Editing Nebraska Cornhuskers

{{Short description|Intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln}}
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{{Infobox school athletics
| name = Nebraska Cornhuskers 
| logo = Nebraska Cornhuskers logo.svg
| logo_width = 125
| university = [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]
| association = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]
| conference = [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] (primary)<br>[[Patriot Rifle Conference|Patriot Rifle]] (rifle)
| division = [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] ([[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]])
| director = [[Troy Dannen]]
| location = [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]
| teams = 24 (10 men's, 14 women's)
| stadium = [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]]
| baseballfield = [[Haymarket Park|Hawks Field]]
| softballstadium = [[Bowlin Stadium]]
| basketballarena = [[Pinnacle Bank Arena]]
| volleyballarena = [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|John Cook Arena]]
| soccerstadium = [[Barbara Hibner Soccer Stadium|Hibner Stadium]]
| tenniscourt = Dillon Tennis Center
| golfcourse = Wilderness Ridge Golf Club
| natatorium = [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|Devaney Center Natatorium]]
| wrestlingarena = [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|Devaney Center]]
| mascot = [[Herbie Husker]]<br>[[Lil' Red]]
| nickname = Cornhuskers<br>Big Red
| fightsong = ''[[Hail Varsity]]''<br>''[[Dear Old Nebraska U]]''
| pageurl = https://huskers.com/
| altlogo = [[file:Huskers wordmark nebraska.png|200px]]
}}
[[File:Big Ten logo in Nebraska colors.svg|thumb|200px|[[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] logo in Nebraska's school colors]]
The '''Nebraska Cornhuskers''' (often abbreviated to '''Huskers''') are the [[College athletics in the United States|intercollegiate athletic]] teams that represent the [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]. The university is a member of the [[Big Ten Conference]] and competes in [[NCAA Division I]], fielding twenty-four [[varsity team]]s (ten men's, fourteen women's) in sixteen sports. Twenty-one of these teams participate in the Big Ten, while rifle is a member of the single-sport [[Patriot Rifle Conference]] and beach volleyball and bowling compete as independents. The Cornhuskers are commonly referred to as the "Big Red" and have two official mascots, [[Herbie Husker]] and [[Lil' Red]].

Nebraska was a founding member of the short-lived [[Western Interstate University Football Association]], one of college football's first conferences, in 1892, and helped form the [[Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association]] fifteen years later. The MVIAA, which became the [[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] in 1964, served as Nebraska's primary conference for the next eighty-nine years, with a brief hiatus during [[World War I]]. In 1996, the Big Eight merged with four [[Texas]] schools from the [[Southwest Conference]] to form the [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]]. Nebraska [[2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment|joined the Big Ten]] in 2011, a lucrative transition that separated the school from most of its traditional rivals.

Nebraska's varsity athletic programs have won thirty-two national championships (eleven in [[Nebraska Cornhuskers bowling|bowling]], eight in [[Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics|men's gymnastics]], five each in [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|football]] and [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball|volleyball]], and three in women's track and field) and 359<!--through April 2025--> combined conference regular-season and tournament championships.

==Nickname==
The University of Nebraska did not have a nickname or mascot during its early decades, though many were used unofficially. NU's first football team wore gold and black and became known as the "Old Gold Knights," but it is unclear if the term was used contemporarily.<ref name=Johnston/> In 1892, the ''[[The Daily Nebraskan|The Hesperian Student]]'' (later ''The Daily Nebraskan'') urged the adoption of new colors due to the number of universities – specifically [[Western Interstate University Football Association|WIUFA]] rivals [[Iowa Hawkeyes football|Iowa]] and [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]] – already using gold or yellow, and selected scarlet and cream as they were considered "bright and attractive."<ref name=Johnston>{{cite web|url=https://www.cornnation.com/2023/5/8/23715499/nebraska-nickname-bugeaters-rattlesnake-boys-cornhuskers|title=How Did Nebraska Get Its Name? - Uncovering the Fascinating History Of Bugeaters To Cornhuskers|author=Jon Johnston|website=Corn Nation|date=8 May 2023|access-date=26 April 2025}}</ref> Throughout the 1890s the team may have gone by "Antelopes" and "Rattlesnake Boys," but the most well-known of Nebraska's early nicknames is "Bugeaters," a reference to the state's meager food supply during an [[Droughts_in_the_United_States#19th_Century|1870s drought]] when farmers purportedly resorted to eating bugs.<ref name=Christopherson/> Many Nebraskans appreciated the rugged characterization despite its negative connotations.<ref name=Christopherson/><ref name=SehnertBooth>{{cite web|url=https://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1664052.html|title=Bummy Booth and the first Cornhuskers|author=Walt Sehnert|website=[[McCook Gazette]]|date=13 September 2010|access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref>

The first documented use of "Cornhuskers" appeared in the March 17, 1894 issue of ''[[The Sporting News]]'', in reference to a [[Western League (1885–1900)|Western League]] baseball team from [[Sioux City, Iowa|Sioux City]] that later became the [[Chicago White Sox]].<ref name=Johnston/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.threadsofourgame.com/1894-sioux-city-ia/|title=1894 Sioux City IA (Sioux Citys, Cornhuskers) – Western League|website=Threads of Our Game|access-date=26 April 2025}}</ref> Six months later, the term appeared in ''The Hesperian Student'' ("We have met the corn huskers and they are ours!"); it was used as a derisive reference to [[Iowa Hawkeyes football|Iowa]] and not as an athletic nickname.<ref name=SehnertBooth/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=StxilVkWZ-MC&q=We+Have+Met+The+Cornhuskers+And+They+Are+Ours&pg=PA17|title=Nebraska Cornhusker Football|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]]|author=Mark Fricke|year=2005|page=17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026181003/https://books.google.com/books?id=StxilVkWZ-MC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17|archive-date=26 October 2016|df=mdy-all|isbn=9780738534374}}</ref> ''[[Lincoln Journal Star|Nebraska State Journal]]'' (later the ''Lincoln Journal Star'') sportswriter and state native [[Cy Sherman]] hated the Bugeaters moniker and began using "Cornhuskers," which wasn't applied to Nebraska until Sherman did so in 1899.<ref name=SehnertBooth/> It caught on quickly and was adopted by the university in 1900, and later by the state of [[Nebraska]] itself, which became "[[List of U.S. state and territory nicknames|The Cornhusker State]]" in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huskernews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/1999/01/01/380d0d7a3|title=Husker Press Box – The Beginning Of The Huskers|author=Mark Fricke|website=Husker News|date=11 May 2008|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511164744/http://www.huskernews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/1999/01/01/380d0d7a3|archive-date=11 May 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Sherman is known as "the father of the Cornhuskers" and later founded college football's [[AP poll]].<ref name=Christopherson>{{cite web|url=http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/deep-red-the-story-behind-the-name-cornhuskers/article_2fa80a93-6d8f-5800-8223-772a759ff5a0.html|title=Deep Red: The story behind the name 'Cornhuskers'|author=Brian Christopherson|publisher=[[Lincoln Journal Star]]|date=20 June 2009|access-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026181432/http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/deep-red-the-story-behind-the-name-cornhuskers/article_2fa80a93-6d8f-5800-8223-772a759ff5a0.html|archive-date=26 October 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==Varsity sports==
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| Cross country || [[Nebraska Cornhuskers bowling|Bowling]]
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| [[Nebraska Cornhuskers men's golf|Golf]] || [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's golf|Golf]]
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| [[Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics|Gymnastics]] || [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's gymnastics|Gymnastics]]
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| [[Nebraska Cornhuskers men's tennis|Tennis]] || [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's soccer|Soccer]]
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| [[Nebraska Cornhuskers track and field|Track and field]]{{efn|name=TrackField|Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor, which are considered separate programs.}} || [[Nebraska Cornhuskers softball|Softball]]
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|colspan=2 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Nebraska Cornhuskers}}; text-align:center"| '''Co-ed sports'''
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|colspan=2 style="text-align:center"| [[Nebraska Cornhuskers rifle|Rifle]]{{efn|Though rifle is classified as coeducational by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]], Nebraska fields an all-female team.}}
|}

