Steven M. Sipple, Parker Gabriel and Chris Basnett talk through what’s on deck for the last week of Nebraska’s spring football session and what recruits are expected to be in town for the Red-White Spring Game next weekend. After that, a conversation about what NU has to do on the diamond to have a chance at hosting an NCAA regional, Thor’s decision not to come back to the men’s basketball program and the end of the volleyball season.
Tyler Loontjer wanted to beat his father’s mark. Done. Then, he wanted to clear 18 feet on pole vault.
Check that off the list, too.
Loontjer, a senior, cleared 18 feet, 1 inch to highlight four Nebraska event titles on the final day of the Illini Big Ten Relays on Saturday in Champaign, Illinois.
The mark pushes Loontjer, a former Fillmore Central standout, into the No. 9 spot in the nation in pole vault. He is the Big Ten leader, too.
Loontjer’s father, Glen, cleared 17-9 in an indoor meet in 1984, which the younger Loontjer trumped on March 26 in Bloomington, Indiana.
NU’s Mayson Conner (7-2½, men’s high jump), Terrol Wilson (50-1¼, men’s triple jump) and Madi Scholl (5-7, women’s high jump) round out the Huskers’ gold-medal winners.
Other notable Husker finishers include the women’s 3,200-meter relay team — Judi Jones, Elsa Forsberg, Emma Bresser and Lindsey Blehm — that claimed a second-place finish, completing the race in 19:42.47, the second-best time in program history.
Nebraska will compete at Indiana’s Billy Hayes Invitational next Saturday.
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