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For some athletes, sports are all about the game itself, the rising thrills of success and the lows of defeat. For others, such as Densie Rice, the release of playing a sport, the lessons learned and the relationships formed through sports are what matters. Rice has a...

When Alise Pape went to her first powerlifting competition in January, she wasn’t expecting much, let alone a first-place finish in her weight class. “That was so shocking and so unexpected,” she said. A Chicago native, Pape began lifting casually in college as a form...

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...

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,”...

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),...

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...

For Jill Beisel, fitness isn’t just a goal, it’s a way of life. Besides staying healthy and active on her own, she encourages others through her job as a physician assistant at Gastroenterology Specialties. She began running regularly with her husband but had to quit...

For Lincoln native Peter Schack, few things are more exciting than learning about the ancient art of the sword and trying to replicate it on his own. Since his younger days, medieval history was always fascinating to Schack, especially in terms of knights and...

When Robert Chandler broke his neck in 2014, he didn’t know if he’d ever walk again. Inches away from being paralyzed or even death, Chandler’s nervous system was short-circuited after the freak accident, forcing him to relearn how to walk. “I basically had to...

For Lincoln native Jens Lehman, few things are more important to him than music. A lifelong musician, he has been a part of many bands, including his most recent endeavor, Jens Lehman and the Time Cops. Lehman and the Time Cops recorded an album together and performed...