Nebraska goes so as to add one other girls’s sport. The one questions remaining are when and which one.
On Sports activities Nightly after the Husker Video games, Nebraska athletics director Troy Dannen stated Title IX would make one other girls’s sport a necessity in Lincoln.
“Ultimately we’re going to have one other girls’s sport right here at Nebraska from a Title IX standpoint,” Dannen stated.
However which is able to turn into the following varsity sport among the many Cornhuskers? Beneath are a number of choices.
Flag Soccer
““Flag soccer is absolutely being pushed by the NFL. And lots of states have sanctioned it at the highschool degree,” Dannen stated after the Husker Video games. “I feel girls’s flag soccer is a kind of sports activities that — I needed to see it stay myself. And we had lots of followers come and watch it.”
Followers took in a 60-0 flag soccer sport at Memorial Stadium, with Midland dominating a membership staff from UNL. The Warriors have had a staff since 2020-21.
There are a minimum of 65 NCAA faculties sponsoring girls’s flag soccer as both membership or varsity sports activities. At present, it’s not an NCAA championship sport. If it will get added to the NCAA Rising Sports activities for Ladies program, 40 faculties might want to sponsor the game on the varsity degree for it to earn championship standing.
Wrestling
The most recent girls’s sport to earn NCAA championship standing, wrestling will maintain its first championship in 2026.
There are greater than 130 girls’s wrestling applications at school throughout the divisions. A number of applications exist already inside the borders of Nebraska: Chadron State, Doane, Hastings Faculty, Midland, Southeast Neighborhood Faculty, and York.
Inside the Division I ranks, lower than a dozen applications exist. A type of is at Iowa.
Women wrestling has been a sanctioned sport in Nebraska for a few years. Participation continues to develop, with 137 groups represented on the newest state championships.
Ice Hockey
Ladies’s ice hockey is already an NCAA championship sport, however whereas a number of Huge Ten faculties have applications, they have to compete exterior of the league.
Wisconsin simply gained their eighth nationwide title, beating Minnesota and Ohio State within the Frozen 4. These three compete within the Western Collegiate Hockey Affiliation. Penn State additionally has a varsity program within the Atlantic Hockey America convention.
Jordyn Petrie, a Lincoln native and ahead for Ohio State, is certainly one of a number of Nebraskans enjoying ice hockey throughout the nation. There’s native expertise to constructed upon for a brand new program. And maybe no different sport has been pined after greater than ice hockey in Lincoln, particularly with seeing how effectively the Omaha Mavericks have completed with the game.
There are presently 44 girls’s ice hockey groups within the NCAA Division I.
Area Hockey
The primary sport on our record that’s each already at NCAA championship standing and sponsored on the Huge Ten Convention degree.
9 Huge Ten groups compete in area hockey: Northwestern, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio State, Rutgers, Iowa, Penn State, and Michigan State. The Wildcats gained the nationwide title again in November.
There are presently 79 girls’s area hockey groups within the NCAA Division I.
Lacrosse
One other sport with each NCAA championship standing and sponsorship on the Huge Ten degree, this sport is predominantly performed within the northeast and on the coasts.
The Huge Ten has 9 groups competing within the sport: Northwestern, Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Penn State, USC, Rutgers, Ohio State, and Oregon. The Wildcats completed as nationwide runner-up final month.
There are 128 applications competing on the NCAA Division I degree.
Nebraska presently competes in 10 males’s championships and 13 girls’s championships. Seashore volleyball isn’t amongst these as they don’t compete within the postseason.
Males’s Sports activities
Ladies’ Sports activities
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