1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - German Dalmagro in studio: May 7th, 2026, 11:00am

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. A boom here from one-on-one on 93-7, the ticket. I'm Jake Bakuvin in studio today with special guest, Nebraska, women's tennis coach Hermann Del Morrow. D.P. is out today, but he'll still be joining the show here at the top of the hour, close to noon. as Nebraska softball gets ready to win, hopefully win, the Big Ten tournament championship out there in softball out in Maryland. That is where DP is at. Of course, Nebraska, as we look at it, did not to play in round one, of course, the number one overall seed in the tournament after winning the regular season, did get the buy.

So they just are waiting, we're waiting yesterday the results of Michigan in Ohio State. well, Michigan blank to Ohio State, nine to nothing in five innings. Any Michigan, Ohio State game's always big, of course, with that robbery. So Michigan moves on to plate, place, take on Nebraska today. That will be at 1230 on BTN. Again, we'll try to hear from DPU is live out there around noon. But until then, for the next hour, like I said, we've got Nebraska women's tennis coach, Hermann Del Magro in here.

Hermann, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in again. Yeah, thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure to be here. And yeah, hopefully our softball team can get it done out there. We're all cheering for them. So excited, exciting time for them.

Yeah, it's got to be a fun time just in the athletic department in general. I was reading an article the other day that athletic department-wide is going to have one of its strongest finishes, one of the strongest years just in general for the athletic department. Is that that energy kind of rope off on one another, you think? I think so. I think it does. And I think it's exciting to see, you know, all the sports do well. And hopefully you're one of them, you know.

I mean, we had a good year too, so I think it's exciting. And I think that the athletes noticed that and they kind of feed off of that too, you know? Like, I think it's, it's, anything is contagious, good and bad. You know, so I think when you, when everybody else is having success, I think it also allows you to believe in that too, you know, and allows you to freeze you up a little more and say, hey, you know, why know us too? Yeah, yeah. We're all here. Maybe there's something in the water here and Lake in Nebraska.

Absolutely. As you mentioned, your tennis season did come to an end, 15 and 9, pretty successful season overall. What are your kind of over, kind of your takeaways from this season, kind of overall as it has come to a conclusion after the Big Ten tournament? Yeah, it was a good year. I think we just fell off.

We were kind of the first four going into the Insulate tournament. So we're kind of the first four out, type of deal in the bubble. We just had like, I mean, the team did great. You know, we're very proud of all the team. You know, I think we kind of exceed the expectations, kind of on paper, you know, to that point. We finished in the top half at the conference, which our conference on the women's side is very strong. So finishing up there is one of our goals, you know, obviously making us a blaze.

Another one, I'm just skim up a little short. I don't, that doesn't take away, you know, for really having a good year. But I think, yeah, we just kind of just have one little match. that we will we can take you know we can come back and play that match again you know i would love to but other than that i think it was a good year and and again just came up short but overall i think it was a a good year a lot of positive things a lot of growth in our team a lot of good developing i think everybody kind of grew as the season went on and go better and some players go um you know some really good wins and and everybody grew and got better, which is kind of the goals. You know, we're,

you know, we're a developmental program and, you know, like to like to see them improve every year. And, you know, and I felt like we did that. You know, on paper, we were the 13 or 14 team in the conference and, you know, we finished eight, you know, so it's a, it's a, it's a good year. And I think all we can do is learn, you know, keep doing what we did right and learn a few things that we can do better and come back stronger next year. How much are tenants too? I mean, I noticed with your roster, not a lot of departing seniors. In fact, there wasn't any seniors on the roster. You're telling me there's one gal that might leave for another opportunities.

But how much does seniority help in tenant? Yeah, no, it definitely helps. We did not have any seniors. Actually, we ended up having one that she was graduated early. She has an extra year. But she had an awesome opportunity to do a master's at an Ivy League school. Then she got accepted to. And she's going to go take that.

And I think, which speaks great volume of her. She's a great student. and I think it's a really good opportunity for her. So she's already graduated. And then she's going to go take that master's at an Ivy League school. So I think it's really good for her. So we have her. And then, yeah, no seniors, no other seniors in the team.

So I think it's good, you know, it's good, you know, because we were able to accomplish some things with a younger team. But I think it's also really good opportunities for, you know, for them to kind of keep growing and keep showing some little, really good leadership coming up, you know, next year. Yeah, and of course, too, this was your third year as head coach here at Nebraska. What is what is that, your kind of growth been from your yourself? Do you feel yourself growing and getting better and all that?

Yeah, you know, I do for sure. I think it's, you know, every year you, you know, I'm always one of those that I love learning. And I don't, I don't see it as like, hey, I know it all the type of deal because I'm the head coach. I learned from our own players, from experiences, from matches, from recruiting, from, you know, scheduling all that matters. You know, so I think every year you learn some things that you're like, hey, this is working really well. Let's keep doing that. Or sometimes it all depends on the dynamic of the team or, you know, who you have and personalities, all that. You know, we have a great group this year.

