There weren’t many people that predicted the UNK women’s cross country team winning the MIAA championship this year. The team was unranked in the Division II
Natalie Nicole Stanley leaves behind a legacy as a storyteller, an athlete and, above all, as a kind person.
Stanley, a 24-year-old former student at both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and a 2015 graduate of Lincoln North Star High School, died on April 20. College of Journalism and Mass Communications Dean Shari Veil said Stanley was posthumously awarded a degree from UNL after her professors checked her grades. The diploma was personally awarded to her parents, she said.Â
âNatalie touched so many lives here throughout the college from all of the classes she was in to the community across campus,â Veil said.
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The UNK men’s and women’s track and field teams have performed well this season. With the men ranked No. 27 in the outdoor Division II National Rating Index and both teams breaking school records, they seem to be set for success.
Only bad weather could delay the team before the Loper Invitational.
“It’s never great when you have to adjust the schedule,” said head coach Brady Bonsall. “[The meet] was supposed to be on Friday. Sunday was our only option to have it in terms of being able to use the facility.”