Dorchester Times: DHS Alum Jeanne Boller Recognized by NU

Thursday, June 28, 2007

DHS Alum Jeanne Boller Recognized by NU

DHS graduate Jeanne Boller has been recognized by the University of Nebraska, according to an NU media release.

Boller, who played basketball for the Lady Huskers, is recognized as the most successful Dorchester athlete to play at the Division I level of college athletics. At 6'3", Boller appeared in 61 games for the Huskers, with 51 starts during her two-year career. As the Huskers' center, she lettered in both her freshman and sophomore seasons, and finished her career at Nebraska with 344 points, 458 rebounds and 17 assists.

As a freshman in 1976-77, Boller averaged 4.4 points and a team-leading 7.2 rebounds per game. She shot 40 percent from the field, while connecting making 67 percent of her free throws to help Nebraska to a 21-16 final record. As a sophomore, Boller increased her scoring average to 7.1 points a game while adding a strong 8 rebounds per game.

Meanwhile, the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that 2007 DHS graduate Kayla Stehlik is among a dozen volleyball additions who will play this fall at Morningside College. As a 5-10 outside hitter for the Longhorns, Kayla earned honorable mention Class D1 all-state honors.

14 comments:

AnonymousJune 28, 2007 at 11:49 AM
don't forget that Lance Bobolz lettered as a member of the Huskers football team (86-90).
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AnonymousJune 28, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Awesome!!! So glad to see there is still some good Dorchester news to read up on. Way to go to the TOP Dorchester athletes who have stuck out through college. Very Proud of you all!!!
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AnonymousJune 28, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Awesome heritage! Did Jeanne play as a junior and senior? Does she live near?
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AnonymousJune 29, 2007 at 1:42 AM
Alright aunt Jeanne
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AnonymousJune 29, 2007 at 1:41 PM
impressive. I had no idea DHS had such an athletic success story
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AnonymousJune 30, 2007 at 1:28 PM
Go mom! --Jordan

That's my mom! --Mike
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AnonymousJune 30, 2007 at 5:10 PM
I can tell you......that team Jeane played on was still the best girls team Dorchester has ever had....Ive watched a lot of ball through the years too.
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AnonymousJune 30, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Cynical Richard's comment may be true, but the 03-04 Dorchester Girls State Basketball team was also very very good!
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AnonymousJuly 1, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I'm not old enough to remember the the team jeanne boller played on but when I was in elementary school, the 94 and 95 d.h.s. girls teams were the bomb. They were better than the boys back then. They gotta rank in the top two or three of all time.
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AnonymousJuly 1, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Ive seen all three of those teams play...... Jeanne Boller's 1975-1976 team was the best by far......then the the mid 90s team at # 2.........then the 2004 team at # 3.
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AnonymousJuly 6, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Too bad the article doesn't finish the story and tell us what happened to Jeanne her Jr and Sr seasons. Was she injured, did she give up the sport to concentrate on academics (remember why they go to college?). Hopefully someone will tell us "the rest of the story".
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AnonymousJuly 11, 2007 at 9:44 AM
The girls 03-04 team was pretty good, I think that they got a lot of attention because they went to state. But the 04-05, in my opinion, was a better one than the previous year. No they didn't go to state that year, but they were ranked in top ten for the majority of the season, and right before post season began they were 3rd. They also held a 14-5 record--losing 2 times to E-M, once to McCool and Shickley (who went on to be D-2 state champs) and finally to Pawnee City (ranked 4th in D-1) in Sub-districts. All f the losses with the exception of the E-M losses were also less than 5 or 6 points, so no blowouts. In 03-04 they were 11-12. (Though they also beat the class D-1 state champs). Also keep in mind that the 03-04 season they were class D-2 and enrollment forced them to be a D-1 school for the 04-05 season. Both teams were great with a lot of talented players and a coach (whose first year was actually the 03-04 season).
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AnonymousAugust 9, 2007 at 11:54 AM
I was also a member of the '75-76 girls basketball team, a classmate of Jeanne's. This was the first year that girls basketball was played in high school. I can remember playing with Jeanne, she was quite a fearful force out there being that she towered over everyone else playing. We had a ball!! Congrats to her for receiving the award from UNL!!!!
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AnonymousAugust 9, 2007 at 11:59 AM
I was also a member of the '75-76 girls basketball team. I was a classmate of Jeanne's and I remember playing ball with her. This was the first year that girls basketball was played in high school. She was quite the force to be reckoned with as she was the tallest player out there. Congrats to her on her award from UNL!!!
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

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Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."