Sports

Hehn leads women’s swimming and diving at national meet

Published March 24, 2003

Keri Hehn gained her second, first-team All-America honors in the 200 breaststroke in Auburn, Ala. over the weekend. Hehn earned her status by finishing eighth in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:14.27....

Gophers show little intensity in crunch time

by Anthony Maggio
Published March 14, 2003

CHICAGO - Minnesota's men's basketball team's 76-64 first-round Big Ten tournament loss to Northwestern on Thursday came after an interesting sign. "We had a horrible practice yesterday," Wildcats coach...

NCAA meet a showcase for three national powers

by Brian Stensaas
Published March 14, 2003

It's the question that will be on just about everybody's mind when the stage is set at Kemper Arena next week for the NCAA wrestling championships in Kansas City. Is three meant to be? Two-time defending...

Trio of talented swimmers represent Gophers at nationals

by Sam Campanaro
Published March 13, 2003

Dana Baum, Keri Hehn and Juleen Rodakowski are eating better, sleeping more and staying off their legs in preparation for the biggest swim meet of the season. The trio heads to Auburn University in Alabama...

Marks perseveres through struggles to NCAA meet

by Ben Goessling
Published March 13, 2003

When the NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships begin Friday in Fayetteville, Ark., senior Shani Marks will compete in the triple jump as Minnesota's only representative. Her place on a pedestal...

Wendell to be ready in time for Frozen Four

by Brett Angel
Published March 12, 2003

It was a sight Minnesota's women's hockey team has been waiting more than a month to see. Krissy Wendell emerged from the Gophers' locker room in full pads Tuesday afternoon and stepped on to the Ridder...

Time running out on relay team’s chance for big finish

by Ben Goessling
Published March 12, 2003

It's a sight that has become commonplace to track and field fans at Minnesota: the men's 4x400-meter relay team leaving opponents, expectations and records in its wake, almost sneering at the clock while...

Flawless fielding bolsters baseball team

by Brian Stensaas
Published March 12, 2003

Shortly after the final out of the Dairy Queen Classic baseball game between Minnesota and No. 16 Nebraska on March 2, one number on the Metrodome scoreboard stuck out like no other. Six. The digit, nestled...

NCAA berth possible for ‘U’ amid Georgia scandal

by Brian Stensaas
Published March 11, 2003

Ironic, isn't it? On the morning Dan Monson's Gonzaga basketball team defeated Minnesota in the 1999 NCAA tournament, then-Gophers coach Clem Haskins was first receiving news his scandalous secret was...

Baseball takes two from Cal State

Published March 10, 2003

David Roach had a game-winning RBI double to drive home Tony Leseman in the bottom of the eighth, as Minnesota (6-5) defeated No. 2 Cal State Fullerton (16-3) 8-7 Sunday to claim two out of the three games...