Nebraska Olympian hopes bobsled track leads him to medal stand

Published: 2006-02-14

SHELBY, Neb. (CNS) -- At the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, Shelby native and Sacred Heart parishioner Curt Tomasevicz was ready to push one of the U.S. four-man bobsled teams down a twisting, turning track and -- hopefully -- win a chance to stand on the podium and accept a medal. The four-man bobsled competition was scheduled for Feb. 24-25. The U.S. was fielding two four-man teams. There was also the possibility Tomasevicz would compete in an earlier two-man event, as bobsled drivers were free to pick the teammate they felt would give them the best speed on the day of the run. A former linebacker for the football team at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Tomasevicz has been athletic all his life, according to his mother, Amy. "He was constantly in motion," she told the Southern Nebraska Register, newspaper of the Lincoln Diocese. She teaches art at Aquinas Catholic School in David City and, along with her husband, Dennis, attends Sacred Heart Parish in Shelby.

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