You know, I really love this team. And I think it's, you know, I think we can even push them even more, you know. So that's something we'll do next year, you know. I continue to push him and even harder. I think they're up for the challenge. And I think, but we learn a lot. You know, I'd learn a lot too. And hopefully, you know, like just as our players mature, you know, I, I learn some things that it's like,

hey, we can make adjustments here or, hey, we can do this more. And, you know, the goal is to keep moving forward as a program and keep growing and keep getting better. You know, I'm highly competitive. And, you know, even though we did have a better year, I'm still not satisfied. I think we could have done better and I think we should do better and I want to do better. So it's things that, you know, that hopefully we're on the same boat that we just say, we just got to keep working hard and not make any excuses, just work hard and, you know, and hope, you know, and try to make things better for next year.

How much is it going to help with the majority of the roster coming back next year? We kind of talked about, you know, I can imagine every team has their own challenges and And it's kind of fun to, I'm sure, kind of maybe reestablish a culture or whatever if you have to bring in a big group of freshmen. But to have almost everybody back and to build, be having built off a season, as you said, where you kind of took a step forward. I mean, that's got to feel like there's some momentum in the program. And you don't have to go in next year and establish what, you know, a lot of the culture

or that sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think it's excited. I think it's like, I was really excited about this year. And I think I'm even more excited about next year. I think it's because, yeah, the same. they know the majority of the players are back and pretty much all them that play majority of the matches in the top six in the lineup they're all back and i think that's excited hopefully they they learn as well you know to be like hey we were this close you know like what can we do to even get over to the hump or or even have a better year you know so i think it's it's excited you know and and they're motivated and you know i'm more motivated and ever to keep making that uh the jump you know and it's excited and i think it's a good uh we have a good culture or group, you know, again, really good group.

And I'm excited to see them grow. You know, and I'm excited to see them face challenges and try to overcome them and see where we can take them. Yeah, yeah, it should be excited. We do have a text here. So if you guys have any text, go ahead and text in just so we can, we can pass the information along in this case. Mailman coach, or excuse me, texted in to coach Ramon DeMoggra, is joining us here

on 93 7. The ticket says, Coach Ramon, I took my four-year-old daughter to watch Husker men's and women's tennis at home this last year. She loved it as did I. What avenue do I take and how early do I start her in tennis? Oh, wow. Well, first of all, thank you for supporting our men's and women's tennis team and for coming. We hope to see you in many more matches. Yes. So we appreciate the support and thank you for listening in as well here. Yeah, I think it's about four or five. It's a good age. You know, I think you can take them to the local clubs and then they have a lot of clinics for younger kids

where they teach you how to play, but they also play games and all that. And I think it's, you know, the best way for me to learn to love the game is to enjoy while you're learning it. You know, it doesn't have to feel like it's like, you know, a chore or a huge responsibility, you know. I think it's good to learn while you're having fun,

you know, and at that age especially, I have a daughter that's five years old and we kind of go play around and to be honest we do very little teaching and a lot of games, you know, and she bosses me around, you know, what she wants to do. But at that age, I think it's fun, you know, she's just at that age, you know, which says four, four-year-old. I think it's a year. Yeah.

So I think it's still kind of even young, you know, but between, they can't hold their attention more than 10 minutes, you know. So if you go for an hour lesson or 45-minute lesson with a group of kids, you know, 10, 50, minutes out of those, you know, might be very valuable when they pay attention. The rest is just be picking up balls and playing games, which I think is fun too. I think the biggest part of what I think

some pros make a mistake or even some parents do that they try to put too much pressure early on on their kids. I think at that age, you need to associate the sport with fun, you know, and making friends and knowing that, hey, if I'm playing

tennis, I'm actually having fun and enjoy what I'm doing. You know, doesn't feel like oh, I have to go to tennis again, you know? Yeah. So I think that's when they feel they fall in love with the game the most is when they're having fun while they're learning.

You know, I think that's, you know, if you can learn the sport and then have fun and enjoy it and then you can make it more serious when you're older, you know, between four to 10 almost, you know, it still needs to be like you learn some of it, but you're having fun, but you learn some kind of responsibilities, some, you know, like, you know,

a little bit of character. a little bit of, you know, energy, a little bit of, like, what to do, what not to do, you know, like, you work on your patience because you might have to weigh your turn for a little bit longer, you know, kids don't like to do that. Yeah. So, so I think it's a good age to kind of introduce him to the sport and get him, you know, get him together with all the kids and while you're learning, you know. So I think it's right now to the next two years. It's a good, good time to start. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Every sport kind of has its own time period. where you kind of get to that point and you have to have that discussion of, hey, kids, now we're not everybody gets playing time or whatever, we're going to have to, you know, start being competitive. Is that you say that's around 10 years old?