===Baseball===
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Nebraska established a baseball program in 1889, making it the school's oldest active varsity sport. The team was disjointed in its first decades, often disbanding for years at a time. The hiring of Tony Sharpe in 1947 brought stability but limited success – Sharpe and his successor [[John Sanders (baseball)|John Sanders]] combined to lead fifty-one seasons, making just three postseason appearances. [[Dave Van Horn]] was hired in 1998 and established a national power, culminating in Nebraska's first [[College World Series]] appearances in 2001 and 2002, a landmark moment for a state that has hosted the event since 1950.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theindependent.com/huskershq/big-finish/article_49e950f9-a922-5a4d-aa02-745a917fc8ab.html|title=Big Finish|author=Terry Douglass|work=[[Grand Island Independent]]|date=2 June 2001|accessdate=7 July 2019|location=[[Grand Island, Nebraska]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706000740/https://www.theindependent.com/huskershq/big-finish/article_49e950f9-a922-5a4d-aa02-745a917fc8ab.html|archive-date=6 July 2019}}</ref> Assistant [[Mike Anderson (baseball coach)|Mike Anderson]] took over for Van Horn and led NU to its best-ever season, finishing 57–15 and reaching another College World Series in 2005. Anderson did not sustain this success and was fired in 2011, the same year Nebraska transitioned to the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]. NU has experienced little national success since joining the conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huskercorner.com/2023/05/26/nebraska-cornhuskers-b1g-baseball-attendance/|title=Nebraska Cornhuskers: B1G baseball attendance is worse than you thought|author=Oliver Vandervoort|website=Husker Corner|date=26 May 2023|access-date=26 April 2025}}</ref>

Nebraska has been to eighteen [[NCAA Division I baseball tournament|NCAA Division I tournaments]] and three College World Series. Sixteen players have been named [[College Baseball All-America Team|first-team All-Americans]] and [[Alex Gordon]] won the 2005 [[Golden Spikes Award]] as the country's best [[Amateur baseball in the United States|amateur player]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usabaseball.com/golden-spikes-award/history/winners/alex-gordon|title=Alex Gordon – 2005 Golden Spikes Award Winner|publisher=[[USA Baseball]]|access-date=26 April 2025}}</ref> Nebraska plays its home games at [[Haymarket Park|Hawks Field at Haymarket Park]], built in 2001 to replace the aging [[Buck Beltzer Stadium]].

*Conference championships (8): 1929, 1948, 1950, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2017, 2021
*Conference tournament championships (5): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2024
*[[College World Series]] appearances (3): 2001, 2002, 2005

===Basketball===
;Men
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball}}
Prior to the creation of the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA tournament]], Nebraska was a [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] power under head coaches Raymond G. Clapp and [[Ewald O. Stiehm]].<ref name=Jumbo>{{cite web|url=https://247sports.com/college/nebraska/Article/Mike-Babcock-on-Ewald-Stiehm-62289/|title=How It Was: The first great coach|author=Mike Babcock|publisher=[[247Sports]]|date=21 February 2012|access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref> NU struggled through the post-[[World War II]] years, which included a stretch of twenty-eight years with just two winning seasons that stretched into the 1960s. Much of the team's modest modern-day success came during the fourteen-year tenure of [[Danny Nee]], Nebraska's winningest head coach. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their eight NCAA Division I tournament appearances and won the [[1996 National Invitation Tournament]], NU's first national postseason title. Nebraska has reached the NCAA tournament just twice since Nee was fired in 2000. In 2019, NU hired former [[Chicago Bulls]] head coach [[Fred Hoiberg]], who led the Cornhuskers to the inaugural [[College Basketball Crown]] championship in 2025.

Nebraska's men's and women's basketball teams have played at [[Pinnacle Bank Arena|West Haymarket Arena]] (known as Pinnacle Bank Arena for sponsorship purposes) since its construction in 2013.

*Conference championships (6): 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1949, 1950
*Conference tournament championships (1): 1994

;Women
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball}}
[[File:Yori285 Yori9x12.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Connie Yori]] is Nebraska's all-time winningest women's basketball coach]]
Nebraska's women's basketball history began with a short-lived club team in the early 1900; the program was shuttered until the 1972 enactment of [[Title IX]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1983LPound.pdf|title=Nebraska's Scholarly Athlete: Louise Pound, 1872-1958|author=Nellie Snyder Yost|journal=[[History Nebraska]]|date=1983|access-date=10 March 2025|format=PDF}}</ref> Angela Beck took Nebraska to its first [[1988 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA Division I tournament]] and won the 1988 [[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] championship. Under Beck, [[Karen Jennings]] won the [[Wade Trophy]] as the country's best player in 1992–93.

