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Husker WR and 'fast guy' Woodyard finds a second home on the track

“We haven’t had one that has been with us for very many meets or very many seasons for a long time,” the decorated NU track and field coach said Thursday. “I always wondered why they didn’t have any speed on the football team because we had a couple guys over the years that had come out, and they weren’t fast enough to make our sprint relay or anything, so they weren’t really very fast.”

“I just asked Frost because he let his players run at Oregon and his mom was a coach here,” Woodyard said. “Then I just had to get permission from (head strength coach Zach Duval) and if it was a go from him, then it was cool with (Frost).