by Luke Mullin | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
From her days growing up in Ravenna, sports and McKenna Schmidt have always gone hand-in-hand. Schmidt kept herself busy with various athletic activities, eventually competing in basketball, volleyball, golf, track and softball at Ravenna High School. Basketball has...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 12, 2019 | Other News
The Nebraska Sports Council’s annual Golf for Gold Scramble, held June 10, 2019, was a resounding success, as a total of around $11,000 was raised to support low-income athletes. As part of the Nebraska Sports Council’s Adopt An Athlete Program, proceeds from the...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog
When Nic Ridder turned on the Winter Olympics in 2002 and saw curling, he wasn’t quite sure what to make of a sport which consists entirely of stones being slowly slid across an icy surface. “It was something I wasn’t familiar with, it was really foreign to me,”...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog
When a friend approached Brook McCluskey trying to get her into powerlifting, she wasn’t too thrilled with the prospects of lifting heavy weights in front of other people. In her first competitive action, a Nebraska state tournament ran by USA Powerlifting (USAPL),...
by Luke Mullin | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog
Lincoln native Richard Couch has come a long way since a fateful day in 2014 that changed his life for the better. Ahead of a 2-mile race he planned to run with his daughters, Couch went to a track to practice. “I didn’t think I even needed to [practice] and I...
