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Nebraska Cornhuskers Men's Track And Field
The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's and women's track and field teams compete as part of NCAA Division I, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. The men's program became Nebraska's first varsity sport in 1889 and a women's team was established in 1976. The programs host indoor meets at the Bob Devaney Sports Center and outdoor meets at an incomplete facility on Nebraska Innovation Campus. NU's men's team has won thirty-eight indoor and thirty-one outdoor conference championships, producing thirty-six individual national champions; the women have won twenty-four indoor and eighteen outdoor conference championships with thirty-seven national champions. Nebraska's only three team national titles came in the early 1980s in women's indoor competition, led by Jamaican sprinter and nine-time Olympic Games, Olympic medalist Merlene Ottey. Gary Pepin retired in 2022 after four decades as Nebraska's head coach and assistant Justin St. Clair was named his rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Dannen
Troy Dannen is an American college athletics administrator. He has served as the seventeenth full-time athletic director at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln since March 2024, a position he previously held at the University of Washington, Tulane University, and the University of Northern Iowa. Early life and education Dannen was born and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa. He attended Iowa State University for a semester before transferring to the University of Northern Iowa, where he worked as an athletic assistant and graduated with a bachelor's degree in public relations with a minor in journalism in 1989. Dannen covered softball for a local newspaper and officiated high school sporting events while in college, and later served as the public address announcer for Drake women's basketball for a single season. Administrative career During college, Dannen interned at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, the only organization of its kind in the United States. He was hired to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