I mean, I would say so, you know, there's kids that are more competitive with their, you know, seven to nine, you know, I remember, I mean, I grew up in a tennis household, you know, my dad is a tennis coach and I grew up there. But I was kind of early on, I was more like having fun and I was not as serious until I was like maybe 11 to 12, you know, and then, but then I was, you know, I used to live in, you know, I'm from Argentina, but I used to live in another country for a few years. And I was number one in the country. Okay.

12, 14, 16, and 18s. And I didn't even take it a series until I was like 9 or 10. You know, before that, it was for fun. And, you know, you play a tournament or go have lessons, but then I'll take like a week off because I was doing something else. And so my parents did a really good job or no pressure in me. And they making sure that I was like, hey, they put me into tennis, but I also chose tennis. You know, it wasn't like, hey, this is what are you going to do? and you know, like it or no, you're doing it.

I think it's good to do multiple sports, especially at a younger age. But I think it's also just like, you know, you have to want it for them, but they have to want it more for themselves, you know. Once you get to high school ranks, we always talk about, and especially, you know,

what you get to football or whatever, is it better to have, having played multiple sports and all that stuff? Does that help, you know, your game? Is that something you see in tennis a lot? Or does it get pretty, you know, focused on tennis once you hit maybe 50s? 15 or 16. Yeah, I mean, I think by that age, it gets a little more focused on one sport,

maybe two, if all the sport is somehow related to what you're doing. But I think it's very valuable early on to play multiple sports. I'm actually having those discussions with my son, my 10-year-old son, he plays ice hockey, and that's all he wants to do right now. It's ice hockey. And I was like, no, you're doing baseball, you're doing golf, you're doing all the sports. I think it has a very valuable to learn other things to all the sports because it teaches you different aspects of that, you know, maybe it's coordination, maybe it's high-night coordination, maybe it's movement, maybe it's, you know, a different mental skill

that different sports require, you know, maybe it's something that you're maybe not as good as maybe not a sport, or requires you to be a little stronger mentally or more patience or learn how to deal with frustrations, you know, that then maybe you can take, you know, it can be a teamwork, you know, it could be if it's an individual sport, you learn how to deal with some things on your on. So I think it's very, very valuable to to play multiple sports, you know, and it adds a lot. And who knows? I mean, there's plenty of athletes out there that are very good at multiple sports,

you know. I play soccer growing up. I did swimming, a little bit of basketball. I play rugby, you know, besides tennis. And then by the time I was 14 or so, you know, I was just much better at tennis and everything else. I kind of like, I played soccer a lot growing up. And then I was too much of a context bore. And if you get hurt there, I couldn't play as much than any. So I So I chose around that time just to play tennis, but I play the other sports more recreational, you know, with friends and stuff like that. So I think it's good. You know, I would not recommend somebody that has less than a 10-year-old. It's just like, hey, yeah, that's all you're doing, you know, focus on one sport.

Even though parents are focusing on one sport right now to make them as good as they can, you know, but then what happens if they don't? You know, then they kind of, you know, I don't think they're as equipped, you know, skill-wise, you know, to kind of take on anything else. You know, but yeah, I think it's, I think it's more value, more positives to play multiple sports and negatives, you know. Yeah, yeah. I did want it, though, too, just because like you mentioned, like the contact nature of some other sports might deter you from maybe or be struggling to get out there on the tennis court. Is there a sport or a couple of sports that you generally see paired as soccer or is there? I mean, soccer. I mean, I think here in the US, actually, tennis players sometimes they play lacrosse, they play field hockey, some females, you know,

They some might run, track and field, you know, because they work on the speed, you know. Some might play basketball, basketball and tennis are very similar footwork, you know, back and forth, sideways, you know, like lateral steps, you know, jumping and kind of all that. So it's similar. I see some do that. I seen a few tennis players play golf just because, you know, the hand-eye coordination and all that. So to be honest, I don't think there's any specific sport that you'd be like, oh, this relationship. is the best. I think anything

that takes you away from your sport and you concentrate on different things adds value, you know, to your overall, you know, athletic abilities. Yeah, yeah. Hermann DeMogger, Nebraska, women's tennis coach, in here with us on one-on-one. We do, I'll take a short break. We'll be back with more.

I wanted to dive into recruiting. We talked a little bit about it off air and it's going to be kind of an interesting time. Always interesting to see what's going on in the head coach's calendar and it is that time of the year. So we'll talk a little bit about that when we're coming back next year on 93.7 the ticket. This is one-on-one. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store.

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