Turns out, no section in the coaching manual explains how to cope with the abrupt, premature ending to a season because of a global pandemic.
Who knew?
Of course, no such manual exists, and even if it did, such a topic would seem absurd.
So second-year Nebraska women's gymnastics coach Heather Brink, when first phoning her two seniors, Sierra Hassel and Taylor Houchin, to break the shocking news how the recent coronavirus outbreak had ended their final season immediately, had no plan of action.
She just let natural instinct take its course.