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Learning Life Skills: Program helps Huskers give back, prepare for world beyond college

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Mattie Fowler is an outstanding softball player. Has been for a long time. She is a team leader who enters her senior season having started 155 games for the Huskers.

But as good as she is, Fowler knows she will not make a living playing first base. Very few do. That is why the University of Nebraska Life Skills program is so important to her. How important? Fowler will tell you that it changed her life.

“I was kind of struggling to pick a major,” Fowler said. “I knew that I liked math, and I also liked personal development and working with people.