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‘This award for me, it drives home:’ For Crouch and Larson, NU hall call is up there with Heismans, Olympic golds | Huskers



A Hall of Fame ceremony did not take place last year, so Nebraska honored two classes Friday at East Stadium, and it’s quite a collection.

The 2020 class includes Crouch, Larson, Maurtice Ivy (women’s basketball, 1985-88), Sam Francis (football and track, 1935-37), Amanda Burgoyne (bowling, 2004-07) and legendary volleyball coach Terry Pettit.

Cathy Noth (volleyball, 1981-84), Kesley Griffin (women’s basketball, 2006-10), Bob Cerv (baseball, 1947-50), Larry Jacobson (football, 1969-71), Jordan Burroughs (wrestling, 2007-11) and Therese Alshammar (swimming, 1998-99) make up the 2021 class.

Each of them elevated Nebraska athletics, and some had decorated athletic careers that expanded beyond NU. Larson, Burroughs, Francis and Alshammar were Olympic athletes.

Inductees such as Pettit put Nebraska volleyball on the map. Pettit had his name put on the Nebraska volleyball court a handful of years ago and, “That was more than enough recognition for me.”

Watching Larson and Noth, who played for Pettit, enter the NU Hall of Fame meant a lot to the coach, more so than his own induction.

“It’s special but it’s really special for me with Cathy and Jordan going in, and everybody knows about Jordan,” Pettit said. “Very few people, unless you follow volleyball, know how dominant a player Cathy was. Cathy could have been an All-American at any position in the court.”



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