[[Connie Yori]], hired from [[Creighton Bluejays women's basketball|Creighton]] in 2002, steadily built a national contender, culminating in a 2009–10 season that was the best in school history – NU started 30–0 and became the first Big 12 team to complete an undefeated regular season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/2009-10-team-reunion-brings-back-memories-for-nebraska-women-s-basketball/article_c0d9e2ba-0cca-11ea-85c5-c363ed97c078.html|title=2009-10 team reunion brings back memories for Nebraska women's basketball|author=Austin Knippelmeir|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=22 November 2019|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> [[Kelsey Griffin]] was a national player of the year finalist and Yori was named national coach of the year. Forward [[Jordan Hooper]] led Nebraska into the Big Ten and earned first-team All-America honors in 2013–14, the same season NU won its first conference tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huskerextra.com/news/basketball/womans-basketball/amie-just-why-the-timing-was-finally-right-to-honor-nebraska-womens-star-jordan-hooper/article_d42844f8-ada5-11ee-9548-3386535672d5.html|title=Why the timing was finally right to honor Nebraska women's star Jordan Hooper|author=Amie Just|publisher=[[Lincoln Journal Star]]|date=7 January 2024|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> Yori was forced to resign after an administrative investigation in 2016, and Nebraska turned to former player [[Amy Williams (basketball)|Amy Williams]] to lead the program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/15184093/south-dakota-amy-williams-new-women-coach-nebraska|title=Nebraska hires Amy Williams as head coach|publisher=[[ESPN]]|date=11 April 2016|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref>

*Conference championships (2): 1988, 2010
*Conference tournament championships (1): 2014

===Bowling===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers bowling}}
Nebraska's bowling program was founded as a club team in 1983 and became a varsity sport in 1997. It is the most successful collegiate program in bowling history, winning eleven national championships and qualifying for every [[NCAA bowling championship|NCAA championship]]. Most of this success came under Bill Straub, who coached for thirty-six years and granted the first full scholarships in bowling history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/straub-retires-after-36-years-at-husker-bowling-helm/article_24371ef0-c9e5-11e9-9f93-0b6e7cecb2d2.html|title=Straub retires after 36 years at Husker bowling helm|author=Martin Herz|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=28 August 2019|access-date=8 March 2025}}</ref> The team has been coached by longtime assistant Paul Klempa since Straub's retirement in 2019.

Bowling competes as an independent, making it one of three programs at Nebraska not affiliated with the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]].

*'''WIBC''' (5) / '''NCAA''' (6) '''championships''': 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2021

===Cross country===
Nebraska's men's cross country team was established in 1938, winning its only conference championship two years later. The women's program was established in 1975. Megan Elliott has coached both teams since 2024.

*Men's conference championships (1): 1940
*Women's conference championships (5): 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993

===Football===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers football}}
[[File:Tommie Frazier photo.jpg|thumb|175px|Quarterback [[Tommie Frazier]] was named most valuable player of three national championship games]]
Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history, winning forty-six conference championships and five [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championships]], along with seven unclaimed national titles. Its 1971 and 1995 teams are considered among the best ever. [[Heisman Trophy]] winners [[Johnny Rodgers]], [[Mike Rozier]], and [[Eric Crouch]] join twenty-four other Cornhuskers in the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].

The program's first extended period of success came early in the twentieth century. Between 1900 and 1916, Nebraska had five undefeated seasons and a stretch of thirty-four games without a loss.<ref name=Jumbo/> The Cornhuskers won twenty-four conference championships prior to [[World War II]] but struggled through the postwar years until [[Bob Devaney]] was hired in 1962. Devaney built Nebraska into a national power, winning two national championships and eight conference titles in eleven seasons as head coach. Offensive coordinator [[Tom Osborne]] was named Devaney's successor in 1973 and over the next twenty-five years established himself as one of the best coaches in college football history with his trademark [[I formation]] offense and revolutionary strength, conditioning, and nutrition programs.<ref>{{cite web|title=How it was: Osborne on the Option|author=Mike Babcock|url=https://247sports.com/college/nebraska/Article/Nebraska-Tom-Osborne-on-the-option-offense-40100/|website=[[247Sports]]|date=15 September 2011|access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref> Following Osborne's retirement in 1997, Nebraska cycled through five head coaches before hiring [[Matt Rhule]] in 2023.

Nebraska has played its home games at [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]] since 1923 and [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football sellout streak|sold out]] every game at the venue since 1962.

*Conference championships (46): 1894, 1895, 1897, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972,{{efn|In early 1973, Oklahoma forfeited eight wins from the previous season when it was discovered the Sooners had used players ineligible under [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] rules, which gave second-place Nebraska the 1972 Big Eight title. Decades later, Oklahoma reversed course and recognized these wins. Both schools claim the championship.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/19/archives/oklahoma-agrees-to-forfeit-games-gives-up-eight-victories-in.html|title=Oklahoma Agrees to Forfeit Games|author=Gordon S. White Jr.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 April 1973|access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>}} 1975, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999
*'''[[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|National championships]]''' (claimed in bold) (12): 1915, '''1970''', '''1971''', 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, '''1994''', '''1995''', '''1997'''

===Golf===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers men's golf|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's golf}}
Nebraska's men's golf program was established in 1935 and has reached the [[NCAA Division I men's golf championship|NCAA Division I championship]] four times, most recently in 1999. [[Steve Friesen]] won the 1999 [[Ben Hogan Award]] as the country's best golfer under the guidance of longtime head coach Larry Romjue. The team has been coached by Judd Cornell since 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huskers.com/staff/judd-cornell|title=Judd Cornell|publisher=Nebraska Athletics|accessdate=5 March 2025}}</ref>

A women's program was started 1975, initially led by Romjue. The Cornhuskers have played in fourteen NCAA regionals, advancing to the [[NCAA Division I women's golf championship|NCAA Division I championship]] three times. Kate Smith represented the program in the [[2021 Arnold Palmer Cup]]. The university does not own or operate a golf course, and both teams use courses around Lincoln to practice and host tournaments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huskers.com/facilities/womens-golf-courses|title=Golf Courses|publisher=Nebraska Athletics|access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref>

*Men's conference championships (2): 1936, 1937
*Women's conference championships (2): 1976, 1983

===Gymnastics===
;Men
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnastics}}
Since being established in 1939, Nebraska's men's gymnastics program has won eight national championships and forty-two NCAA event titles. The bulk of this success came under head coach [[Francis Allen (coach)|Francis Allen]], a former All-American who led the program for forty seasons. Twelve Cornhuskers have participated in the [[Olympic Games]] and combined to win four gold medals. The team has been coached by Chuck Chmelka since 2010.

NU is one of just twelve [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] universities that sponsors a men's gymnastics program.<!--as of March 2025--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://usagym.org/men/pathways/ncaa/|title=MAG Pathways: NCAA|publisher=[[USA Gymnastics]]|access-date=6 March 2025}}</ref>

*All-around national champions (9): [[Jim Hartung]] (1980, 1981), Wes Suter (1985), [[Tom Schlesinger]] (1987), Kevin Davis (1988), Patrick Kirksey (1989), Dennis Harrison (1994), Richard Grace (1995), Jason Hardabura (1999)
*Conference championships (15): 1964, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999
*'''NCAA championships''' (8): 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1994

;Women
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's gymnastics}}
Nebraska's women's gymnastics program has won twenty-five conference championships and qualified for the [[NCAA women's gymnastics tournament|NCAA tournament]] twenty-nine times. Most of the program's success came under head coach Dan Kendig, who led NU for twenty-five years and made twelve Super Six appearances. Michelle Bryant, Heather Brink, and [[Richelle Simpson]] combined to win five individual NCAA championships and are among NU's eighty-three All-Americans. The team has been coached by Heather Brink since Kendig's retirement in 2019.

