue.edu Website: .............................................. www.purduesports.com
Iowa Hawkeyes
Northwestern Wildcats
Wisconsin Badgers
Location: .............................................................Iowa City, Iowa Enrollment: ......................................................................31,498 Colors: ................................................................ Black and Gold President: ................................................................Sally Mason Athletic Director:........................................................Gary Barta Head Coach: ....................................................... Megan Menzel Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (319) 335-9257 Home Courses:...........................................Finkbine Golf Course Big Ten Finish:.....................................................................Ninth NCAA Finish: ...................................................... Did Not Qualify Top Returnee:.......................................................Lauren English Golf SID: .................................................................. Kasie Collins Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (319) 335-9411 Golf SID E-mail:.................................... kasie-collins@uiowa.edu Website: ............................................www.hawkeyesports.com
Location: .................................................................Evanston, Ill. Enrollment: ........................................................................8,367 Colors: ............................................................Purple and White President: ........................................................Morton Schapiro Athletic Director: ...................................................... Jim Phillips Head Coach: ........................................................ Emily Fletcher Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (847) 467-2296 Home Course: ......................................................Multiple Clubs Big Ten Finish: .........................................................Tied for First NCAA Finish: ................................15th at NCAA Championships Top Returnee:............................................................... Hana Lee Golf SID: ............................................................. Betsy Golomski Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (847) 467-3274 Golf SID E-mail:.............................golomski@northwestern.edu Website: ......................................................www.nusports.com
Location: .............................................................. Madison, Wis. Enrollment: ......................................................................42,099 Colors: ......................................................... Cardinal and White Chancellor:..................................................... Rebecca M. Blank Athletic Director: ...................................................Barry Alvarez Head Coach: ........................................................ Todd Oehrlein Head Coach Phone: ........................................... (608) 265-3117 Home Course: ............................... University Ridge Golf Course Big Ten Finish: ..................................................................... Sixth NCAA Finish: ................................23rd at NCAA Championships Top Returnee:................................................................. Kris Yoo Golf SID...................................................................... Tam Flarup Golf SID Phone: .................................................. (608) 263-5502 Golf SID E-mail:........................................ tjf@athletics.wisc.edu Website: .................................................. www.uwbadgers.com
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Young Huskers Lay Foundation For Future Success One of the youngest Nebraska women’s golf teams in school history laid the foundation for success in the future during the 2012-13 campaign. A Nebraska roster that held no seniors and no sophomores battled through a challenging schedule on the road to concluding its season at the 2013 Big Ten Tournament in French Lick, Ind. Juniors Steffi Neisen and Katelyn Wright, the only returning letterwinners on Nebraska’s nine-member roster, provided the leadership for the Huskers throughout the season. Wright was a catalyst for the Huskers early in the year and continued her improvement on the course. The Incline Village, Nev., native led the Huskers with her 77.39 stroke average. Wright shaved nearly two strokes off her average from her sophomore campaign. She was at her best during the fall portion of the season, when she recorded a 75.13 stroke average through 15 rounds. Wright’s fall included the first Big Ten Golfer-ofthe-Week award of her career on Oct. 11, after a career-best tie for third with a career-best 217 at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Wright’s performance in New Mexico included a career-best opening-round 71. Wright continued her hot play the following week at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial in Springfield, Mo. She tied for fourth with a 224 over three rounds at the event, notching her fourth consecutive top-20 finish to open the season. She opened the season by tying for 11th at Nebraska’s annual Chip-N Club Invitational, before tying for 20th in a loaded 18-team field at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Wolcott, Colo., Sept. 24-26. Unfortunately for Wright and the Huskers, her impressive fall campaign was followed by an unhealthy spring season. Wright battled health issues for much of the spring, which limited her effectiveness on the course. She still managed a 79.50 stroke average over 16 spring rounds, before her season came to a close with a 58th-place finish at the Big Ten Championships. “Katelyn was playing some really good golf during the fall, and you could see her tapping into her potential,” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said. “Then the spring came around, and it was a struggle for her because of her health. It definitely affected our lineup from top to bottom.” Fellow junior Steffi Neisen, Nebraska’s most experienced golfer, produced a solid season with a 79.03 stroke average over NU’s 31 rounds. Neisen enjoyed an impressive summer of 2013, but struggled early in the fall. The New Prague, Minn., native managed just one top-45 finish in the fall, before battling through an up-and-down spring campaign. She closed her third season in Nebraska’s lineup with a tie for 41st at the Big Ten Tournament. “Steffi put a lot of pressure on herself both academically
Cassie Deeg produced the fourth-best stroke average (77.71) by a Nebraska freshman in school history in 2012-13. The Hugo, Minn., native also notched Nebraska’s best finish at the 2013 Big Ten Tournament by tying for 32nd with a three-round score of 232. Deeg recorded a trio of top-20 tournament finishes during her first season as a Husker.
and on the course last year, and it made things tough for her,” Krapfl said. “She went into every round thinking she had to put up a great score, while also providing emotional support and leadership for our other golfers who had never been in those positions. By the end of the year, Steffi had learned a lot about herself and our team, and I think that is going to pay dividends for her in the future.” While Nebraska’s junior leaders worked to provide consistency for a young team, true freshman Cassie Deeg made a major impact. The Hugo, Minn., native notched Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average (77.71). She also posted NU’s top showing at the Big Ten Tournament, finishing in a tie for 32nd with a 232 over three rounds. Deeg produced a trio of top-20 finishes on the year, including a 10th-place effort with a 227 at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial. She added a career-best 221 to tie for 12th the previous week at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Deeg showed the ability to go low with her opening-round 69 on perhaps the biggest stage of the season at the Golfweek Conference Challenge. Deeg’s 69 was the best individual round by a Husker in 2012-13 and came in a loaded 18-team field in the second tournament of her collegiate career. “I loved Cassie’s approach throughout the season,” Krapfl said. “She showed focus and competitiveness 2012-13 Nebraska Individual Stroke Averages throughout the season, and Golfer Strokes Rounds Average had an impressive freshman Katelyn Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,399....................... 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.39 season. We think she is just Cassie Deeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,409....................... 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.71 beginning to scratch the Steffi Neisen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,450....................... 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.03 surface of her ability, and Morgan Smejkal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,039....................... 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.56 we expect great things from Jackie O’Doherty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,529....................... 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.58 Cassie in the future.” freshmen Cassidy Stelzmiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,796....................... 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.64 Redshirt Hannah Luebke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,078....................... 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.92 Cassidy Stelzmiller, Morgan Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,702...................... 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.97 Smejkal and Jackie O’Doherty contributed throughout their 11 NCAA REGIONAL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
first seasons on the course for the Huskers. Stelzmiller improved throughout the season and earned a spot in the lineup for the Huskers at the Big Ten Tournament. She finished in a tie for 50th in French Lick, including a careerbest 76 in the final round. She joined Neisen and O’Doherty in earning WGCA Scholastic All-America honors at the end of the season. O’Doherty played in all 31 rounds for the Huskers and managed an 81.58 stroke average. She tied for 53rd at the Big Ten Tournament. A standout in the classroom, O’Doherty decided to discontinue her golf career at Nebraska prior to the start of the 2013-14 campaign in order to focus on her pre-medicine studies. Smejkal managed an 81.56 stroke average through 25 rounds, including a top-25 finish to open the season at the Chip-N Club Invitational. The Columbus, Neb., native enjoyed a strong summer following her redshirt freshman season, including a Nebraska State Women’s Match Play championship. True freshman Hannah Luebke also emerged for the Huskers late in the year to earn a spot at the Big Ten Tournament. The young German overcame a back injury while also trying to make the adjustments to collegiate golf and a new culture during the fall campaign. She earned her first two lineup spots of the year in NU’s final two tournaments, including a tie for 38th (234) at the Big Ten Championships. Her performance in French Lick included a career-best final-round 75. “We knew going into the season that we had a lot of question marks because we were so young,” Krapfl said. “Our tournament results were not what we’ve come to expect with our tradition of success at Nebraska, but we answered a lot of questions during the year and the experience gained by last year’s four freshmen will pay huge dividends in the upcoming years.”
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2012-13 Individual RESULTS Katelyn Wright
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................76-76-79-231........................................... T11th Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................71-76-75-222........................................... T20th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................71-74-72-217............................................. T3rd Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................74-74-76-224............................................. T4th Alamo Invitational.....................................................81-77-75-233........................................... T59th Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................79-81-75-235........................................... T59th Westbrook Invitational..............................................78-80-75-233........................................... T48th Clover Cup.................................................................77-77-80-234........................................... T59th Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................83.............................................................. 11th SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................80-85-80-245.......................................... T52nd Big Ten Tournament...................................................82-78-82-242............................................. 58th Season Totals.............................................................................................. 2,399 Strokes/31 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................77.39 Season Low Round.......................................................71 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 1st; Golfweek, 1st) Top Five Finishes.......................................................................................................................... 2/11 Top 10 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 2/11 Top 20 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 5/11
Cassie Deeg
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................81-82-80-243........................................... T36th Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................69-76-77-222........................................... T20th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................75-70-76-221........................................... T12th Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................75-74-78-227............................................. 10th Alamo Invitational.....................................................76-80-76-232............................................. 58th Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................85-79-80-244............................................. 76th Westbrook Invitational..............................................77-83-78-238........................................... T64th Clover Cup.................................................................79-75-75-229........................................... T38th Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................81.............................................................. T7th SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................79-82-79-240........................................... T38th Big Ten Tournament...................................................79-80-73-232.......................................... T32nd Season Totals.............................................................................................. 2,409 Strokes/31 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................77.71 Season Low Round................................................................................................ 69 (Golfweek, 1st) Top Five Finishes.......................................................................................................................... 0/11 Top 10 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 2/11 Top 20 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 4/11
Steffi Neisen
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................80-78-79-237..............................................21st Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................79-77-86-242........................................... T74th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................76-79-75-230........................................... T46th Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................79-83-80-242............................................. 45th Alamo Invitational.....................................................75-75-77-227........................................... T47th Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................84-82-74-240........................................... T70th Westbrook Invitational..............................................78-78-70-226.......................................... T22nd Clover Cup.................................................................76-82-82-240........................................... T77th Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................79............................................................. T2nd SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................89-82-80-251.......................................... T62nd Big Ten Tournament...................................................81-78-77-236............................................T41st Season Totals.............................................................................................. 2,450 Strokes/31 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................79.03 Season Low Round............................................................................................. 70 (Westbrook, 3rd) Top Five Finishes.......................................................................................................................... 1/11 Top 10 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 1/11 Top 20 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 1/11
Morgan Smejkal
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................80-77-80-237............................................T21st Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................84-89-83-256............................................. 89th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................79-76-77-232........................................... T53rd Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................81-84-79-244........................................... T49th Alamo Invitational.....................................................76-84-86-246........................................... T74th Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................83-93-81-257............................................ 82nd Westbrook Invitational..............................................82-79-76-237............................................T61st Clover Cup.................................................................81-86-79-246........................................... T86th
Katelyn Wright posted Nebraska’s top stroke average (77.39) during her junior season in 2012-13. The Incline Village, Nev., native posted a 75.13 average over 15 fall rounds before battling health issues during the spring season. Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................84............................................................ T12th Season Totals.............................................................................................. 2,039 Strokes/25 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................81.56 Season Low Round...........................................................76 (Alamo, 1st; Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd) Top Five Finishes............................................................................................................................ 0/9 Top 10 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 0/9 Top 20 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 1/9
Jackie O’Doherty
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................82-83-81-246.......................................... T42nd Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................95-78-79-252............................................. 87th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................82-79-77-238........................................... T64th Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................80-83-78-241............................................T41st Alamo Invitational.....................................................90-82-74-246........................................... T74th Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................80-84-82-246........................................... T78th Westbrook Invitational..............................................83-83-75-241..............................................71st Clover Cup*...............................................................81-82-83-246........................................... T86th Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge*...............................82.............................................................. T9th SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................91-82-78-251.......................................... T62nd Big Ten Tournament...................................................80-79-81-240........................................... T53rd Season Totals.............................................................................................. 2,529 Strokes/31 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................81.58 Season Low Round.....................................................................................................74 (Alamo, 3rd) Top Five Finishes.......................................................................................................................... 0/11 Top 10 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 1/11 Top 20 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 1/11 *competed as an individual outside NU lineup
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2012-13 Individual RESULTS Cassidy Stelzmiller
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational*...........................................89-81-86-256........................................... T55th Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational*..........................83-76-79-238........................................... T64th Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial*................80-81-82-243........................................... T46th Westbrook Invitational*............................................79-78-77-234........................................... T56th Clover Cup.................................................................80-78-79-237........................................... T68th Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................85............................................................ T14th SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational*.....................91-91-82-264........................................... T74th Big Ten Tournament...................................................83-80-76-239........................................... T50th Season Totals.............................................................................................. 1,796 Strokes/22 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................81.64 Season Low Round.........................................................76 (Big Ten, 3rd; Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd) Top Five Finishes............................................................................................................................ 0/8 Top 10 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 0/8 Top 20 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 1/8 *competed as an individual outside NU lineup
Hannah Luebke
Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational*...........................................88-87-82-257........................................... T60th Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial*................80-81-80-241............................................T41st Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................84............................................................ T12th SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................86-87-89-262............................................. 73rd Big Ten Tournament...................................................81-78-75-234........................................... T38th Season Totals.............................................................................................. 1,078 Strokes/13 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average.............................................................................................................82.92 Season Low Round................................................................................................... 75 (Big Ten, 3rd) Top Five Finishes............................................................................................................................ 0/5 Top 10 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 0/5 Top 20 Finishes.............................................................................................................................. 1/5 *competed as an individual outside NU lineup
2012-13 Nebraska Team Results Tournament........................................................... Results...................................................Place Chip-N Club Invitational.............................................317-313-318-948....................................7th/13 Golfweek Conference Challenge...............................303-307-314-924..................................15th/18 Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational............................301-299-300-900..................................T7th/13 Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial..................308-314-311-933....................................6th/15 Alamo Invitational.....................................................308-314-302-924..................................14th/15 Lady Puerto Rico Classic............................................326-326-310-926..................................15th/15 Westbrook Invitational..............................................315-319-296-930..................................13th/13 Clover Cup.................................................................312-312-313-937................................T13th/16 Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge.................................327..........................................................2nd/2 SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational.......................334-331-317-982..................................13th/15 Big Ten Tournament...................................................321-313-301-945..................................11th/12 Season Totals.............................................................................................. 9,702 Strokes/31 Rounds 2012-13 Stroke Average...........................................................................................................312.97 Season Low Round........................................................................................... 296 (Westbrook, 3rd) Season Low Tournament (54 Holes)..........................................................900 (Price’s Give ‘Em Five) Top Five Finishes.......................................................................................................................... 1/11 Top 10 Finishes............................................................................................................................ 4/11
Individual Career-Best Round
Golfer .......................................................................................................... * school record (Round) Steffi Neisen............................................................................................ *66 (2012 Mountain View, 2nd) Cassie Deeg..........................................................................................................69 (2012 Golfweek, 1st) Katelyn Wright.................................................................................... 71 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 1st) . 71 (2012 Golfweek, 1st) (2012 Westbrook, 3rd) Jackie O’Doherty...................................................................................................... 74 (2012 Alamo, 3rd) Hannah Luebke........................................................................................................ 75 (2013 Big Ten, 3rd) Morgan Smejkal.........................................................................................................76 (2012 Alamo, 1st) . 76 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd) Cassidy Stelzmiller................................................................................................... 76 (2013 Big Ten, 3rd) . 76 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five, 2nd)
Individual Career-Best Tournament
Golfer ..........................................................................................................................Three Rounds Steffi Neisen.................................................................................................................. 214 (2011 Alamo) Katelyn Wright......................................................................................... 217 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five) Cassie Deeg............................................................................................. 221 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five) Morgan Smejkal....................................................................................... 232 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five) Hannah Luebke............................................................................................................. 234 (2013 Big Ten) Cassidy Stelzmiller.................................................................................................. 234 (2013 Westbrook) Jackie O’Doherty..................................................................................... 238 (2012 Price’s Give ‘Em Five) Steffi Neisen finished with Nebraska’s third-best stroke average in 2012-13, while earning her third consecutive WGCA Scholastic All-America Award. Neisen enters her senior season as Nebraska’s most experienced golfer with starts in 96 consecutive team rounds, including a school-record 66 in the second round at the 2012 Mountain View Collegiate.
