76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians

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2 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Name Event Year (Indoor/) Hometown (High School/Previous School) Birtles, Rachel ** Pole Vault Jr. Perth, Australia (Carine Senior) Bullock, Epley *** Jumps Sr. Allen, Texas (Allen) Bussel, Breanna * Pole Vault So. Jefferson City, Mo. (Jefferson City) Butler, Rachel ** Combined Events Jr. Mechanicsville, Va. (Lee-Davis) Carrizales, Rachel *** Distance Sr./No Eligibility Morrill, Neb. (Morrill) Crofford, Lara ** Distance Jr. Newville, Pa. (Big Spring) Dinsdale, Blaire * Middle Distance So. Traer, Iowa (North Tama) Dinsdale, Brooke * Middle Distance So. Traer, Iowa (North Tama) Eades, Nikita *** Hurdles Sr. Aurora, Colo. (Littleton, Colo.) Erega, Arna ** Hurdles Jr. Rijeka, Croatia (Grammar School of Rijeka) Furlan, Jessica * Distance So. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (Dr. Martin Leboldus) Goldstein, Ari *** Distance Sr. Soldotna, Alaska (Soldotna) Grizzle, Roxi * Javelin So. DeSoto, Kan. (Tonganoxie) Grizzle, Veronica Throws Fr. DeSoto, Kan. (Tonganoxie) Hamik, Erica * Distance So. Kearney, Neb. (Catholic) Hansen, Sammy Sprints Fr. Lincoln, Neb. (Southwest) Higgins, Suzanne * Hurdles So. Grand Island, Neb. (Grand Island) Hodson, Jade * Throws So. Hastings, Neb. (Adams Central) Jackson, Annie Throws Fr. Tekamah, Neb. (Tekamah-Herman) Jiskra, Cami * Pole Vault So. Lincoln, Neb. (North Star) Jorgenson, Allison Sprints Fr. Grand Island, Neb. (Grand Island) Korshoj, Tara * Jumps So. Omaha, Neb. (Millard West) Kreikemeier, Lynsey * Jumps Jr. Bellwood, Neb. (David City Aquinas) LaCour, Karyn ** Hurdles Jr. Humble, Texas (Humble) Latsch, Amanda ** Throws Jr. Lincoln, Neb. (East) Maher, Lindsey *** Pole Vault Sr. Utica, Neb. (Centennial) Maher, Maggie Pole Vault Fr. Kearney, Neb. (Kearney) Marsh, Elizabeth * Distance Sr. Wichita, Kan. (East) Martin, Anne Combined Events Fr. Waverly, Neb. (Waverly) McGruder, Leandra *** Jumps Sr. Jefferson City, Mo. (Jefferson City) McMillan, Chantae *** Combined Events Jr. Rolla, Mo. (Rolla) Menghia, Lorena * Jumps Jr. Iasi, Romania (Athletic/Jacksonville State) Miller, Ashley * Distance Jr./So. Tipton, Iowa (Tipton) Minnick, Lisa ** Throws Sr. Cambridge, Neb. (Cambridge) Morales, Mary Throws Fr. San Diego, Calif. (Scripps Ranch) Musil, Samantha * Throws Jr. DuBois, Neb. (Pawnee City, Neb./Georgia Tech) Oddo, Jordan Pole Vault Fr. Arlington, Texas (Grace Preparatory Academy) Pancoast, Jen **** Distance No Eligibility/Sr. Cape Girardeau, Mo. (Central) Ryan, Kailey Pole Vault RFr. Franklin, N.C. (Woodward) Shupe, Breanna Throws Fr. Waterloo, Neb. (Skutt Catholic) Suluki-Drakes, Zarinah *** Jumps No Eligibility/Sr. Orlando, Fla. (Colonial) Svane, Audrey ** Jumps Jr. Tioga, Texas (Pilot Point) Ubel, Kayla * Middle Distance Jr. Overland Park, Kan. (Blue Valley West) Vierregger, Alyssa ** Sprints Jr. Springfield, Neb. (Platteview) Webers, Jen ** Distance Jr. Conifer, Colo. (Conifer) Weigandt, Anna Jumps Fr. Gretna, Neb. (Gretna) Wheatley, Megan *** Combined Events Sr./Jr. Perth, Australia (Penrhos College) White, Katie Distance RFr. Broken Bow, Neb. (Broken Bow) Wilken, Morgan Throws RFr. Crofton, Neb. (Crofton) Willer, Natalie ** Pole Vault Jr. Elkhorn, Neb. (Elkhorn) Winchester, Brandi Hurdles Fr. Kearney, Neb. (Kearney) Zimmerman, Victoria * Throws So. Arlington Heights, Ill. (John Hersey) returning letterwinners in bold * = letters won Pronunciation Guide Rachel Carrizales...(Car-ri-SAL-es) Nikita Eades...(EEDS) Arna Erega...(ARE-nah AIR-reg-a) Cami Jiskra...(E-skra) Tara Korshoj...(Tear-UH CORE-shaw) Lynsey Kreikemeier...(CRACK-meyer) Lindsey Maher...(mah-HER) Maggie Maher...(mah-HER) Lorena Menghia... (laur-aa-nah Men-GEE-uh) Samantha Musil...(Muscle) Jordan Oddo... (OH-doe) Zarinah Suluki-Drakes...(zar-REE-nah SUH-LOO-kee) Audrey Svane...(SV-ane) Kayla Ubel...(You-bell) Alyssa Vierregger...(VAR-eh-gur) Megan Wheatley...(MEE-gun) Roster Breakdown by Location United States Foreign Countries Nebraska 24 Australia 2 Missouri 4 Canada 1 Texas 4 Croatia 1 Kansas 3 Romania 1 Iowa 3 Colorado 2 Alaska 1 California 1 Florida 1 Illinois 1 North Carolina 1 Pennsylvania 1 Virginia 1 Roster Breakdown by Class Senior 11 Junior 16 Sophomore 11 Redshirt Freshman 3 Freshman 11 Note: In the case of athletes with split eligibility, the later year is recognized Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com

3 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions HJ: 6-1 1/4 (1.86) HJ: 6-1 1/4 (1.86) (2008) Spring: (2007, 2009) Fall: (2006, 2007, 2008) Epley Bullock Senior Jumps Allen, Texas (Allen) Four-Time All-American Big 12 Champion Six-Time All-Big 12 Indoor All-American 2009: High Jump, /4 (t-6th) 2008: High Jump, /4 (t-7th) 2007: High Jump, 6-0 (9th/5th American) All-American 2009: High Jump, 6-0 (t-5th) Big 12 Champion 2008: Indoor High Jump 2009: High Jump, 5-8 (t-2nd) 2008: High Jump, 6-0 1/2 (1st) 2007: High Jump, 6-0 (4th) 2009: High Jump, 6-0 1/2 (2nd) 2008: High Jump, 5-8 3/4 (2nd) 2007: High Jump, /4 (3rd) 2009 (Junior) Epley Bullock continued to grow under Gary Pepin as she cleared a personal best of 6-1 1/4 both indoors and outdoors in the high jump, and also captured her third All-America honor indoors and her first outdoors... started the year on fire, winning her first four meets of the indoor season... jumped 5-10 and /4 to win the Holiday Inn Invitational and Conference Challenge, respectively, both NCAA provisional-qualifying jumps... automatically qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships with a then-personal best of 6-0 3/4 at the adidas Classic... took the bar up even higher the following week at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a leap of 6-1 1/4, tying her with Kerry Doetker (1997) for the third-best performance at NU all-time indoors... tied for second, with teammate Audrey Svane, at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a jump of 5-8, earning Bullock All-Big 12 honors for the third straight year... cleared /4 to tie for sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships to capture All-America honors for the third straight year... marked her top finish at the indoor championships... opened the outdoor season with a tie for third at the Jim Click Shootout... went on to reel off five straight wins... topped her previous best of 6-0 with a jump of 6-1 1/4 at the Penn Relays to take first... finished second at the Big 12 Championships for the second straight year with a leap of 6-0 1/2... earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with a second-place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional... jumped 6-0 to tie for fifth at the NCAA Championships... was honored as an outdoor All-American for the first time in her career in 2009, after placing 11th in 2008 and tying for 24th in (Sophomore) Bullock continued to excel in her sophomore season, as she earned her first Big 12 championship, second NCAA All-America honor and made a trip to the U.S. Olympic Trials... won the first meet of the indoor season, the Holiday Inn Invite, with a jump of saved her best jump of the indoor season for the Big 12 Championships... set a then-personal best with a leap of 6-0 1/2 to win her first Big 12 title... entered the Big 12 meet with a top clearance of 5-8 3/4 at the Prairie Wolf Invite... entered the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., ranked No. 8 in Division I... earned her second straight indoor All-America honor by tying for seventh (5-10 3/4) at the national meet... carried her indoor momentum to the outdoor season, placing in the top five at six of her eight meets... recorded her lone victory at the John Jacobs Invitational in Norman, Okla., with a jump of 5-8 3/4... finished runner-up at both the Big 12 Championships and NCAA Midwest Regional meet... missed out on the conference outdoor title to senior teammate Kim Shubert... recorded a season-best jump of /4 at home on May 31, at the NCAA Midwest Regional... entered the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, tied for the eighth-best jump in Division I... finished 11th at the national meet, 13 spots higher than her 2007 finish... ended the 2008 season at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., among the top 26 high jumpers in the United States (Freshman) Bullock joined former Husker Heather Smith (third-1984) as NU s only freshmen women to earn All-America honors in the high jump with a ninth-place overall (5th American) finish at her first NCAA indoor meet... registered a top outdoor mark of /4 to earn the bronze medal at the Big 12 outdoor meet... received an at-large selection to the NCAA outdoor meet after tying for 11th at the NCAA Midwest Regional (5-9 1/4), but failed to repeat as an All- American... reached the regional standard during each of her eight outdoor competitions... won titles at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invite (5-10), John Jacobs Invite (5-8 3/4) and Nebraska Invite (5-10 3/4)... set her indoor season best to finish fourth in the high jump at the Big 12 indoor meet before matching the mark during the NCAA indoor competition... earned her first NCAA provisional qualification in her second meet as a Husker, as she won the event during the Big 12-Mountain West Conference Challenge by clearing /2... cleared /4 to place second at the Iowa State Classic... reached at least 5-7 in each indoor meet in 2007, including marks of at least 5-9 1/4 during her last four meets... added individual victories at the Nebraska Wesleyan (5-7) and Prairie Wolf (5-9 1/4) invites. Before Nebraska (Allen HS) Bullock ranked fifth in the nation in 2005 with a jump of 6-0 under Coach Larry Halliburton... was a three-year qualifier to the Texas Class 5A state meet in the high jump for Allen High School, while competing as a freshman at the Class 4A state meet for Westwood in Round Rock... earned runner-up honors as a sophomore at the 2004 Texas Class 5A state meet with a personal-best mark of cleared 6-0 as a junior to win the Region I-5A meet and advance to the 2005 state meet, where she finished third (5-9)... also finished sixth at state in the 100-meter hurdles (14.76) the same season... placed fifth in the high jump at the 2003 state meet as a freshman in 2004 (5-6)... was unable to qualify for the state meet in the high jump as a senior after an injury-plagued season... one of 10 athletes, and three Texans, named to the 2005 USA Today All-USA team... won the high school section of the 2004 Texas Relays with a leap of finished second as a junior with the same height... named a 2004 Verizon Junior All-American after placing seventh (5-7 1/4) in the high jump at the USATF Junior Championships... won top honors at the 2004 Golden West Invitational with a height of Parents are Ivan and Diane Bullock... born Nov. 12, major is business administration. 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4 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians 800m: 2: m: 24.90A 60h: m: 2:28.27A HJ: 5-7 (1.70) 100h: LJ: 20-8 (6.30) HJ: 5-5 1/4 (1.66) SP: /2 (13.17) LJ: 20-1 (6.12) PENT: 4, /4 (6.25)w SP: /4 (12.30) JAV: (41.60)A HEPT: 5,444A Team Catpain HERO Award Spring: Fall: (2006) Chantae McMillan Junior Combined Events Rolla, Mo. (Rolla) Two-Time All-American Six-Time All-Big 12 Team Captain Indoor All-American 2009: Long Jump, /4 (13th/8th American) Pentathlon, 4,096 (8th) 2009: Long Jump, /4 (6th) Pentathlon, 4,061 (2nd) 2008: Long Jump, /2 (6th) Pentathlon, 3,827 (3rd) 2008: Heptathlon, 5,444 (2nd) 2007: Long Jump, /4 (4th) 2009 (Sophomore/Junior) Chantae McMillan continued to thrive in the combined events in 2009, as she improved her personal best in the pentathlon three times, while also performing well in the long jump... opened the season with three straight wins in the long jump at the Conference Challenge, adidas Classic and Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... set a personal best in the long jump at the Tyson Invitational with a leap of entered the season with a pentathlon best of 3, provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a score of 3,996 points... improved the score at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a runner-up and automatic-qualifying score of 4,061 points... also placed eighth in the long jump at the conference meet... earned All-America honors in both the pentathlon and long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships, finishing eighth in the pentathlon with a personal best of 4,096 and 13th/8th American in the long jump... missed nearly the remainder of the outdoor season after suffering an injury during the heptathlon at the Jim Click Shootout... received a medical hardship for the outdoor season (Redshirt Freshman/Sophomore) Following a trip to the NCAA Championships in the long jump as a freshman, McMillan transitioned to the combined events during the summer of 2007, and the move paid off as she scored at both conference meets and made a return trip to the NCAA Championships... competed in her first pentathlon at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, placing seventh with 3,713 points... improved her score by 114 points at the Big 12 Indoor Championships to finish third with 3,827 points, also adding a sixth-place finish in the long jump (19-2 1/2)... competed in her first heptathlon at the Kansas Relays, finishing third with 5,226 points... exploded for 5,444 points at the Big 12 Championships to finish runner-up to teammate Megan Wheatley, posting the top score in the 100-meter hurdles, long jump and javelin at the conference meet... earned a bid to the NCAA Championships with her NCAA provisional-qualifying score at the conference meet... finished 22nd at the national meet with 5,261 points (Freshman) McMillan joined the Huskers for the outdoor season and was one of seven freshmen to qualify for the NCAA Championships... stood out in her first year at Nebraska by reaching the national meet after redshirting the indoor season while recovering from ankle surgery... paced the Huskers in the long jump for much of the season, including a fourth-place finish at the Big 12 outdoor meet (20-3 3/4w)... qualified for the NCAA Championships by placing fifth at the Midwest Regional (20-3w)... surpassed 19 feet during each meet in 2007 and closed the season with four straight competitions over 20 feet... recorded a wind-aided personal-best leap of /4 for her first career victory at the Nebraska Open... opened her Husker career with a runner-up finish at the Stanford Invitational ( /4). Before Nebraska (Rolla HS) McMillan had a standout prep career at Rolla High School in Missouri under Coach Don Knapp... earned High School All-America accolades by finishing third in the long jump with a leap of 19-4w at the 2005 Nike Nationals... qualified for the long jump at the Missouri Class 4 state meet all four years, winning titles as a junior in 2005 (19-5 1/2) and as a sophomore in 2004 (18-11)... edged Husker teammate Leandra McGruder for top honors both times... finished second to McGruder in the long jump as a senior in 2006 (18-9) and in her only triple jump appearance at the state meet as a junior (38-7)... also earned a silver medal in the long jump as a freshman in 2003 (18-2 1/2)... chose Nebraska over Missouri, Louisville, TCU, Indiana and Ohio State. Parents are Badger and Peggy McMillan... born May 1, major is middle grades education Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com

