Former Husker Wins Silver Medal

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From Huskers.com:

Gary Pepin was multi-tasking Wednesday night at his Lincoln home. Nebraska's Hall-of-Fame track and field coach was watching the Husker women's basketball team win its first-ever Big 12 Conference championship on television at the same time he was listening to the men's basketball team on radio.
During an occasional timeout, he would even check to see if anyone was great on American Idol ("No one was," he said), admitting he was more engrossed in finalizing his strategy for this weekend's Big 12 Conference Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa.

Pepin may not have heard any world-class singers Wednesday night on one of his favorite shows, but he watched Shelley-Ann Brown, one of his world-class former athletes, who also happens to be an accomplished singer, win a silver medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in her native Canada.

And, yes, Pepin shook his head a bit and felt some pride when the announcer told the world that Brown was "an All-American hurdler at the University of Nebraska".

Too bad she won it for the Canadaites*, but it's nice to see a Husker doing well all the same.

* - what do they call themselves up there? Canegians? Canadadians? Candedeites? Cananadadians? I've always just stuck with "America's Hat" and called it good.

 

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I think it was when Curt T. was doing bobsleigh his family brought a Nebraska flag.