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Year-by-year results 1980-81
Larry Romjue (1975-79)
The first head coach of the Nebraska women’s golf team, Larry Romjue guided the program to a successful start in its first four seasons. Under Romjue, the Huskers won the 1975-76 Big Eight Conference title, qualified for the 1976 AIAW Championships and finished second at the AIAW Region Six meet in 1977. Romjue retired in 2001 after 31 seasons as the men’s coach.
1975-76
Finish Meet Total Rounds 4th/12 Regional Tournament n/a n/a 5th/14 Missouri Invitational 704 n/a 2nd/8 Illinois Invitational 704 n/a 1st/6 Big Eight Tournament 684 n/a 22nd/35 AIAW Nationals 683 n/a
1976-77 7th/19 2nd 5th/7 4th/6
Susie Maxwell Berning AIAW Region 6 Sooner Invitational Big Eight Tournament
665 n/a 1,051 705
327-338 n/a 349-360-342 352-353
Susie Maxwell Berning AIAW Region 6
1,032 709
332-349-351 361-348
711 675 705
365-346 344-331 342-363
336 677 671 707 674
336 343-334 337-334 368-339 340-334
707 352 1,023 696
368-339 352 333-345-365 n/a
1977-78 Fall 14th/18 6th/16 Spring 6th/15 5th/6 2nd/8
Illinois Invitational Big Eight Tournament Minnesota Invitational
1978-79
Fall 1st/6 Omaha Invitational 5th/11 Iowa State Invitational 5th/18 AIAW Region 6 3rd/8 Kansas Invitational 6th/13 Missouri Invitational Spring 1st/5 Wichita State Invitational 2nd/3 Kansas Invitational 4th/7 Big Eight Tournament 5th/12 Minnesota Invitational
Jerry Fisher (1979-87)
The second head coach of the Nebraska women’s golf team, Jerry Fisher led the Huskers to 12 tournament titles, including the 1980-81 AIAW Region Six championship and the 1983 Big Eight Tournament championship. He spent eight seasons as Nebraska's head coach. In addition to his Husker head coaching duties, Fisher served as the head golf pro at the Country Club of Lincoln from 1972 to 1987.
977 627 659 658 629 622
322-337-318 315-312 329-330 334-324 311-318 314-308
1,049 1,004 957 949 972
362-339-348 330-338-336 324-319-314 321-315-311 330-322-320
971 949 988 954 956
317-322-332 317-315-317 339-328-321 313-320-321 321-327-308
932 969 941 992
312-319-301 337-324-308 310-313-318 329-331-332
974 987 975 948 944
334-311-329 331-330-326 322-330-323 323-324-301 314-308-322
n/a 977 320 958
n/a 331-310-336 320 322-317-319
974 937 971 965
334-311-329 305-311-321 322-331-318 331-319-315
1,013 1,012 998 989 959
337-358-318 338-339-335 326-345-327 342-329-318 326-326-317
Susie Maxwell Berning OSU Cowgirl Panther Invitational Kansas Invitational Missouri Invitational
975 986 950 676 984
334-325-332 329-325-332 316-325-309 335-341 335-335-314
Rayburn Invitational Oklahoma Invitational Illinois Invitational Purdue Invitational Big Eight Tournament
1,020 999 1,023 997 1,027
330-350-340 332-333-344 339-353-331 340-319-338 335-345-347
Minnesota Invitational OSU Cowgirl
978 1,017
326-327-325 338-338-341
1981-82
Fall 17th/21 Susie Maxwell Berning 2nd/11 Iowa State Invitational 2nd/6 Kansas Invitational 2nd/10 Missouri Invitational 11th/15 Torneo Femenil De Golf Spring 1st/3 Spring Break Tournament 3rd/9 Sooner Invitational 1st/10 Iowa Invitational 4th/7 Big Eight Tournament
1982-83
Fall T15th/18 Susie Maxwell Berning 2nd/9 Iowa State Invitational 3rd/7 Kansas Invitational 1st/6 Missouri Invitational 11th/12 Torneo Femenil De Golf Spring 2nd/4 Iowa Spring Fling 2nd/6 Iowa Invitational 2nd/7 Missouri Invitational 1st/7 Big Eight Tournament
1983-84 Fall 13th/16 5th/19 2nd/6 1st/8 Spring 16th/18 4th/8 1st/6 2nd/6 2nd/7
Susie Maxwell Berning Lady Northern Missouri Invitational Kansas Invitational South Alabama Invitational Oklahoma Invitational Wichita State Invitational Kansas State Invitational Big Eight Tournament
1984-85
1979-80
Fall 18th/21 Susie Maxwell Berning 6th/13 Iowa State Golf Invitational 5th/8 AIAW Region 6 4th/9 Kansas Invitational 5th/12 Missouri Invitational Spring 10th/13 Texas A&M Invitational n/a Lamar Invitational 1st/9 Iowa Invitational 5th/7 Big Eight Tournament n/a Minnesota Invitational
Fall n/a Susie Maxwell Berning 1st/13 Iowa State Invitational 2nd/6 Kansas Invitational 1st/9 Missouri Invitational 1st Iowa Invitational 1st AIAW Region 6 Spring 21st/21 Betsy Rawls Invitational n/a Rayburn Invitational n/a Lamar Invitational 4th/10 Sooner Invitational 4th/7 Big Eight Tournament
982 669 672 708 675
317-335-330 336-333 337-335 356-352 339-336
1,090 1,012 646 991 670
370-374-346 351-326-335 318-328 334-333-324 343-327
Fall 5th/15 9th/15 3rd/7 4th/8 2nd/9 Spring 4th/4 4th/7 8th/16 5th/10 T5th/7
1985-86 Fall 3rd/6 10th/12
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Year-by-year results 15th/18 11th/15 Spring 4th/6 6th/9 5th/12 3rd/8 3rd/7
Tulsa Invitational Alabama Invitational Iowa Invitational North Texas Lady Eagle Susie Maxwell Berning Kansas State Classic Big Eight Tournament
682 661
332-350 323-338
677 655 1,002 710 955
340-337 320-335 330-338-334 367-343 328-311-316
982 971 971 981 998
323-330-329 324-325-322 328-331-312 321-329-331 327-330-341
649 1,062 668 989
326-323 355-357-350 342-326 335-322-322
1986-87 Fall 3rd/10 12th/12 1st/8 6th/12 4th/12 Spring 5th/14 13th/14 6th/12 T5th/7
Cyclone Golf Classic All College Kickoff Northern Iowa Invitational Duke Fall Invitational Kansas Jayhawk Invitational North Texas State Invitational Susie Maxwell Berning Missouri Invitational Big Eight Tournament
ROBIN KRAPFL (1987-PRESENT)
The third head coach of the Nebraska women’s golf team, Robin Krapfl has led the Huskers to 28 tournament victories, 11 NCAA Regional appearances and the program’s only three NCAA Tournament berths in 2000, 2003 and 2006. Krapfl, a two-time Big Eight Coach of the Year, is in her 27th season as Nebraska's head coach after serving as the NU women’s golf assistant coach for three years.
1st/7 Missouri Invitational 5th/7 Big Eight Tournament 6th/13 Southern Intercollegiate
615 968 974
304-311 320-324-324 339-316-319
Cyclone Invitational Minnesota Invitational Diet Coke-Roadrunner Classic Dick McGuire Golf Invitational Lady Buckeye Invitational
681 993 958 1,002 1,083
345-336 330-329-334 322-321-315 335-337-330 360-335-388
North-South Invitational Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational South Carolina Invitational Husker Golf Classic Big Eight Tournament
1,029 969 983 965 975
354-324-351 326-326-317 321-332-330 324-311-330 317-332-326
636 958 932 968 975
313-323 322-321-315 311-315-306 322-324-322 325-318-332
Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational Rainbow Wahine Classic Husker Golf Invitational Southern Intercollegiate Big Eight Tournament
1,002 952 950 990 977
336-335-331 322-314-316 322-314-314 332-334-324 329-327-321
Husker Invitational Oregon Golf Invitational Cyclone Invitational Lady Buckeye Lady Kat Invitational
956 987 700 1,008 981
319-316-321 324-325-338 349-351 338-334-336 332-322-327
Utah-Dixie Classic Rainbow Wahine Classic Susie Maxwell Berning Southern Intercollegiate Big Eight Tournament
959 988 977 996 1,007
323-313-323 329-325-334 330-321-326 340-334-322 339-340-328
1,012 925 979 964 943
339-336-337 312-309-304 333-322-324 321-317-326 323-304-316
945 628 947 627 967 939 933
319-317-309 314-314 314-318-315 314-313 324-315-328 315-314-310 313-312-308
969 944 960 936 965
328-322-319 318-312-314 322-323-315 315-311-310 321-328-316
941 640 649 926 937 985 916
312-311-318 318-322 319-310 304-305-317 318-308-311 338-328-319 297-311-308
1990-91 Fall 8th/10 4th/8 10th/18 T13th/16 19th/19 Spring 10th/18 6th/19 T11th/13 2nd/5 3rd/7
1991-92 Fall 2nd/12 9th/17 4th/18 11th/18 3rd/12 Spring 9th/18 8th/14 3rd/7 14th 7th/7
Cyclone Golf Classic Diet Coke-Roadrunner Classic Spartan Invitational Dick McGuire Invitational Hawkeye Invitational
1992-93
1987-88 Fall 4th/9 5th/8 7th/9 10th/10 3rd/5 2nd/8 Spring 5th/11 9th/12 2nd/9 7th/14 5th/7
Iowa State Invitational Iowa Invitational Brigham Young Invitational Kickoff Classic Minnesota Invitational Kansas Invitational
993 1,065 1,016 1,020 670 994
327-331-335 326-351-362 341-341-334 350-331-339 343-327 330-332-332
North Texas Lady Eagle Oklahoma Invitational Nebraska Invitational USA-Gulf Shores Invitational Big Eight Tournament
644 1,017 952 958 1,011
322-322 345-329-343 325-322-305 317-318-323 335-324-352
646 961 983 989 642 983
322-324 317-313-331 321-327-335 326-332-331 318-324 327-343-313
943 957 949 332 964 964
314-308-321 327-314-316 313-322-314 332 329-326-309 329-326-309
954 1,013 933 956
316-315-323 338-336-339 317-307-309 320-306-330
973 952 981 925
320-331-322 312-324-316 333-320-328 311-308-306
1988-89
Fall 2nd/9 Iowa State Invitational 6th/13 Ohio State Invitational 13th/17 Lady Tar Heel Invitational 15th/18 Dick McGuire Invitational 1st/7 Northern Illinois Invitational 9th/11 U.S. International Invitational Spring 7th/12 Utah-Dixie Classic 4th/10 USF-Summerfield Invitational 4th/7 Rainbow Wahine Classic 9th/12 Lady Paladin 1st/6 Husker Golf Invitational 4th/7 Big Eight Tournament
1989-90
Fall 3rd/9 Hawkeye Invitational 8th Kickoff Classic 1st/13 Spartan Fall Invitational 5th/16 Buckeye Classic Spring 3rd/17 North-South Collegiate T7th/17 Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational 12th/14 South Carolina Invitational 1st/9 Rio Rico-Hawkeye
11 NCAA REGIONAL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
Fall 2nd/5 9th/12 5th/8 7th/12 14th/18 Spring 5th/15 14th/16 5th/11 T12th/19 4th/7
1993-94
Fall 12th/16 Diet Coke-Roadrunner Classic 1st/7 Husker Classic 8th/16 Memphis State Invitational 8th/14 Lady Kat Invitational 2nd/9 Marilynn Smith/Jayhawk Spring T4th/14 Guadalajara Invitational T1st/4 Midwest Golf Classic 6th/19 Utah-Dixie Classic 1st/8 UNT/SMU Invitational 8th/20 Southern Intercollegiate 4th/7 Big Eight Championships 16th/19 NCAA West Regionals
1994-95