5 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions 800m: 2: m: 24.47A 60h: m: 2:16.81 HJ: 5-5 3/4 (1.67) 100h: 13.76A LJ: 20-3 (6.17) HJ: 5-7 3/4 (1.72) SP: /4 (13.29) LJ: /2 (6.16) PENT: 4,267 SP: /4 (13.49)A JAV: (40.04) HEPT: 5,800A Megan Wheatley Senior/Junior Combined Events Perth, Australia (Penrhos College) All-American Three-Time Big 12 Champion Team Captain Indoor All-American 2009: Pentathlon, 4,267 (4th) Big 12 Champion 2009: Heptathlon 2009: Indoor Pentathlon 2008: Heptathlon 2009: Pentathlon, 4,211 (1st) 4x400m, 3:47.26 (8th) 2008: Pentathlon, 3,993 (2nd) 2007: Pentathlon, 3,713 (4th) 2009: Heptathlon, 5,800 (1st) 2008: Heptathlon, 5,643 (1st) National 2009 World University Games 9th (Heptathlon) 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships 16th (Heptathlon) 2009 (Junior/Sophomore) Megan (pronounced MEE-gun) Wheatley earner her first All-America honor and added two more Big 12 Conference titles in competed in her first pentathlon of the indoor season at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, winning the meet with a score of 4,061 points after finishing second in placed third or higher in all five events at the Husker Invitational, including the top mark in the shot put at /2... won the pentathlon at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a score of 4,211 points, bettering her previous best of 4,122 points... finished third or better in all five events, including a top time of 8.66 in the 60-meter hurdles... also ran the anchor leg of the 4x400-meter relay team that finished eighth at the conference meet... earned the first All-America honor of her career at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a fourth-place finish, scoring a personal-best 4,267 points, the No. 2 performance all-time indoors at NU... set personal bests in the 60 hurdles (8.62), shot put (43-7 1/4) and long jump (20-3) at the national meet... competed in the heptathlon at the Jim Click Shootout, finishing third with an NCAA provisionalqualifying score of 5,360 points... competed sparingly throughout the rest of the outdoor season in various events to get ready for the postseason... successfully defended her heptathlon title at the Big 12 Championships, breaking her previous best of 5,643 points with an NCAA automatic-qualifying score of 5,800 points... score was the No. 2 performance all-time at NU outdoors and marked the fifth straight win at the conference meet in the heptathlon for the Huskers... finished tied for first or second in all seven events at the conference meet, including wins in the 100 hurdles (13.76), high jump (5-6 1/2), long jump ( /4) and shot put (44-3 1/4), as well as setting personal bests in the 200 meters (24.47), 100 hurdles, and shot put... finished ninth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships for the second straight year, even though she bettered her 2008 score of 5,596 points with 5,636 points in competed in the heptathlon for her home country of Australia during the summer at the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia... finished seventh, after starting day two in ninth place... set personal bests in the 800 meters (2:17.36) and javelin (131-4) on her way to scoring 5,696 points, her second-best career score (Sophomore/Redshirt Freshman) Wheatley continued the dominance of the Nebraska multi-event group at the Big 12 Championships with the squad s fourth straight title in the heptathlon while also making her first trip to the NCAA Championships in slowed during the indoor season by a stress fracture... competed in only four meets... posted the sixth-best pentathlon score in Division I in 2008 with 4,122 points at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... finished runnerup at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the pentathlon with 3,993 points... was unable to make the trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships because of her stress fracture and missed the first four meets of the outdoor season... made outdoor debut at the Nebraska Open by finishing 10th in the shot put and seventh in the javelin... competed in her first heptathlon in nearly two years at the Big 12 Championships in Boulder, Colo., where she won her first Big 12 title, winning four of the seven heptathlon events... posted then-personal bests in the shot put (43-5 1/4), 200 meters (24.75) and long jump (19-5 1/2) as well as a thenpersonal-best score of 5,643 points, breaking her previous best by 320 points... earned the ninth-best score in Division I in 2008 with her effort in Boulder... missed All-America honors by one spot at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, with her ninth-place finish (5,596 points)... shattered her personal best in the long jump in Des Moines with a leap of /2, which was the longest mark recorded by a Husker on the women s side in (Freshman) Wheatley finished fourth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships and earned All-Big 12 honors with an NCAA provisional-qualifying mark with a season-best score of 3,713 points in just her second pentathlon of the season... excelled in the 800-meter run, clocking a meet-best time of 2:20.03 in the event at the conference meet... competed in just one meet during the outdoor season before being sidelined by injury... received a medical hardship. Before Nebraska (Penrhos College) Wheatley competed in the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships heptathlon in Beijing, China, in August, earning 16th place with a score of 5,151 points... coached in Australia by Grant Ward... set her then-personal-best score in the heptathlon with 5,323 points, while winning the Western Australia Heptathlon in Perth, Australia, in January of ranked as Australia s top under-20 heptathlete for 2006 with the score, as well as 21st on the nation s all-time list... won the 2006 Australian Under-23 heptathlon title (5,229 points)... placed second in the long jump (19-1 1/2w) and fourth in the 100-meter hurdles (14.66) at the 2006 Under-23 Championships... claimed the 2004 Australian Under-20 heptathlon crown (4,962 points). Parents are Phil and Jen Wheatley... born March 10, major is food science and technology. Huskers.com 2010 Nebraska Track and Field 51

6 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians PV: /4 (4.34) PV: /2 (4.38) Second-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII (2008, 2009) Natalie Willer Junior Pole Vault Elkhorn, Neb. (Elkhorn) Two-Time Big 12 Champion American Junior Record Holder (14-4 1/2) Three-Time NCAA Qualifier Big 12 Champion 2009: Pole Vault 2009: Indoor Pole Vault 2009: Pole Vault, (1st) 2008: Pole Vault, /4 (2nd) 2009: Pole Vault, /4 (1st) 2008: Pole Vault, /2 (2nd) NU Records Indoor Pole Vault (14-3 1/4) Pole Vault (14-4 1/2) National American Junior Record (14-4 1/2) 2009 Pan-Am Junior Championships Gold Medalist Natalie Willer rewrote the record books in 2009, as she set eight pole vault records throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons... started the indoor season with three straight victories, including a school-record vault of /4 to start the year at the Holiday Inn Invitational, breaking Jenny Green and Jessie Graff s 2004 record of /4... improved the record the following week at the Conference Challenge with a clearance at won the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational two weeks later with a vault of /4... suffered her first loss of the year at the Tyson Invitational, where she placed second with a vault of /4... won her first Big 12 title in College Station, Texas, vaulting joined Green (2005 and 2006) and Christi Lehman (2003) as the only Huskers to win the indoor pole vault title during the Big 12 era... moved onto the NCAA Indoor Championships, but struggled to clear /2, finishing 14th... broke the Ed Weir Stadium record at her second meet of the outdoor season, the Nebraska Invitational, with a vault of /2, bettering the previous record of 14-0, set by Becky Holiday of Oregon in improved her indoor school record the following week at the John McDonnell Invitational, as weather forced the event indoors, where she vaulted /4... broke both the American Junior and Drake Relays record with a winning vault of /2... took down Brysun Stately s 2007 outdoor school record and bettered her own American Junior record at the Concordia Twilight with a clearance at /2... swept the 2009 Big 12 pole vault titles with a win at the outdoor conference meet in Lubbock, Texas, clearing /4 to join Green as the only Husker (mens or womens) in the Big 12 era to sweep the conference pole vault titles... placed third at the NCAA Midwest Regional to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships... was unable to find her groove at the national meet, as she failed to clear the opening height... continued to compete following the collegiate season... earned a trip to the Pan-Am Junior Championships as a member of Team USA with a meet-record vault of /4 at the USA Junior Championships, topping the previous record of 13-10, held by Rachel Laurent... led Team USA to a 1-2 finish at the Pan-Am meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad... cleared a meet record of /4 to break Alicia Rue s 2007 record of / Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com Willer had a breakout season under Pole Vault Coach Kris Grimes, as she finished runnerup at both conference meets, earned a berth at the NCAA Championships and set the USATF National Junior Olympic pole vault record... posted four victories during the indoor season at the Holiday Inn Invite (12-3 1/2), adidas Classic (12-0), Nebraska Last Chance (13-1 1/2) and Iowa State Last Chance (13-1)... finished runner-up at the Big 12 Indoor Championships to senior Kate Sultanova of Kansas with a vault of /4... posted backto-back runner-up finishes to kickoff the outdoor season at the Jim Click Shootout (12-7 1/2) and John Jacobs Invitational (13-1 1/2)... won the Nebraska Invitational with a vault of /2... finished runner-up to Sultanova at the Big 12 Championships with a vault of /2... set a then-outdoor-personal best at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a vault of /4 to finish fifth and automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships... tied for 15th at the national meet by reaching a height of /2... following the collegiate season, she shattered the national youth record in the pole vault by four and one-half inches at the USATF National Junior Olympics with a vault of /4... posted the No. 11 vault in the world on the under-20 list in Before Nebraska (Elkhorn HS) Willer won the 2007 Nebraska Class A and All-Class gold medals in both the pole vault (12-0) and the long jump (18-4 1/4) under Coach Linda Gdowski... vault at the state meet set the Class A state meet record... set the Nebraska Class A record (12-10) at the 2007 Nebraska District A-1 meet, the second-highest vault by a Nebraska prep behind former Husker great Jenny Green... improved career best in the postseason to /2 at the USA Junior Championships in Indianapolis, Ind., to garner the bronze medal... eighth-highest prep vaulter in the United States in won the 2007 Kansas Relays with a meet record vaulted /4 to win the young women s pole vault at the 2007 USA Youth Track and Field Championships... named the 2007 Gatorade Nebraska Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year Class A pole vault champion (11-8)... chose Nebraska over Kansas State. Parents are Jeff and Michele Willer... born Feb. 10, major is biological sciences.

