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02/21/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about a couple of individual achievements by athletes and coaches. He comments on the big start to the N150 Charter Week underway on campus and events extending across Nebraska and wherever alumni are around the world.

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[00:00:01.610]Welcome back, Sports Nightly here on
[00:00:02.810]the Huskers Sports Network.
[00:00:04.010]I'm glad to be joined by
[00:00:05.050]University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:07.840]We always talk about spectacular feats by Husker athletes,
[00:00:12.220]and there's so many of them that do so well
[00:00:14.030]as part of even a team sport.
[00:00:15.550]But that, teams are made up of individuals
[00:00:17.710]who do some really interesting things,
[00:00:19.660]and I know you want to highlight a couple here
[00:00:21.701]of recent weeks, more of individual sports.
[00:00:23.637]But, some young Nebraska athletes that we're proud of.
[00:00:26.870]Yeah you know Greg, we're really proud
[00:00:29.130]of our former athletes.
[00:00:30.410]And when athletes go on to coaching careers, you know,
[00:00:33.370]we've got one of those to celebrate right now,
[00:00:35.471]where are new women's gymnastics Head Coach Heather Brink,
[00:00:39.320]has been serving in an interim role here,
[00:00:42.440]and she was just named early this month
[00:00:44.810]as the permanent coach of the women's team.
[00:00:46.901]She's a former Husker.
[00:00:48.411]You know, competed here, had great achievements
[00:00:51.510]in winning two National Titles
[00:00:53.840]in the 2000 NCAA Championships.
[00:00:57.260]So, we're really great and proud
[00:00:59.010]to have Heather leading the team.
[00:01:00.750]And then one of our distance runners, George Kusche,
[00:01:03.769]just recently became the first
[00:01:06.352]Nebraska track and field athlete to break
[00:01:08.810]four minutes in the mile, you know,
[00:01:11.190]on a standard size track.
[00:01:12.460]So, he has his own story of perseverance.
[00:01:15.950]A couple of years ago, he wasn't meeting his own goals
[00:01:18.320]in his running program,
[00:01:19.610]and decided to seek improvement by coming here to Nebraska.
[00:01:23.050]And was drawn here not only by
[00:01:24.621]the opportunity in track and field,
[00:01:26.651]but he also was drawn here by
[00:01:28.990]the great Actuarial Science program
[00:01:30.750]we have at the College of Business.
[00:01:32.290]So, off to a great start in this track and field season,
[00:01:35.430]and in women's gymnastics with Heather.
[00:01:37.280]Very good.
[00:01:38.113]Well, thank you for highlighting those.
[00:01:38.946]I know it's been a big month already.
[00:01:40.370]This is a huge week,
[00:01:41.440]because we're celebrating the 150th anniversary
[00:01:44.440]of this incredible institution.
[00:01:46.340]You've had a lot of activities that have been going on.
[00:01:48.240]The 15th is actually the Charter Day.
[00:01:50.741]Kind of outline what's been going on
[00:01:53.000]this week here on campus.
[00:01:53.980]Well, this is our big week.
[00:01:55.272]All right, so we've been talking a little bit about it
[00:01:57.392]leading up to the year,
[00:01:58.792]and this is the highlight of the year.
[00:02:01.130]It's actually our Charter Week,
[00:02:02.930]when we celebrate our official
[00:02:04.699]150th anniversary signing of that charter.
[00:02:07.720]So, we're off to a big start, kind of here in midweek.
[00:02:10.752]On Monday, we had a really great event
[00:02:13.541]bringing together 600 of our students across the campus
[00:02:17.260]in a conversation with Senator Ben Sasse,
[00:02:19.512]talking about how to dialogue together,
[00:02:22.360]and get along together in the world today.
[00:02:24.920]And, a really rich discussion with three of our students
[00:02:28.290]and some of our faculty.
[00:02:29.678]Then yesterday afternoon,
[00:02:31.358]we had the second one of our N150 lecture series
[00:02:35.101]that we're carrying out throughout the year,
[00:02:37.310]12 of them throughout the months of the year
[00:02:40.500]highlighting the history of the university.
[00:02:42.240]And this one was really, really cool,
[00:02:44.100]because it took the old, original university hall
[00:02:46.860]which was the original building of the campus,
[00:02:49.130]no longer with us, and recreated it by virtual reality.
[00:02:53.720]So, people had headsets and were able
[00:02:55.430]to walk around in the building,
[00:02:56.901]in virtual reality done with NET,
[00:02:59.280]that Kay Logan-Peters from
[00:03:01.061]our university library's put together.