Fall 4th/12 Gopher Invitational 5th/17 Diet Coke-Roadrunner Classic 5th/14 Memphis Intercollegiate 1st/13 Husker Golf Classic 12th/20 Lady Kat Invitational Spring 9th/18 UCLA Bruin Classic 7th/12 River Wilderness Intercollegiate 5th/18 Utah-Dixie Classic 2nd/17 Texas A&M “Mo” Morial 4th/19 Rainbow Wahine Classic 3rd/8 Big Eight Championships 12th/20 NCAA West Regionals
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Year-by-year results 2000-01
1995-96
Fall 2nd/17 4th/18 11th/18 10th/16 2nd/14 7th/23 Spring 3rd/14 16th/24 6th/19 6th/17 T3rd/8 T11th/20
Chip-N Club Invitational Nike Northwest Dick McGuire Invitational Diet Coke Invitational Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invite San Diego State Fall Classic
948 918 934 958 958 649
318-311-319 305-308-305 307-316-311 328-313-317 310-313-335 333-316
Monica Welsh Memorial Fripp Island/Ben Hogan Rainbow Wahine Classic Utah-Dixie Classic Big Eight Championships NCAA West Regionals
960 684 940 954 974 961
318-323-319 347-337 314-312-314 324-318-312 334-335-305 306-324-331
605 948 939 909 955 974
304-301 317-320-311 318-311-310 300-296-313 321-317-317 341-315-318
1,006 964 976 919 945 909
338-339-329 331-311-322 334-321-321 310-296-313 313-311-321 301-302-306
909 906 939 887 951
307-297-305 298-309-299 321-306-312 296-292-299 318-310-323
637 985 935 627 936
322-315 333-327-325 307-312-316 323-304 322-315-299
Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic Chip-N Club Invitational Big 12 Preview Legends Shootout Rainbow Wahine Classic
914 889 941 923 917
305-310-299 297-285-307 309-313-319 301-309-313 307-312-298
Jeannine McHaney Classic Casa de Campo South Carolina Invitational Utah-Dixie Classic Big 12 Championships
965 976 637 929 929
322-325-318 316-324-336 320-317 305-312-312 316-309-304
906 604 614 936 949
298-303-305 298-306 309-305 307-313-316 318-319-312
948 942 940 945 930 920 899 1,239
318-315-315 302-321-319 308-310-322 315-312-318 322-302-306 300-306-314 298-302-299 310-311-302-316
1996-97
Fall 1st/7 Lady Lion Invitational 2nd/14 Chip-N Club Invitational 8th/18 Lady Tar Heel Invitational 1st/12 Big 12 Preview 2nd/14 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invite 8th/19 Roadrunner Invitational Spring T13th/18 UCLA Bruin Invitational 11th/15 Betsy Rawls Invitational 10th/25 Rainbow Wahine Classic 2nd/18 Utah-Dixie Classic 3rd/12 Big 12 Championships 14th/20 NCAA West Regionals
1997-98
Fall 2nd/7 Chip-N Club Invitational 2nd/12 Jeannine McHaney Classic 14th/18 Dick McGuire Invitational 1st/13 Colorado Invitational 6th/12 Big 12 Preview Spring 12th/18 UCLA Bruin Classic 9th/14 Betsy Rawls Classic 7th/20 Rainbow Wahine Classic 8th/24 Utah-Dixie Classic 6th/12 Big 12 Championships
1998-99 Fall 4th/20 2nd/15 7th/12 7th/15 12th/18 Spring 6th/15 10th/13 11th/16 5th/20 8th/12
1999-2000
Fall 1st/12 Big 12 Preview 1st/13 Lady Razorback Invitational 9th/15 Heather Farr Memorial 4th/13 Jeannine McHaney Classic 7th/14 Rainbow Wahine Classic Spring 4th/16 Midwest Classic 5th/16 Texas A&M GTE “Mo” Morial 4th/15 Green Wave Classic 6th/13 Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic 1st/13 Susie Maxwell Berning 3rd/12 Big 12 Championships 9th/24 NCAA West Regional 19th/24 NCAA Tournament
Fall 1st/17 Alltel Husker Invitational 10th/21 NCAA Fall Preview T10th/15 Mary Fossum Invite 10th/12 Big 12 Fall Preview 9th/15 Shootout at The Legends 7th/18 Price’s “Give ‘em Five Fund” Spring 11th/18 Midwest Classic 4th/4 Texas Challenge 6th/12 Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic T10th/18 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic 3rd/15 Susie Maxwell Berning 5th/12 Big 12 Championships 10th/21 NCAA Central Regional
901 620 315 940 904 918
298-303-300 304-316 315 315-315-310 300-299-305 302-306-310
952 307 916 951 911 958 946
318-319-315 307 311-294-311 320-307-324 307-302-302 341-306-311 319-306-321
922 615 988 592 1,007
311-310-301 303-312 331-324-333 301-291 344-332-331
938 971 932 633 916 952 998
314-305-316 319-315-337 319-301-312 323-310 312-307-297 322-314-316 339-333-326
896 922 940 938 918 920
299-290-307 310-305-307 311-315-314 313-307-318 310-316-301 311-302-307
927 631 933 937 926 928 1,281
314-305-301 316-315 317-310-306 311-320-306 311-307-308 312-298-318 320-333-314-314
896 904 613 908 935 911
311-303-306 307-297-300 311-302 302-298-308 306-313-316 302-302-307
307 939 957 967 909 622
307 306-316-317 322-310-325 319-315-333 307-293-309 315-307
937 632 928 935 889
306-306-325 311-321 302-309-317 323-305-307 307-290-292
925 969 955
306-310-309 302-334-333 329-309-317
2001-02
Fall 7th/13 Chip-N Club Invitational 7th/14 Pioneer Highlands Ranch 15th/16 Big 12 Invitational 1st/13 Heather Farr Memorial 12th/17 Alabama Capstone Intercollegiate Spring 12th/14 Central District Invitational 2nd/16 Sam Houston State Invitational T10th/18 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic T7th/20 Baylor-Tapatio Springs Shootout T3rd/15 Susie Maxwell Berning 7th/12 Big 12 Championships 19th/21 NCAA Central Regional
2002-03 Fall T3th/17 4th/14 7th/13 14th/20 5th/11 2nd/19 Spring 5th/15 T10th/19 T4th/17 T5th/13 5th/12 5th/21 22nd/24
Ram Fall Classic Chip-N Club Invitational Fossum Invitational Price's "Give 'em Five Fund" adidas Invitational Pat Bradley Invitational Central District Invitational Texas A&M “Mo” Morial Dr. Thompson Invitational Lady Boilermaker Invitational Big 12 Championships NCAA Central Regional NCAA Championships
2003-04
Fall 3rd/9 Embassy Suites/Tyson Invitational 1st/12 Chip-N Club Invitational 1st/8 Highlands Ranch Intercollegiate 9th/18 Shootout at the Legends 2nd/12 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational T6th/14 adidas Fall Classic Spring 1st/2 Iowa State (Dual match) 10th/15 Central District Invitational 15th/17 Spartan Invitational 14th/19 Baylor-Tapatio Springs Shootout 7th/17 Mountain View Collegiate 10th/12 Big 12 Championships
2004-05
Fall 1st/8 Chip-N Club Invitational 16th/18 Jeannine McHaney Invitational 6th/18 Price's "Give 'Em Five" Invitational 8th/19 Lady Razorback Invitational 4th/18 Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate Spring 12th/15 Central District Invitational 13th/17 Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic 11th/18 UNLV Spring Invitational
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Year-by-year results T6th/15 7th/16 7th/12
Mountain View Collegiate Susie Maxwell Berning Classic Big 12 Championships
888 942 942
301-299-288 314-313-315 305-324-313
897 902 890 911 914
296-300-301 295-300-307 297-285-308 298-313-300 310-303-301
927 914 979 885 906 927 922 1,221
309-309-309 307-303-304 330-329-320 297-295-293 306-291-309 307-297-323 313-298-311 311-305-306-299
2005-06
Fall 7th/18 Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic 1st/10 Chip-N Club Invitational 2nd/12 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational 4th/16 Lady Razorback Invitational 4th/19 Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate Spring 1st/7 Baja Invitational 4th/14 Central District Invitational 11th/18 Texas A&M “Mo” Morial 2nd/15 Mountain View Collegiate 4th/17 Susie Maxwell Berning Classic T4th/12 Big 12 Championships 8th/21 NCAA Central Regional 20th/24 NCAA Championships
2008-09
Fall 1st/13 Chip-N Club Invitational T1st/16 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational 5th/13 McHaney/Morehead Invitational 4th/20 Lady Pirate Intercollegiate 7th/16 The Challenge at Wolfdancer Spring 12th/18 Aztec Spring Invitational 17th/43 Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Classic 10th/19 UNLV Spring Invitational 9th/19 Mountain View Collegiate 15th/15 Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational 10th/12 Big 12 Championships
884 926 922 917 938
298-295-291 307-312-307 312-303-307 305-303-309 318-312-308
947 928 917 901 977 953
299-332-316 309-314-305 330-288-299 290-302-309 322-324-331 315-314-324
Chip-N Club Invitational Ron Moore Intercollegiate Heather Farr Memorial Alamo Invitational The Challenge at Onion Creek
889 922 894 302 871
304-290-295 320-299-303 295-311-288 302 290-292-289
UCF Challenge UNLV Spring Invitational Northern Migration Lady Gator Invitational Big 12 Championships
945 896 916 902 919
312-315-316 295-296-306 304-307-305 306-293-303 305-309-305
Chip-N Club Invitational Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational Johnie Imes Invitational Dale McNamara Invitational Alamo Invitational
627 918 943 938 914
314-313 303-301-314 320-314-309 311-313-314 306-301-307
Kiawah Island Intercollegiate UNLV Spring Invitational BYU Entrada Classic Mountain View Collegiate Baylor Spring Invitational Big 12 Championships
910 911 932 898 935 909
307-302-301 314-304-293 314-315-303 308-306-284 317-304-314 297-298-314
Chip-N Club Invitational Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational Lady Northern Invitational Hoosier Fall Invitational Alamo Invitational
926 932 939 924 884
312-307-307 318-312-302 312-303-311 311-302-311 294-280-310
Lady Puerto Rico Classic Westbrook Invitational BYU Entrada Classic Mountain View Collegiate Ohio State Spring Invitational Big Ten Championships
935 882 914 878 953 908
309-314-312 295-297-290 306-307-301 295-289-294 317-324-312 309-302-297
Chip-N Club Invitational The Golfweek Challenge Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial Alamo Invitational
948 924 900 933 924
317-313-318 303-307-314 301-299-300 308-314-311 308-314-302
Lady Puerto Rico Classic Westbrook Invitational Clover Cup Jayhawk-Cornhusker Challenge SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational Big Ten Championships
962 930 937 327 982 945
326-326-310 315-319-296 312-312-313 327 334-331-317 321-313-301
2009-10
Fall 2nd/14 6th/13 2nd/20 4th/12 11th/21 Spring 17th/17 8th/18 5th/19 7th/15 8th/12
2010-11
Stephanie Ruiz earned second-team All-Big 12 honors in 2006, before tying the school record for the best NCAA Championships score with her 301 over four rounds on the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio.
