By TODD GOTTULA UNK Communications DENVER – Those eight guys standing in the front row. The shirtless ones wearing cutoff jean shorts, waving a UNK pennant and cheering on the Lopers at Saturday’s NCAA Division II volleyball national championship in Denver. They weren’t University of Nebraska at Kearney students. Nope, those guys with the blue paint on their chests were football players from nearby Colorado School of Mines. “We’re here for No. 23,” they shouted … [Read more...] about NCAA TOURNEY NOTES: Colorado Mines football players show up to support Lopers
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Three cheers for UNK: Loper bench adds energy with sideline celebrations
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Other collegiate volleyball coaches ask Rick Squiers about it all the time. “What’s with your crazy bench?” “Why is that happening?” “How did you start that?” His team’s over-the-top sideline antics have “definitely caught some attention,” according to Squiers, the longtime head coach at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. But he’s not the mastermind behind the loud, vivacious and completely unapologetic … [Read more...] about Three cheers for UNK: Loper bench adds energy with sideline celebrations
