Big Red Diary: Wes Cammack
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By BRIAN ROSENTHAL / Lincoln Journal Star
Wes Cammack is a fifth-year senior wide receiver from DeWitt who attended Tri County High School. If Cammack weren’t so busy with football right now, it’s a sure thing you’d see him out in a field somewhere, as you’ll hear in Cammack’s conversation Tuesday with the Journal Star’s Brian Rosenthal.
“I’m from a small farming community. I grew up out in the middle of nowhere, you could say. Grew up helping my dad. I was big into sports like a lot of people are down there. I grew up on a farm. Hogs, cattle, row crops. I’ve got a hunting business now, pheasants and deer. I really like to bow hunt for whitetail deer. I miss home. I like Lincoln, but I’m a little too shut-in at times.
“The hunting business is a controlled shooting area called Cub Creek Hunting. We started about eight years ago. My uncle actually raises pheasants, so we’ll, like, plant birds and stuff, and guys will come out and hunt. We’ve got a lodge and everything if they want to stay. We also do bow hunts. That’s kind of what we’re doing right now. It’s going pretty well. We’re in our eighth year and it’s slowly picking up. We’ve got a Web site and everything. Lance Thorell, he’s from Loomis, he’s a big hunter. There’s not a ton, but there are some guys on the team who go hunting every now and then. I’m trying to get a lot of guys to go down and hunt this spring after the football season.
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“I did probably the main four sports you do in school. I did football, basketball, track and baseball, but we didn’t have school baseball so I did Legion baseball. I kept pretty busy with those and summer league camps and everything and sports throughout the summer. I was pretty involved in school, FFA, student council, things like that. In a small school you do a little bit of everything, which I think is good. You get a taste of a lot of things and try to figure out what you want to do later in life.
“I was actually a decent track athlete. I wasn’t top dog in state, but I actually ran distance, which is kind of a weird combo. I ran the mile, two-mile, 800 and stuff. I possibly could’ve been doing track somewhere. I might have just been a regular student somewhere if I hadn’t played football. Who can tell?
“I did get a scholarship this year. It was a great feeling to be honored. I’ve been here a long time, put in a lot of work. It really means a lot. Growing up as a kid, you see a lot of Nebraska in-state guys getting scholarships in their fourth and fifth years. I strived to do that and saw some other guys perform to get those, especially like Matt O’Hanlon. I’m big buddies with him, and he got one the year before, so it was definitely a great honor. I just try to come out here and work hard every day.
“I play a lot on kickoff, a little bit on punt block, so that’s kind of been the main two teams where I’ve been out there. I take a lot of pride in special teams because it’s kind of where I got my start. I feel that’s a big area where I can help the team in. Anything I can do to help the team, I’m definitely for it.
“In high school I decided I wanted to go to a big school for academic reasons. I actually got a Regent’s here, so that’s kind of hard to pass up for four years. I’m an ag engineering major and I really like my ag background, but coming to school I didn’t know what I wanted to do. It kind of fell in my lap and it’s a good area for me.
“I’d like to go back home after school. It’s kind of up in the air. Farming’s definitely a tough gig at times. I work with my dad and he’s got two brothers, and my grandparents are still involved, so trying to squeeze me in might be tough. I might get a job locally with a machine design company, dealing with ag equipment and hopefully stay home and help around and get back home eventually.
“I really miss helping with harvest, but it’s a bit of a give and take. You put in your time here and you get a lot of things out of that. Time will come where I can go home a lot more. Five years here go fast.”
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