Nebraska swept the men’s and women’s track and field overall championships in a meet filled with record setting performances at the Lied Recreation Center Friday and Saturday.

The Cyclone men and women finished seventh and fourth, respectively.

Many meet records were broken during the two-day event.

Texas’s Mark Boswell, the defending NCAA champ, smashed his old meet record by two inches when he cleared 7 feet 6 inches in the high jump. Boswell’s jump was the second best in the world this season.

Nebraska’s Chris Chandler led the Huskers with two records, helping Nebraska hold off Texas for the team championship.

Chandler won the 60 and 200-meter dashes in record setting fashion with times of 20.73 and 6.62 seconds.

Baylor’s Brandon Couts did not break his own meet record in the 400-meter dash, but he run the fastest time indoors in the world this year, blazing around the track in 45.63 seconds.

Couts also anchored the Baylor 4 x 400 team to victory. The Bears eclipsed their own meet record set in 1998, with a new time of 3:04.53.

Missouri’s Derrick Peterson won the 800-meter run. He knocked over a second off of his old meet record, with a time of 1:49.00.

This was the fourth time that Peterson has won the 800 in the Big 12 championship.

Not to be outdone, ISU All-American Jamie Beyer launched the shot put 62 feet 1 inch, good enough for first place and a new record.

Beyer broke his old record, set last year of 61 feet 11 inches.

Beyer overcame a disappointing seventh-place finish in the weight throw on Friday to win the shot put. Beyer was prepared to be in the second heat of throwers in the weight throw, only to find out that he was actually in the first heat.

It took him out of his rhythm, said ISU coach Steve Lynn.

The Cyclones shrugged off a sub-par performance on Friday to score 57 points on Saturday.

“The guys could have tanked it on Saturday after Friday, but there’s no way they were going to do that,” Lynn said.

Lynn said he believed the Cyclones could have been in the top four or five if they had not had such poor luck on Friday.

The Cyclones’ string of bad fortune started with Troy Weiland being tripped in the 1000-meter run. That also affected his run in the distance medley. Iowa State was favored to win, but they fell to Oklahoma State.

Another problem for the Cyclones was hurdler Justin Hyde, who was nursing an injured calf and couldn’t perform up to his potential.

“He couldn’t get the proper push off, and he crashed a hurdle,” Lynn said.

“In our conference you can not mess up at all, if you do, you’re not going to get through. You’re going to get beat,” Lynn said.

Saturday was a better day for Iowa State. Along with Beyer’s win, the Cyclones were paced by Daniel Kinyua, who finished second in the mile.

“On Saturday they came back and performed really well,” Lynn said of his squad.

Andy Long continued his solid performance as he qualified for the finals in the 60-meter hurdles and finished eighth.

“He struggled in the finals a little bit, he hit a couple of hurdles,” Lynn said, “but he certainly did a great job to get there.”

Cyclone distance runner Mike Mwangong performed solid under pressure. He had been sick since last week but still managed to place in both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs.

“I know he didn’t feel good at all,” Lynn said.

Texas’ Liz Diaz led the Longhorns to second place while collecting two new meet records. Diaz won the mile and the 800 with times of 4:40.12 and 2:05.53, respectively.

Diaz also witnessed her record in the 1,000-meter run broken. Korene Hinds from Missouri cruised to a new record time of 2:45.78.

The Baylor women also set a record in the 4 x 400 relay, with a time of 3:34.29.

The Cyclones got gutsy performances from shot-putter Lisa Griebel and pentathlon winner Barbara Szlendakova.

Griebel had been nursing a painful tendon injury in her throwing hand. She managed one throw, a toss of 53 feet 5 3/4 inches.

She didn’t need another throw, as the next closest competitor was two feet away.

Cyclone Coach Dick Lee said that he would know more later in the week as to the extent of the injury.

Szlendakova also garnered a conference championship in the pentathlon, defending her title from last year.

With a sore shin, Szlendakova hasn’t been able to practice all of the events and wasn’t sure how she would do. She was in second place going into the final event, the 800-meter run.

Lee said this isn’t her strong event, but she did extremely well in holding off the competition to defend her title.

“She couldn’t have done that last year,” Lee said. “She was better prepared and more focused.”

Ola Adetiba also performed well.

“She has improved more than any other runner in the Big 12 in the past year,” Lee said.

Last year she didn’t even place in the 200 or 60-meter dashes. This year she got fourth in both, in a conference known for its sprinters.”

With only one meet remaining before the NCAA meet, attention now turns on conditioning and staying healthy.

The men have seven events qualified for nationals provisionally, and the women have four individuals who are qualified.

Griebel has met the automatic standard in the shot put to qualify for the national meet.

Lynn said the team is much better than a month ago.

“The guys have trained and conditioned, and done the things they have to do to make themselves better,” Lynn said.

Next weekend’s meet will be one last chance for athletes to improve and try to get into nationals.

Lee said that not many members of his squad will be there, only the ones who have a chance to improve their provisional times.

He said he would like to end the season on a high note after the fourth place finish at conference and look ahead to the outdoor season.

Lynn said that he would have a bunch of guys going, in hopes of getting a few more events qualified and improving other times.