2006-07
Fall 3rd/11 Badger Invitational 1st/14 Chip-N Club Invitational 7th/15 Kentucky Wildcat Invitational 1st/17 Bronco Invitational T9th/17 Derby Invitational Spring 1st/2 vs. Missouri (Dual Match) 13th/14 Central District Invitational 4th/16 Red Rocks Invitational 13th/18 UNLV Invitational 1st/17 Mountain View Collegiate 4th/12 Big 12 Championships 15th/21 NCAA West Regional
934 929 948 884 615
321-318-295 317-306-306 327-307-314 296-292-296 310-305
313 946 624 894 866 936 951
313 320-316-310 321-303 298-298-298 287-285-294 312-307-317 328-309-314
911 907 613 946 909
310-306-295 298-303-306 303-310 318-300-328 314-301-294
927 1,010 661 895 894 951 968 903
314-308-305 334-338-338 319-342 296-299-300 300-299-295 321-322-308 326-317-325 294-306-303
2007-08
Fall 4th/18 Chip-N Club Invitational 6th/18 Ron Moore Intercollegiate 6th/13 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational 1st/13 Bronco Invitational 2nd/20 Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate Spring 9th/15 Central District Invitational 13th/15 Texas A&M “Mo” Morial 16th/17 Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic T6th/17 Mountain View Collegiate 2nd/13 BYU Dixie Classic 8th/12 Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational 6th/12 Big 12 Championships T10th/21 NCAA Central Regional
11 NCAA REGIONAL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
Fall 13th/15 4th/12 15th/15 14th/16 10th/14 Spring 5th/33 11th/15 T8th/15 10th/18 10th/18 10th/12
2011-12 Fall 4th/15 T7th/12 11th/12 4th/13 5th/14 Spring 14th/15 7th/12 3rd/12 5th/15 9th/11 6th/12
2012-13
Fall 7th/13 15th/18 T7th/13 6th/15 14th/15 Spring 15th/15 13th/13 T13th/16 2nd/2 13th/15 11th/12
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All-Time Honors & Awards CoSIDA Academic All-American
Nebraska’s NCAA All-Americans
Edith Munson Award
The first NCAA All-American in Nebraska women’s golf history, Joanne Brooks was one of the best golfers ever to compete for the Huskers. When Brooks completed her eligibility after the 1993 season, she held nearly every NU individual school record. She earned All-Big Eight Conference and academic All-Big Eight Joanne Brooks honors three times. Brooks won 1989-92 the Edith Munson Award given to Honorable-mention, the nation’s top student-athlete, 1992 was named an WGCA Scholastic All-American in 1990, 1991 and 1992, and was named to Nebraska’s 25 Women of Distinction List in April 2000. A native of Tauranga, New Zealand, Brooks also served as president of Nebraska’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Heidi Wall (Stark)......................................................................1996 The Edith Munson Award is given annually to the nation’s top student-athlete. A golfer must earn both All-America and AllScholar Golf team honors. Joanne Brooks..........................................................................1990
True Temper Scholastic Award
Stephanie Flood..............................................................1993, 1994
Nebraska Student-Athlete of the Year
Kari Mangan.............................................................................1986
WGCA Scholastic All-Americans
Ann Guiberson......................................................1989, 1990, 1992 Joanne Brooks......................................................1990, 1991, 1992 Stephanie Hupp....................................................1991, 1992, 1993 Stephanie Flood....................................................1992, 1993, 1994 Kim Lefler.............................................................1992, 1993, 1994 Rochelle Brotsky.......................................................................1993 Melissa Odell..................................................................1994, 1995 Heidi Wall (Stark)............................................................1995, 1996 Maureen Regan........................................................................1996 Rachelle Tacha......................................................1996, 1997, 1998 Elizabeth Bahensky...............................................1998, 1999, 2000 Amanda Sutcliffe............................................................2001, 2002 Amy Roux.................................................................................2001 Jackie Beste................................................ 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Beth Anne Bryson (Cherry).......................................................2003 Merynn Ito............................................................2003, 2004, 2005 Stephanie Schaefer.........................................................2003, 2004 Sarah Sasse...............................................................................2003 Chelsea Gehring.......................................................................2005 Allison Stewart........................................... 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 JC Stevenson............................................... 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Kate White......................................................................2007, 2008 Rachel Hanigan.........................................................................2009 Madeleine Sheils........................................ 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Charlotte Wendner.........................................................2009, 2010 Steffi Neisen.........................................................2011, 2012, 2013 Jackie O’Doherty......................................................................2013 Cassidy Stelzmiller....................................................................2013
Big 12 Golfer of the Year
Sarah Sasse...............................................................................2003
All-Big Ten Conference
Madeleine Sheils......................................................................2012
All-Big 12 Conference
Sarah Sasse...........................................................2000, 2001, 2003 Stephanie Ruiz..........................................................................2006 Elli Brown.................................................................................2007 Charlotte Wendner...................................................................2009
All-Big Eight Conference
Nan Circo..................................................................................1978 Jane Deeter..............................................................................1979 Jan Stanard.....................................................................1981, 1983 Cathy Nelson..................................................................1982, 1983 Shelly Godeken...............................................................1983, 1984 Jean Gilpin................................................................................1986 Kari Mangan...................................................................1985, 1986 Laura Gunia..............................................................................1987 Ann Guiberson................................................................1988, 1992 Joanne Brooks......................................................1989, 1990, 1991 Stephanie Flood........................................................................1991 Kim Lefler.................................................................................1994 Michelle Patterson...................................................................1995 Rachelle Tacha..........................................................................1996
Big Ten Golfer of the Week
Madeleine Sheils.......................................................... Oct. 6, 2011 Madeleine Sheils........................................................ Oct. 19, 2011 Steffi Neisen.................................................................Nov. 3, 2011 Katelyn Wright............................................................ Oct. 11, 2012
Big 12 Golfer of the Month
Sarah Sasse..................................................................... April, 2003 Stephanie Ruiz..........................................................February, 2006 Elli Brown..............................................................September, 2006 Kate White................................................................. October, 2006
Big Eight Golfer of the Month
Molly Mullin.............................................................February, 1995 Heidi Wall (Stark)..........................................................March, 1995 Rachelle Tacha................................................................ April, 1996
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
Steffi Neisen...................................................................2012, 2013 Madeleine Sheils......................................................................2012 Cassidy Stelzmiller....................................................................2013
Academic All-Big Ten Conference
Steffi Neisen...................................................................2012, 2013 Madeleine Sheils......................................................................2012 Jackie O’Doherty......................................................................2013 Morgan Smejkal........................................................................2013 Cassidy Stelzmiller....................................................................2013 Katelyn Wright..........................................................................2013
Academic All-Big 12 Conference
Rachelle Tacha................................................................1997, 1998 Elizabeth Bahensky...............................................1998, 1999, 2000 Susie Kiene...............................................................................1998 Hanne Nyquist..........................................................................1998 Amy Roux................................................... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Catha Fogelberg.......................................... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Sarah Sasse................................................. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Amanda Sutcliffe........................................ 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Amanda Krane................................................................2001, 2002 Beth Anne Bryson (Cherry).............................................2003, 2005 Merynn Ito............................................................2003, 2004, 2005 Stephanie Ruiz................................................................2003, 2004 Stephanie Schaefer.........................................................2003, 2004 Jackie Beste..........................................................2004, 2005, 2006 Sara Sackett..........................................................2004, 2005, 2006 Chelsea Gehring.............................................................2005, 2006 Allison Stewart.....................................................2005, 2007, 2008 Elli Brown.............................................................2006, 2007, 2008 Chrissie McArdle............................................................2006, 2007 Andrea Carlson (Dunagan).......................................................2007 Megan Place...................................................................2007, 2009 JC Stevenson.........................................................2008, 2009, 2010 Charlotte Wendner...............................................2008, 2009, 2010 Kate White................................................................................2008 Mary Kate Bird......................................................2009, 2010, 2011 Rachel Hanigan.........................................................................2009 Madeleine Sheils............................................................2010, 2011 Kayla Knopik.............................................................................2011
Sarah Sasse became Nebraska's first women's golfer to receive first-team All-America honors in 2003. One of 11 golfers to make the list of All-Americans, Sasse was the only Big 12 golfer selected. In addition, Sasse earned numerous other honors throughout her career. She was the 2003 Big 12 Player of Sarah Sasse the Year, a 2003 Scholastic All1998-2003 American, the 2003 April Big 12 First-team, 2003 Golfer of the Month, a threetime All-Big 12 honoree, a four-time academic All-Big 12 pick and a three-time NCAA participant. She also holds the individual school record for the 36- and 54-hole scores with 138 and 209 strokes, respectively. The Lincoln, Neb., native graduated from Nebraska in 2003 with a degree in marketing. Kim Lefler.......................................................................1993, 1994 Melissa Odell..................................................................1994, 1995 Michelle Patterson...............................................1994, 1995, 1996 Rachelle Tacha................................................................1995, 1996 Heidi Wall.......................................................................1995, 1996 Maureen Regan........................................................................1996
Big Ten Sportsmanship Award
Steffi Neisen...................................................................2012, 2013
NCAA Championship Competitors
Jan Stanard...............................................................................1982 Joanne Brooks..........................................................................1989 Heidi Wall (Stark)......................................................................1996 Rachelle Tacha..........................................................................1996 Elizabeth Bahensky...................................................................2000 Catha Fogelberg........................................................................2000 Amy Roux.................................................................................2000 Sarah Sasse...........................................................2000, 2001, 2003 Amanda Sutcliffe......................................................................2000 Beth Anne Bryson (Cherry).......................................................2003 Merynn Ito................................................................................2003 Stephanie Ruiz................................................................2003, 2006 Stephanie Schaefer...................................................................2003 Elli Brown.................................................................................2006 Chrissie McArdle......................................................................2006 Sara Sackett..............................................................................2006 Allison Stewart.........................................................................2006 *Nebraska competed as a team at the 1976 AIAW Championships, and Nan Circo tied for 33rd at the 1977 AIAW Championships.
Academic All-Big Eight Conference
Francee Kopecky......................................................................1988 Melissa Busskohl......................................................................1989 Susan Daugherty..................................................1989, 1990, 1991 Ann Guiberson......................................................1989, 1990, 1992 Joanne Brooks......................................................1990, 1991, 1992 Stephanie Hupp..............................................................1991, 1993 Stephanie Flood....................................................1992, 1993, 1994 Kari Clesson..............................................................................1993
Sarah Sasse captured first-team All-America honors while leading Nebraska to the NCAA Championships in 2003.
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All-Time Letterwinners A
S
Adams, Jenny.......................................................... 1985-86
Sackett, Sara.................................................2002-04-05-06 Sasse, Sarah..............................................1999-2000-01-03 Schaefer, Stephanie......................................2001-02-03-04 Scherer (Krapfl), Robin....................................... 1980-81-82 Schorgl, Carolyn................................................. 2009-10-11 Schuler, Sonia......................................................... 1994-96 Sharpee, Erin................................................................2010 Sheils, Madeleine.........................................2009-10-11-12 Slattery, Sharon...................................................... 1976-77 Smedberg, Laurel.............................................. 1976-77-78 Smejkal, Morgan......................................................2013 Stanard, Jan..................................................1980-81-82-83 Steen, Nancy J..............................................1983-84-85-86 Stelzmiller, Cassidy...................................................2013 Stevenson, JC................................................2007-08-09-10 Stewart, Allison............................................2005-06-07-08 Sturdevant, Sydney.......................................................2008 Sutcliffe, Amanda.....................................1999-2000-01-02
B
Bahensky, Elizabeth..................................1997-98-99-2000 Becker, Melissa.............................................1994-95-96-97 Beste, Jackie.................................................2003-04-05-06 Bird, Mary Kate.............................................2008-09-10-11 Brooks, Joanne.............................................1989-90-91-92 Brotsky, Rochelle..........................................1992-93-94-95 Brown, Elli....................................................2005-06-07-08 Busskohl, Melissa ........................................1988-89-90-91
C
Circo, Nanette ................................................... 1976-77-78 Cherry (Bryson), Beth Anne.................................2002-03-04-05 Clesson, Kari ................................................1991-92-93-94 Cook, Nodjya ...............................................1987-88-89-90
D
Davis, Kimberly.............................................................1982 Deeg, Cassie.............................................................2013 Deeter, Jane..................................................1976-77-78-79 Denbeck, Deb......................................................... 1976-77 Doerr, Gretchen................................................. 1996-97-98 Dougherty, Susan.........................................1987-88-89-90 Dunagan (Carlson), Andrea.................................2004-05-06-07
T
Tacha, Rachelle.............................................1995-96-97-98 Tobin, Peggy.................................................1986-87-88-89
W
E
Elgert, K.C........................................................... 1999-2000
F
Flood, Stephanie...........................................1991-92-93-94 Fogelberg, Catha......................................1999-2000-01-02
G
Gehring, Chelsea..........................................2003-04-05-06 Gilpin, Jean...................................................1983-84-85-86 Gleadall, Natalie...........................................................2009 Godeken, Shelly............................................1981-82-83-84 Guiberson, Ann.............................................1988-89-90-92 Gunia, Laura.................................................1984-85-86-87
H
Hallett, Molly.......................................................... 1995-96 Hanigan, Rachel...................................................... 2008-09 Harder, Julie..................................................................2003 Hergert, Mary Sue............................................. 1979-80-81 Hornecker, Shirin.................................................... 1996-97 Houston, Janet L..................................................... 1983-84 Hupp, Stephanie...........................................1990-91-92-93 Huston, Mimi C....................................................... 1977-78
I
Ito, Merynn...................................................2002-03-04-05
K
Keiser, Katie............................................................ 2011-12 Kemper, Kelly.......................................................... 1993-94 Kiene, Susie..................................................................1997 Kniffin, Carolyn....................................................... 1986-87 Knopik, Kayla................................................2009-10-11-12 Kopecky, Frances............................................... 1986-87-88 Krane, Amanda.................................................. 2000-01-02
L
Lefler, Kim.....................................................1991-92-93-94 Luebke, Hannah........................................................2013
A four-year letterwinner for Nebraska from 1988 to 1992, Ann Guiberson was the Huskers’ first WGCA Scholastic All-American.
M
Madsen, Alysen............................................1988-89-90-91 Mangan, Kari A.............................................1983-84-85-86 McArdle, Chrissie..........................................2004-05-06-07 Merwald, Julie..............................................................1979 Miller, Lori....................................................1980-81-82-83 Molyneux, Remylee................................................ 2011-12 Morrissey, Catherine M................................1977-78-79-80 Mullin, Molly................................................1993-94-95-96
Wall, Heidi J....................................................... 1994-95-96 Wall, Kathy....................................................1985-86-87-88 Weekes, Elizabeth W....................................................1979 Wendner, Charlotte......................................2007-08-09-10 White, Kate............................................................. 2007-08 Woodard, Denise .........................................................1996 Wright, Katelyn..............................................2011-12-13
Y
Young, Becky................................................................1991
N
Neisen, Steffi..................................................2011-12-13 Nelson, Catherine A......................................1981-82-83-84 Noerrlinger, Dawn........................................1987-88-89-90 Nyquist, Hanne....................................................... 1997-98
O
O’Doherty, Jackie..........................................................2013 O’Neill, Katie...................................................... 1985-86-87 Odell, Melissa...............................................1991-93-94-95
P
Papes, Lisa....................................................................1984 Patterson, Michelle L....................................1993-94-95-96 Place, Megan................................................2006-07-08-09
R
Reed, Debbie................................................................1976 Regan, Maureen................................................ 1995-96-97 Rist, Anne M.................................................................1991 Roberts, Carin L............................................1980-81-82-83 Roux, Amy................................................1998-99-2000-01 Ruiz, Stephanie.............................................2002-03-04-06
11 NCAA REGIONAL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
A four-year letterwinner for the Huskers, Kari Mangan was a two-time All-Big Eight selection and the Nebraska Female StudentAthlete of the Year in 1986.
