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NE high school hurdles preview
The past few years the Prep Running Nerd team has devoted its coverage primarily to distance running, but we intend to give more love to...
jayslagle
Mar 12, 202210 min read
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NE high school throws preview
The past few years the Prep Running Nerd team has devoted its coverage primarily to distance running, but we intend to give more love to...
jayslagle
Mar 12, 202211 min read
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NE high school long jump preview
The past few years the Prep Running Nerd team has devoted its coverage primarily to distance running, but we intend to give more love to...
jayslagle
Mar 11, 20225 min read
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NE high school pole vault preview
The past few years the Prep Running Nerd team has devoted its coverage primarily to distance running, but we intend to give more love to...
jayslagle
Mar 11, 20224 min read
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03/09/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd NAIA national championships Nerd the Third and I had the opportunity to spend seven hours of quality time in the...
jayslagle
Mar 9, 20226 min read
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02/23/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd It's that time of the week. We're your Nebraska media source for indoor track. Putin may have invaded Ukraine...
jayslagle
Feb 23, 20228 min read
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02/16/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd For the first weekend in six weeks, I did not attend a track meet. Instead, I went to a beach and did virtually...
jayslagle
Feb 16, 20226 min read
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02/09/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd We've got to get back into writing shape, so it's time to push out another Nerdsletter. If you've got any T&F...
jayslagle
Feb 9, 20227 min read
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02/02/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd How about them brains? The USTFCCCA (isn't the primary purpose of acronyms is that they're supposed to be short?)...
jayslagle
Feb 2, 20223 min read
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The runner with the broken heart
Contributor: The Nerd Noah Lambrecht of McCool Junction wasn't the kind of athlete you'd read about in the newspaper. He wasn't fast. ...
jayslagle
Jan 25, 20221 min read
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US Olympic jumps coach Jeremy Fischer
Contributor: The Nerd A few weeks ago Patrick Grosserode, who runs Trackville in Lincoln, reached out to me on Twitter with an...
jayslagle
Jan 22, 20227 min read
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01/19/22 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd Our weekly Nerdsletter during XC season seemed to be well received, so we're going to try to write semi-regular...
jayslagle
Jan 18, 20227 min read
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Indoor open meets
Contributor: The Nerd Nebraska doesn't offer an indoor track season, but racing opportunities have dramatically increased this year. If...
jayslagle
Nov 20, 20216 min read
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NBC Nightly News
Folks, a simply running story from little ol' Nebraska went viral, and it found its way to an NBC editor. Ten days after Brandon Schutt...
jayslagle
Oct 24, 20211 min read
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10/24 Nerdsletter
Contributor: The Nerd This is it, folks. The Nebraska high school cross country season is over, and it's time for me to recognize that...
jayslagle
Oct 24, 202116 min read
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Class A Standouts
Contributor: The Nerd Like our Class B article, we added a bonus interview for Class A since we’ve never had the chance to sit down with...
jayslagle
Oct 21, 202115 min read
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Class A Girls Top 25 Preview
Contributors: Nerd Junior and Nerd the Third 1. Elli Dahl, Senior, Fremont After an injury kept Dahl from racing until October last...
jayslagle
Oct 21, 20218 min read
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Class A Boys Top 25 Preview
Contributors: Nerd Junior and Nerd the Third 1. Gabe Hinrichs, Senior, Elkhorn South Hinrichs entered the cross country season coming...
jayslagle
Oct 21, 20219 min read
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Class B Standouts
Contributor: The Nerd Our goal was to interview the top two runners in each division… and then Madison Seiler happened. With her Class...
jayslagle
Oct 20, 202113 min read
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Class C Standouts
Contributor: The Nerd With apologies to the top runners in other classes, the Class C interviews were the phone calls I was looking...
jayslagle
Oct 19, 202111 min read
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