7 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions PV: /2 (3.95) PV: /2 (4.00) 2009: Pole Vault, /2 (t-2nd) 2008: Pole Vault, /4 (t-8th) 2008: Pole Vault, /2 (6th) Rachel Birtles Junior Pole Vault Perth, Australia (Carine Senior) Three-Time All-Big 12 Spring: Rachel Birtles vaulted at eight meets during the indoor season, producing seven top-five finishes... opened with a second-place vault of /2 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... took second again at the adidas Classic, clearing /2... posted a season-best vault of /2 to finish 11th at the talent-filled Tyson Invitational... vaulted /2 to tie for second and earn All-Big 12 honors indoors for the second straight year at the conference championships... cleared 12-0 or higher at five of her six outdoor meets... became a regional qualifier for the second straight year with a season-best jump of /4 at the Nebraska Quad... took top honors the following week at the Ward Haylett Invitational with a clearance at /2... tied for 15th at the regional meet for the second straight year to end the season. Birtles contributed immediately to the Husker pole vault squad in her freshman year with medals at the indoor and outdoor Big 12 Championships as well as a trip to the NCAA Midwest Regional... finished third at her first collegiate meet with a vault of /4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... finished second at the Conference Challenge ( /4) and third at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a personal-best vault of /2... completed the indoor season at the Big 12 Indoor Championships by tying for eighth place... placed in the top 15 at all nine of her outdoor meets... posted a season-best vault of /2 at the Big 12 Championships to finish sixth and qualify for the NCAA Midwest Regional... tied for 15th at the regional meet... finished the 2008 campaign at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, tying for 20th with a vault of /4. Before Nebraska (Carine Senior HS) Birtles competed at the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships, finishing seventh with a vault of /4... won the Australian Schools under-17 pole vault title and was runner-up in the Australian Junior Championships in graduated from Carine Senior High School where she was honored with the All-Rounder Award at Year 12 Graduation... coached by Alex Parnov. Parents are Vicki and Paul Birtles... born May 22, major is mathematics. PV: /4 (3.51) PV: /2 (3.75) 2009: Pole Vault, /2 (t-6th) Breanna Bussel Sophomore Pole Vault Jefferson City, Mo. (Jefferson City) All-Big 12 Spring: 2009 (Redshirt Freshman) Breanna Bussel was limited to one meet during the 2009 indoor season, as she was recovering from an offseason ankle injury... vaulted in seven meets during the outdoor season... matched her previous best of /2 at the Nebraska Invitational and John McDonnell Invitational, before breaking it with a vault of /2 at the Nebraska Quad... earned the first All-Big 12 honor of her career at the Big 12 Championships where she tied for sixth with a leap of /2. Bussel redshirted the indoor and outdoor seasons in her first year at Nebraska... competed unattached at five meets during the indoor season... cleared an indoor personal best of /4 at the adidas Classic to finish sixth... finished fourth at the Cornhusker Last Chance with a vault of /4... competed at both home meets during the outdoor season... vaulted a /2 at each meet, placing second at the Nebraska Open and third at the Nebraska Invitational. Before Nebraska (Jefferson City HS) Bussel was one of the top prep pole vaulters in Missouri under Coach Dennis Licklider... finished second in the pole vault at the Missouri Class 4 state meet with a vault of 11-8 in 2005, before claiming the title with a vault of 11-9 in also ran on the 4x400 relay team that won the Class 4 crown (3:55.42) in helped her Jefferson City High School team to a second-place tie in 2004 and state titles from 2005 to also earned four letters as a member of the Jefferson City High School tennis team. Parents are Douglas and Darla Bussel... born Aug. 8, major is psychology. 800m: 2: m: h: m: 2:28.39A HJ: 5-7 (1.70) 100h: 14.31A LJ: 19-6 (5.94) HJ: 5-6 1/2 (1.69) SP: /4 (10.00) LJ: 19-0 (5.79) PENT: 3, (5.97)w TJ: /2 (12.45) SP: /4 (10.15)A JAV: (28.63) HEPT: 4,903A (5,068)Aw Rachel Butler Junior Combined Events Mechanicsville, Va. (Lee-Davis) Seven-Time All-Big 12 (2008, 2009) 2009: Pentathlon, 3,858 (4th) 4x400m, 3:47.26 (8th) 2008: Pentathlon, 3,604 (7th) 4x400m, 3:46.95 (8th) 2009: Heptathlon, 5,068 (3rd) 2008: Heptathlon, 4,905 (4th) 4x100m, (8th) NU Records 100-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay (55.18) Rachel Butler added three more All-Big 12 honors in was limited by an injury early during the indoor season and was only able to compete in the pentathlon at the Big 12 Indoor Championships placing fourth with a personal-best score of 3, set or tied three individual event personal bests at the conference meet, including the 800 meters (2:24.65), high jump (5-7) and long jump (19-6)... ran the opening leg of the 4x400-meter relay that placed eighth at the conference meet with a time of 3: competed in the heptathlon twice during the outdoor season at the Jim Click Shootout and Big 12 Championships... finished sixth at the Jim Click Shootout with 4,851 points... posted a wind-aided and NCAA provisional-qualifying score of 5,068 at the conference outdoor meet to finish third... set personal bests in both the 800 meters (2:28.39) and 100-meter hurdles (14.31) at the conference meet. Butler competed in the pentathlon twice during the indoor season... recorded a then-personalbest score of 3,751 points at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational to finish fifth... finished seventh at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a score of 3,603 points... placed fourth at the Jim Click Shootout and Big 12 Championships in the heptathlon... teamed with Arna Erega, Nikita Eades and Karyn LaCour to break the 100-meter shuttle hurdle relay school record at the Drake Relays with a time of Before Nebraska (Lee-Davis HS) Butler competed in at least 19 different events in the course of her high school career under Coach Neil Mathews... scored 21 times at the Virginia Group AAA state indoor (10 times) and outdoor (11 times) championships, including six events at the 2007 outdoor state meet... won the triple jump at the 2007 outdoor state meet, while taking second in the 300 hurdles, third in the long jump, fourth in the high jump and 100 hurdles, and sixth in the 200 for a total of 37 points and a third-place finish in the team scoring... won the triple jump at the 2007 indoor and 2006 outdoor state meets... was the 2007 Nike Nationals runner-up in the triple jump and was fifth at the Nike Indoor Nationals... placed fifth at the 2006 National Scholastic Indoor pentathlon... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over East Carolina, Virginia Tech and Clemson. 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8 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Parents are Kurt and Linda Butler... born Dec. 21, major is textiles, clothing and design. Rachel Carrizales Senior/No Eligibility Distance Morrill, Neb. (Morrill) Two-Time NCAA Qualifier Three-Time All-Big 12 Mile: 4: ,500m: 4: ,000m: 9: ,000SC: 10: ,000m: 16: : 3,000m SC, 10:30.09 (3rd) 2008: 3,000m SC, 11:17.51 (8th) 2007: 3,000m SC, 10:36.50 (4th) NU Records 4x1,600m Relay (19:41.97) Second-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII (2007, 2008, 2009) First-Team Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar (2008) (2007, 2008, 2009) Spring: (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) 2009 (Junior/Senior) Following All-Big 12 and All-Midwest Region honors during the 2008 cross country season, Rachel Carrizales (pronounced Car-ri-SAL-es) opened the 2009 indoor season by breaking her previous best of 5:05.96 in the mile with a runner-up time of 4:58.98 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... dropped the time again at the Nebraska Tune-Up, running 4: ran personal-best times in the 3,000 meters (9:43.47) and 5,000 meters (16:59.64) at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, to finish 10th and ninth, respectively... started the outdoor season by shattering her previous best of 10:17.26 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:09.66 at the Stanford Invitational... took third at the Big 12 Championships in the steeplechase, her top finish at the meet and third straight All-Big 12 honor... earned an atlarge bid to the NCAA Championships, but was unable to finish the race due to illness (Sophomore/Junior) Carrizales scored at the Big 12 Championships and reached the NCAA Midwest Regional for the second straight year... competed in six indoor meets in 2008, after redshirting in posted a then-personal-best mile time at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (5:05.96)... started the outdoor season with a victory in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Jim Click Shootout (10:48.62)... knocked nearly 20 seconds off her time two weeks later at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays to finish 14th with a time of 10: finished eighth at the Big 12 Championships (11:17.51) and ninth at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a seasonbest time of 10: ran the anchor leg of the 4x1,600-meter relay at the Drake Relays that set the second-fastest time in school history at 19: (Sophomore) Carrizales made her first appearance at the NCAA Championships during the outdoor season after experiencing a breakout sophomore season in the 3,000-meter steeplechase... notched a then-personal-best time of 10:17.26 at the outdoor championships... posted career-best times in the event each time out in 2007, while lowering her mark nearly 30 seconds by the end of the season... earned a spot on Nebraska s NCAA roster with a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional in a then-personal-best 10:25.22, which was 11 seconds faster than her previous best, moving her past former two-time NCAA mile champion Anne Shadle into second place on the school s all-time event chart... placed a surprising fourth at the Big 12 outdoor meet after entering the meet as the conference s ninth seed... claimed her first regional qualification while finishing 11th at the Drake Relays (10:49.81)... redshirted during the indoor season with anemia... competed unattached in her only indoor meet at the Prairie Wolf Invitational, running then-personal bests in the mile (5:17.27) and 3,000 meters (10:29.34) (Freshman) Carrizales focused on the mile and 3,000 meters during the indoor season, improving her time through each of the first four weeks... ran times of 10:50.31 in the 3,000 and 5:19.98 in the mile at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and adidas Classic, respectively... ran the 5,000 meters twice during the outdoor season, running 20:02.3 at the Nebraska Invite. Before Nebraska (Morrill HS) Carrizales joined NU s distance corps following an outstanding prep career at Morrill High School under coaches Scott Axt, Scott Stoltenburg and Torrey Bugher... collected 11 medals at the Nebraska Class C state meet... earned gold in the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs as a senior in 2005, while anchoring the Lions fourth-place 4x800-meter relay... claimed wins in the 800 and 1,600 as a sophomore in 2003, while finishing runner-up in both events as a junior... helped boost Morrill to the 2003 team title... won the 2004 Class D individual cross country title after finishing second in 2002 and placed 10th at the state cross country meet as a freshman... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Kansas State. Parents are Juan and Karen Carrizales... brother, Aaron, lettered for the Huskers in track and field from 1998 to born Nov. 29, major is elementary education. Mile: 4: ,000m: 16: ,000m: 9: ,000m: 33: ,000m: 16:28.84 (16:28.08o) (2008, 2009) Lara Crofford Junior Distance Newville, Pa. (Big Spring) Two-Time NCAA Qualifier Eight-Time All-Big : 3,000m, 9:33.57 (6th) 5,000m, 16:28.84 (2nd) 2008: 3,000m, 9:43.19 (8th) 5,000m, 16:45.23 (3rd) 2009: 5,000m, 16:57.51 (6th) 10,000m, 36:48.62 (5th) 2008: 5,000m, 17:20.08 (3rd) 10,000m, 36:16.18 (2nd) NU Records 4x1,600m Relay (19:41.97) Following a stellar freshman season, Lara Crofford opened her sophomore campaign with a victory in the 3,000 meters at the adidas Classic... broke her previous best of 4:55.84 in the mile one week later at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a time of 4: earned two All-Big 12 honors and set two personal bests at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, finishing sixth in the 3,000 meters (16:41.31) and second in the 5,000 meters (16:28.84)... started the outdoor season by provisionally qualifying in the 10,000 meters for the NCAA Championships with a time of 34:07.55 at the Stanford Invitational... broke her previous best of 4:43.99 in the 1,500 meters two weeks later at the Nebraska Invitational, running 4: improved her NCAA standing in the 10K at the Payton Jordan Invitational with a time of 34: earned All-Big 12 honors in both the 5K and 10K for the second straight year at the Big 12 Championships with sixth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively... competed at the NCAA Championships for the second straight year in the 10K... ran a time of 34:48.31 to finish 13th. Crofford got her Husker career off to a fast start during the 2007 cross country season, earning All-Big 12 and All-Midwest Region honors, while capturing a spot at the NCAA Championships... carried success to the track and field season with four medals at the Big 12 Championships... finished first at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a time of 16: finished eighth in the 3,000 meters (9:43.19) and third in the 5,000 meters (16:45.23) at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... opened the outdoor season at the Stanford Invitational with the No. 2 all-time 10,000-meter time in NU history at 33: finished third at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16: finished third in the 5,000 meters (17:20.08) and second in the 10,000 meters (36:16.18) at the Big 12 Championships... was Nebraska s highest scorer at the meet with 14 points... qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 5,000 with a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional (17:01.28) and provisionally qualified in the 10,000 meters with her time at the Stanford Invitational... only ran the 10,000 meters at the national meet. Before Nebraska (Big Spring HS) Crofford ended her high school running career by winning the 2007 Pennsylvania Class AAA 3,200-meter title (10:30.49) under Coach Robert Jumper... captured runner-up honors at the 2007 Nike Nationals in the 5,000-meter run (16:43.46) and finished sixth in the 2-mile (10:28.67) to earn high school All-America status... the 5,000-meter time was the third-fastest time by an American prep in took back-to-back runner-up finishes at the 2005 and 2006 Pennsylvania Class AAA state cross country meets... finished 14th at the 2006 Northeast Footlocker Cross Country Championships... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Syracuse, Penn State, Richmond and Villanova. Parents are Cliff and Irene Crofford... born May 29, 1989 major is nutrition science and dietetics Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com