*All-around national champions (2): Heather Brink (2000), Richelle Simpson (2003)
*Conference championships{{efn|The [[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] and [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] did not award a regular-season women's gymnastics championship.}} (2): 2014, 2017
*Conference tournament championships (23): 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013

===Rifle===
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Rifle competes in the [[Patriot Rifle Conference]], making it the only program at Nebraska in a conference other than the Big Ten. NU has reached twenty [[NCAA rifle championships|NCAA championships]] and produced four individual national champions. The team has been coached by Richard Clark since 2024.

The team trains at an indoor firing range in the [[John J. Pershing]] Military and Naval Science Building. Although the NCAA classifies rifle as coeducational, Nebraska has fielded an all-female team since its establishment in 1998 and is one of twenty-nine [[List of NCAA rifle programs|NCAA rifle programs]].<!--as of 2025-->

*National champions: Nicole Allaire {{small|(2000 – {{abbr|SB|Smallbore}})}}, Kristina Fehlings – {{small|(2006 – {{abbr|AR|Air rifle}})}}, Rachel Martin – {{small|(2015 – SB)}}, Cecelia Ossi – {{small|(2023 – SB)}}
*Conference championships (1): 2006
*Conference tournament championships (2): 2005, 2006

===Soccer===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's soccer}}
Nebraska has been coached by John Walker since it became the first Big Eight school to sponsor women's soccer in 1994. Nebraska finished 23–1–0 and reached the national quarterfinal in 1996, the beginning of a five-year stretch in which NU achieved most of its national success. The program has reached in thirteen [[NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament|NCAA Division I tournaments]] and won a combined eleven conference championships across the Big 12 and Big Ten. Eleven former Cornhuskers have competed in the [[FIFA Women's World Cup]], most of them for Walker's native [[Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nebraskanewsservice.net/news/local/30-years-one-coach-nebraskas-john-walker/article_5d2e3c04-4a61-536f-afdd-9257f6cfaa95.html|title=30 years one coach: Nebraska's John Walker|author=Josh Lill|website=Nebraska News Service|date=27 October 2023|access-date=7 March 2025}}</ref>

Nebraska has played its home games at [[Barbara Hibner Soccer Stadium]] since 2015.

*Conference championships (5): 1996, 1999, 2000, 2013, 2023
*Conference tournament championships (7): 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2013

===Softball===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers softball}}
Nebraska's softball program was sanctioned as a varsity sport in 1977 and reached the inaugural [[Women's College World Series]] five years later. Though the team was often surrounded by controversy, NU was highly successful through the 1980s, advancing to the WCWS four more times and finishing national runner-up in 1985 under head coach Wayne Daigle.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1983-09-09/ed-1/seq-13.pdf|title=New women's softball coach revives team's hopes and spirits|author=Jack Denker|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=9 September 1983|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-21-sp-6307-story.html|title=University of Nebraska softball team disqualified from NCAA playoffs|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=21 May 1986|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref>

[[Rhonda Revelle]] was hired in 1993 and turned Nebraska into a postseason regular and fixture in the national top twenty-five. In 1998, Nebraska completed the first undefeated season in Big 12 history and returned to the Women's College World Series – Revelle became the third person to reach the WCWS as a player and a head coach, and the first to do it at the same school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_stats/1982/neb.htm|title=Nebraska WCWS Stats|website=[[NCAA]]|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref> NU reached a third WCWS under Revelle in 2013, the same year she won her 768th game to pass former baseball coach John Sanders for the most victories by any coach at the university.

Nebraska has played at [[Bowlin Stadium]], part of the [[Haymarket Park]] complex, since 2002.

*Conference championships (10): 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2014
*Conference tournament championships (9): 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2000, 2004
*[[Women's College World Series]] appearances (8): 1982, 1984, ''1985'',{{efn|Nebraska's 1985 [[Women's College World Series]] runner-up finish was vacated by the NCAA in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/21/sports/sports-people-nebraska-penalized.html|title=Sports People; Nebraska Penalized|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 October 1986|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref>}} 1987, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2013

===Swimming and diving===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers swimming and diving}}
Nebraska sponsored a men's aquatics program from 1921 until 2001. The program was discontinued by athletic director [[Bill Byrne (athletic director)|Bill Byrne]] due to budgetary concerns, though it may have been hastened by a scholarship manipulation investigation that resulted in the suspension and eventual resignation of longtime head coach Cal Bentz.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/three-nu-swim-coaches-suspended-concerning-alleged-ncaa-violations/article_4e1e4b2a-0aa5-5ef7-8e8f-e1c6d94f15d3.html|title=Three NU swim coaches suspended concerning alleged NCAA violations|author=Sean Callahan|website=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=2 October 2000|access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref><ref name=mens>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/nu-drops-mens-swimming-program/article_647ec770-1286-5e26-9e8c-a26948bf77aa.html|title=NU drops men's swimming program|author=David Diehl|website=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=26 March 2001|access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref> Under Bentz, future [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medalists [[Penelope Heyns]] and [[Adam Pine]] won NU's first NCAA Division I individual championships. Since 2001, the university has sponsored only a women's team. The team has been coached by Pablo Morales since 2001.

Nebraska has hosted meets at the [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|Devaney Center Natatorium]] since its construction in 1976.

*Men's conference championships: 1928, 1929, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
*Women's conference championships: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

===Tennis===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers men's tennis|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's tennis}}
Nebraska's men's tennis program was established in 1928 and has reached the [[NCAA Division I men's tennis championships|NCAA Division I championships]] just three times. In 1989, Steven Jung was the NCAA Singles runner-up and was named NU's first All-American. The team has been coached by [[Peter Kobelt]] since 2023.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.1011now.com/2024/05/06/peter-kobelt-named-husker-mens-tennis-head-coach/|title=Peter Kobelt named Husker men's tennis head coach|website=1011 News|date=6 May 2024|access-date=6 May 2024}}</ref>

A women's program was established in 1976 and has made the [[NCAA Division I women's tennis championships|NCAA Division I championship]] six times, most recently in 2013. German Dalmagro was named the program's tenth head coach in 2023 following the retirement of Scott Jacobson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/winningest-coach-scott-jacobson-continues-to-shape-lives-careers-of-nu-women-s-tennis-players/article_f8937efe-a184-11e2-95a0-001a4bcf6878.html|title=Winningest coach Scott Jacobson continues to shape lives, careers of NU women's tennis players|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|author=Liz Uehling|date=10 April 2013|accessdate=20 March 2023}}</ref>

Both programs have hosted matches at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center since 2015.