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Individual & Team Records
Team Records
Individual School Records
Alamo Invitational (second round); (Madeleine Sheils, Kayla Knopik, Shelby Martinek, Katelyn Wright, Steffi Neisen), Oct. 31, 2011
18-Hole Score ����������������������������66
18-Hole Score..................................................................................................... 280 36-Hole Score..................................................................................................... 572 Mountain View Collegiate (287-285); (Elli Brown, Kate White, Chrissie McArdle, Allison Stewart, JC Stevenson), March 24, 2007
54-Hole Score..................................................................................................... 866 Mountain View Collegiate (287-285-294); (Elli Brown, Kate White, Chrissie McArdle, Allison Stewart, JC Stevenson), March 24-25, 2007
Nebraska All-Time Team Victories
1976 Big Eight Tournament......................................................................................................................................................................... 684 1978 Omaha Invitational............................................................................................................................................................................. 336 1979 Wichita State Invitational.................................................................................................................................................... 368-339=707 1980 Iowa Invitational.................................................................................................................................................................. 318-328=646 1980 Iowa State Invitational......................................................................................................................................................... 315-312=627 1980 Missouri Invitational............................................................................................................................................................ 334-324=658 1980 Iowa Invitational.................................................................................................................................................................. 311-318=629 1980 AIAW Region 6 Championship.............................................................................................................................................314-308=622 1982 Spring Break Tournament.............................................................................................................................................312-319-301=932 1982 Missouri Invitational.....................................................................................................................................................323-324-301=948 1983 Big Eight Tournament...................................................................................................................................................322-317-319=958 1983 Kansas Invitational........................................................................................................................................................331-319-315=965 1984 Wichita State Invitational.............................................................................................................................................326-345-327=998 1986 Northern Iowa Invitational...........................................................................................................................................328-331-312=971 1988 Northern Illinois Invitational................................................................................................................................................ 318-324=642 1989 Husker Golf Invitational................................................................................................................................................309-304-305=918 1989 Spartan Fall Invitational................................................................................................................................................317-307-309=933 1990 Rio Rico-Hawkeye.........................................................................................................................................................311-308-306=925 1990 Missouri Invitational............................................................................................................................................................ 304-311=615 1993 Husker Classic...............................................................................................................................................................312-309-304=925 1994 Midwest Golf Classic........................................................................................................................................................... 314-314=628 1994 UNT/SMU Invitational.......................................................................................................................................................... 314-313=627 1994 Husker Golf Classic.......................................................................................................................................................315-311-310=936 1996 Lady Lion Invitational........................................................................................................................................................... 304-301=605 1996 Big 12 Fall Preview........................................................................................................................................................300-296-313=909 1997 Colorado Invitational....................................................................................................................................................296-292-299=887 1999 Big 12 Preview..............................................................................................................................................................298-303-305=906 1999 Lady Razorback Invitational.................................................................................................................................................298-306=604 2000 Oklahoma/Susie Maxwell Berning Classic....................................................................................................................322-302-306=998 2000 Alltel Husker Invitational..............................................................................................................................................298-303-300=901 2001 Heather Farr/CU Invitational...............................................................................................................................................301-291=592 2003 Chip-N Club Invitational................................................................................................................................................307-297-300=904 2003 Highlands Ranch Intercollegiate..........................................................................................................................................311-302=613 2004 Chip-N Club Invitational................................................................................................................................................306-306-325=937 2005 Chip-N Club Invitational................................................................................................................................................295-300-307=902 2006 Baja Invitational............................................................................................................................................................309-309-310=928 2006 Chip-N Club Invitational................................................................................................................................................317-306-306=929 2006 Bronco Invitational.......................................................................................................................................................296-292-296=884 2007 Mountain View Collegiate............................................................................................................................................287-285-294=866 2007 Bronco Invitational.......................................................................................................................................................318-300-328=946 2008 Chip-N Club Invitational................................................................................................................................................298-295-291=884 2008 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational................................................................................................................ (tie) 307-312-307=926
Steffi Neisen
Mountain View Collegiate (second round) Tucson, Ariz. March 23, 2012
36-Hole Score �������������������������� 138
Sarah Sasse
Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic Fort Collins, Colo. Sept. 9, 2002
54-Hole Score �������������������������� 209 Sarah Sasse
Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic Fort Collins, Colo. Sept. 9-10, 2002
72-Hole Score ������������������������������ 301 Elizabeth Bahensky
NCAA Championships Sunriver, Ore. May 27, 2000
Stephanie Ruiz
NCAA Championships Columbus, Ohio May 26, 2006
Nebraska won the 2005 Chip-N Club Invitational at the Wilderness Ridge Golf Course. The Huskers captured four consecutive Chip-N Club titles from 2003 to 2006
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Year.........................Champion................................................ NU Finish.................................................................Individual Champion
1976.....................Nebraska (684)....................................1st (684)....................................... Lindsey Wetzel (Oklahoma, 164) 1977.....................Oklahoma State (671).........................4th (705).................................Patty Zimmer (Oklahoma State, 158) 1978.....................Oklahoma (653)...................................5th (675)....................................Alicia Ogrin (Oklahoma State, 154) 1979.....................Oklahoma State (949).........................4th (1,023).................................Alicia Ogrin (Oklahoma State, 232) 1980.....................Oklahoma State (930).........................5th (991).................................... Val Skinner (Oklahoma State, 225) 1981.....................Oklahoma (922)...................................4th (972).............................. Dorea Mitchell (Oklahoma State, 227) 1982.....................Oklahoma State (917).........................4th (992).................................... Val Skinner (Oklahoma State, 216) 1983.....................Nebraska (953)....................................1st (953)..................................Janice Burba (Oklahoma State, 233) 1984.....................Oklahoma State (934).........................2nd (959).................................. Robin Hood (Oklahoma State, 224) 1985.....................Oklahoma State (934).........................6th (1,027)...................................Lisa Stone (Oklahoma State, 231) 1986.....................Oklahoma State (924).........................3rd (955)................................... Robin Hood (Oklahoma State, 220) 1987.....................Oklahoma State (912).........................6th (989)....................................Eva Dahloff (Oklahoma State, 228) 1988.....................Oklahoma State (944).........................5th (1,011).................................Eva Dahloff (Oklahoma State, 234) 1989.....................Oklahoma State (935).........................4th (964)....................................Eva Dahloff (Oklahoma State, 229) 1990.....................Kansas (936)........................................5th (968)............................Marnie McGuire (Oklahoma State, 230) 1991.....................Oklahoma (943)...................................3rd (975).........................................Cathy Stevens (Oklahoma, 232) 1992.....................Oklahoma State (914).........................7th (977)................................ Arantxa Sison (Oklahoma State, 220) 1993.....................Iowa St. (945)......................................4th (1,007)................................Shelley Finnestad (Iowa State, 232) 1994.....................Oklahoma State (919).........................4th (939)......................... Charlotta Eliasson (Oklahoma State, 221) 1995.....................Oklahoma State (937).........................3rd (985)................................... Amy Weeks (Oklahoma State, 226) 1996.....................Oklahoma State (946).........................T-3rd (974)......................................Rachelle Tacha (Nebraska, 227) Team Titles by School: Oklahoma State, 14; Oklahoma, 3; Nebraska, 2; Kansas, 1; Iowa State, 1
Big 12 Team/Individual Champions
1997.....................Texas (924)..........................................3rd (945)...............................................Heather Bowie (Texas, 212) 1998.....................Texas A&M (919).................................6th (936).......................................... Isabelle Ros (Texas A&M, 225) 1999.....................Oklahoma State (906).........................8th (929).................................Maria Boden (Oklahoma State, 219) 2000.....................Oklahoma (916)...................................3rd (920)...........................................Amelia Moses (Missouri, 222) 2001.....................Oklahoma State (925).........................5th (958).................................Maria Boden (Oklahoma State, 227) 2002.....................Oklahoma State (909).........................7th (952)..........................Emma Zackrisson (Oklahoma State, 223) 2003.....................Oklahoma State (909).........................5th (926)............................................. Sarah Sasse (Nebraska, 220) 2004.....................Texas (592/36 Holes)...........................10th (622)...........................Annie Thurman (Oklahoma State, 137) 2005.....................Oklahoma State (900).........................7th (942)..................Annie Thurman-Young (Oklahoma State, 212) 2006.....................Texas A&M (899).................................T-4th (927).......................................Ashley Knoll (Texas A&M, 215) 2007.....................Texas A&M (911).................................4th (936)......................................... Amanda Costner (Kansas, 221) 2008.....................Oklahoma State (912).........................6th (968).............................Jaclyn Sweeney (Oklahoma State, 225) 2009.....................Oklahoma State (909).........................10th (953)................................. Ashley Freeman (Texas A&M, 225) 2010.....................Texas A&M (896).................................8th (919).......................... Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State, 210) 2011.....................Texas (872)..........................................10th (909).......................................... Madison Pressel (Texas, 208)
Big Ten Team/Individual Champions
2012.....................Michigan State (885)...........................6th (908)........................................... Laura Gonzalez (Purdue, 216) 2013.....................Northwestern/Purdue (884)................11th (935)................................................ Paula Reto (Purdue, 212) Team Titles: Ohio State, 11; Indiana, 7; Purdue, 6; Michigan State, 5; Minnesota, 1; Iowa, 1; Wisconsin, 1; Northwestern, 1
Big Ten Championship Records
Team
Lowest Winning Score (54 Holes).....................................884.....Northwestern (287-295-302), Purdue (293-394-297), 2013 Lowest Winning Score (72 Holes).....................................1,158...........................................Purdue, 2010 (289-292-294-294) Largest Margin of Victory (54 Holes)................................41......................................................................... Ohio State, 1983 Largest Margin of Victory (72 Holes)................................58.............................................................................. Indiana, 1986
Individual
Lowest Winning Score (54 Holes).....................................212........................................ Paula Reto, Purdue, 2013 (71-71-70) Lowest Winning Score (72 Holes).....................................280............................Laura Gonzalez, Purdue, 2010 (71-70-70-69) Lowest Score, One Round.................................................65............................................Ashley Bauer, Michigan, 2010 (2nd) Lowest Score, After Two Rounds......................................139.......................................Ashley Bauer, Michigan, 2010 (74-65) Lowest First-Round Score.................................................67...................................................... Stacy Orschell, Purdue, 2000 Lowest Second-Round Score............................................65..................................................... Ashley Bauer, Michigan, 2010 Lowest Third-Round Score................................................66................................................. Maria Hernandez, Purdue, 2008 Lowest Score, After Three Rounds...................................210................................. Ashley Bauer, Michigan, 2010 (74-65-71) Lowest Fourth-Round Score.............................................69................................................. Maria Hernandez, Purdue, 2008 ..................................................................................................................................................Laura Gonzalez, Purdue, 2010 .........................................................................................................................................................Kris Yoo, Wisconsin, 2011 Nebraska’s first season in the Big Ten Conference was 2012. The first Big Ten Team Championship was conducted in 1982. A 54-hole tournament was held in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1996, 2012 and 2013. A 72-hole tournament was held from 1985 through 1995 and from 1997 through 2011.
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Rachelle Tacha won the Big Eight individual championship in 1996, the league’s final season. Tacha also qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 1996.
