LOUIE'S PRIDE
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For senior Mikayla Frei, athletics and academics made UNK ‘a special place’ Mikayla Frei was coming off one of her best performances as a Loper golfer. The University of Nebraska at Kearney senior carded a 163 over 36 holes to tie for 21st place at the Southwest Minnesota State Spring Invite. UNK finished second in the seven-team event, posting the third-lowest 36-hole score (614) in school history and tying the fifth-best 18-hole performance (304). “I was really excited for this spring because I thought I was going to have more opportunities to play, and I thought we were going to have a really good team,” Frei said. “I thought we were going to be able to do some pretty special things this
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spring, but obviously that didn’t happen.” That tournament, played March 9-10 at The Wigwam resort in Litchfield Park, Arizona, would be the first and last of the season for the Lopers. Two days later, the NCAA announced its decision to cancel all remaining winter and spring championships because of health concerns related to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. UNK head women’s golf coach Shawn Rodehorst called an emotional team meeting that Friday to discuss the situation. “Obviously, it was tough,” he said. “There were tears shed by everyone, but especially the seniors.”
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