{"id":422474,"date":"2023-04-11T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T07:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=422474"},"modified":"2023-04-11T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T07:18:13","slug":"ex-nebraska-lineman-cole-pensick-died-in-a-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ex-nebraska-lineman-cole-pensick-died-in-a-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nebraska Lineman Cole Pensick Died In A Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Pensick, a former offensive lineman for the Nebraska Huskers, passed away in the state&#8217;s eastern region after his pickup truck collided with some trees.<\/p>\n<h2>Ex-Nebraska Lineman Cole Pensick Died In A Car Crash<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Omaha World-Herald, Pensick ran a stop sign at a T-intersection in Polk County at 6:45 on Saturday morning, which is when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle veered off the road and came to a stop in some woods some 24.14 kilometres (14 miles) southwest of Columbus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mourning the loss of one of our own.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Nebraska Football program, our deepest condolences go out to the family, friends &amp; teammates of former Husker lineman, Cole Pensick, who passed away yesterday at the age of 32. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x0dVO574Wc\">pic.twitter.com\/x0dVO574Wc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nebraska Football (@HuskerFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuskerFootball\/status\/1645142813904973825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the former Huskers lineman was not using a seatbelt when his car struck trees after running past a stop sign at a T-intersection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hard to believe three Huskers who played together have all died in car crashes \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>Praying for their families, friends and teammates. <\/p>\n<p>Sam Foltz: 2012-2015 (died in July 2016)<br \/>Mark Pelini: 2010-2014 (died in Oct 2022)<br \/>Cole Pensick: 2009-2013 (died in April 2023)<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83d\udcf7: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Huskers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Huskers<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7jVcyERKfk\">pic.twitter.com\/7jVcyERKfk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Schammert (@BillSchammert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillSchammert\/status\/1645161186889957377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pensick passed away at the site, according to the responding authorities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RIP Cole Pensick \ud83e\udd7a\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wc0PsMhesx\">pic.twitter.com\/Wc0PsMhesx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The TuNNel Walk (@TunnelWalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TunnelWalk\/status\/1645079093233217536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He was an integral part of the offensive line that helped the Huskers become one of the best rushing teams in the Big Ten in 2013 as a senior at Nebraska.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc94 Cole, you will never be forgotten.  Sending up so many prayers for the Pensick family during this time. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8cf9OllsqS\">pic.twitter.com\/8cf9OllsqS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Coach Jeni Bozarth (@jeni_bozarth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeni_bozarth\/status\/1645587909830144001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite having a knee ailment, the coaches selected him for the Big Ten second team that season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Nebraska starting center, Lincoln native Cole Pensick died in a single-vehicle accident on Saturday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NIzLLGyWTT\">https:\/\/t.co\/NIzLLGyWTT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hail Varsity (@HailVarsity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HailVarsity\/status\/1645151128739368961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to continuing his playing career, Pensick took two months of graduate-level coursework while earning his agribusiness degree from Nebraska in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeUt0ygcsIY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Orioles Celebrating Home Run In A New Way! 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Ex-Nebraska Lineman Cole Pensick Died In A Car Crash According to the Omaha World-Herald, Pensick ran a stop sign at a T-intersection in Polk County at 6:45 on Saturday morning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":422475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[6787,6789,6790,6788],"class_list":["post-422474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nccaf","tag-cole-pensick","tag-cole-pensick-car-accident","tag-cole-pensick-car-crash","tag-cole-pensick-dead"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}