[00:03:03.780]So, exciting lecture yesterday.
[00:03:05.480]Tonight at our men's basketball game with Minnesota,
[00:03:09.380]we've got a little birthday cake celebration planned
[00:03:11.870]for halftime of the basketball game.
[00:03:14.280]And, we'll just wait to see who jumps out of that cake.
[00:03:16.707]Right?
[00:03:17.560]So, exciting there.
[00:03:19.069]Tomorrow night, we've got the opening
[00:03:21.860]of the fourth floor of Morrill Hall of the museum
[00:03:24.389]that is now a world-class museum space,
[00:03:27.131]multi-million dollar project that people
[00:03:30.220]are going to get to see for the first time.
[00:03:31.880]Very excited about that.
[00:03:33.269]Then Friday, is our big Charter Day.
[00:03:35.890]So, we'll celebrate it during the day
[00:03:37.581]with open houses at the university.
[00:03:40.300]And then that night,
[00:03:41.248]big, huge musical celebration at the Lied Center.
[00:03:44.700]We think we're going to be full for that,
[00:03:47.090]with fireworks over the campus.
[00:03:48.560]It's just a really cool week for us
[00:03:50.962]to be able to celebrate this 150 year anniversary
[00:03:54.210]of this great university.
[00:03:55.341]Well, that's a wonderful milestone
[00:03:56.470]for everybody on campus,
[00:03:57.560]and congratulations to all the people
[00:03:58.870]who put a lot of effort
[00:03:59.703]into getting all these events planned, and then executed.
[00:04:03.420]Let's look down the road a little bit.
[00:04:04.890]Let's go to April,
[00:04:05.727]and the university's going to hosting
[00:04:07.240]another interesting event for Nebraska entrepreneurs.
[00:04:10.880]Maybe even a chance to go on national TV.
[00:04:12.830]What can you tell us about that?
[00:04:14.260]Well you know, kind of a unique deal coming here.
[00:04:16.752]People have heard of the Shark Tank, right?
[00:04:18.803]So the show, it's where the sharks, you know,
[00:04:21.740]the successful business people, and potential investors,
[00:04:24.712]and ideas, and new startups.
[00:04:26.712]You'll get to hear pitches.
[00:04:28.472]And people come to them and say,
[00:04:30.930]if you invest in this, we'll make a big deal happen, right?
[00:04:35.533]So, people are familiar with that.
[00:04:37.163]They go through trial runs around the country,
[00:04:40.710]casting calls if you want to think of it that way.
[00:04:43.930]And, we've got a really unique opportunity
[00:04:46.090]coming up here in Early April, brought onboard
[00:04:50.210]by the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program
[00:04:52.712]at the university.
[00:04:54.710]This is a program that was started about 10 years ago now,
[00:04:58.610]almost 10 years ago by a 20 million dollar gift
[00:05:01.410]from Paul Engler, accomplished alum of the university.
[00:05:05.190]The largest cattle feeder in the world,
[00:05:06.500]who wanted to really encourage students
[00:05:10.980]in their entrepreneurial abilities.
[00:05:13.170]So, the Engler Program is a sponsor of this,
[00:05:15.072]that Shark Tank is going to be coming here
[00:05:17.380]April the 5th and 6th at PBA to do a casting call.
[00:05:22.400]So, kind of a really cool thing happening here in Lincoln,
[00:05:25.400]and who knows, some of our students
[00:05:27.410]may very well end up on the Shark Tank
[00:05:29.240]that we'll see coming out of that casting call.
[00:05:31.843]Well, that's awesome.
[00:05:32.730]Fantastic, I look forward to that event coming up in April.
[00:05:34.860]Well, congratulations again on
[00:05:36.490]the 150th anniversary celebrations.
[00:05:38.581]I hope you enjoy the entire week, you should.
[00:05:40.661]It's great to see this happening,
[00:05:43.061]that we're celebrating throughout the year,
[00:05:44.941]in addition to this week.
[00:05:46.510]But this week has been, you know,
[00:05:48.160]is just fun to be in the middle of this.
[00:05:50.020]And, to think about the great things
[00:05:52.080]that have happened at this university now for 15 decades,
[00:05:54.853]and to think about the future too.
[00:05:57.170]And the bold future that we have ahead
[00:05:58.763]as the state's university, and leading the state forward.
[00:06:02.592]Nebraska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor
[00:06:05.590]Ronnie Green with us here on Sports Nightly.
[00:06:07.300]We're back with more, coming up next.

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