*Women's conference championships (4): 1977, 1978, 2013, 2020

===Track and field===
{{main article|Nebraska Cornhuskers track and field}}
Track and field became Nebraska's second varsity sport in 1889, competing infrequently until the MVIAA began sponsoring an outdoor championship in 1908. The team has won thirty-eight indoor and thirty-one outdoor conference championships, producing thirty-six individual national champion. A women's team was created in 1976 and has won twenty-four indoor and eighteen outdoor conference championships with thirty-seven national champions. Nebraska's only three team national titles came in the early 1980s in women's indoor competition, led by Jamaican sprinter and nine-time [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medalist [[Merlene Ottey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/omaha-world-herald-ottey-leads-nu-to-nat/167625869/|title=Ottey Leads NU to National Title|publisher=[[Omaha World-Herald]]|date=14 March 1982|access-date=9 March 2025|via=Newspapers.com|page=54}}</ref> Gary Pepin retired in 2022 after four decades as Nebraska's head coach and assistant Justin St. Clair was named his replacement.

The programs host indoor meets at the [[Bob Devaney Sports Center]] and outdoor meets at an incomplete facility on [[Nebraska Innovation Campus]].

*Men's indoor conference championships (38): 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1949, 1951, 1963, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2015, 2016, 2019
*Men's outdoor conference championships (29): 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1950, 1966, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016

*Women's indoor conference championships (24): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012
*'''Women's indoor [[Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships|AIAW]]''' (1) / '''[[NCAA Division I Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships|NCAA Division I]]''' (2) '''championships''': 1982, 1983, 1984
*Women's outdoor conference championships (18): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2005

===Volleyball===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball}}
[[File:National Guard Memorial Stadium volleyball flyover.jpg|300px|thumb|A [[Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker|KC-135 Stratotanker]] and three [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon]]s of the [[Nebraska Army National Guard]] conduct a flyover of [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]] during [[Volleyball Day in Nebraska]] on Aug. 30, 2023]]
Nebraska's volleyball program was established in 1975 and has become one of the most decorated in the sport – Nebraska has won more games, spent more weeks ranked number one, and produced more [[American Volleyball Coaches Association|AVCA]] All-Americans than any other program. Head coach [[Terry Pettit]], hired in 1977, turned the Cornhuskers into a national power at a time when the sport was traditionally dominated by [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/pettit-credits-family-friends-and-players-for-successful-career/article_3fc864ce-a59d-5f77-a509-51801f5e8a34.html|title=Pettit credits family, friends and players for successful career|author=Andrew Strand|website=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|access-date=29 July 2022}}</ref> He produced NU's first national championship in 1995 before handing the program over to assistant [[John Cook (coach)|John Cook]] five years later. Cook led the NCAA's second-ever undefeated season in his debut as head coach and soon established himself as one of the best coaches in the sport's history, winning four national championships and producing some of volleyball's biggest stars, including [[Sarah Pavan]], [[Jordan Larson]], and [[Lexi Rodriguez]]. Cook retired in 2025, assisting in the selection of [[Dani Busboom Kelly]] as his successor.

Nebraska regularly leads the NCAA in attendance and has competed in several of the highest-attended and most-watched volleyball games ever played.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/volleyball-women/article/2024-12-22/womens-college-volleyball-all-time-attendance-records|title=Women's college volleyball all-time attendance records|publisher=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]|date=22 December 2024|access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> The university hosted [[Volleyball Day in Nebraska]] at [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]] on August 30, 2023; the recorded attendance of 92,003 was a record for any women's sporting event.{{efn|name=VBDay|The match between Nebraska and Omaha set a world record for the highest ''recorded'' attendance at a women's sporting event. Some attendance estimates for the [[1971 Women's World Cup]] final between [[Denmark women's national football team|Denmark]] and [[Mexico women's national football team|Mexico]] at the [[Estadio Azteca]] are as high as 110,000, but no official number was recorded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46149887|title=Mexico 1971: When women's soccer hit the big time|author=Bill Wilson|website=[[BBC]]|date=6 December 2018|access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-volleyball-attendance-record-38f103fe2100a368cddb19b75e1adb8d|title=Nebraska volleyball stadium event draws 92,003 to set women's world attendance record|author=Eric Olson|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|date=30 August 2023|access-date=30 August 2023}}</ref> Nebraska played nearly four decades at the [[Nebraska Coliseum|NU Coliseum]] until moving to the larger [[Bob Devaney Sports Center]] in 2012, and has sold out every home game since 2001 across both venues.

*Conference championships (36): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2023, 2024
*Conference tournament championships{{efn|The [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] and [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] do not play conference volleyball tournaments.}} (18): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995
*NCAA Division I national semifinal (18): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024
*'''NCAA Division I championships''' (5): 1995, 2000, 2006, 2015, 2017

;Beach volleyball
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers beach volleyball}}
Nebraska's beach volleyball program was established in 2013 as a training and recruiting tool for its [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball|indoor team]], and the rosters typically include the same players. Indoor head coach [[John Cook (coach)|John Cook]] led the beach team until turning the program over to assistant Jaylen Reyes in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vbadrenaline.com/fan-page-news/the-value-of-beach-season|title=It's Not To Work On Their Tans: Jaylen Talks About the Value of Husker Beach Season|author=Sasha Beale|website=VB Adrenaline|date=2 March 2025|access-date=3 March 2025}}</ref> Nebraska remains one of few beach volleyball programs throughout the Midwest and generally plays the bulk of its season during a spring trip to [[California]] and [[Hawaii]], and does not attempt to qualify for the sixteen-team [[NCAA beach volleyball championship|NCAA championship]].<ref name=Wagner>{{cite web|url=https://huskerextra.com/news/volleyball/nebraska-beach-volleyball-projecting-pairings-and-why-one-freshman-wont-play/article_a26f63a0-efc2-11ef-9d9a-639ec2a70563.html|title=Nebraska beach volleyball: Projecting pairings, and why one freshman won't play|author=Brent Wagner|publisher=[[Lincoln Journal Star]]|date=20 February 2025|access-date=24 April 2025}}</ref>

===Wrestling===
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers wrestling}}
[[File:Jordan Burroughs at 2017 Men's freestyle Wrestling World Cup, Kermanshah.jpg|thumb|220px|[[Jordan Burroughs]] is the most decorated American wrestler of all-time]]
Since its inception in 1911, Nebraska's wrestling program has won seven conference tournament titles and produced eleven individual NCAA champions with 136 All-America selections. [[Rulon Gardner]] and [[Jordan Burroughs]] became Olympic gold medalists after their collegiate careers; Burroughs is the most decorated American wrestler of all-time and is considered one of the greatest [[Freestyle wrestling|freestyle wrestlers]] ever.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/jordan-burroughs-wrestling-world-championships-record|title=Jordan Burroughs breaks U.S. wrestling record for Olympic, world titles|website=[[NBC Sports]]|date=16 September 2016|access-date=3 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/sports/2021/10/nj-native-jordan-burroughs-joins-john-smith-as-most-accomplished-wrestler-in-us-history.html|title=N.J. native Jordan Burroughs joins John Smith as most accomplished wrestler in U.S. history|author=Bill Evans|website=[[NJ.com]]|date=4 October 2021|access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref> The team has been coached by Mark Manning since 2000.

Nebraska primarily hosted meets at the [[Nebraska Coliseum|NU Coliseum]] from 1926 until moving to the larger Bob Devaney Sports Center in 2013.