9 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions 600y: 1: m: 2: m: 2: ,500m: 4:37.75 Spring: Blaire Dinsdale Sophomore Middle Distance Traer, Iowa (North Tama) Three-Time All-Big : 800m, 2:10.40 (4th) 4x400m, 3:47.26 (8th) 2009: 800m, 2:10.94 (6th) 2009 (Freshman) Blaire Dinsdale opened her Husker career at the Holiday Inn Invitational, finishing first in the 600 yards and second in the 800 meters... earned two All-Big 12 honors at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, as she finished fourth in the 800 meters (2:10.40) and ran the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay that placed eighth... ran the 800 meters at seven meets during the outdoor season... earned All-Big 12 honors at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 2: missed an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships by one spot at the Midwest Regional... finished sixth with a season best of 2: Before Nebraska (North Tama HS) Dinsdale came to Nebraska as a nine-time individual Iowa Class 1A state champion under Coach Kent Hanser... helped the Redhawks to team titles in 2006, 2007 and 2008, including the most team points in Class 1A state history in won the 400 hurdles (1:02.82) as a sophomore... earned state championships in the 400 (56.39), 800 (2:11.65) and 400 hurdles (1:02.86) as well as being a member of the champion DMR (4:05.27) team as a junior... won the 800 (2:14.55), 1,500 (4:37.75) and 400 hurdles (1:03.29) as a senior... set class 1A state meet records in the 400 and DMR in 2007 as well as the 1,500 meters in was a fourtime participant in the state cross country meet... won the individual title as a senior in 2007 and broke the Class 1A state meet record... totaled three Drake Relays titles with one in the 400 hurdles and two in the 4x800-meter relay... placed fifth in the 800-meter run at the 2006 USA Junior Championships and finished runner-up in the 800 at both the AAU and USATF Nationals... set the Iowa all-time best in the 800 meters (sister Brooke ranks second)... competed in the 800 meters at the 2007 World Youth Championships in the Czech Republic... finished sixth at the Nike Games... member of the National Honor Society... honored as class salutatorian... chose Nebraska over Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Northern Iowa and Iowa State. Parents are Mark and Shelby Dinsdale... born July 24, twin sister Brooke is also on the Nebraska track and field team... major is business administration. 600y: 1: m: 2: m: 2: ,500m: 4: :15.83o 1,000m: 2:59.66 Brooke Dinsdale Sophomore Middle Distance Traer, Iowa (North Tama) Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Brooke Dinsdale opened her collegiate career with a third-place time of 2:19.76 in the 800 meters at the Holiday Inn Invitational... ran an oversized-personal best of 2:15.83 at the ISU Classic... posted top-10 finishes in the 800 meters at five of her seven outdoor meets... ran a season-best time of 2:13.30 at the John McDonnell Invitational... competed at her first Big 12 Championships in Lubbock, Texas, finishing 14th. Before Nebraska (North Tama HS) Dinsdale came to Nebraska as a 14-time Iowa state champion at North Tama High School in Traer, Iowa... competed at the state meet all four years in high school... helped the team to back-to-back-to-back team championships in 2006, 2007 and team scored the most points in state meet history... individually won the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters as a sophomore... returned as a junior to win the 1,500 and 3,000 meters... helped the distance-medley relay team win titles in 2006, 2007 and set the Iowa class 1A state meet record in the 800 meters (2:09.60), 3,000 meters (10:06.10) and DMR (4:05.37)... two-time Iowa Class 1A state cross country champion... won individual titles in 2005 and propelled team to a championship in was the 2006 AAU Junior Olympic intermediate girls 800-meter and 1,500-meter champion and was a member of the winning 4x800-meter relay... member of the 4x800-meter relay team that broke the AAU and USATF national records... time in the 800 meters at the 2006 AAU meet broke the national record and earned her the Joel Ferrell Award for best athlete... placed seventh at the 2006 USA Junior Championships in the 800-meter run... named the Iowa Gatorade Female Track and Field Athlete of the Year in member of the National Honor Society and was the class valedictorian... chose Nebraska over Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. Parents are Mark and Shelby Dinsdale... born July 24, twin sister Blaire is also on the Nebraska track and field team... major is marketing. Nikita Eades Senior Hurdles Aurora, Colo. (Littleton) Eight-Time All-Big 12 60m: h: 13.52A (13.45w) 200m: (25.85o) 400h: 1: m: h: Academic Momentum Award 2009: 4x400m, 3:47.26 (8th) DMR, 11:38.89 (7th) 2008: 4x400m, 3:46.95 (8th) 2007: 60h, 8.56 (7th) 2008: 100h, (5th) 4x100m, (8th) 2007: 100h, (8th) 4x100m, (7th) NU Records 100-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay (55.18) 2009 (Junior) Nikita Eades (pronounced EEDS) competed in the 60-meter hurdles at six meets during the indoor season... ran a season-best time of 8.53 during the preliminaries at the adidas Classic... took first at the Nebraska Tune-Up (8.59)... missed All-Big 12 honors by one spot with a ninth-place finish at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, but did earn honors as a member of the eighth-place 4x400-meter relay and seventh-place distance-medley relay... started the outdoor season with a fourth-place time of in the 100-meter hurdles at the Jim Click Shootout... ran a season-best time of at the Drake Relays to place fifth... placed in the top three in all three of her 400-meter hurdle races, including a personal-best time of 1:01.18 to win the Nebraska Quad... ended the year with a third straight appearance at the Midwest Regional in the 100-meter hurdles (Sophomore) Eades started her sophomore season with a third-place finish at the Holiday Inn Invite with a time of 8.69 in the 60-meter hurdles... recorded a third-place finish at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a time of posted her top time on the season (8.52) in the preliminaries of the Big 12 Indoor Championships... started the outdoor season by sweeping the 100- and 400-meter hurdles at the Jim Click Shootout... finished sixth at the Drake Relays with a personal-best wind-aided time of in the 100-meter hurdles and was a member of the 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay team that finished runner-up with a school-record time of recorded a personal-best time of at the Big 12 Championships in the 100-hurdle preliminaries, placed fifth in the finals... teamed with Karyn LaCour, Chi Kalu and Rachel Butler to finish eighth in the 4x100-meter relay at the outdoor conference meet... ended her season at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a ninth-place finish in the 100 hurdles (13.90) (Freshman) Eades burst onto the collegiate track and field scene in 2007, quickly becoming one of Nebraska s top hurdlers... concentrated on the 60-meter hurdles during the indoor season, earning four first-place finishes and a top time of 8.46 at the Husker Invite... earned a seventhplace finish in the event at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 8.56 in the finals... focused on the 100- and 400-meter hurdles during the outdoor season, notching a top time of 13.6 (manual time) in the 100 hurdles to place first at the Nebraska Open... ran 100-meter hurdles season best of at the John Jacobs Invitational and again at the NCAA Midwest Regional prelims... was not able to run in the Big meter hurdles final due to injury... marked a season best of 1:03.83 in the 400-meter hurdles. 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10 56 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Before Nebraska (Littleton HS) Eades competed at the 2006 USATF Junior Championships, earning eighth place in the 400-meter hurdles (1:02.08)... ran her personal-best prep time of in the 100-meter hurdles as a senior at Littleton High School at the 2006 Liberty Bell Invitational... finished runner-up in the event at the 2006 Colorado Class 5A state meet in 14.26, despite dealing with a leg injury... swept the 100- (14.02) and 300-meter (43.34) hurdle titles at the 2006 Kansas Relays while also running on the winning 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay that set the meet record... placed in three events at the state meet as a junior in 2005 for Smoky Hill High School, including a third-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles (43.27) a fifth-place standing in the 100 hurdles (15.26) and a fourthplace effort in the 4x400-meter relay... competed for Eaglecrest High School as a freshman and sophomore, placing third at the state meet in the 100-meter hurdles in 2004 (14.49), as well as third in the 300-meter hurdles (45.31) and fourth in the 100 hurdles (15.20) in earned sixth place in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2006 National Scholastic Indoor Championships... ran her personal-best time in the 300 hurdles to finish runner-up at the 2006 Great Southwest Classic, while clocking 13.86w in the 100-meter hurdles... was coached at Littleton by Brian Kula. Mother is Dione Williams... born July 25, major is psychology. Arna Erega Junior Hurdles Rijeka, Croatia (Grammar School of Rijeka) Two-Time All-Big 12 60h: h: LJ: 19-4 (5.89) LJ: /2 (5.85) (2008, 2009) Arna Erega (pronounced ARE-nah AIR-reg-a) started her sophomore season with a secondplace finish in the 60-meter hurdles at the Holiday Inn Invitational... provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships one week later with a season-best and first-place time of 8.40 at the Conference Challenge... earned another win at the adidas Classic (8.44)... finished fourth in the preliminaries at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, and then improved one spot in the finals to take third with a time of opened the outdoor campaign with a season best of in the 100-meter hurdles at the Jim Click Shootout to place second... won back-to-back meets at the Nebraska Quad and Concordia Twilight... ended the season with a 13th-place showing at the Big 12 Championships and a 16th-place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional. Erega was a key addition to the Husker hurdle squad in her first year at Nebraska, earning a medal at her first Big 12 Indoor Championships... competed at seven meets during the indoor season in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing first or second at five meets... recorded a seasonbest time at the adidas Classic (8.42)... finished seventh at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a time of ran the 100-meter hurdles six times during the outdoor season... finished second at the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, Ariz., with a time of ran the opening leg on the 100-meter shuttle hurdle relay team at the Drake Relays that set the school record with a time of posted a season-best time of in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Championships...competed in her home country of Croatia at the senior national championships during the summer of won the long jump with a leap of 19-2 and finished runner-up in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of Before Nebraska (Grammar School of Rijeka) Erega won the Croatian Junior National title in the 100-meter hurdles from 2005 to prior to that, won the 100 hurdles title at the Croatian Youth Championships... finished fifth in the 100 hurdles at the 2007 European Championships (13.65)... reached the semifinals of the women s 100-meter hurdles at the 2006 World Junior Championships held in Beijing, China... owns the Croatia national junior record in the 100 hurdles (13.56)... also owns the Croatian national youth record (13.52) in the 30-inch hurdles... set the Croatian national junior record (8.30) at the 2007 Croatian Under-20 indoor championships in the prelims and won the 60-meter hurdle title in owns the world-best result for 14-year-old females in the 100-meter hurdles (13.68). Prep coach was her father, Nenad Erega... parents are Nenad and Lica Silic-Erega... born July 24, majors are psychology and sociology Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com 2009: 60h, 8.47 (3rd) 2008: 60h, 8.55 (7th) NU Records 100-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay (55.18) National 2009 World University Games 100-Meter Hurdles 800m: 2: m: 2: ,000m: 2: ,500m: 4:32.93 Mile: 4: ,000SC: 10:16.32 Spring: Jessica Furlan Sophomore Distance Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (Dr. Martin Leboldus) Two-Time All-Big : DMR, 11:38.89 (7th) 2009: 3,000SC, 10:56.23 (7th) National 2009 Pan-Am Junior Championships Bronze Medalist (3,000SC) 2008 IAAF Wold Junior Championships 9th (3,000SC) 2009 (Freshman) Jessica Furlan started her collegiate career at the Holiday Inn Invitational, running a thirdplace time of 3:00.50 in the 1,000 meters... improved the time three weeks later at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a runner-up time of 2: ran a time of 2:15.76 in the 800 at the Nebraska Tune-Up and cleared 4:47.95 in the mile at the Tyson Invitational... excelled in the 3,000-meter steeplechase during the outdoor season, running below the regional-qualifying standard of 10:50.25 at all five of her meets... won the Jim Click Shootout with a time of 10: ran a season best of 10:34.68 at the Payton Jordan Invitational... was one of four Huskers to earn All-Big 12 honors in the steeplechase at the Big 12 Championships, as she placed seventh... placed 14th at the NCAA Midwest Regional... competed for Canada at the Pan-Am Junior Championships in Port of Spain, Trinidad... won the bronze in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Before Nebraska (Dr. Martin Leboldus HS) Furlan joined the Husker program as a decorated distance runner from Dr. Martin Leboldus High School in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada... won the junior division of the Saskatchewan Provincial Cross Country Championships as a sophomore... ran in the senior division as a junior and senior, placing second and third, respectively... was a four-time Saskatchewan Provincial champion in track and field... competed in the midget division in 2005, winning the 800 meters (2:19.58), placing second in the 1,500 meters and third in the 3,000 meters... returned in 2006 to compete in the junior division, sweeping the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters... competed in the senior division in 2007, finishing runner-up in the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters... competed nationally at the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships, IAAF World Youth Track and Field Championships, IAAF World Junior Cross Country Championships, Canadian Junior Cross Country Championships and IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships... was the Canadian Junior 3,000-meter steeplechase champion in 2006 (10:43.27) and the 2008 Canadian Junior 2,000-meter steeplechase champion (6:39.97)... finished ninth in 2008 at the IAAF World Junior Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:16.32 in Bydegeszcz, Poland... named Dr. Martin Leboldus High School Track Athlete-of-the-Year (2005, 2006, 2008), Cross Country Athlete-of-the-Year (2005 to 2008) and Athlete-of-the-Year (2008). Parents are Mark Furlan and Kerry Avery... born on March 15, has not declared a major.

11 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions Ari Goldstein Senior Distance Soldotna, Alaska (Soldotna) Roxi Grizzle Sophomore Javelin DeSoto, Kan. (Tonganoxie) All-Big 12 Mile: 4: ,000m: 10: ,000m: 9: ,000m: 17: ,000m: 17: ,000m: 36:21.53 (17:04.49o) (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) HERO Award (2008) Spring: (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) 2009 (Junior) Ari Goldstein got a late start to her junior year after being slowed by mononucleosis during the 2008 cross country season... ran the 5,000 meters twice during the indoor season, recording a season-best time of 17:34.88 at the Tyson Invitational... opened the outdoor season on a high note at the Stanford Invitational, as she shattered her previous best of 38:03.37 in the 10,000 meters with a time of 36:21.53 at her only meet of the season... missed the rest of the season with a torn peritoneal tendon in her foot (Sophomore) Goldstein entered the track and field season after another successful cross country campaign that saw her earn her second straight All-Big 12 honor... marked the first time any Nebraska cross country athlete had earned two All-Big 12 honors... set a personal best in the mile at the adidas Classic with a time of 4: set personal bests in the 3,000 meters (9:57.07) and 5,000 meters (17:12.28) at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... set three more personal bests during the outdoor season... finished third at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 3,000 meters with a personal-best time of 17: notched a personal best in the 1,500-meters two days later at the Long Beach Invitational (4:39.43)... finished 13th at the Big 12 Championship in the 10,000 meters with a then-personal best of 38:03.37A and ninth in the 5,000 meters with a time of 17:59.84A (Redshirt Freshman/Sophomore) Goldstein competed in the mile, 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters, improving her time in all three events in every race on the season... finished the year with a season best of 5:11.05 in the mile for fifth place at the Prairie Wolf Invite... added a season best of 10:03.52 in the 3,000 meters at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... at the Big 12 Championships, ran 10:03.42 in the 3,000 meters on the 300-meter oversized oval in Ames, Iowa... earned her only title of the season with a first-place finish in the 5,000 meters (17:31.22) at the Conference Challenge... went on to better that time by more than 26 seconds for a personal best of 17:04.49 (oversized track) at the Iowa State Classic for ninth place... redshirted during the outdoor season (Freshman) Goldstein was granted a medical hardship for indoors after suffering from anemia... set thenpersonal-best marks each competition during the outdoor season... finished 12th in the 10,000 meters at her first Big 12 Championships in a season-best 38: earned runner-up honors in the 5,000 at the Nebraska Invitational (17:57.6)... placed fourth in the 1,500 at the Ward Haylett Invite (4:45.38) and the 3,000 at the Kansas Relays (10:07.61)... competed only once indoors, running the 1,200-meter leg of NU s distance medley relay at the Holiday Inn Invitational. Before Nebraska (Soldotna HS) Goldstein posted an accomplished high school career at Soldotna High School in Soldotna, Alaska... was a six-time state champion and 12-time scorer during her career at the Alaska Class 4A state meet... captured the 1,600-meter (5:04.12) and 3,200-meter (10:59.49) titles as a senior in won four gold medals in 2004 by sweeping the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter events, while also running the second leg of the winning 4x400-meter relay... named the 2004 Gatorade Alaska Track and Field Athlete of the Year following her junior season... set personal bests in the mile (5:01.60) and two mile (10:59.53) at the 2004 adidas Classic in Raleigh, N.C... claimed Class 4A cross country titles as a junior and senior... member of the National Honor Society... coached by former Husker assistant Mark Devenney. Parents are Stu and Candy Goldstein... born June 8, major is biochemistry. JAV: (51.89) 2009 (Freshman) Roxi Grizzle competed in the javelin at seven meets for the Huskers in her first season... opened with a 12th-place showing at the Stanford Invitational... took first at the John McDonnell Invitational with a toss of qualified for the NCAA Midwest Regional with a throw of at the Ward Haylett Invitational... earned All-Big 12 honors at the conference outdoor meet, finishing sixth with a season-best throw of placed 18th at the regional meet to conclude the year. Before Nebraska (Tonganoxie HS) Grizzle joined Nebraska as a highly recruited javelin thrower out of Tonganoxie High School in DeSoto, Kan... earned Gatorade/Rise Magazine Kansas Girls Track and Field Athlete-of-Year honors in 2007 and won the 2007 Kansas Class 4A title with the longest throw in the state (160-2)... placed third at the U.S. Junior Championships with a toss of was the only prep girl in the country with three throws in the national top 20 in returned in 2008 to post the top prep mark in the United States at while also setting the Kansas Class 4A and All-Class state meet records with a throw of finished second at the 2008 U.S. Junior Championships with a toss of 170-3, the fifth-longest throw in U.S. prep history and the second-longest throw in Kansas history... earned 12 letters in high school... totaled one letter each in basketball and soccer, three each in softball and volleyball and four in track and field... coached in high school by David St. Cyr... chose Nebraska over Kansas. Parents are James and Beth Grizzle... born Feb. 18, sister, Veronica, is also a member of the NU track and field team... has not declared a major. 1,000m: 2: m: Mile: 5: m: 2: ,500m: 4: : Javelin, (6th) Erica Hamik Sophomore Distance Kearney, Neb. (Catholic) Two-Time All-Big : 1,000m, 2:59.09 (8th) 2009: 800m, 2:15.17 (8th) Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Erica Hamik started her Husker career on a high note by winning her first race with a time of 2:59.93 in the 1,000 meters at the Holiday Inn Invitational... ran 2:53.88 to earn another win at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... finished eighth in the preliminaries with a time of 2:52.30 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships and then eighth in the finals (2:59.09) to secure All-Big 12 honors... focused on the 800 meters during the outdoor season, running the event at six meets... posted a personal best of 2:09.63 at the Nebraska Quad to finish first and regionally qualify... placed sixth in the preliminaries and then eighth in the finals at the Big 12 Championships to earn her second All-Big 12 honor... ended the season with a 16th-place showing at the NCAA Midwest Regional. Before Nebraska (Kearney Catholic HS) Hamik joined the Nebraska track and field team as a seven-time Nebraska Class C track and field champion... won the 1,600-meter run (5:20.25), 4x400 relay (4:06.33) and 4x800 relay (9:49.28) as a sophomore... returned in 2007 to defend her title in the 1,600 meters... placed second in both the 400 and 800 meters and finished third in the 3,200-meter run... capped prep career in 2008 with three more state titles, winning the 400 (57.71), 800 (2:15.97) and Huskers.com 2010 Nebraska Track and Field 57

