Keith ZIMMER
Associate Athletic Director for Life Skills & N Club
26th Year
Wayne State (Neb.) (1985)
In his 26th year serving Nebraska Athletics, Keith Zimmer
leads Nebraska's Life Skills unit within the department.
Zimmer carries 25 years of life skills and student services
experience and provides support to all current Nebraska
student-athletes in addition to providing life skills guidance
to former student-athletes and staff.
Nebraska's life skills program provides services in the
areas of personal and team education on societal issues,
career counseling and education and community outreach.
Zimmer is also responsible for overseeing sports
psychology services available to Nebraska student-athletes.
Zimmer, who worked in Nebraska's Academic and
Support Services area from 1988 to 2006, is regarded as
a national leader in the life skills area. He received one of
the top honors in college athletics in September of 2006,
when he was chosen for the Dr. Gene Hooks Award as the
Life Skills Administrator of the Year. Zimmer has also served
as an NCAA Life Skills trainer and is active with the National
Consortium for Academics and Sport.
Zimmer continues to serve as the adviser of the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee and remains active in the
Ventures In Partnership program, where student-athletes
are integrated into various outreach initiatives with Lincoln
Public Schools. Zimmer also pioneered the annual "School
is Cool" Jam, which reached more than 100,000 middlelevel students in the 11-year existence of the event.
He is an honorary member of the Golden Key National
Honor Society and Mortar Board and has received the
Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Service to Students.
In addition to his experience in coordinating Nebraska's
Life Skills program, Zimmer also spent nine months as an
assistant athletic director for marketing at NU from August
of 2007 to March of 2008.
Zimmer earned his bachelor’s degree at Wayne State
College and his master’s in education from Springfield
(Mass.) College. Zimmer and his wife, Michelle, have two
sons, Logan and Caden.
Pat LOGSDON
Senior Associate Athletic Director / Senior Woman Administrator
34th Year
Nebraska (1990)
A member of the Nebraska Athletic Department since 1979,
Pat Logsdon was promoted to senior woman administrator on
March 7, 2008, in addition to her duties as associate athletic
director for administration. She previously served in the role of
assistant athletic director.
Logsdon’s duties include oversight on all administrative
issues and operational functions of the Director of Athletics
office; oversight in the areas of administration, athletic medicine,
nutrition, football operations, softball, women’s gymnastics
and rifle; developing and implementing administrative policies
and procedures, assisting with strategic planning, reviewing
and maintaining game and coaching contracts and oversight
of the administrative budget. Previously, Logsdon spent six
seasons as NU’s director of football operations, the first female
in Division I to serve in that capacity. She handled organization
of all recruiting functions, supervised compliance activities and
coordinated all football administrative operations, including
travel and practice operations. Logsdon served three years as
assistant to the director of football operations and 14 seasons
as the football recruiting secretary.
Logsdon received a bachelor’s degree in education from
Nebraska in 1989.
Sheri HASTINGS
Academic Counselor
Eighth Year
Nebraska (1987)
Sheri Hastings serves as the academic counselor for women's
gymnastics at Nebraska. Hastings has been with the athletic
department since August of 2006. She also serves a similar role
for women’s basketball, rifle, bowling and soccer.
Before coming to Lincoln, Hastings served as a mathematics
learning specialist for Student Support Services at the University
of Nebraska. Prior to that, she was a secondary mathematics
teacher at Grand Island High School.
A Grand Island native, Hastings earned her bachelor’s degree
in secondary mathematics from Nebraska in 1987. Hastings
continued her education at Nebraska and earned a master’s
degree in educational psychology in 1995.
Hastings and her husband, John, have three daughters,
Megan, Kathryn and Abigail.
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