*Individual national champions (13): Mike Nissen {{small|(1963 – 123 lb)}}, [[Jim Scherr]] {{small|(1984 – 177 lb)}}, [[Bill Scherr]] {{small|(1984 – 190 lb)}}, Jason Kelber {{small|(1991 – 126 lb)}}, Tony Purler {{small|(1993 – 126 lb)}}, Tolly Thompson {{small|(1995 – HWT)}}, [[Brad Vering]] {{small|(2000 – 197 lb)}}, Jason Powell {{small|(2004 – 125 lb)}}, Paul Donahoe {{small|(2007 – 125 lb)}}, [[Jordan Burroughs]] {{small|(2009 – 157 lb, 2011 – 165 lb)}}, Ridge Lovett {{small|(2025 – 149 lb)}}, [[Antrell Taylor]] {{small|(2025 – 157 lb)}}
*Conference championships (7): 1911, 1915, 1924, 1949, 1993, 1995, 2009

==Club sports==
The [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]] sponsors forty-one club programs: [[angling]], [[badminton]], [[barbell]], baseball, women's basketball, bowling, [[broomball]], [[Sport climbing|climbing]], [[cricket]], [[University of Nebraska Curling Guild|curling]], [[cycling]], [[dodgeball]], [[figure skating]], [[figure 8 racing]], men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey, golf, [[judo]], men's [[lacrosse]], women's lacrosse, sports officiating, [[pickleball]], [[roundnet]], [[Nebraska Crew|rowing]], men's [[Rugby football|rugby]], running, [[sailing]], [[Shotgun (shooting sports)|shotgun]], [[Skateboard|skateboarding]], men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, swimming, [[table tennis]], [[taekwondo]], tennis, men's [[ultimate frisbee]], women's ultimate frisbee, men's volleyball, women's volleyball, and [[water skiing]].<!--as of April 2025--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://unl.campuslabs.com/engage/organizations?categories=12854|title=Sport Club Organizations|publisher=[[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]|access-date=24 April 2025}}</ref>

==Athletic directors==
{{main|List of Nebraska Cornhuskers athletic directors}}
In its earliest days, the Nebraska Department of Athletics had no central figure; the department's first leaders typically were part-time officials who held others titles and responsibilities. The first "Athletics Manager" was multi-sport coach Raymond G. Clapp, who filled the role from 1902 to 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1961-06-20/ed-1/seq-3|title=NU History Boasts 15 Athletic Directors|author=Leon Nyberg|website=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|publisher=Nebraska Newspapers|date=20 June 1961|access-date=9 July 2021}}</ref> It became a full-time position in 1920 and was first held by [[Fred Luehring]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yearbooks.unl.edu/yearbook.php?year=1926,596#page/437/mode/transcription|title=1926 ''Cornhusker,'' University of Nebraska Yearbook|publisher=Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln|access-date=9 July 2021|page=437}}</ref>

Beginning with Luehring, Nebraska recognizes seventeen official athletic directors, though at least fourteen others have held the role in an interim or ''de facto'' capacity. NU's longest-serving athletic director was [[Bob Devaney]], who led the department from 1967 to 1992. Including Devaney, five members of the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] have held the position.

==Home venues==
[[File:SDC11493...jpg|right|thumb|300px|Nebraska vs. [[Fresno State Bulldogs baseball|Fresno State]] at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park on Mar. 11, 2011]]
{|class=wikitable
|-
{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Nebraska Cornhuskers|Venue|Built|Sport(s)}}
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|'''City Campus'''
|-
| Hawks Championship Center || 2006 || Beach volleyball
|-
| [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]] || 1923 || Football
|-
| Military and Naval Science Building || 1947 || Rifle
|-
| ''[[Nebraska Coliseum|NU Coliseum]]'' || ''1926'' || ''None (former home venue)''
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|'''East Campus'''
|-
| Husker Bowling Center || 1977 || Bowling
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center"|'''[[Nebraska Innovation Campus]]'''
|-
| [[Bob Devaney Sports Center]] || 1976 || Gymnastics <br> Swimming & diving <br> Indoor track & field <br> Volleyball <br> Wrestling
|-
| ''Unnamed track & field stadium'' || ''N/A''{{efn|In 2019, work began on $16.5-million track and field facility on [[Nebraska Innovation Campus]]. Construction was scheduled to be completed in 2022, but was delayed several times and is now planned to open in late 2025.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/opinion-husker-track-athletes-deserve-a-completed-outdoor-facility/article_531196e2-d341-11ed-a6c6-cff0c4f39b36.html|title=OPINION: Husker track athletes deserve a completed outdoor facility|author=Brian Beech|newspaper=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=5 April 2023|access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref>}}|| ''Outdoor track & field <br> Cross country''
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center"|'''Off campus'''
|-
| [[Barbara Hibner Soccer Stadium]] || 2015 || Soccer
|-
| [[Bowlin Stadium]] || 2001 || Softball
|-
| [[Haymarket Park|Hawks Field]] || 2001 || Baseball
|-
| John Breslow Ice Hockey Center || 2015 || Ice hockey ([[College club sports in the United States|club]])
|-
| [[Pinnacle Bank Arena]] || 2013 || Basketball
|-
| Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center || 2015 || Tennis
|-
| Wilderness Ridge Golf Club{{efn|Wilderness Ridge is the primary home course for Nebraska's golf teams but is not owned or operated by the university.}} || 2001 || Golf
|}

==Nebraska Athletic Hall of Fame==
The University of Nebraska Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 2015, located just northeast of [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]]. Twenty-two former student-athletes, one representing each varsity program, were honored in the inaugural class.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://huskers.com/nebraska-hall-of-fame|title=University of Nebraska Athletic Hall of Fame|publisher=Nebraska Athletics|access-date=25 April 2025}}</ref> Football is the most-represented sport with sixteen student-athletes and coaches inducted.