12 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians 1,600 (5:20.39) meters... made trips to the state cross country and track and field meets all four years under Coach Fred Carnahan at Kearney Catholic High School... finished second in 2005 at the state cross country meet to propel her team to a fourth-place finish... battled bronchitis and pneumonia as a senior, but finished second with a time of 15: earned four letters in both track and field and cross country and two in basketball... was a member of the Stars state tournament basketball teams during sophomore and senior seasons... member of the National Honor Society... named class salutatorian. Parents are Dan and Janine Walker... born March 25, major is nutrition science and dietetics. 400m: 1: m: 2: y: 1: h: 1:03.64 SP: /4 (14.14) SP: /2 (14.16) WT: /4 (16.54) HT: (52.25)A 2009: Hammer Throw, (6th) 58 Suzanne Higgins Sophomore Hurdles Grand Island (Grand Island) Jade Hodson Sophomore Throws Hastings, Neb. (Adams Central) All-Big (Redshirt Freshman) Following a redshirt year in 2008, Jade Hodson competed as a Husker for the first time in the shot put and weight throw at the Holiday Inn Invitational, finishing sixth and fourth, respectively... cleared 45 feet or more at three meets in the shot put, including a personal best of /4 at the Tyson Invitational... set a personal best in the weight throw to end the indoor season with a toss of /4 at the Nebraska Tune-Up... competed in both the shot put and hammer throw at eight of her nine outdoor meets... set a shot put personal best of /2 at the Ward Haylett Invitational to take fourth... cleared 170 feet in the hammer 2010 Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Suzanne Higgins posted a runner-up finish in her first collegiate race at the Holiday Inn Invitational, running a time of 1:26.80 in the 600 yards... improved the time later in the year with a third-place time of 1:25.09 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... focused on the 400-meter hurdles during the outdoor season... opened with a 1:04.94 at the Jim Click Shootout... ran a personal best of 1:03.64 at the Nebraska Quad to place third. Before Nebraska (Grand Island HS) Higgins won 11 Nebraska Class A state medals and one team championship at Grand Island High School under Coach Jeff Stern... competed at the Nebraska State Track and Field Championships all four years in high school... was a member of the Islanders state championship team in 2007, and runner-up teams in 2006 and earned first medal in 2005 as a member of the fifth-place 4x400-meter relay team... finished fifth in the 400 meters and was a member of the fourth-place 4x400-meter relay team in returned in 2007 to place fourth in the 400 meters (57.87) and third in the 300 hurdles, while also helping the 4x100-meter relay to a third-place finish and the 4x400-meter relay squad to a runner-up showing... capped her career at the 2008 state meet with third-place finishes in the 400 and 300 hurdles, a fifth-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay and third-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay... was also a member of two state runner-up volleyball teams... elected vice-president of the National Honor Society. Parents are John and Dr. Karen Higgins... born Sept. 28, major is biological systems engineering. throw for the first time in her career at the Big 12 Championships with a toss of to finish sixth and earn her first All-Big 12 honor. Hodson redshirted her first year at Nebraska to learn how to throw the weight and hammer... competed unattached at six meets during the indoor season in the weight throw... recorded a then-personal-best mark of /2 at the Prairie Wolf Invite to finish seventh... competed once in the shot put indoors at the Cornhusker Last Chance, finishing fourth at /4... competed unattached in the shot put at both home meets during the outdoor season. Before Nebraska (Adams Central HS) Hodson was the Nebraska Class B shot put champion from her sophomore through senior seasons under coaches Kevan Extrum and Sam Colvin... threw /4 in 2005, in 2006 and /4 as a senior at the 2007 state meet... also competed as a freshman and was fifth in the shot (39-5 3/4). Parents are Jeff and Lori Hodson... born Sept. 3, major is speech-language pathology and audiology. PV: /2 (3.75) PV: 12-7 (3.85) 2009: Pole Vault, /2 (t-6th) 2009: Pole Vault, /2 (3rd) Cami Jiskra Sophomore Pole Vault Lincoln, Neb. (North Star) Two-Time All-Big (Redshirt Freshman) Cami Jiskra (pronounced E-skra) made a big impact in her first season as a Husker, capturing All-Big 12 honors in the pole vault both indoors and outdoors... broke her previous best of /4 at the second meet of the indoor season with a first-place vault of 12-0 at the NWU Invitational... took the bar up higher at the Tyson Invitational with a mark of /2... matched the height the following week at the Nebraska Tune-Up... cleared /2 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships to tie for sixth and earn All-Big 12 honors... opened the outdoor season with a then-personal best of /2, bettering her previous best of /2... cleared 12 feet or more at two more meets before breaking out with a personal best of /2 at the Big 12 Championships to finish third and qualify for the NCAA Midwest Regional... ended the season with a jump of 12-0 at the regional meet, tying for 15th. Jiskra redshirted during the indoor and outdoor seasons in her first year at Nebraska... competed unattached in the pole vault at five meets during the indoor season... set personal bests at her first four meets... vaulted her then-personal best of /4 at the Prairie Wolf Invite to finish fourth... shattered her outdoor personal best by more than three inches at the Nebraska Invitational with a vault of /2 to tie for first with teammate Lindsey Maher. Before Nebraska (Lincoln North Star HS) Jiskra began vaulting at a late age after spending 10 years in competitive gymnastics... produced a runner-up finish to Husker teammate Natalie Willer at the 2007 Nebraska Class A state meet with a vault of 11-8 under Coach Chris Johnson... was third in the 2007 Kansas Relays (11-0)... vaulted 10-9 to win the 2007 LPS Indoor Classic. Parents are Mike and Deb Jiskra... born Feb. 22, majors are criminology and criminal justice.

13 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions LJ: /2 (5.83) LJ: /2 (5.88) TJ: /2 (12.60) TJ: /2 (12.66) 41-8 (12.70)w 2009: Triple Jump, /2 (7th) Tara Korshoj Sophomore Jumps Omaha, Neb. (Millard West) All-Big 12 Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Tara Korshoj (pronounced Tear-UH CORE-shaw) cleared 41 feet in the triple jump at two of her five indoor meets... opened with a leap of 39-5 at the Holiday Inn Invitational to finish third... took first at the Tyson Invitational at saved her best jumping for the Big 12 Indoor Championships where she placed ninth in the triple jump (41-4 1/4) and 11th in the long jump (19-1 1/2)... opened the outdoor season by breaking her previous best of /4 in the triple jump with a third-place jump of /2 at the Jim Click Shootout... earned another third-place finish at the John McDonnell Invitational with a regional-qualifying leap of /4... jumped /2 at the Nebraska Quad and Big 12 Championships, earning All-Big 12 honors with a seventh-place finish at the conference meet... finished 14th at the NCAA Midwest Regional (41-6)... went on to compete at the USA Junior Championships in Eugene, Ore... finished fourth with a wind-aided jump of Before Nebraska (Millard West HS) Korshoj produced a stellar high school career for Coach Seth Turman at Millard West High School, competing at her first Class A state meet as a freshman... placed second in the 400-meter dash and third in the long jump... returned as a sophomore to take the All- Class medal in the long jump (18-8 3/4) and triple jump ( /4) as well as winning the 400-meter dash (56.40), with the triple jump mark setting the Class A state record and meet record... finished third in the long jump at the state meet in 2007, despite being hampered by a stress fracture... returned in 2008 to win the triple jump... was a three-time letterwinner for the Millard West volleyball team... excelled in the classroom with a 4.0 GPA. Parents are former Nebraska track and field athletes Erik and Tami (Essington) Korshoj... father was a four-time letterwinner in the throws from 1978 to 1981 and mother earned three All-America honors and six Big Eight Championships while lettering from 1979 to 1982 as a middle distance runner... born March 27, major is speech-language pathology and audiology. 600y: 1: m: m: 2: m: 2: : 4x400m, 3:46.95 (8th) DMR, 11:43.11 (7th) Lynsey Kreikemeier Junior Jumps Bellwood, Neb. (St. Thomas Aquinas) Two-Time All-Big 12 Lynsey Kreikemeier (pronounced CRACK-meyer) competed in the 600-yard run at five meets during the indoor season... ran a season best of 1:26.95 at the Conference Challenge to finish fifth... moved to the 800 meters for the outdoor season... earned a season-best finish and time at the Nebraska Invitational, finishing eighth at 2: Kreikemeier contributed immediately at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, running on the 4x400-meter relay that finished eighth and the distance-medley relay team that took seventh... posted a personal-best time of 1:25.81 to finish third in the 600-yard run at the adidas Classic... focused on the 800 meters during the outdoor season... top finish was fifth at the Ward Haylett Invitational (2:19.71). Before Nebraska (St. Thomas Aquinas HS) Kreikemeier competed for St. Thomas Aquinas High School in David City, Neb., under Coach John Svec... played a big part in the Monarchs team runner-up finish at the 2007 Nebraska Class C state meet... qualified for the state meet in four events every year, winning nine Class C medals, including four golds... was the 2007 Class C 400- and 800-meter champion and ran the anchor leg of the winning 4x400-meter relay... her 800 time of 2:16.25 was a career best and allowed her to defend the 800 title she won at the 2006 state meet... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Wichita State and Nebraska-Kearney. Parents are Gary and Rebecca Kreikemeier... born Aug. 18, major is natural science. 60m: m: m: m: h: h: Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 Spring: Karyn LaCour Junior Hurdles Humble, Texas (Humble) Four-Time All-Big : 60h, 8.60 (8th) 2009: 100h, (8th) 2008: 100h, (4th) 4x100m, (8th) NU Records 100-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay (55.18) Karyn LaCour opened the indoor season with a third-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at the Holiday Inn Invitational... ran a season best of 8.46 in the 60 hurdles to finish second at the adidas Classic and also clocked a personal-best of 7.75 in the 60 meters to place third... placed 10th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the hurdles...had a slow start to the outdoor season... failed to qualify for regionals in the 100-meter hurdles until the final regularseason meet at the Concordia Twilight... earned All-Big 12 honors for the second straight year in the 100 hurdles with an eighth-place time of 14.14, after running a season-best in the preliminaries... finished 14th at the NCAA Midwest Regional. As a true freshman, LaCour was Nebraska s top hurdler on the women s side... earned four straight first-place finishes in the 60-meter hurdles to start the indoor season at the Holiday Inn Invite (8.56), Conference Challenge (8.51), Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (8.39) and adidas Classic (8.40)... ran a personal-best time of 8.33 in the preliminaries at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... finished eighth in the finals (8.60)... matched her personal-best time at the Iowa State Last Chance to cap the indoor season... registered her outdoor personalbest 100-meter hurdle time of to win the Kansas Relays... placed fourth at the Big 12 Championships with a time of advanced to the NCAA Midwest Regional to finish 15th... teamed with Arna Erega, Nikita Eades and Rachel Butler to set the school record in the 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay at the Drake Relays (55.18). Before Nebraska (Humble HS) LaCour was a two-time Texas Class 5A state champion in the 100-meter hurdles under Coach Ken Janak... won her first 100-meter hurdle state championship at the 2006 state meet in 13.83w and also placed sixth in the 300-meter hurdles (44.31)... defended her 100 hurdle title at the 2007 state meet with a personal-best was the runner-up in the 100-meter hurdles (14.00) as a sophomore... produced a career-best long jump ( /4) at the 2006 Rice Bayou Relays... set a career best in the 300 hurdles of at the Texas District 21-5A meet in Humble, Texas. Parents are Carey and Vanita LaCour... born April 27, major is special education. Huskers.com 2010 Nebraska Track and Field 59