2013 Big Ten Championships French Lick, Ind., April 26-28
Rk. Team Total
T1. Northwestern.................... 287-295-302-884 (+20) T1. Purdue............................... 293-294-297-884 (+20) 3. Michigan State................... 303-297-289-889 (+25) 4. Penn State......................... 296-305-299-900 (+36) 5. Indiana............................... 310-303-303-916 (+52) 6. Wisconsin.......................... 305-311-301-917 (+53) 7. Ohio State.......................... 301-307-310-918 (+54) 8. Minnesota......................... 312-305-304-921 (+57) 9. Iowa................................... 313-306-305-924 (+60) 10. Michigan............................ 306-316-310-932 (+68) 11. Nebraska............................ 321-313-301-935 (+71) 12. Illinois................................ 311-318-317-946 (+82)
2013 Big Ten Championships Individual Results
Rk. Golfer, Team Total
1. Paula Reto, Purdue.....................71-71-70-212 (-4) 2. Caroline Powers, Michigan St.... 75-73-71-219 (+3) T3. Katlyn Elliott, Penn St................. 72-75-73-220 (+4) T3. Christine Meier, Michigan St...... 75-72-73-220 (+4) 5. Allyssa Ferrell, Michigan St........ 74-75-72-221 (+5) 6. Kaitlin Park, Northwestern........ 71-72-79-222 (+6) T7. Devon Brown, Northwestern..... 74-74-75-223 (+7) T7. Kishi Sinha, Purdue.................... 73-73-77-223 (+7) T9. Carmen Laguna, Minnesota....... 76-76-72-224 (+8) T9. Elizabeth Szokol, Northwestern.... 74-75-75-224 (+8) T9. Aurora Kan, Purdue................... 74-76-74-224 (+8) T12. Amy Meier, Ohio St.................... 75-77-73-225 (+9) T12. Alexis Nelson, Wisconsin........... 74-75-76-225 (+9) T12. Kristi Cardwell, Iowa.................. 77-72-76-225 (+9) T12. Hana Lee, Northwestern............ 68-80-77-225 (+9) T32. Cassie Deeg, Nebraska...........79-80-73-232 (+16) 38. Hannah Luebke, Nebraska......81-78-75-234 (+18) T41. Steffi Neisen, Nebraska..........81-78-77-236 (+20) T50. Cassidy Stelzmiller, Nebraska.....83-80-76-239 (+23) T53. Jackie O’Doherty, Nebraska..........80-79-81-240 (+24) 58. Katelyn Wright, Nebraska.............82-78-82-242 (+26)
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Nebraska in NCAA Competition Team NCAA Regional Scores
Nebraska NCAA Championship Individual Records (72 Holes)
Championship Golf Course of New Mexico Albuquerque, N.M., May 12-14 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Stephanie Flood 77 82 78 237 Kim Lefler 80 76 77 233 Melissa Odell 77 82 77 231 Michelle Patterson 80 85 78 243 Heidi Wall 79 77 76 232 Team (Count Four) 313 312 308 933 NU Finish: 16th/19
Lowest Final Score:........................................................... Elizabeth Bahensky (2000)/Stephanie Ruiz (2006).............................................301 Lowest Score After One Round:........................................ Stephanie Ruiz (2006)...........................................................................................72 Lowest Score After Two Rounds:...................................... Stephanie Ruiz (2006).........................................................................................148 Lowest Score After Three Rounds:..................................... Elizabeth Bahensky (2000)..................................................................................225 Lowest Single-Round Score:............................................. Elizabeth Bahensky (2000, Third Round)..............................................................68 Lowest Second-Round Score:........................................... Elli Brown (2006)..................................................................................................74 Lowest Third-Round Score:............................................... Elizabeth Bahensky (2000)....................................................................................68 Lowest Fourth-Round Score:............................................ Allison Stewart (2006)..........................................................................................73 Best Finish:....................................................................... Elizabeth Bahensky (2000).............................................................................. T25th Lowest Stroke Average:.................................................... Elizabeth Bahensky (2000)/Stephanie Ruiz (2006)..........................................75.25
1994 NCAA West Regional
1995 NCAA West Regional
Randolph North Park Golf Course Tucson, Ariz., May 11-13 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Molly Mullin 76 81 75 232 Michelle Patterson 76 80 76 232 Maureen Regan 82 80 83 245 Rachelle Tacha 75 74 78 227 Heidi Wall 70 77 79 226 Team (Count Four) 297 311 308 916 NU Finish:12th/20
2003 NCAA Central Regional
1996 NCAA West Regional
Firethorn Golf Course Lincoln, Neb., May 8-10 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Sarah Sasse 73 75 74 222 Merynn Ito 77 71 80 228 Stephanie Schaefer 81 75 80 236 Stephanie Ruiz 82 77 84 243 Beth Anne Cherry 81 78 87 246 Team (Count Four) 312 298 318 928 NU Finish: 5th/21
1997 NCAA West Regional
The Traditions Club Bryan, Texas, May 11-13 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Stephanie Ruiz 78 76 74 228 Allison Stewart 79 70 81 230 Chrissie McArdle 77 75 79 231 Elli Brown 79 77 77 233 Sara Sackett 80 77 83 240 Team (Count Four) 313 298 311 922 NU Finish: 8th/21
The Champions Club Golf Course Omaha, Neb., May 9-11 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Molly Mullin 81 81 80 242 Michelle Patterson 83 87 85 255 Maureen Regan 81 91 89 261 Heidi Stark 73 79 81 233 Rachelle Tacha 71 77 85 233 Team (Count Four) 306 324 331 961 NU Finish: 11th/20 Randolph North Park Golf Course Tucson, Ariz., May 8-10 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Hanne Nyquist 74 76 76 226 Elizabeth Bahensky 75 76 76 227 Shirin Hornecker 73 79 78 230 Rachelle Tacha 79 76 76 231 Maureen Regan 79 74 79 232 Team (Count Four) 301 302 306 909 NU Finish: 14th/20
2000 NCAA West Regional
Karsten Golf Course Tempe, Ariz., May 8-10 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Elizabeth Bahensky 76 76 77 229 Catha Fogelberg 77 76 73 226 Amy Roux 73 76 75 224 Sarah Sasse 72 74 74 220 Amanda Sutcliffe 84 81 85 250 Team (Count Four) 298 302 299 899 NU Finish: 9th/24
2001 NCAA Central Regional
Birck Boilermaker Golf Course West Lafayette, Ind., May 10-12 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Sarah Sasse 76 72 78 226 Amy Roux 80 76 79 235 Catha Fogelberg 82 76 83 241 Amanda Sutcliffe 81 82 81 244 Amanda Krane 89 85 86 260 Team (Count Four) 319 306 321 946 NU Finish: 10th/21
2006 NCAA Central Regional
2007 NCAA West Regional
The Entrada at Snow Canyon Golf Club St. George, Utah, May 10-12 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Elli Brown 81 77 75 233 Chrissie McArdle 79 82 80 241 Kate White 83 77 81 241 JC Stevenson 85 79 78 242 Allison Stewart 88 76 83 247 Team (Count Four) 328 309 314 951 NU Finish: 15th/21
2008 NCAA Central Regional
The University of Texas Golf Course Austin, Texas, May 8-10 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total JC Stevenson 73 72 75 220 Elli Brown 72 79 72 223 Kate White 73 86 74 233 Charlotte Wendner 76 80 82 238 Allison Stewart 82 75 88 245 Team (Count Four) 294 306 303 903 NU Finish: T10th/21
1990 NCAA Championships
Arthur Hills Golf Course Hilton Head, S.C., May 23-26 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Joanne Brooks 75 81 79 79 314
1996 NCAA Championships
La Quinta Resort and Club, Dunes Course La Quinta, Calif., May 22-25 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Heidi Stark 78 86 84 78 326 Rachelle Tacha 83 77 78 78 316
2000 NCAA Championships
Crosswater Golf Club Sunriver, Ore., May 24-27 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Elizabeth Bahensky 79 78 68 76 301 Catha Fogelberg 79 78 75 82 314 Amy Roux 79 80 81 81 321 Sarah Sasse 74 75 78 77 304 Amanda Sutcliffe 78 85 85 84 332 Team (Count Four) 310 311 302 316 1,239 NU Finish: 19th/24
2001 NCAA Championships
Mission Inn, El Campeon Course Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla., May 22-25 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Sarah Sasse 79 75 81 75 310
2003 NCAA Championships
Birck Boilermaker Golf Course West Lafayette, Ind., May 20-23 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Sarah Sasse 75 79 75 78 307 Stephanie Ruiz 82 85 77 77 321 Stephanie Schaefer 78 84 81 81 324 Merynn Ito 85 85 81 78 329 Beth Anne Cherry 92 89 90 91 362 Team (Count Four) 320 333 314 314 1,281 NU Finish: 22nd/24
2006 NCAA Championships
The Scarlet Course Columbus, Ohio, May 23-26 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Stephanie Ruiz 72 76 78 75 301 Chrissie McArdle 82 78 75 76 311 Elli Brown 76 74 77 82 309 Sara Sackett 81 77 76 75 309 Allison Stewart 87 88 78 73 326 Team (Count Four) 311 305 306 299 1,221 NU Finish: 20th/24
2002 NCAA Central Regional
Forest Akers West Golf Course East Lansing, Mich., May 9-11 Golfer Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Total Catha Fogelberg 85 81 78 244 Merynn Ito 85 79 84 248 Beth Anne Cherry 84 89 80 253 Stephanie Ruiz 85 84 84 253 Amanda Sutcliffe 85 92 87 264 Team (Count Four) 339 333 326 998 NU Finish: 19th/21
NCAA Championship Scores
*Scores from Jan Stanard’s individual NCAA appearance in 1982 are unavailable.
Elizabeth Bahensky owns six NU NCAA Tournament records, including best single-round (68) and final score (301).
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THIS IS
NEBRASKA
ebraska continues to add to its impressive tradition of success in women’s golf. In 2012, Madeleine Sheils became the first golfer in Husker history to earn All-Big Ten honors by taking third in Nebraska’s first-ever Big Ten Tournament. Sheils, who went on to compete at the NCAA Central Regional in Columbus, Ohio, capped one of the top careers in school history as a four-time WGCA Scholastic All-American. In 2008, the Huskers earned their 11th trip to the NCAA Regional Championships, just missing a bid to the 24-team NCAA Championships. The Huskers have finished among the top 24 teams in the nation three times in the past 14 seasons. In 2006, the Huskers posted the best NCAA Championship score in school history, while finishing 20th at the event.
Entering her 27th season at the helm of the Nebraska women’s golf program, Coach Robin Krapfl has guided the Huskers to 28 tournament titles, 11 NCAA Regional appearances and all three of the school’s NCAA Tournament bids. Husker women’s golfers epitomize Nebraska’s commitment to success in athletics, academics and life. Husker golfers have captured a nationleading 64 WGCA Scholastic All-America honors. The Husker women’s golf team is also one of NU’s most active teams in the community.
The 2006 Nebraska women’s golf team (main photo) enjoyed one of the best seasons in school history by finishing 20th at the NCAA Championships. Steph Ruiz (bottom left) matched the best four-round NCAA Tournament score in school history with a 301. Sarah Sasse (bottom middle) made history in 2003 when she earned first-team All-America honors for the Huskers. Sasse was also named the Big 12 Conference Golfer of the Year and led the 2003 Huskers (top right) to a 22nd-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Sasse went on to be a competitor on the Golf Channel’s “Big Break III” in 2005. The 2000 Huskers (middle right) posted the best NCAA Championship finish in school history by taking 19th. Heidi Wall (bottom right) captured CoSIDA Academic AllAmerica honors for the Huskers in 1996. The Lincoln native helped NU to three straight NCAA Regional appearances from 1994 to 1996.
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ACADEMIC SUCCESS
The success of Nebraska student-athletes reaches far beyond athletic competition. More Husker student-athletes have been selected to CoSIDA Academic All-America teams (307) than any other school in the nation, and Nebraska has produced more NCAA Top Ten Award winners (16) than any other school. As it enters its third season of Big Ten Conference competition in 2013-14, Nebraska continues to set the standard for the approximately 1,400 NCAA member institutions. The Husker football team leads all individual sport programs in the nation with 104 all-time CoSIDA Academic All-America awards. The Notre Dame football program ranks second among all sports nationally with 58 all-time academic All-Americans. In fact, Nebraska’s 104 football academic All-Americans would rank among the top 25 schools (all sports, all divisions) in the nation in the number of total CoSIDA Academic AllAmericans. The NU volleyball program has captured more academic All-America awards (37) than any other women’s team in the nation, while the Husker softball program ranks second on that list with 29 selections. Nebraska also ranks among the top 10 schools in the nation in CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in baseball, women’s basketball and men’s and women’s track and field/cross country. Over the past two years, the men’s and women’s track and field programs have produced 10 CoSIDA Academic AllAmericans - the most in the nation during that span.
Huskers Build on Academic Tradition in 2012-13
Husker student-athletes produced another outstanding year in 2012-13, continuing NU’s tradition of academic success. The Huskers added eight CoSIDA Academic AllAmericans to their nation-leading total (307) to become the first school in history to reach 300 academic All-Americans. Nebraska’s eight academic All-Americans led the Big Ten Conference and ranked among the highest totals in the nation across all divisions. NU maintained its lead of 76 alltime CoSIDA Academic All-Americans All Sports as of August 2013 over No. 2 Notre Dame. Since 2000, Nebraska has amassed a nation-leading 117 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, which would rank in a tie for 13th over the more than 60 years of the academic All-America program. Nebraska has produced at least one academic AllAmerican in 42 consecutive seasons. Senior I-back Rex Burkhead captured first-team academic All-America honors for the second straight season, while senior linebacker Sean Fisher earned second-team honors for the second straight year. Fisher added a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. While Burkhead and Fisher became the 25th and 26th two-time academic All-Americans in the history of the Husker football program, senior track and field student-athlete Bjorn Barrefors became the first four-time CoSIDA Academic All-American in school history. A six-time All-American as a multi-eventer, Barrefors was Nebraska’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year and claimed an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He was joined by 10-time All-American Mara Griva and Morgan Wilken in giving the track team a trio of academic All-Americans. AllAmerica wrestler Josh Ihnen added his second straight academic All-America award, while eight-time gymnastics All-American Emily Wong captured the first academic AllAmerica award of her career. Gina Mancuso added a first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America award to the Husker volleyball team’s nation-leading total of 37, while helping the Huskers to an NCAA Elite Eight appearance on the court. Senior Mary Weatherholt also capped the most brilliant career on and off the court in Nebraska women’s tennis history. NU’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year earned
Academic All-Americans 307 231 204 182
Top: Nebraska Student-Athletes of the Year Bjorn Barrefors (left) of the track and field team and Mary Weatherholt (right) from the Husker women’s tennis team earned multiple All-America awards in competition while leading two of Nebraska’s strongest academic programs. Barrefors was an All-America multi-event competitor who became NU’s first four-time CoSIDA Academic All-American. Weatherholt was the first Husker to earn All-America honors in both singles and doubles in 2013. Bottom: Madeleine Sheils captured All-Big Ten honors on the course after finishing third at the 2012 Big Ten Championships. A four-time WGCA Scholastic All-American, Sheils competed on the Cactus Tour and the Symetra Tour before advancing to the final stage of qualifying at LPGA Q School. She earned her psychology degree from Nebraska in December of 2012.
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All-America honors in both singles and doubles, while finishing as the runner-up at the NCAA Singles Championship. She added an Elite Eight finish with teammate Patricia Veresova at the NCAA Doubles Championship, after leading the Huskers to their firstever NCAA Sweet 16 as a team. For her performances on the court, in the classroom and in the community, Weatherholt claimed the ITA/Cissie Leary National Award for Sportsmanship, one of the top honors in collegiate tennis. In addition to Nebraska’s continued success in creating CoSIDA Academic AllAmericans, the Huskers produced a record 705 Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll selections during the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13. A total of 188 Huskers were honored as academic All-Big Ten recipients, while 105 NU student-athletes earned degrees in 2012-13.
Nebraska’s 2012-13 Academic Highlights
• 307 All-Time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans across all sports (leads nation) 104 Football Academic All-Americans (leads all sports, all time) 37 Volleyball Academic All-Americans (leads all women’s sports, all time) 29 Softball Academic All-Americans (No. 2 among all women’s sports, all time) 35 Men’s & Women’s Track & Field Academic All-Americans (leads nation since 2002) • Eight CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (4 first-team, 4 second-team) First-Team: Rex Burkhead (Football), Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field), Gina Mancuso (Volleyball), Josh Ihnen (Wrestling) Second-Team: Sean Fisher (Football), Mara Griva (Women’s Track & Field), Morgan Wilken (Women’s Track & Field), Emily Wong (Women’s Gymnastics) • Two NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ($7,500) Sean Fisher (Football), Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field) • Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ($7,500) Conor McDermott (Football), Megan Southworth (Softball) • Big Ten Medal of Honor Winners Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field, Mary Weatherholt (Women’s Tennis) • Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winners Rex Burkhead (Football), Emily Wong (Women’s Gymnastics) • 188 Academic All-Big Ten Selections Across All Sports (3.0 GPA) • School-Record 705 Student-Athletes Honored on the Nebraska ScholarAthlete Fall and Spring Honor Rolls (3.0 GPA or above) • 84 Student-Athletes Earned Perfect 4.0 GPAs in either the Fall or Spring Semester • 105 Student-Athletes Earned Degrees from August 2012 through May 2013 (August 2012-11; December 2012-36; May 2013-58) • Male Student-Athlete of the Year - Bjorn Barrefors, Men’s Track & Field (Computer Science) • Female Student-Athlete of the Year - Mary Weatherholt, Women’s Tennis (Business Administration) • Men’s Herman Award Winner - Men’s Golf (3.648 GPA in 2012) • Women’s Herman Award Winner - Women’s Tennis (3.793 GPA in 2012) • Life Skills Team Award Winners - Wrestling, Women’s Swimming & Diving
Top: Kayla Knopik earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska in May of 2012. The Papillion, Neb., native was a finance major at Nebraska and claimed firstteam academic All-Big 12 honors in 2011. She was also a member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the spring of 2012 after finishing 17th at the Big Ten Championships. Bottom: An All-Big 12 selection on the course and in the classroom, Elli Brown earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska in December of 2008.