{{columns-list|colwidth=25em|
;Class of 2015
*[[Steve Friesen]] – Golf
*[[Alex Gordon]] – Baseball
*[[Charles Greene (athlete)|Charlie Greene]] – Track & field
*[[Jim Hartung]] – Gymnastics
*[[Penelope Heyns]] – Swimming & diving
*[[Karen Jennings]] – Basketball
*Steven Jung – Tennis
*Joe Kirby – Cross country
*[[Christine Latham]] – Soccer
*Liz Mooney – Tennis
*[[Merlene Ottey]] – Track & field
*[[Eric Piatkowski]] – Basketball
*[[Adam Pine]] – Swimming & diving
*[[Shannon Pluhowsky]] – Bowling
*[[Dave Rimington]] – Football
*Sarah Sasse-Kildow – Golf
*[[Bill Scherr]] – Wrestling
*[[Richelle Simpson]] – Gymnastics
*[[Lori Sippel]] – Softball
*Fran ten Bensel – Cross country
*Amanda Trujillo – Rifle
*[[Allison Weston]] – Volleyball

;Class of 2016
*Heather Brink – Gymnastics
*[[Phil Cahoy]] – Gymnastics
*Janet Kruse – Volleyball
*Nicole Martial – Track & field
*[[Nancy Metcalf]] – Volleyball
*[[Johnny Rodgers]] – Football
*[[Will Shields]] – Football

;Class of 2017
*[[Bob Brown (offensive lineman)|Bob Brown]] – Football
*[[Karen Dahlgren Schonewise|Karen Dahlgren]] – Volleyball
*Denise Day – Softball
*[[Rich Glover]] – Football
*[[Dave Hoppen]] – Basketball
*[[Scott Johnson (gymnast)|Scott Johnson]] – Gymnastics

;Class of 2018
*[[Bob Devaney]] – Football
*[[Darin Erstad]] – Baseball
*Peaches James – Softball
*[[Tom Osborne]] – Football
*[[Sarah Pavan]] – Volleyball
*[[Mike Rozier]] – Football
*[[Tom Schlesinger]] – Gymnastics

;Class of 2019
*[[Francis Allen (coach)|Francis Allen]] – Gymnastics
*Rhonda Bladford-Green – Track & field
*[[Greichaly Cepero]] – Volleyball
*Carol Frost – Track & field
*[[Wes Suter]] – Gymnastics
*[[Ed Weir]] – Football
*[[Grant Wistrom]] – Football

;Class of 2020
*Amanda Burgoyne – Bowling
*[[Eric Crouch]] – Football
*[[Sam Francis (American football)|Sam Francis]] – Football
*Maurtice Ivy – Basketball
*[[Jordan Larson]] – Volleyball
*[[Terry Pettit]] – Volleyball

;Class of 2021
*[[Therese Alshammar]] – Swimming
*[[Jordan Burroughs]] – Wrestling
*[[Bob Cerv]] – Baseball
*[[Kelsey Griffin]] – Basketball
*[[Larry Jacobson]] – Football
*Cathy Noth – Softball

;Class of 2022
*[[Guy Chamberlin]] – Football
*Christina Houghtelling – Volleyball
*Patrick Kirksey – Gymnastics
*[[Shane Komine]] – Baseball
*[[Louise Pound]] – Administrator
*Bill Straub – Bowling
*Angela Thacker – Track & field
*Ali Viola – Softball

;Class of 2023
*[[Lori Endicott]] – Volleyball
*[[Tommie Frazier]] – Football
*Emily Parsons – Gymnastics
*Gary Pepin – Track & field
*Tolly Thompson – Wrestling
*[[Brittany Baxter|Brittany Timko]] – Soccer

;Class of 2024
*[[Jordan Hooper]] – Basketball
*[[Carl Myerscough]] – Track & Field
*Virginia Stahr – Volleyball
*[[Ndamukong Suh]] – Football
*Mary Weatherholt – Tennis
*Emily Wong – Gymnastics
}}

==Olympians==
{{main|List of University of Nebraska–Lincoln Olympians}}
[[File:Penelope Heyns at Save the Dream event in Times Square, New York.jpg|thumb|220px|Swimmer [[Penelope Heyns]] is the only Nebraska athlete to win multiple [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medals]]
A total of 124 Nebraska athletes have combined to make 181 appearances in the [[Olympic Games]]. Nebraska athletes and coaches have won sixty-three medals, including nineteen gold medals, while representing thirty-one countries. [[Merlene Ottey]] is Nebraska's most decorated Olympian in terms of medals won, winning three silver and seven six bronze across seven Olympic Games, a record for [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|track and field]] competitors.<ref name=Olympians>{{cite web|url=https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/husker-olympians-by-the-numbers/|title=Husker Olympians: By the Numbers|author=Troy Fedderson|publisher=[[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]|date=19 February 2018|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> South African swimmer [[Penelope Heyns]] – the only Cornhusker with multiple gold medals – is the only woman to ever win the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events at the same Olympiad.<ref name=Olympians/>

{|class=wikitable style="font-size: 95%"
|+ Nebraska's Olympic gold medalists
|-
!Athlete
|bgcolor=F7F6A8| {{Olympic Gold medal}} ||bgcolor=DCE5E5| {{Olympic Silver medal}} ||bgcolor=FFDAB9| {{Olympic Bronze medal}}
|-
| {{flagicon|South Africa}} [[Penelope Heyns]] [[File:Swimming_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''2''' ||bgcolor=DCE5E5| 0 ||bgcolor=FFDAB9| 1
|-
| {{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[Don Quarrie]] [[File:Athletics_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||bgcolor=DCE5E5| 2 ||bgcolor=FFDAB9| 1
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Jordan Larson]] [[File:Volleyball_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=DCE5E5| 2 ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=FFDAB9| 1
|-
| {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Adam Pine]] [[File:Swimming_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Kelsey Robinson]] [[File:Volleyball_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||bgcolor=DCE5E5| 1 ||bgcolor=FFDAB9| 1
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Curtis Tomasevicz]] [[File:Bobsleigh_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=DCE5E5| 1 ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=FFDAB9| 0
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Justine Wong-Orantes]] [[File:Volleyball_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Rulon Gardner]] [[File:Wrestling_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=DCE5E5| 0 ||rowspan=2 bgcolor=FFDAB9| 1
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Charles Greene (athlete)|Charlie Greene]] [[File:Athletics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Francis Allen (coach)|Francis Allen]] [[File:Gymnastics_pictogram.svg|20px]] ||rowspan=9 bgcolor=F7F6A8| '''1''' ||rowspan=9 bgcolor=DCE5E5| 0 ||rowspan=9 bgcolor=FFDAB9| 0
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Jordan Burroughs]] [[File:Wrestling_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Trent Dimas]] [[File:Gymnastics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Tyronn Lue]] [[File:Basketball_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Jim Hartung]] [[File:Gymnastics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} Tyler Hildebrand [[File:Volleyball_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Scott Johnson (gymnast)|Scott Johnson]] [[File:Gymnastics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} Jim Mikus [[File:Gymnastics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Linetta Wilson]] [[File:Athletics_pictogram.svg|20px]]
|}

==Mascots==
{{main|Herbie Husker|Lil' Red}}
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|footer = (Left) [[Herbie Husker]] as he appeared from 2003 to 2023; (right) [[Lil' Red]]
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The University of Nebraska used many unofficial mascots in its early decades, most often an anthropomorphic ear of corn.<ref name=Mascots>{{cite web|url=https://nptelegraph.com/photos-husker-mascots-past-and-present/collection_51246ca6-5178-5aa4-ad29-0440c0512479.html#2|title=Photos: Husker mascots, past and present|publisher=[[Media in North Platte, Nebraska|The North Platte Telegraph]]|date=9 September 2019|access-date=20 February 2025}}</ref> The first to appear on the sideline was Corncob Man, a man in green overalls with an ear of corn for a head who debuted in 1955.<ref name=Mascots/> In the 1960s the university sought a more "representative" mascot and created Husky the Husker, a ten-foot-tall farmer who soon gave way to Mr. Big Red (more commonly known as Harry Husker).<ref name=NAA>{{cite web|url=https://www.huskeralum.org/s/1620/social.aspx?sid=1620&gid=1&pgid=1586|title=All Hail Herbie|author=Andrew Stewart|website=Nebraska Alumni Association|date=11 December 2021|access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref> Harry was nearly as tall as Husky but wore a red blazer and wide-brim cowboy hat.<ref name=Mascots/>