14 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians SP: /2 (15.43) SP: 50-0 (15.24) WT: /2 (13.44) DIS: (47.70) Indoor PV: /4 (3.68) 2008: Pole Vault, /4 (t-8th) 2009: Pole Vault, /2 (5th) Amanda Latsch Junior Throws Lincoln, Neb. (East) Lindsey Maher Senior Pole Vault Utica, Neb. (Centennial) Two-Time All-Big 12 PV: /2 (3.85)A Amanda Latsch produced two top-10 finishes in the shot put during the indoor season... opened the year with a season-best toss of /4 at the Conference Challenge to place fifth... continued to compete in the shot during the outdoor season, while also adding the discus... produced back-to-back top-three finishes in the discus at the Nebraska Quad (3rd) and Concordia Twilight (2nd)... finished 11th in both events at the Big 12 Championships... threw a personal best of 50-0 at the NCAA Midwest Regional to place 10th (Redshirt Freshman) Latsch produced top-10 finishes in the shot put at seven of her nine indoor meets... earned the first victory of her collegiate career at the adidas Classic with a throw of /4... tied for 13th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... posted a personal-best indoor toss at the Nebraska Last Chance with a throw of /2... finished third in the shot three times during the outdoor season at the Jim Click Shootout ( /4), John Jacobs Invitational (47-7 1/4) and Nebraska Open (47-4 1/2)... finished ninth at the Big 12 Championships with a throw of /2 (15.00) (Freshman) Latsch redshirted her first season at Nebraska... competed unattached in five indoor and three outdoor meets... notched an indoor shot put season best of /4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... outdoors, had her best shot put throw of /2 at the Nebraska Invitational... posted a season best in the discus at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational with a throw of Before Nebraska (Lincoln East HS) Latsch arrived at Nebraska with excellent potential in the throws following a prep career as a five-time medalist at the Nebraska Class A state meet... won the 2006 Class A shot put with a mark of 45-5 for her first state title... also finished runner-up in the discus (126-0)... earned the Class A bronze medal in the shot as both a sophomore in 2004 ( /2) and a freshman in 2003 ( /2)... placed fourth as a junior in 2005 (40-8 3/4)... threw a personal best in the discus (139-11) to win the 2006 Class A-1 district title... coached by John Gingery and Ed McPherren... chose Nebraska over Iowa State. Father is Jon Kunce... born April 7, major is child, youth and family studies. (2008, 2009) (2008, 2009) Spring: (2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2006, 2007, 2008) 2009 (Junior) Lindsey Maher (pronounced mah-her) finished in the top five at four of her six indoor meets... vaulted a season best of /4 to finish third at both the Holiday Inn Invitational and the Nebraska Tune-Up... topped 12 feet or more at four of her seven outdoor meets... cleared /2 at the John McDonnell Invitational, Drake Relays and Ward Haylett Invitational... matched her personal best of /2 at the Big 12 Championships to finish fifth and earn All-Big 12 honors, her highest finish at any conference meet (Sophomore) Maher earned her first Big 12 medal and first trip to the NCAA Midwest Regional in won the Prairie Wolf Invite with a vault of /4... tied for eighth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships at /4... finished runner-up twice during the outdoor season at the John Jacobs Invitational (11-1 3/4) and Ward Haylett Invitational (12-1 1/2)... shattered her personal best by four inches at the Big 12 Championships with a vault of /2 (3.85) to finish 10th and qualify for the NCAA Midwest Regional... tied for 13th at the regional meet with a vault of (Freshman) Maher finished 11th at both the Big 12 Indoor and Championships... marked a season-best vault of /2 for fourth place at the Prairie Wolf Invitational during the indoor season... added an outdoor season best of /4, which she recorded on three occasions, including the Big 12 Championships. Before Nebraska (Centennial HS) Maher joined the Huskers following a standout prep career that featured a pair of Nebraska All-Class gold medals under Coach John Stineman at Centennial High School... repeated as the Class B and All-Class gold medal champion as a senior in 2006 after winning with a height of the mark ranked third on the state s all-time performance list... won her first Class B and All-Class gold medal as a junior in 2005 with a mark of /4... placed third at the 2006 Kansas Relays ( /4)... was a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Brian and Peg Maher... born Dec. 6, majors are pre-middle grades education and pre-coaching... sister, Maggie, and brother, Brett, are also on the NU track and field team. 3,000m: 10: ,000m: 18: ,000m: 18:51.09 Elizabeth Marsh Senior Distance Wichita, Kan. (East) HERO Award Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2008) Spring: (2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2006, 2007, 2008) 2009 (Junior) Elizabeth Marsh, also a member of the Nebraska cross country team, improved her personal best in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters during the indoor season... ran a time of 18:51.09 at the adidas Classic to improve on her previous best of 19:06.98 in the 5,000 meters... bettered her previous best of 10:47.37 in the 3,000 the following week with a 10:41.52 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... opened the outdoor season with a personal best of 18:38.61 in the 5,000 meters at the Concordia Invitational, improving on her previous best of 18: (Sophomore) Marsh competed in four meets during the indoor season... finished seventh in the mile at the NWU Invite and seventh in the 5,000 meters at the adidas Classic... top finish during the outdoor season came at the Nebraska Open, placing sixth in the 1,500 meters (Freshman) Marsh showed good improvement during her freshman season... improved her time in the 5,000 meters by nearly 25 seconds over the indoor season, improving to a time of 19: bettered that time during the outdoor campaign, with a then-personal-best of 18:47.95 at the John Jacobs Invitational. Before Nebraska (Wichita East HS) Marsh qualified for the Kansas 6A state meet all four years at Wichita East High School under Coach Michael Draut, competing in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter events at each state meet... registered a sixth-place finish in the 3,200 as a sophomore in earned seventh place in the event as a senior in 2006 and as a freshman in recorded her best 1,600-meter finish at the state meet (eighth) as a sophomore... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Wichita State, Kansas State and South Carolina. Parents are Steve and Dee Marsh... born Jan. 16, major is Spanish Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com

15 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions LJ: 20-3 (6.17) LJ: /2 (6.21) TJ: 42-2 (1.285) (6.35)w TJ: /4 (12.88) /4 (13.24)w Team Captain (2008, 2009) (2008) Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 Spring: (2007, 2008, 2009) Leandra McGruder Senior Jumps Jefferson City, Mo. (Jefferson City) Two-Time NCAA Qualifier Eight-Time All-Big 12 Team Captain (2008, 2009) 2009: Long Jump, /4 (6th) Triple Jump, /4 (7th) 2008: Long Jump, /4 (5th) 2007: Long Jump, /2 (5th) 2009: Long Jump, (3rd) Triple Jump, /4 (6th) 2007: Long Jump, (6th) Triple Jump, /4 (8th) 2009 (Junior) Leandra McGruder started the 2009 indoor season on a hot streak as she posted back-toback wins in the triple jump at the Holiday Inn Invitational and adidas Classic... cleared a personal best of 42-2 at the Tyson Invitational... provisionally qualified in the long jump at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a then-personal best of /2, and bettered the mark at the Cyclone Last Chance with a winning jump of earned All-Big 12 honors in both horizontal jumps at the conference championships with a sixth-place finish in the long jump and seventh-place finish in the triple jump... swept the horizontal jumps at the Jim Click Shootout to open the outdoor season, including a then best of /2 in the triple jump... jumped /4 later in the year at the Nebraska Quad... finished third in the long jump and sixth in the triple jump at the Big 12 Championships... earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with a fifth-place jump of /4 at the NCAA Midwest Regional... received an at-large bid in the long jump... tied for 21st in the long jump at the national meet and finished 26th in the triple jump (Sophomore) McGruder started the indoor track and field season on the right foot as she swept the long jump and triple jump at the Holiday Inn Invite... jumped /4 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational to finish third... placed fifth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships for the second straight year in the long jump with a leap of /4... started the outdoor season with a sweep of the long jump and triple jump at the Jim Click Shootout... qualified for the NCAA Midwest Regional, finishing 17th in the triple jump with a leap of / (Freshman) McGruder finished an outstanding 2007 season as one of seven freshmen on NU s NCAA roster... qualified for the national meet with a clutch performance in the long jump at the NCAA Midwest Regional... earned fourth place with a jump of /2... placed 16th in the triple jump (40-2 1/4)... earned all-conference honors at the Big 12 outdoor meet, placing sixth in the long jump (19-11) and eighth in the triple jump ( /4w)... the long jump effort exceeded the regional standard for the first time... hit regional qualifying for the first time in the triple jump at the Kansas Relays (40-6 1/4), when she surpassed 40 feet for the first time outdoors... started a run of success in the long jump with a wind-aided leap of /4w to earn second place at the Nebraska Open.. claimed her second and third career meet titles by sweeping the two events at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invite... placed fifth in the Big 12 indoor long jump (19-5 1/2)... notched her first career win with a /2 long jump during the indoor Conference Challenge... set an then-indoor triple jump best of to place fifth during the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite. Before Nebraska (Jefferson City HS) McGruder experienced a distinguished prep career in the horizontal jumps at Jefferson City High School in Missouri under coaches Dennis and Roberta Licklider... earned a pair of High School All-America honors at the 2005 Nike Nationals, finishing fourth in the triple jump (39-9 3/4) and sixth in the long jump (18-10)... claimed three Missouri Class 4 state championships, including a sweep of the long jump ( /2) and triple jump (39-9 3/4) crowns as a senior in also won the triple jump as a junior in 2005 (39-7) and as a freshman in 2003 (38-2 1/4), while finishing runner-up (39-6) as a sophomore... earned a silver medal in the long jump behind Husker teammate Chantae McMillan in both 2004 (18-5 3/4) and 2005 (18-7 1/2w), before defeating McMillan as a senior... led Jefferson City to Class 4 team titles in both 2005 and placed third in the long jump and fifth in the triple jump in 2006 at the prestigious Golden West Invitational... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over LSU, Indiana and Missouri. Daughter of Cosandra Watson... born Aug. 12, major is psychology. HJ: 6-0 1/2 (1.84) HJ: /4 (1.80) TJ: /4 (12.16) TJ: /4 (12.27) Lorena Menghia Junior Jumps Iasi, Romania (Athletic/Jacksonville St.) All-Big : High Jump, 5-6 (t-5th) Lorena Menghia (pronounced laur-aa-nah Men-GEE-uh) joined the Huskers in January, just in time for the indoor season... made her debut at the Conference Challenge, finishing third in the triple jump at /4... set a personal best the following week at the adidas Classic with a runner-up jump of /4... competed in the high jump at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, clearing 5-6 to tie for fifth... was limited during the outdoor season due to a back injury... cleared 5-7 in the high jump at the Nebraska Quad to finish third. Before Nebraska (Athletic High School/Jacksonville State) A native of Iasi, Romania, Menghia transferred to Nebraska after one season at Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala., where she was the 2008 Ohio Valley Conference champion in the outdoor high jump with a clearance of 5-6 under Coach Adrian Gheoroaie... set the outdoor school record earlier in the season with a leap of 5-8 3/4 at the Coach O Invitational in Troy, Ala... placed third in the triple jump at the outdoor conference meet with a school-record and personal-best leap of /4... went on to compete at the NCAA Mideast Regional in Fayetteville, Ark., in the high jump, but was unable to clear the opening height... cleared a lifetime best in the high jump at the 2006 Romanian indoor championships in Bucuresti, Romania, with a jump of 6-0 1/2 to finish runner-up, ranking her No. 12 on the under-20 world indoor list... cleared an outdoor personal best of /4 four times between 2005 and tied for 13th with a jump of 5-7 in the high jump at the 2005 IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakesh, Morocco... attended Athletic High School where she was coached by Ghilase Marius... chose Nebraska over SMU, Florida Atlantic and Virginia. Parents are Dan and Lily Menghia... born on June 12, major is management. 800m: 2: m: 2: ,000m: 2: ,500m: 4:29.44A Mile: 4: : DMR, 11:38.89 (7th) 2009: 1,500m, 4:29.44 (5th) NU Records 4x1,600m Relay (19:41.97) Ashley Miller Junior/Sophomore Distance Tipton, Iowa (Tipton) Two-Time All-Big (Sophomore/Redshirt Freshman) Ashley Miller won her first collegiate race during the indoor season at the adidas Classic, running a time of 2:55.31 in the 1,000 meters... improved the time later at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a 10th-place time of 2: ran the 800-meter leg of the seventhplace distance-medley relay at the conference meet to earn her first All-Big 12 honor... finished in the top 10 in the 1,500 meters at all six of her outdoor meets... ran the anchor leg of the 4x1,600-meter relay that set the school record at the Drake Relays (19:41.97)... saved her best running for the 1,500-meter finals at the Big 12 Championships, running a regional-qualifying time of 4:29.44 to finish fifth... missed an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships by one spot at the Midwest Regional, as she finished sixth (4:30.41). 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16 62 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Due to a stress fracture, Miller was only able to compete one time indoors... ran a time of 3:01.00 in the 1,000 meters at the Holiday Inn Invitational to finish sixth... redshirted during the outdoor season. Before Nebraska (Tipton HS) Miller was a 15-time Iowa Class 2A state champion with titles in the 400-meter dash, 800 meters, 1,500 meters, 4x400-meter relay, 4x800-meter relay and distance medley relay under coaches Jenny King and Dave Fetterman... was the winningest track athlete in Iowa history... helped Tipton High School to four consecutive state championships ( ) in track, as well as four in cross country... was the 2004 and 2006 Iowa Class 2A individual state cross country champion... claimed consecutive Drake Relays high school 800-meter crowns in 2004 and 2005 before adding her third victory in 2007 with a personal-best time of 2: named the Iowa Wendy s High School Heisman winner... was the 2005 Gatorade Iowa Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year... named the 2007 Class 2A basketball player of the year... was a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Darren and Ann Miller... born March 16, major is nutrition science and dietetics. Lisa Minnick Senior Throw Cambridge, Neb. (Cambridge) WT: /4 (17.80) HT: (55.82) 2009 (Junior) Lisa Minnick continued her development in the weight and hammer throws by setting personal bests in both events... entered the indoor season with a weight throw best of 53-8, which she improved at three consecutive meets... threw /4 at the Conference Challenge to finish third and then finished runner-up at the next two meets with throws of /4 and /4 at the adidas Classic and Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, respectively... competed at the Big 12 Indoor Championships for the first time in her career, placing 11th with a toss of /2... opened the outdoor season by breaking her previous best of in the hammer throw with a toss of at the Stanford Invitational... bettered the mark later in the year at three consecutive meets... started at the Drake Relays (179-4), before improving at the Nebraska Quad (182-3) and Ward Haylett Invitational (183-2)... ended the year with a 20th-place finish at the Big 12 Championships and a 13th-place showing at the NCAA Midwest Regional (Sophomore) Minnick placed in the top 10 in the weight throw at five of her six indoor meets... posted a thenpersonal-best toss of 53-8 to finish fifth at the adidas Classic... broke her previous best by nine feet in the hammer throw (160-10) at the Jim Click Shootout to open the outdoor season... earned back-to-back victories at the Doane Relays (161-5) and Nebraska Open (168-6)... set a thenpersonal best at the Ward Haylett Invitational with a throw of (52.71)... finished 13th at the Big 12 Championships (151-8) for the second straight year (Redshirt Freshman) Minnick made her collegiate debut during the outdoor season, competing in the hammer throw, where she finished 13th with a season best of notched a season-best finish of fifth with a toss of at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational (Freshman) Minnick redshirted during both the indoor and outdoor seasons... competed unattached indoors in the shot put (34-2) and weight throw ( /4) at the Nebraska Wesleyan Triangular, as well as the shot (34-5) at the Prairie Wolf Invitational... also competed unattached outdoors in the shot (36-7 3/4) and hammer throw (130-8) at the Nebraska Invite. Before Nebraska (Cambridge HS) Minnick was a three-time qualifier to the Nebraska state meet in the shot put and discus at Cambridge High School under coaches Lauri Farr and Mike Shoff... finished runner-up in the shot put at the Class D state meet as a senior in 2005 with a heave of 39-10, while also placing fourth in the discus with a personal-best spin of competed in both events at the Class C state meet as a junior in 2004 and a sophomore in was class valedictorian and also a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are William and Nancy Minnick... born Aug. 23, major is nutrition science and dietetics Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com (2008, 2009) Spring: (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) Indoor Samantha Musil Junior Throws DuBois, Neb. (Pawnee City/Georgia Tech) NCAA Qualifier Two-Time All-Big 12 SP: /4 (12.97) SP: /2 (14.54) WT: /2 (15.53) DIS: (51.02) HT: (52.57) 2009: Discus, (7th) Hammer Throw, (5th) (2007, 2009) Spring: Samantha Musil (pronounced Muscle) set a personal best in the weight throw with a toss of /2 at the Tyson Invitational... posted wins in the discus at the Nebraska Invitational and Concordia Twilight... recorded a season-best throw of at the Ward Haylett Invitational... earned two All-Big 12 honors at the Big 12 Championships, placing seventh in the discus and fifth in the hammer throw with a personal-best toss of ended the year with a 12th-place showing in the discus at the NCAA Midwest Regional (Redshirt Freshman/Sophomore) Musil redshirted the indoor and outdoor track seasons after transferring to Nebraska from Georgia Tech... worked on throwing the weight during the indoor season, including a thenpersonal best of /4, as an unattached athlete at the adidas Classic... competed unattached at both home meets during the outdoor season, posting a personal best of in the hammer at the Nebraska Invitational. Before Nebraska (Pawnee City HS/Georgia Tech) Musil transferred from Georgia Tech where she redshirted during the 2007 indoor season and competed during the outdoor season... placed 12th in the discus at the NCAA Championships with a toss of 163-7, after recording a throw of in the prelims... placed second in the discus at the USA Junior Track and Field Championships... earned a spot on Team USA for the 2007 Pan-Am Junior Championships in Brazil... placed second in the discus at graduated from Pawnee City (Neb.) High School in 2006, where she was coached by Alan Strong and Mark Leonard... set and still holds the Nebraska Class D record in the discus with a throw of won back-to-back-to-back discus titles at the state meet from 2004 to 2006 after finishing runner-up as a freshman in won the shot put in her junior and senior seasons at the state meet... posted back-to-back shot put and discus win at the USA National Championships in the young women s division in 2005 and member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Bob and Tammy Musil... born Feb. 9, major is elementary education.