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THE NEBRASKA ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
From the day student-athletes decide the University of Nebraska is the right place to be, the athletic academic counseling unit provides personal and academic support to ensure that student-athletes will get the most out of their years as Huskers. Featuring one of the most innovative and comprehensive academic support systems in the country, Nebraska is dedicated to helping its student-athletes become outstanding leaders in their chosen fields. The academic support team is comprised of 13 full-time staff members and a tutorial staff of approximately 75 tutors addressing all subject areas.
Academic Counseling
Eight academic counselors and three assistant academic counselors are in place to monitor daily academic progress, receive consistent course feedback, assist with the advising/registration process and monitor continuing eligibility and progress toward graduation. Essentially, academic counselors assist student-athletes in navigating the University of Nebraska system.
Tutorial Support
A tremendous resource for all academic abilities, unlimited tutorial support is available from day one up to college graduation. Subject and mentor tutors help provide academic support and study strategies to be successful. Supplemental Instruction, a sub-component of the tutorial program, provides targeted group review sessions to help ease the transition to college academics while improving study strategies and building academic self-esteem.
Study Hall
Nebraska’s study hall program is housed in the D.J. Sokol Enrichment Center within the Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex. Student-athletes attend a supervised, flex-time study hall that features day, evening and weekend hours. Each student-athlete is required to complete a specific number of study hours each week as determined by their academic counselor and/or coach. In addition, weekly study hall reports are provided to the coaching staff. Additional performance-based or tutor-based study hall may also be determined by the academic counselor.
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Mentoring
Many student-athletes meet with a mentor on a weekly basis to assist in making a smooth transition from high school to college. Mentors collect syllabi, gather and report academic progress information and teach academic success strategies.
Educational Assessments
Assessments are administered upon the request of the student-athlete, academic counselor, or coach to determine student strengths and areas for improvement. Results allow academic counselors to develop a personalized academic support program and to determine if more in-depth testing is warranted. When additional assessments are necessary, referrals are made to a consulting psychologist who conducts the assessments. If it is determined that a student-athlete has a learning disability, appropriate accommodations are made through the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.
Student-Athlete Orientation
The academic staff coordinates New Student-Athlete Orientation to help newcomers adjust to the multiple demands of being a college student-athlete. Presentations are made by academic counselors, compliance officials, NU faculty and administrators, business/community professionals and student-athletes.
Personal Counseling
Student-athletes will find a supportive and caring environment at Nebraska. Transitional issues, stress management, time management, academic focus and problem resolution are all addressed in a proactive manner throughout the year. If necessary, counseling referrals are also made to designated practitioners.
Computer Resources
Student-athletes enjoy a new state-of-the art computer lab and technology center with 58 computers and professional supervision. Laptops are also available during team travel. Student-athletes have the benefit of ongoing education and assistance from a full-time computer technician.
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Nebraska’s Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex (left page) opened after receiving an $8.7 million expansion and renovation in 2010. The complex tripled the size of NU’s previous academic support area for student-athletes. The Nebraska Life Skills program helps Husker studentathletes experience the benefits of service to others while learning to expand their own leadership skills. The Abbott Life Skills Center (below) is located within the Herman Family Student Life Complex. In 2013, women’s golfer Steffi Neisen (left) earned a prestigious Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award for her commitment to NU’s award-winning Life Skills program. Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst presented the award.
NEBRASKA LIFE SKILLS - SERVING LEADERS The Nebraska Life Skills program is committed to providing proactive education, resources and support throughout college and beyond, best preparing Husker student-athletes for life after sports. Services foster transition, retention, responsible decision-making, leadership, volunteerism and career development. Nebraska has long been considered a pioneer in life skills support and programming. In 1998, Nebraska was one of five Division I schools nationally to win the prestigious Program of Excellence Award recognizing a strong commitment to total person development. In 2005, Keith Zimmer, Associate A.D. for Life Skills, was the recipient of the Dr. Gene Hooks Award recognizing him as the top life skills administrator in the country.
Life Skills Components
Proactive Education Husker Life Seminar – All incoming student-athletes complete a 13-week fall semester seminar addressing a variety of life skills topics ranging from leadership to money to relationships and study skills. Team Workshops – Campus and community experts facilitate team-specific life skills education workshops. Student-Athlete Assemblies – Meetings featuring remarks from Athletic Director Tom Osborne and nationally recognized life skills trainers. Personalized Support/Individual Sessions Resume Development – Each student-athlete is assigned a Life Skills counselor who assists in the creation of a personalized resume for the student-athlete. Periodic follow-up meetings will take place through graduation to ensure a wellrounded college experience and marketability to realize career goals. Community Outreach Nebraska student-athletes combine to impact over 100,000 people statewide on an annual basis. Team Service Requirement – Each team participates in a minimum of two service projects per year. School Outreach – Individuals participate in numerous school outreach campaigns in both classroom and assembly settings. Hospital Visits – Huskers are frequent hospital visitors providing cheer and encouragement to a variety of patients. Miscellaneous Outreach – Outreach requests are received daily from the entire state requesting involvement from Husker student-athletes. Mentoring Programs – Typically requires one hour of service per week serving as a youth mentor.
Leadership/Citizenship Life Skills promotes leadership development and provides recognition opportunities for extraordinary citizenship. Student-Athlete Advisory Committee – Elected team representatives from each of the 23 sports serve as the “voice” of the entire student-athlete population discussing student-athlete welfare, legislation and service events. HERO Leadership Award – Individual recognition to Huskers who have consistently went above and beyond serving as an exemplary role-model. Heart and Soul Award – Presented annually to the top senior studentathlete leaders for extraordinary service throughout their college careers. Brook Berringer Citizenship Team – Annual “Good Works” team honoring football players for dedicated service in memory of late Husker Brook Berringer. Nebraska Football Uplifting Athletes - A newly recognized UNL student organization initiated in 2012, Nebraska football players and UNL student leaders work collaboratively to raise funds and awareness for those with rare diseases. Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead was named the 2012 recipient of the National Rare Disease Champion Award for his mentoring of Jack Hoffman, who won a 2013 ESPY Award for his touchdown run in the Red/White Spring Game. Life Skills Award of Excellence – Presented to the single men’s and women’s team with the highest point total in the life skills team competition. Career Commitment In addition to the creation of a personalized resume and game plan, the following career resources are available to every Husker. Student-Athlete Career Fair – Attended by approximately 25 companies. Networking Night – Former Husker student-athletes and other professionals thriving in their chosen career fields share valuable insights with sophomore student-athletes. Assessments – Online assessments to help individuals discover talents and match with a major and career. Practical Experience – Programs in place to facilitate shadowing and internship placements. Job Preparation – Expert advice on cover letter writing, interviewing skills and evaluating the job offer. Postgraduate Assistance Commitment to helping student-athletes pursue postgraduate plans and scholarships. Career Nights – Learn from the experts to gain valuable insight on timelines, application procedures, entrance requirements, personal essays and more. Scholarships – Seniors in their final season of athletic eligibility can apply for numerous postgraduate awards.
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ATHLETIC MEDICINE
Providing expert care to more than 600 Husker student-athletes, Nebraska features one of the most welltrained and highly skilled athletic medicine staffs in the country. Under the guidance of Director of Athletic Medicine Dr. Lonnie Albers and Head Athletic Trainer and Physical Therapist Jerry Weber, the 2013-14 Nebraska athletic medicine staff consists of five doctors, 11 athletic trainers and six graduate assistant athletic trainers. Nebraska’s team of orthopaedists is led by Chief of Staff Dr. Pat Clare, a nationally respected orthopaedic surgeon with more than 30 years of service to Husker athletics.
Above: Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Medicine Dr. Lonnie Albers coordinates the care of Husker student-athletes by using some of the best on-site technology in collegiate athletics. The Athletic Medicine Center features a hydrotherapy area that includes a three-level laned pool, which allows student-athletes across all of Nebraska’s sports to work out simultaneously. The Hydroworx 1000 Treadmill Pool is equipped with two cameras underwater for evaluation and assessment, while hot and cold plunge tanks are also available to the Huskers.
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The medical facilities at Nebraska have long been among the nation’s best, and NU’s athletic medicine center within the Tom and Nancy Osborne Athletic Complex will keep the Huskers on the front line of technology for decades to come. In addition to Nebraska’s North Stadium facility, the Bob Devaney Sports Center, Haymarket Park and Pinnacle Bank Arena all feature athletic medicine areas. The Devaney Center’s Athletic Medicine facility underwent an extensive expansion as part of the Hendricks Training Complex addition in 2011.
Using the best on-site medical equipment and resources in college athletics, the Nebraska athletic medicine staff provides Husker student-athletes with highly skilled medical care throughout the year.
NUTRITION
Nebraska’s Sports Nutritionists Lindsey Remmers and Scott Trausch work with all 24 of Nebraska’s sports by educating athletes on topics such as increasing lean body mass, losing body fat, staying hydrated, nutritional strategies for competition, maximizing recovery following workouts and supplement use. Athletes are given individualized nutrition plans that can be applied in Nebraska’s Performance Buffet at the Lewis Training Table, which was remodeled and expanded in the 2010 season. In addition to utilizing the Lewis Training Table each day for lunch and dinner, student-athletes also have access to fueling stations near strength and conditioning areas to provide fluids and nutritional foods before and after workouts to maximize performance and recovery.
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CHAMPIONSHIP FACILITIES
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HUskers.com | 39 Nebraska's top facilities are not limited to the women’s golf program. Nearly every Husker sport enjoys a venue that ranks among the nation's best. Nebraska provides its student-athletes topnotch game-day and practice atmospheres in every sport. In 2013-14, the Nebraska men’s and women's basketball team move into the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln. The 15,000-seat arena will be the new home of both teams while also attracting the nation’s top entertainers to Lincoln throughout the year. The nationally prominent Nebraska volleyball team moves into the Devaney Center for the first time in 2013, after the building received a $20 million renovation. The baseball, softball, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and wrestling programs have all benefitted from new practice facilities within the last two seasons. Top left: Memorial Stadium entered 2013 with a nation-leading 325 consecutive sellouts. Middle: Nebraska’s teams compete in some of the nation’s finest facilities in front of large crowds. The Huskers are also committed to improving their facilities on an annual basis, including the new Hendricks Training Complex, which opened in the fall of 2011, and Pinnacle Bank Arena (top right) is set to open in 2013-14 for Nebraska men’s and women’s basketball. Memorial Stadium expanded by more than 5,000 seats for 2013, while adding an innovative academic/ athletic research wing in the East Stadium. Bottom left: Hawks Field at Haymarket Park provides the Huskers with the finest baseball stadium in the Big Ten Conference. Nebraska shares its home ballpark with the Lincoln Saltdogs, an independent minor league team. Bottom (left and right): The Osborne Athletic Complex provides Nebraska student-athletes with top-notch training facilities. The main entrance to the Osborne Athletic Complex and Traditions Lobby features an impressive waterfall and a wall that honors those who contributed to the massive project, as well as memorabilia and trophies from all of Nebraska’s bowl games.
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NEBRASKA’S NATIONAL POWER One of the nation’s premier athletic programs, Nebraska is dedicated to and successful in all 24 of its varsity sports. Nebraska has won a total of 25 team national championships since 1970, including five football titles, eight men’s gymnastics championships, six bowling crowns, three volleyball titles and three women’s track and field championships. In 201213, 12 Husker teams finished among the top 25 in their respective sports, including the Nebraska football team which posted its fifth straight nine-win season. The Husker football team also led a list of 11 Husker squads that advanced to NCAA postseason competition in 2012-13, as Bo Pelini’s team made a New Year’s Day appearance in the 2013 Capital One Bowl. The national power Husker bowling team won its sixth national championship with a victory over top-ranked Vanderbilt. The NU softball team made its seventh trip to the Women’s College World Series with a Super Regional win over No. 3 Oregon and finished the season ranked eighth in the final polls, its highest finish since 2002 when the Huskers were sixth. The women’s basketball team made its second NCAA Sweet 16 trip in four four years, while the women’s tennis made its first-ever NCAA Sweet 16 appearance. Nebraska’s volleyball team was one win away from reaching the Final Four, reaching the Sweet 16 for the 29th time in 31 seasons. During their first season of sand volleyball in the spring, the Huskers finished the year ranked seventh. Nebraska’s wrestling team was one of six Big Ten teams to finish in the top 15 at the NCAA Championships, with the Huskers finishing 13th. The NU men’s track and field team won its first Big Ten title in 2013 at the conference outdoor meet and then contributed a tie for 15th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships - its second straight top-15 finish. The rifle team finished seventh at the NCAA Championships and doubled its win total from 2012 under first-year Head Coach Stacy Underwood, while the men’s gymnastics team finished 11th at the NCAA Championships.