At the [[1974 Cotton Bowl Classic]], NU associate athletic director Don Bryant saw artist [[Dirk West]]'s interpretation of a Cornhusker – an enormous, clumsy farmer smiling and holding a football – on a press box wall and hired him to refine it into a new mascot.<ref name=West>{{cite web|url=https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/how-white-supremacy-changed-herbie-husker/|title=How White Supremacy Changed Herbie Husker|author=Jordan Pascale|publisher=[[Nebraska Public Media]]|date=29 January 2022|access-date=20 February 2025}}</ref> "Herbie Husker" made his first appearance on the cover of Nebraska's 1974 football media guide and was adopted as the school's first official mascot in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://myhusker.com/herbie-husker-nebraska/|title=Herbie Husker: the history of a Nebraska icon|website=MyHusker|date=11 December 2021|access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref> Herbie is a blond-haired, blue-eyed farmer with a pronounced [[barrel chest]] and a [[Chin#Cleft_chin|cleft chin]].<ref name=Byrne>{{cite web|url=https://defunctteams.blogspot.com/2018/04/herbie-gets-byrned.html|title=Herbie gets Byrned|author=Aaron Wade|publisher=Defunct|date=17 April 2018|access-date=20 February 2025}}</ref> He dresses in denim overalls, a white undershirt, and a red cowboy hat with an ear of corn in his pocket. In logo form, Herbie holds a football in his right arm, but various sport-specific versions exist.

Since 1993, Herbie has been joined by [[Lil' Red]], a blond-haired, blue-eyed inflatable farm boy who stands over eight feet tall. Lil' Red was initially intended to represent the school's [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball|volleyball team]] and appeal to younger fans.<ref name=NAA/> He became so popular that the university discontinued the use of Herbie in 1995, though he was later reinstated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/how-white-supremacy-changed-herbie-husker/|title=How White Supremacy Changed Herbie Husker|author=Jordan Pascale|publisher=[[Nebraska Public Media]]|date=29 January 2022|access-date=20 February 2025}}</ref> Nebraska says Herbie and Lil' Red are not intended to be related, but describes them as "best friends."<ref name=NAA/>

==Fan support==
[[File:BIG SPORTS EVENT OF THE YEAR IS THE SPRING FOOTBALL GAME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, AN INTRA-MURAL EVENT. THESE... - NARA - 547441.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A fan attends a football game at Memorial Stadium in 1973]]
Decades of high attendance and well-traveling crowds across all sports have earned Nebraska fans a reputation for being fiercely loyal and dedicated. The school's athletic department proclaimed their fans "the greatest fans in college football" in an inscription above each of the twenty-four gates at [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]].<ref name="ia_football_past_champs">{{cite web |title=Past Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I FBS) National Champions (formerly called Division I-A) |work=ncaa.org |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2007| url=https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |access-date=March 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190615/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |archive-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=440&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=525198|title=Greatest Fans in College Football|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> In 2001, President [[George W. Bush]] stated that he "can't go without saying how impressed I am by the Nebraska fan base. Whether it be for women's volleyball or football, there's nothing like the Big Red."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010531.html|title=President Bush Welcomes University of Nebraska Volleyball Champions to the White House|website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref>

Memorial Stadium is sometimes referred to as ''The Sea of Red'' due to the home crowd's propensity to wear the color. Nebraska has sold out every home football game since November 3, 1962; at 389<!-- through 2022 season --> it is the longest sellout streak in college athletics history.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/road_trip0916/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030919034021/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/road_trip0916/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 19, 2003 |work=CNN |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=Road Trip}}</ref> The streak, historically a source of pride for the school and its fans,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cornnation.com/2022/9/28/23377256/why-the-nebraska-sellout-streak-is-important-and-why-you-should-keep-going-to-games|date=28 September 2022|access-date=15 June 2023|title=Why The Nebraska Sellout Streak Is Important (And Why You Should Keep Going to Games)|author=Jon Johnston}}</ref> has been scrutinized in the decades following [[Tom Osborne]]'s retirement as NU's athletic department has occasionally been forced to sell a large number of tickets at a discounted rate to keep the streak alive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/college/nebraska/football/dave-feit-not-like-this-husker-football-sellout-streak-continues-at-a-deep-discout|date=11 October 2022|access-date=15 June 2023|title=Dave Feit: Not Like This|author=Dave Feit}}</ref> Cornhuskers fans are noted for often applauding the visiting team as they leave the field at the end of the game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/sports/collegefootballstadiums/nebraska.asp?cp1=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011014145410/http://www.msnbc.com/modules/sports/collegefootballstadiums/nebraska.asp?cp1=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2001|title=MSNBC — Breaking News, Top Stories, & Show Clips|website=MSNBC|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> Nebraska is considered to have one of the best-traveling fanbases in the country – the most famous example of this occurred in 2000, when an estimated 35,000 Nebraska fans watched No. 1 [[2000 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] defeat No. 25 [[2000 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] at [[Notre Dame Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/cottonbowl/stories/010107dnsponeblede.3243fd8.html|title=Cotton Bowl News -Sports News -Dallas Morning News -News for Dallas, Texas|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/john_walters/11/30/willingham/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041207025935/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/john_walters/11/30/willingham/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 7, 2004 |work=CNN |date=November 30, 2004 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=Three and out}}</ref>

Nebraska's volleyball program has sold out 303<!-- through 2022 season --> consecutive matches between the [[Nebraska Coliseum]] and [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|Devaney Center]], the longest streak of its kind in women's college sports. The Cornhuskers have led the country in attendance for nine straight seasons,{{efn|This does not count the spring 2021 season in which many schools, including Nebraska, did not host fans due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]]}} and have played in nine of the ten [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball#Highest-attended matches|highest-attended college volleyball matches]] ever played. Nebraska's five-set loss to [[Wisconsin Badgers women's volleyball|Wisconsin]] in the [[2021 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament|2021 national championship match]] broke college volleyball records for both attendance and viewership.<ref>{{cite web|title=Record attendance, viewership for Wisconsin-Nebraska NCAA volleyball championship|publisher=VolleyballMag|date=22 December 2021|access-date=1 April 2022|author=Lee Feinswog|url=https://volleyballmag.com/ncaa-volleyball-attendance-viewers-122221/}}</ref>

==Academic honors and awards==
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==Notes==
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==References==
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