{"id":186423,"date":"2025-12-15T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:47:08","slug":"johansson-tabbed-national-athlete-of-the-week-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/186423\/","title":{"rendered":"Johansson Tabbed National Athlete of the Week &#8211; University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska senior shot put thrower from Hok, Sweden, <a href=\"https:\/\/huskers.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/player\/axelina-johansson\" title=\"Axelina Johansson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axelina Johansson<\/a> was named NCAA DI National Athlete of the Week on Monday following her record breaking performance in the season opener Husker Holiday Open.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday at the Husker Holiday Open, Johansson threw for a mark of 19.72m (64\u2019 8.5\u201d) to shatter her own school record. Notably, this throw set a new Swedish record and an NCAA record.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson was named a Big Ten Preseason Track and Field Athlete to Watch earlier this season. She previously held the shot put school record with a throw of 19.31 (63\u2019 4.25\u201d) set on March 1, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The international student athlete placed 10th in the Olympic shot put competition in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, where she competed as a part of the Swedish team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johansson adds this new record to her extensive list of accomplishments throughout her collegiate career and looks to add many more in her final year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Huskers will continue indoor competition on Friday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 17 at the Graduate Classic at the Devaney Center Indoor Track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska senior shot put thrower from Hok, Sweden, Axelina Johansson was named NCAA DI National Athlete of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48994,107807,85,46,29838,107809,107808,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-186423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-huskers","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-nebraska","13":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","14":"tag-nu","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}