With just one senior on the 2013 team, Nebraska’s bowling team captured its fourth national title in the past 10 seasons. After taking its program to new heights in 2012, the NU women’s tennis team was even better in 2013. The Huskers won their first Big Ten title, and not only qualified for their NCAA Championships for the fourth-straight year and the Huskers were selected as a women’s tennis regional site for the first time in school history. Along with a trip to the Women’s College World Series and a 45-win season, the fifth-most in school history, the softball team hosted a regional at Bowlin Stadium for the fifth time since the park opened in 2002. The Husker women’s basketball team ran to the secondhighest win total in school history with 25 victories, while also finishing second in the Big Ten with a 12-4 conference mark. Individual success also highlighted a stellar 2012-13 for Nebraska Athletics. On the gridiron, Spencer Long was named a second-team All-American, marking the fourth-straight year that Nebraska has had either a first or second-team All-America selection. Mary Weatherholt rewrote Nebraska women’s tennis history, as the fifth-year senior finished runner-up to defending champion NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs. After clinching Nebraska’s bowling team national title, Kristina Mickelson won the X-Bowling Intercollegiate Singles title. Chad Wright nearly claimed a second straight national championship in the men’s discus, with his personal-best throw of 209-1 resulting in a runner-up finish. Overall in 2012-13, 37 Husker student-athletes combined to capture 53 All-America awards across all sports. As a testament to Nebraska’s national recruiting prowess, the All-Americans came to NU from 16 states and four foreign countries. The Cornhusker state showed its success in keeping the best and brightest of its future leaders at home, as nine All-Americans came from the state of Nebraska.
All-American Mary Weatherholt had a historic run in the NCAA Singles Championship to cap her final year as a Husker. She stormed her way into the championship match with five straight wins before falling to two-time champion Nicole Gibbs of Stanford.
Top: Chad Wright won the shot put at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships and then finished second in the discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, after winning the NCAA discus title in 2012.
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Bottom: The Nebraska men’s track and field team captured the 2013 Big Ten Outdoor title. It was the 105th conference title in program history and Head Coach Gary Pepin’s 69th conference title dating back to his first Big Eight win in 1981.
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Nebraska’s Top 25 National Finishes in 2012-13 Bowling Men’s Gymnastics Rifle Volleyball Sand Volleyball Softball Wrestling Women’s Gymnastics Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Women’s Tennis Women's Basketball Football
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Top left: The Nebraska women’s bowling team captured its fourth NCAA title since it became an NCAA sport in 2003. Kristina Mickelson, the lone senior on the squad, clinched the title with a strike in the second-to-last frame of the sixth game victory over Vanderbilt. All-American Liz Kuhlkin earned NCAA Tournament MVP honors, while Mickelson went on to win the X-Singles National Championship.
Middle: Eight-time All-American Emily Wong led the Huskers to their third straight conference title and second straight Big Ten title. Wong was the 2013 Big Ten All-Around champion and added CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Bottom: All-America twin sisters Tatum (left) and Taylor Edwards (right) powered the Nebraska softball team to the Women’s College World Series in 2013. Tatum earned All-America honors as a pitcher for the Huskers in 2013, while Taylor was an All-America catcher as a freshman in 2011. Both return to rewrite the Husker record books in 2014.
Top: Jordan Hooper earned All-America honors for the second straight season while helping the Huskers to their second NCAA Sweet 16 in the last four years. Hooper, who was a starter on the gold-medal winning USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team in 2013, returns for her senior season in 2013-14. Bottom: Offensive lineman Spencer Long earned All-America honors from the Walter Camp Foundation in 2012, paving the way for record-setting Husker quarterback Taylor Martinez.
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BIG TEN CONTINUES TO EXPAND NATIONAL REACH
On July 1, 2011, the University of Nebraska became an official member of the Big Ten Conference, increasing the Big Ten’s membership to 12 institutions for the first time in conference history. The addition of Nebraska marked the Big Ten’s first expansion since Penn State University joined the conference in June of 1990. The nation’s oldest conference will continue to grow with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers in 2014-15. Currently, the Big Ten Conference is a union of 12 worldclass academic institutions – who share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. The conference’s 100-plus years of history, strong tradition of competitive intercollegiate athletic programs, vast and passionate alumni base, and consistent leadership in innovations position the Big Ten and its entire community firmly on the Big Stage. The Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness in all aspects of its student-athletes’ lives, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that each individual has the opportunity to live a Big Life.
Big Ten Conference Highlights • Big Ten universities provide approximately $136 million in direct financial aid to nearly 10,000 men and women student-athletes who compete for 25 championships. Hockey will become the Big Ten’s 26th official conference championship sport in 2013-14. • Conference institutions sponsor broad-based athletic programs with 299 teams. Other than the Ivy League, the Big Ten has the most broad-based athletic programs in the United States. • Big Ten fans are some of the nation’s most supportive, with nearly 10 million patrons attending conference home contests for football, men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball during 2012-13. In 2012, the Big Ten set new records for overall football attendance and surpassed the six-million mark for all games for the second straight year. During 2012-13, the Big Ten led the nation in men’s basketball and women’s volleyball attendance, while ranking second nationally in football and women’s basketball attendance. • Over the last 34 seasons, the conference has ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 nationally in football, men’s basketball and wrestling attendance. • The Big Ten leads all conferences with more than 4.5 million living alumni and 320,000 undergraduate students.
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Big Ten Women’s Golf Facts
• Every school in the Big Ten Conference fields a women’s golf team. The Ross Course in French Lick, Ind., will play host to the Big Ten Championships for the third consecutive year in 2014. • Nebraska finished sixth in its first-ever Big Ten Tournament appearance in 2012. Madeleine Sheils became the first Husker to earn All-Big Ten honors after finishing third at the conference championship. She also earned a spot as an individual in the NCAA Central Regional at the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio. • Purdue captured the 2010 NCAA women’s golf championship and added an NCAA runnerup finish in 2011. The Boilermakers have finished in the top 10 at eight consecutive NCAA Championships. Purdue and Northwestern shared the conference title in 2013, after Michigan State won back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012. • Ohio State leads the Big Ten with 11 conference women’s golf titles, while Indiana has claimed seven. Purdue owns six championships, while Michigan State has captured five crowns. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa have each have one team title to their credit. • The Big Ten played host to two of the three NCAA Regionals in 2012, as both Ohio State (Central) and Penn State (East) served as host schools. In 2011, eight Big Ten Conference schools advanced to the NCAA Tournament field. • Four Big Ten (Purdue, Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin) teams participated in the 24-team NCAA Championship in 2013.
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The Big Ten Network brings unprecedented coverage to women’s athletics across the conference, including live pre- and post-game coverage at the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament. The Chicago-based network is also bringing increased national exposure to Nebraska student-athletes across all sports.
Big Ten Network
Headquartered in Chicago, the Big Ten Network is the first internationally distributed television network dedicated to covering one of America’s premier collegiate conferences. With more than 400 live sports events, and virtually all of them in high definition, the Big Ten Network is the ultimate destination for Big Ten fans and alumni across the country. The network is on the air 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The network is available to an estimated 80 million households, through agreements with more than 300 cable/satellite affiliates. In 2011 and 2012, every Big Ten home football game was nationally televised. Including road and neutral games, 99 percent (95 of 96) of Big Ten games were televised nationally in 2012, while the other road game appeared on ESPN3.com.
Big Ten Network Facts MORE TELEVISION EXPOSURE
• The Big Ten’s media agreements with CBS, ABC/ESPN, Fox and BTN provide the conference with its greatest television exposure ever. • In 2006, the Big Ten created the first national conference-owned television network devoted to the athletic and academic programs of a single conference. The Big Ten Network launched on Aug. 30, 2007, and became the first new network in cable or satellite television history to reach 30 million homes in its first 30 days. • Since the current media agreements began in 2007-08, every home football and men’s basketball game has been produced while women’s basketball has received more coverage than any other conference. • The Big Ten’s new media agreements have resulted in the broadcast of nearly 1,000 events nationally and regionally on an annual basis, compared to 300 events in the final year of the previous agreements.
“Moving to the Big Ten has provided us an exciting opportunity. On the course, it offers collegiate golf competition at the highest level, with impressive support among the Big Ten schools. The facilities and golf courses are among the best in college golf, and the academic reputation of the Big Ten is second to none.” Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl
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As one of the nation’s premier public institutions, the University of Nebraska is committed to undergraduate learning and world-class research. Quality instruction is emphasized in Nebraska’s 157 undergraduate majors, which are spread through nine undergraduate colleges. Nebraska, which officially joined the Big Ten Conference on July 1, 2011, is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago, which has generated unique opportunities for students and faculty by sharing expertise, leveraging resources and collaborating on programs. The University of Nebraska was chartered by the Nebraska Legislature in 1869 as the state’s public university and land-grant institution. Founded in Lincoln, the University of Nebraska was expanded in 1968 into a state educational system now comprising four campuses under the guidance of a Board of Regents and a central administration. To discover more about the University of Nebraska visit unl.edu. To learn more about Nebraska athletics, visit Huskers.com and ThisIsNebraska.com.
Large photo: The Nebraska Student Union is the meeting place on campus where students can spend a little down time between classes. It has study areas and a food court. Bottom left: Love Library is the main library at the University of Nebraska and sits on the southern edge of City Campus. Bottom middle: The Esther L. Kaufmann Center houses the Jeffery S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Bottom right: The new, 30,000-square foot Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center is the nation’s largest multicultural center attached to a student union.
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
The state capital of Nebraska, Lincoln is a growing city that features activities for citizens of all ages and interests. Lincoln is a scenic city that includes gardens, bike paths and entertainment. The Haymarket District is full of entertainment and dining options and is just blocks from the UNL Campus. The historic state capitol building provides the centerpiece of the downtown area, and famed “O” Street provides numerous options for nightlife and entertainment for UNL students.
One of the nation’s 75 largest cities, Lincoln features the advantages of an urban setting and is only minutes away from the scenic beauty and wide open spaces of America’s Heartland. Home to more than one-quarter of a million people and the third-largest city in the Big Ten Conference, living in Lincoln enables Nebraska student-athletes to enjoy the benefits of city life, while residing in a community that is widely regarded as one of the top places to live in the United States.
LINCOLN’S NATIONAL RANKINGS Happiest U.S. City (LiveScience) Healthiest U.S. City (Center for Disease Control) Best Sport City (Sporting News) Lowest Unemployment Rate (Bureau of Labor) Best Cities for Families (Child Magazine) No. 1 Overall Wellbeing (Gallup) Modeled after the Power and Light District in Kansas City, the Railyard will sit right across from the front entrance of the new Pinnacle Bank Arena, allowing fans to go to an event and then go out to the outdoor plaza. As part of the entertainment district, an $800,000 digital screen called the Cube will be installed. The Cube will display electronic artwork or show movies.
No. 1 Quality of Life (State Univ. of New York) No. 2 City in Quality of Life (Gallup) No. 7 Cleanest Air (CNN) No. 7 City for Business & Careers (Forbes) No. 8 Most Secure Places to Live (Sperling’s) Top 10 College Town (Relocate America)
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Prominent People with Nebraska Ties
Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher • Fred Astaire, dancer and actor • Max Baer, boxer • Marlon Brando, Academy Award-winning actor • William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Representative, Democratic Party nominee for president 1896, 1900, and 1908 • Warren Buffett, investor; Forbes Magazine’s 2008 Richest Man in the World • Richard N. Cabela, entrepreneur, founder of Cabela’s sporting store • Johnny Carson, comedian • Joba Chamberlain, Professional baseball player for the New York Yankees • Dick Cheney, 46th U.S. Vice-president • Brian Duensing, Professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins • Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor • Bob Gibson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for St. Louis Cardinals • Alex Gordon, Professional baseball player for the Kansas City Royals • Amy Heidemann, Karmin lead singer • Marg Helgenberger, actress • Peter Kiewit, contractor, investor and philanthropist • Jaime King, actress • Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner • Larry the Cable Guy, comedian • Malcolm X, civil rights leader • Nick Nolte, actor, producer • Edwin Perkins, inventor of Kool-Aid, philanthropist • Andy Roddick, tennis star, 2003 U.S. Open Champion • Gale Sayers, Football Hall of Fame running back for the Chicago Bears • Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter • Hilary Swank, 2-time Academy Award-winning actress • Gabrielle Union, actress • James Valentine, Maroon 5 guitarist • Paula Zahn, Former News anchor for CNN
Nebraska’s largest city, Omaha, is less than an hour’s drive from Lincoln and has a population of nearly 800,000. Omaha is home to TD Ameritrade Park home the NCAA College World Series (left), the world-renowned Henry Doorly Zoo (center) and the Joslyn Art Museum (far right)
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HUSKER HOME COURSES The Nebraska women’s golf team practices at two of the finest facilities in the Midwest. Wilderness Ridge (top) is a public course that opened in 2001, and ranks among the top courses in the area. In addition to a demanding championship layout, Wilderness Ridge features one of the top practice facilities in Nebraska. The most frequent home of Nebraska’s annual Chip-N Club Invitational has been Wilderness Ridge. Wilderness Ridge will play host to the 2013 Chip-N Club Invitational, Sept. 9-10. The Country Club of Lincoln served as the home course of the Chip-N Club Invite in both 2011 and 2012. In recent years, Woodland Hills and Yankee Hill Golf Club (bottom left) have also served as the home of the Chip-N Club Invite. Firethorn Golf Club (bottom right) is a Pete Dye design and is regularly ranked among the top 100 courses in the United States.
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NEBRASKA 2013-14 Women’s Golf
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2013-14 WOMEN’s GOLF Sept. 9-10 Chip-N Club Invitational Wilderness Ridge (9/8:30 a.m.) Sept. 16-17 Minnesota Invitational Minneapolis, Minn. (8:30 a.m.) Sept. 23-24 Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational Manhattan, Kan. (8:30 a.m.) Oct. 19-20 Hoosier Fall Invitational Bloomington, Ind. (7:30 a.m.) Oct. 27-29 Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown Las Vegas, Nev. (9:30 a.m.) Feb. 23-24 Westbrook Spring Invitational Peoria, Ariz. (9:30 a.m.) March 14-16 Clover Cup Mesa, Ariz. (9:30 a.m.) March 28-29 Mountain View Collegiate Tucson, Ariz. (9:30 a.m.) April 19-20 Ohio State Spring Invitational Columbus, Ohio (7:30 a.m.) April 19-20 SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational Dallas, Texas (8:30 a.m.) April 25-27 Big Ten Championships French Lick, Ind. (8 a.m.) May 8-10 NCAA Regionals Tallahassee, Fla.; Stillwater, Okla.; Cle Elum, Wash. May 21-24 NCAA Championships Tulsa, Okla. (8 a.m.)
All times central and subject to change. For updated schedule information, please visit Huskers.com.
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