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Feb 2, 2021 2:34 PM
The Nebraska-Kearney track and field teams are ranked 15th (men) and 22nd (women) in the second edition of the indoor Division II National Rating Index.
The rankings are released weekly by the
The Loper men, tallying 48.39 points, have 10 times or marks in the nation’s top 27. Fremont redshirt freshman
Wes Ferguson is second in the 800 (school-record 1:50.60) with Kearney sophomore
Brayden Sorensen third in the high jump (6-10.25). Hastings junior
Seth Simonson (eighth/800; 1:52.47) is the other Loper in the top 10.
West Texas A&M (171.09) vaults up four spots to number one with Ashland (Ohio), Grand Valley State (Mich.), Lee (Tenn.) and Central Missouri rounding out the top five. Finally, UNK is fifth in the Central Region behind Northwest Missouri, Pittsburg State, UCM and Missouri Southern State.
From the Editor: Wild Wes
Whatever your views are on hunting, I think you’ll find senior editor Wes Ferguson a clear-eyed guide to this timely topic.
Wes Ferguson shows off ducks bagged during a hunt with conservationist Andrew Sansom and Sansom’s retriever LoLo at Bucksnag Hunting Club, in Garwood, on December 27, 2020.
Brian Center
When I first met Wes Ferguson two years ago, over beers outside an Austin sandwich shop, our conversation quickly turned to hunting and fishing. We had both grown up in small towns and working-class families where chasing bass and birds and bucks was a treasured way to enjoy the outdoors with relatives and friends while putting food on the table.