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'Senior Day' series: His dad's Olympic dream being taken away helps Cahoy keep canceled track season in perspective

It hurts Kevin Cahoy that he did not get to compete in his final season on the Nebraska’s men’s track team.

The pole vaulter from Grand Island would have been going into the outdoor season coming off his best indoor season, when he earned his first Big Ten medal for a top-three finish at the conference meet. He thought he’d have a chance to qualify for nationals for the first time during the outdoor season, and maybe become an All-American, which had been a goal of his the past five years at Nebraska.

But the pandemic caused the NCAA to cancel the outdoor track season about one week before the first meet.