17 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions Jen Pancoast No Eligibility/Senior Distance Cape Girardeau, Mo. (Central) Five-Time All-Big 12 Kailey Ryan Redshirt Freshman Pole Vault Franklin, N.C. (Woodward) 800m: 2: m: 2: ,000m: 2: ,500m: 4:29.45 Mile: 4: ,000m: 17:26.00A 3,000m: 9:39.09 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Spring: (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Fall: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) 2009: DMR, 11:38.89 (7th) 2008: DMR, 11:43.11 (7th) 2007: 3,000m, 9:46.37 (5th) DMR,11:45.38 (6th) 2008: 1,500m NU Records 4x1,600m Relay (19:41.97) 2009 (Senior/Junior) Jen Pancoast started the indoor season by shaving more than four seconds off her previous best in the mile with a 4:50.69 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... came up one spot shy of All-Big 12 honors at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a ninth-place time of 9:39.09, bettering her previous best of 9: ran the 1,500 meters at five meets during the outdoor season, including a season best of 4:30.13 at the John McDonnell Invitational... finished ninth at the Big 12 Championships in the 1,500 meters and 13th in the 5,000 meters (Junior/Sophomore) Pancoast earned a victory at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in the 1,000 (2:56.72)... won the 3,000 meters the following week at the adidas Classic in 9: ran 9:52.95 in the 3,000 meters to finish 15th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, as well as the 1,200 meters of the DMR that finished fourth (11:43.11)... started the outdoor season with a fifth-place showing in the 800 meters and a fourth-place finish in the 1,500 meters at the Jim Click Shootout... ran a personal best of 4:29.45 in the 1,500 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays to finish fourth... ran the 1,500 meters at her first Big 12 Championships, finishing eighth with a time of 4: (Sophomore) Pancoast capped an outstanding indoor season at the Big 12 Championships by placing fifth in the 3,000-meter run (9:46.37) and leading off the sixth-place DMR... ran a personal best in the 1,000 meters (2:53.86) at the Prairie Wolf Invite... competed at the Stanford Invitational in her only meet of the outdoor season, set a personal best in the 800 (2:12.83) and also ran the 1,500 (4:29.52) meters... was granted a medical hardship for the outdoor season due to a foot injury (Freshman) As a freshman, Pancoast made progress throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons, improving her times on a weekly basis... posted a season-best mile time of 5:05.01 to finish fifth at the Prairie Wolf Invitational... finished fourth with a season-best 10:27.24 in the 3,000 meters at the Nebraska-Colorado State-Kent State Triangular... outdoors, ran 18:54.46 in the 5,000 at the Kansas Relays and 4:44.44 in the 1,500 at the Ward Haylett Invite. Before Nebraska (Cape Girardeau HS) Pancoast joined the Nebraska track and field team after a stellar prep career at Central High School in Cape Girardeau, Mo., under Coach Mark Hahn... was a three-year qualifier for the Missouri Class 4 state meet, but missed her entire senior track season with a stress fracture... finished runner-up in the 1,600 meters at the state meet as a sophomore in 2003 (5:02.38)... was a member of Central s 4x800-meter relay team that reached state during her freshman through junior seasons... was a four-time state qualifier in cross country... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Kansas State and Missouri. Parents are Charles and Cathy Pancoast... sister, Kim, lettered for the NU track and field team from 2004 to born Feb. 4, major is nutritional science and dietetics (Freshman) Kailey Ryan joined the track and field team during the outdoor season after one season with the gymnastics team... did not compete as she worked on the transition to the pole vault. Daughter of Colleen Ryan... born March 6, majors are nutrition science and dietetics, as well as Russian. LJ: /4 (5.82) LJ: /2 (6.03) TJ: /4 (12.77) /4 (6.10)w TJ: 42-9 (13.03) Zarinah Suluki-Drakes No Eligibility/Senior Jumps Orlando, Fla. (Colonial) Six-Time All-Big : Long Jump, /4 (8th) Triple Jump, 41-5 (5th) 2007: Triple Jump, 41-3 (7th) 2008: Triple Jump, 42-9 (5th) 2007: Long Jump, /2 (8th) Triple Jump, /4 (7th) 2009 (Senior) Zarinah Suluki-Drakes (pronounced zar-ree-nah SUH-LOO-kee) battled injuries the entire year and was only able to compete at two indoor meets... opened at the Husker Invitational with a third-place finish in the triple jump, leaping /2... cleared /2 in the triple jump at the Tyson Invitational to take 11th place... redshirted during the outdoor season (Junior) Suluki-Drakes placed first in the triple jump three times during the indoor season, including the NWU Invite (39-6 3/4), adidas Classic (40-9 1/2) and Iowa State Last Chance (41-1 1/2)... finished ninth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the long jump (18-7 1/4) and fifth in the triple jump (41-5)... started the outdoor season with a pair of runner-up finishes at the Jim Click Shootout in the long jump and triple jump... finished second at the Kansas Relays with a wind-aided jump of /2 in the triple jump... cleared a personal best of 42-9 at the Big 12 Championships to finish fifth... competed in the triple jump (23rd) and long jump (10th) at the NCAA Midwest Regional (Sophomore) Suluki-Drakes placed fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional (42-8 1/4) to earn an automatic NCAA bid after entering the weekend ranked 10th in the region... fell just short of her thenpersonal-best /4 set while earning seventh place at the Big 12 outdoor meet... reached at least 40 feet in all but one of her seven competitions after entering the spring with an outdoor best of /4 (wind aided)... also qualified in the long jump for regionals, where she placed ninth at /4... set her wind-aided career best of /4 (+4.2 wind) to win the College section at the KU Relays... earned her first regional qualification in the long jump by leaping /2 to place eighth at the Big 12 meet... made strides during the indoor season, as she surpassed 40 feet in the triple jump five of her six meets... reached a top distance of /4 to finish third at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite and recorded her first NCAA provisional qualification... finished seventh during the Big 12 indoor triple jump competition (41-3)... posted her top indoor long jump mark of /4 during the Husker Invite (Freshman) Suluki-Drakes fell just short of earning all-conference honors during her freshman season with ninth-place finishes in the triple jump at the Big 12 Indoor Championships (39-5) and the long jump at the Big 12 outdoor meet (19-8 1/4)... the long jump performance tied a season best and met the NCAA regional-qualifying standard for the second straight meet... set a wind-aided season best of /4 to place second in the triple jump at the Ward Haylett Invitational... placed 24th in the long jump at her first NCAA Midwest Regional... earned indoor wins in the triple jump at the Holiday Inn Invite (season-best 39-10) and adidas Classic ( /4) and the long jump at the Prairie Wolf Invite (18-3). 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18 64 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Before Nebraska (Colonial HS) Suluki-Drakes claimed three individual Florida Class 4A state titles, two in the long jump and one in the triple jump for Colonial High School in Orlando under coaches Rene Plasenica, Tommy Shaver and her father, Malone Drakes... won both events as a senior in 2005 with marks of in the triple jump and /2 in the long jump... earned the Class 4A long jump title as a junior in 2004 with a jump of /4, while finishing eighth in the triple jump (37-10) and running on Colonial s 10th-place 4x400-meter relay... finished 10th in both the long jump ( /4) and triple jump (36-9 3/4) at the 2005 U.S. Junior Championships. Parents are Malone and Donna Drakes... born Sept. 1, major is sociology. HJ: /4 (1.81) HJ: 5-9 (1.75) Audrey Svane Junior Jumps Tioga, Texas (Pilot Point) Four-Time All-Big 12 Audrey Svane (pronounced SV-ane) produced six top-three finishes at eight meets during the indoor season... won the Nebraska Tune-Up with a personal best of earned All-Big 12 honors for the second straight year at the Big 12 Indoor Championships by tying for second with teammate Epley Bullock, as each cleared finished in the top five at all six of her regularseason outdoor meets... took third at the Big 12 Championships with a season-best jump of 5-8 3/4... jumped 5-7 to tie for eighth at the NCAA Midwest Regional to end the season. Svane placed in the top seven at seven of her eight indoor meets... finished runner-up at the Holiday Inn Invite (5-6) and adidas Classic (5-7)... jumped a then-personal-best 5-7 1/4 at the NWU Invite to finish third... earned a medal at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a jump of 5-6 to finish seventh... earned the first victory of her collegiate career during the outdoor season at the Nebraska Open with an NCAA Regional-qualifying jump of 5-8 3/4... cleared the same height at the Big 12 Championships to finish fifth... ended her freshman year at the NCAA Midwest Regional, jumping 5-7 1/4 to tie for 14th. Before Nebraska (Pilot Point HS) Svane made four trips to the Texas Class 3A state meet, winning the state championship in the high jump in both 2007 (5-7) and 2006 (5-8) under Coach Andrew Cook... was fifth at the state meet in 2005 (5-7) and sixth in 2004 (5-4)... personal-best jump of 5-9 won the 2006 Pilot Point Relays... was a member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over TCU, Texas Tech, Kansas State and North Texas. Parents are Mark and Susan Svane... born July 11, major is computer science Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com 2009: High Jump, 5-8 (t-2nd) 2008: High Jump, 5-6 (7th) 2009: High Jump, 5-8 3/4 (3rd) 2008: High Jump, 5-8 3/4 (5th) 400m: m: y: 1: h: 1: m: m: y: 1: h: 1:07.44 Kayla Ubel Junior Middle Distance Overland Park, Kan. (Blue Valley West) Kayla Ubel (pronounced You-bell) ran the 400 meters both indoors and outdoors in competed in four meets during the indoor season, including a personal best of in the preliminaries of the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... competed three times outdoors, posting a season best of at the Nebraska Quad to finish fourth. Ubel earned her first collegiate victory during the indoor season with a time of 1:00.05 in the 400 meters at the Nebraska Last Chance... ran the 400-meter hurdles at six meets during the outdoor season, placing in the top 10 at every meet but the Kansas Relays (24th)... set a personal-best time at the Nebraska Open with a 1: claimed her highest finish of the outdoor season by taking third at the Nebraska Invitational (1:09.38). Before Nebraska (Blue Valley West HS) Ubel competed at the 2007 Kansas Class 6A state meet, finishing third in the 400 with a time of qualified in the 200 and 4x400 relay but did not score under Coach Mark Hanson... was a member of the silver medal winning 4x100-meter relay and the seventh place 4x400-meter relay at the 2005 Class 5A state meet... at the 2004 Class 6A state meet, her 4x100-meter relay finished third... was a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Doug and Lynette Ubel... born Sept. 14, major is psychology... brother, Brandon, is a member of the Nebraska basketball team. Alyssa Vierregger Junior Sprints Springfield, Neb. (Platteview) Alyssa Vierregger (pronounced VAR-eh-gur) ran the 400 meters three times during the indoor season, including a season best of at the Conference Challenge, before being sidelined for the rest of the indoor season with injury... returned for the outdoor season to compete five times in the 400, and twice in the (Redshirt Freshman) Vierregger focused on the 200 and 400 meters during the indoor season... ran a personal best at the adidas Classic in the 200 meters with a time of posted a personal-best time in the 400 meters at the Conference Challenge with a ran the 400 meters three times during the outdoor season, including a time of at the Nebraska Invitational to finish second... recorded a personal best of at the Jim Click Shootout (Freshman) Vierregger redshirted her first season at Nebraska... competed unattached in two indoor and one outdoor meet... ran an indoor personal best of 8.08 in the 60 meters and posted a in the 200 meters at the Holiday Inn Invitational and Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational, respectively. Before Nebraska (Platteview HS) Vierregger arrived at NU following four consecutive appearances in the Nebraska Class B state meet under Coach Rich Arch at Platteview High School... earned her highest state meet placings as a junior in 2005 with a runner-up finish in the 100-meter dash (12.49) and third-

