• In This Issue
1 | From the Huskers Athletic Fund Director 2-3 | Tom Osborne: Legacy of Leadership 4 | Upcoming Events What’s going on with the Huskers Athletic Fund Capital Campaign Update 5 | Coach’s Corner: Assistant Football Coach Rick Kaczenski Did You Know? Fun facts and trivia 6 | Husker Highlight: Emily Cady, Women’s Basketball A Day in the Life: Ethan Rowley, Marketing Director 7 | Remember When? Huskers Defeat Wisconsin, 3-2 for 2000 National Championship Husker Hero: Greichaly Cepero 8 | Donor Diaries: Featuring Florian and Linda Hrdlicka #Huskers: Best of the Twitterverse
Quarterly Newsletter - september
2012
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From the Huskers Athletic Fund Director Dear Huskers, I would like to, first of all, thank you for your continued support of Nebraska Athletics. Our first year in the Big Ten was a successful one full of learning, of growth, and of truly re-discovering how great it is to be a Husker. With this week’s news of Coach Osborne’s retirement, I would first like to recognize the tremendous impact he has made, not just on this athletic department but on the state as a whole. Many of his accomplishments are listed on the next two pages, but his legacy is more than a list of tasks he has completed. His name is synonymous with the tradition of excellence we enjoy at Nebraska, and we are so grateful for his leadership as athletic director since 2007. Throughout the year, we learned new ways to make your donor experience a better one than ever before. When we became the Huskers Athletic Fund a year ago, we were able to bring all of our sport-specific booster clubs under one umbrella, helping to provide better customer service from our office for you by now having all of our donations housed in the NU Foundation. We’ve grown. We’ve learned from our successes, but have also found ways to grow from the things that we can improve. We strive to continually find ways to make your experience with the Huskers memorable, exciting and fun. Our facilities have grown, and continue to grow, with the projects we’ve undertaken in the Expand Their Experience campaign, which you can read more about in this newsletter. Most of all, we’ve re-discovered how unique Nebraska truly is. This fan base is unlike any other in the country -- loyal, energetic, knowledgeable and kind. We’ve traveled to many new places in the last year, and nowhere have we found a fan base like this one. We can provide the best coaches and the best facilities (and we believe we are doing that), but the thing that we continue to hear from our studentathletes is how amazed they are by the people who cheer for them. You are what makes the Nebraska brand so special, and our successes begin with support from you. For that, we can’t thank you enough. We hope you enjoy this newsletter and hope that we’ll see you this season at a game or match. If there is anything we can do to help make your experience better, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Thank you and Go Big Red! Paul Meyers, HAF Director
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