Six Husker Baseball Players Among UNL Graduating Class

Lincoln ? Four current baseball players and two former standouts are among the 60 University of Nebraska student-athletes scheduled to graduate during spring commencement ceremonies on Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The 2005 graduating class features four current Husker baseball players ? Jeremy Becker, Jesse Boyer, Curtis Ledbetter and Dustin Timm ? along with former standouts Justin Cowan (1999-2000) and John Grose (2002-04).  The four current players will look to help the fifth-ranked Huskers take a weekend series from No. 17 Missouri this weekend.

The Husker graduating class, which is made up of student-athletes from 18 U.S. states and four foreign countries, is one of the largest in recent memory from the Nebraska Athletic Department and features representatives from nearly all of the Huskers’ 23 varsity programs. 

Along with its impressive size, the 60-member graduating class also features illustrious individual and team accomplishments among its graduates, who combined to win 40 All-America awards, nine individual national titles and two national team titles at NU.

Nebraska Associate Athletic Director for Academic Programs and Student Services Dennis Leblanc said the May 2005 graduating class consists of strong examples of student-athletes who have the ability to excel in the classroom, in the community and in competition.

“I truly admire each one of these Nebraska student-athletes for the way they have balanced school with competition,” Leblanc said.  “These 60 graduates add to Nebraska’s tradition of student-athletes performing at the highest level in academics and athletics.  This is a special group of people who came from all across the globe to get an education and represent the University of Nebraska in their sport.  The athletic department, the University and the entire state of Nebraska should be proud.”