19 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions place efforts in the 200 meters (26.76) and 4x100-meter relay (50.90)... placed sixth in the 100 (13.02) as a freshman in 2003, while also competing in the was a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Roger and Teresa Vierregger... born April 6, major is nutritional science. Mile: 5: ,000m: 17: ,000m: 10: ,000SC: 10: ,000m: 17: : 3,000SC, 10:59.50 (8th) Jen Webers Junior Distance Conifer, Colo. (Conifer) All-Big 12 Jen Webers set three personal bests during the indoor season and another two outdoors... broke her previous best of 18:10.67 in the 5,000 meters at the Conference Challenge with a fourth-place time of 17: dropped her mile time from 5:05.14 to 5:02.68 at the Frank Sevigne Invitational... ended the indoor season at the Nebraska Tune-Up with a personal best of 10:01.67 in the 3,000 meters, bettering her previous best of 10: ran the 5,000 once during the outdoor season, improving her time from 18:01.20 to 17: competed in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at six meets, including a personal best of 10:47.19 at the Drake Relays... finished eighth in the steeplechase at the Big 12 Championships to join three other Husker women who earned All-Big 12 honors in the event... ended the year with a 20th-place showing at the NCAA Midwest Regional. Webers started her season at Nebraska with a runner-up finish in the 5,000 meters at the Holiday Inn Invite (18:10.67) during the indoor season... finished ninth at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational two weeks later in the 3,000 meters with a personal-best time of 10: ended the indoor season with her first collegiate victory in the 3,000 meters at the Nebraska Last Chance... focused on the 3,000-meter steeplechase during the outdoor season... won her first three meets, including the Concordia Invitational (11:17.03), Ward Haylett Invitational (10:59.43) and Nebraska Invitational (11:15.99)... finished 14th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 12: Before Nebraska (Conifer HS) Webers finished runner-up in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at the 2006 Colorado Class 4A state track meet under Coach Brian Stotts... was fourth at the 2006 Colorado Class 4A state cross country meet as a senior... went on to compete at the 2007 Footlocker Midwest Regional, finishing 25th in a then-personal-best 5K time of 18:36. Parents are Bob and Pat Webers... born May 11, has not declared a major. 5,000m: 18: ,000m: 18:23.30 Katie White Redshirt Freshman Distance Broken Bow, Neb. (Broken Bow) Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Katie White competed in the opening meet of the indoor season for the Huskers, but then missed the rest of the season with injury, forcing her to redshirt during the outdoor season... ran in the 5,000 meters at the Holiday Inn Invitational, finishing fourth with a time of 18: returned to compete as an unattached athlete during the outdoor season at the Concordia Twilight... took first place with a personal-best time of 18: received a medical hardship for the indoor season. Before Nebraska (Broken Bow HS) White joined Nebraska with a proven record while at Broken Bow High School under Coach Kirk Petit... totaled 10 Nebraska state championships... won seven medals at the Nebraska Class B State Track and Field Meet and another three titles in cross country in Class C... won the 1,600-, and 3,200-meter runs at the state track and field meet as a freshman... followed her freshman year performance with wins in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 in competed with a sprained tendon as a junior, placing second in the 1,600-meter run and third in the 3,200-meter run at the 2007 state track and field meet... finished her prep career in 2008 with gold medals in the 1,600 (5:09.70) and 3,200 meters (10:51.81)... won the state cross country championship in her sophomore, junior and senior seasons... led the Indians to runner-up finishes in her junior and senior seasons... selected as National Honor Society vicepresident... carried a 4.0 GPA... chose Nebraska over Nebraska-Kearney. Parents are Jason and Teresa White... born on June 11, major is pre-pharmacy. SP: /2 (11.72) DIS: (48.29) Morgan Wilken Redshirt Freshman Throws Crofton, Neb. (Crofton) Spring: 2009 (Freshman) Morgan Wilken redshirted the indoor and outdoor seasons in her first year at Nebraska... competed twice during the outdoor season as an unattached athlete, finishing seventh at the Nebraska Invitational with a toss of and then second at the WSC Wildcat Open with a personal-best toss of would have qualified for that NCAA Midwest Regional as her throw surpassed the regional standard of Before Nebraska (Crofton HS) Wilken competed at the Nebraska state meet in Class C as a sophomore, junior and senior under Coach Rod Hegge... helped Crofton to team titles in 2006 and 2007 and a runner-up finish in won the discus with a throw of and finished sixth in the shot put at 37-7 as a sophomore... finished runner-up in the discus with a throw of as a junior... won the All-Class medal as senior with a throw of in the discus... set her personal best in the discus (150-8) and shot put (38-5 1/2) at the Pierce Invitational in Pierce, Neb., on April 17, finished third at the 2008 USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in the discus with a throw of was a member of the three-time state champion Warrior basketball team... earned four letters in track and field, three in basketball and two in volleyball... member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Dean and Sandy Wilken... born April 15, major is mathematics. Huskers.com 2010 Nebraska Track and Field 65

20 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Victoria Zimmerman Sophomore Throws Arlington Heights, Ill. (John Hersey) SP: 40-4 (12.29) SP: (12.75) WT: /4 (16.39) HT: (51.75) HERO Award Victoria Zimmerman opened the indoor season by bettering her previous best of /4 in the weight throw by more than five feet with a toss of /4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... improved the mark later in the year to /4 at the Nebraska Tune-Up... opened the outdoor season by breaking her previous best of in the hammer throw with a toss of at the Stanford Invitational... added more than 18 feet at the WSC Wildcat Open, throwing tossed to finish 14th at her first conference meet in Lubbock, Texas. Zimmerman redshirted in her first season at Nebraska to learn to throw the weight and hammer... competed unattached at five meets indoors, including a then-personal-best throw of /4 at the Cornhusker Last Chance... competed at both home meets outdoors, recording a toss of in the hammer throw at the Nebraska Invitational. Before Nebraska (John Hersey HS) Zimmerman competed in the 2007 Illinois Class AA state meet as a senior and finished 11th in the shot put (39-5) under Coach Jim Miks... also competed in the 2005 state meet in the shot but did not qualify for the finals... prep best in the shot put came at the 2007 Buffalo Grove Girls Class Sectional with a mark of to qualify for state... was a member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Klaus and Felicitas Zimmerman... born Jan. 6, majors are biological sciences and Spanish Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com

21 100 conference team titles 21 Big 12 conference team titles 837 conference champions Veronica Grizzle Freshman Throws DeSoto, Kan. (Tonganoxie) Allison Jorgensen Freshman Sprints Grand Island, Neb. (Grand Island) SP: 44-3 (13.48) DIS: (36.88) JAV: (44.50) Before Nebraska (Tonganoxie HS) Veronica Grizzle was a three-time qualifier at Kansas 4A state meet under Coach Chris Weller at Tonganoxie High School... finished runner-up in the shot put as a sophomore, junior and senior... qualified in the discus and javelin as a junior and senior... added a third-place medal in the javelin in member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Wisconsin. Parents are James and Beth Grizzle... born Aug. 8, older sister Roxi is also a member of the NU track and field team... has not declared a major. Sammy Hansen Freshman Sprints Lincoln, Neb. (Southwest) 100m: m: m: 59.8 Before Nebraska (Southwest HS) Sammy Hansen was a three-time state qualifier in Class A, Nebraska s largest class, under Coach Ryan Mahoney at Lincoln Southwest High School... earned four state medals as a senior... placed third in the 100 (12.38) and 200 (25.29) meters, while also running the first leg of both the fifth-place 4x100-meter relay and sixth-place 4x400-meter relay... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Washington and Lee University, Texas, Georgetown, George Washington and Tulane. Parents are Melanie Shiells and Roland Hansen... born Feb. 8, major is political science. Annie Jackson Freshman Throws Tekamah, Neb. (Tekamah-Herman) 100m: m: Before Nebraska (Grand Island HS) Allison Jorgensen was a three-year Nebraska state qualifier and five-time Class A medalist under Coach Jeff Stern at Grand Island High School... ran on the third-place 4x100 and secondplace 4x400 relays as a sophomore... returned as a junior to help the relay teams earn two more medals with a fourth-place finish in the 4x100 and a third-place finish in the 4x individually qualified in the 100 and 200 meters as a senior, but did not qualify for the finals... helped the 4x100 relay team medal for the third straight year with a sixth-place finish... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over South Dakota Black Hills. Parents are Keith and Rita Jorgensen... born July 25, major is actuarial science. Maggie Maher Freshman Pole Vault Kearney, Neb. (Kearney) PV: 12-2 (3.70) Before Nebraska (Kearney HS) Maggie Maher (pronounced mah-her) joins the NU pole vault squad a three-time Nebraska state champion in the pole vault... won her first title as a sophomore in 2007 in Class B while at Centennial High School, vaulting competed for Kearney High School as a junior and senior in Class A, Nebraska s largest class... cleared /4 in 2008 to win the state title and All-Class gold medal... defended her state title in 2009 with a vault of vaulted a personal best of 12-2 at the 2009 GNAC Championships... earned four letters each in track and field, basketball and volleyball... member of the National Honor Society. Parents are Brian and Peg Maher... born Jan. 24, has not declared a major... sister, Lindsey, and brother, Brett, are also on the NU track and field team. SP: /4 (14.19) DIS: (41.17) Before Nebraska (Tekamah-Herman HS) A four-time qualifier in the shot put at the Nebraska State Track and Field Meet in Class C, Jackson won the state title as a junior and senior at Tekamah-Herman High School under Coach Leah Bryant... tossed /2 to win her first title as a junior... returned as a senior to win with a mark of /2... set a personal best and the school record at the 2009 C-4 District meet with throw of /4... owns the school record in the discus with a toss of a four-time letterwinner in track and field, basketball and volleyball, she also owns multiple school records in basketball and volleyball. Parents are Paul and Kim Jackson... born March 11, has not declared a major. Huskers.com 2010 Nebraska Track and Field 67

22 76 NCAA Champions 570 All-Americans 29 NCAA top-five Team finishes 41 Olympians Anne Martin Freshman Combined Events Waverly, Neb. (Waverly, Neb.) Breanna Shupe Freshman Throws Waterloo, Neb. (Skutt Catholic) 100m: m: 24.9 HJ: 5-8 (1.72) LJ: /4 (5.78) TJ: /4 (11.88) Before Nebraska (Waverly HS) Anne Martin joins the Huskers as one of the most versatile athletes in the state of Nebraska... won 16 medals at the state track and field meet, including six state titles and two All-Class medals, for Waverly High School under Coach Ken Adkisson... qualified for the state meet in four events all four years in high school... won her first state title in the high jump as a freshman with a leap of 5-4, also finishing fifth in the triple jump (35-1 3/4) and competing in the long jump and 400 meters... returned as a sophomore in 2007 to win the long jump ( /2), finish second in the high jump (5-4), take third in the triple jump (36-2 1/12) and finish fifth in the 400 (1:01.27)... won the All-Class gold medal in the high jump with the top mark during the 2008 Nebraska high school season, clearing also finished runner-up in the 200 meters (25.94) and triple jump ( /4), along with earning a bronze in the long jump (17-9 1/2)... won four medals as a senior, including three state titles... repeated as the All-Class gold medal winner in the high jump (5-7)... won the long jump (18-8 3/4) and 100 meters (12.44), as well as a runnerup performance in the triple jump (37-8 1/2)... chose Nebraska over Missouri and Northern Iowa. Parents are Bob and Sheri Martin... sister of former Husker combined eventer Lee Martin ( )... born April 16, has not declared a major. Mary Morales Freshman Throws San Diego, Calif. (Scripps Ranch) Before Nebraska (Scripps Ranch HS) Mary Morales joins Nebraska from Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego, Calif., where she was training to be a level-10 gymnast in the San Diego All-Star Gymnastics program... will work under Throws Coach Mark Colligan to develop into a hammer thrower... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over Sacramento State, San Jose State and San Diego State. Parents are Albert and Cindy Morales... born May 10, majoring in broadcasting. Jordan Oddo Freshman Pole Vault Arlington, Texas (Grace Preparatory Academy) SP: 40-9 (12.42) DIS: (33.95) Before Nebraska (Skutt Catholic HS) Breanna Shupe joins the Husker throws squad after making trips to the Nebraska state meet in Class B as a sophomore, junior and senior at Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha... competed in the shot put all three years, earning a seventh-place finish in produced her personal best in the shot put (40-9) and discus (111-5) at the 2009 Elkhorn Invitational... finished 27th at the 2008 USATF Junior Olympics. Daughter of Sue Shupe... born Aug. 9, major is pre-nursing. LJ: /4 (5.22) TJ: /2 (11.89) Anna Weigandt Freshman Jumps Gretna, Neb. (Gretna) Before Nebraska (Gretna HS) Anna Weigandt joins the Nebraska jumps squad after a record-breaking career at Gretna High School under Coach Jeremy Hamm... qualified in the triple jump for the Nebraska state meet in Class B (second-largest class) all four years... broke out as a sophomore with a second-place jump of returned as a junior to win her first state title, clearing /4 to win the All-Class medal... broke the Class B and state meet record as a senior with a winning leap of /2, breaking former Husker Angie Prebyl s record of /4, which she set at the 1997 state meet... also placed sixth in the long jump as a senior with a clearance of was a four-time Eastern Midlands Conference champion and two-time district champion in the triple jump... holds the school, conference and district record in the triple jump, as well as the school record in the long jump (17-1 3/4)... member of the National Honor Society... chose Nebraska over South Dakota and Doane. Parents are Lori and Todd Weigandt... born Sept. 10, has not declared a major. Brandi Winchester Freshman Hurdles Kearney, Neb. (Kearney) PV: 12-1 (3.68) Before Nebraska (Grace Preparatory Academy) Jordan Oddo (pronounced OH-doe) joins the Nebraska pole vault squad as a four-time TAPPS state champion from Grace Preparatory Academy in Arlington, Texas... set the 5A state meet record in 2008 with a vault of and the 4A state meet record in 2009 with a clearance of /4... contributed to the Lions 5A state team title in vaulted a personal best of 12-1 at the 2008 Grace Prep Invitational, ranking her No. 23 nationally in top prep vaulter in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2008 and starred on the volleyball court where she was named to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Private School Player-of-the-Year team in 2007 and chose Nebraska over Baylor, Notre Dame, San Diego State, Cornell, Air Force, South Alabama and Louisiana-Monroe. Parents are Michael and Darlene Oddo... born July 3, major is art. 100h: h: 45.9 Before Nebraska (Kearney HS) Brandi Winchester joins the Huskers after winning 13 individual Class A state medals under Coach Pat McFadden at Kearney High School... made her debut as a freshman, finishing sixth in the 300-hurdles... returned as a sophomore to place seventh in the triple jump, third in the 100 hurdles, fourth in the 300 hurdles, while running the opening leg of the seventh-place 4x100- meter relay... produced a repeat performance as a junior, finishing third in the 100 hurdles, sixth in the 300 hurdles, sixth in the triple jump and seventh as the opening leg of the 4x100 relay... took third in the 100 hurdles for the third straight year as a senior, and also finished sixth in the triple jump, seventh in the 300 hurdles and ran the first leg of the third-place 4x400 relay... earned four letters in both track and volleyball, as well as two in basketball and one in swimming... chose Nebraska over UNK, Doane and Concordia. Parents are Nick and Rhonda Winchester... born April 2, major is biological science Nebraska Track and Field Huskers.com