Nate Swift is a junior receiver from Hutchinson, Minn. Through four games this season, Swift has notched 147 yards on 12 catches, including a long reception of 21 yards in Nebraska's 52-10 win over Nevada on Sept. 1.
What do you like to do besides play football?
I hunt pheasant, ducks. My favorite is pheasant, but I also hunt ducks and geese a lot, too. I've done it my whole life. I mean, that's what my dad's always done. I mean, me and my brother go with my dad and my uncles, and everybody in my family has pretty much hunted, so I just fell into it.
Have you ever been laughed at on the football field?
I don't know about here, but in high school, we had a track around our football field, and the first catch I ever had, I got run out of bounds and went on to the track a little bit, and I went to turn around and fell over - slipped, tripped on the track. We had fans all around the track, so it was pretty embarrassing. That was on our highlight tape at the end of the year, too.
Was it nice coming here with your high school teammate, offensive lineman Lydon Murtha?
It was big, it was big for me. I thought I was going to come here alone at first and not know anybody, but then he committed too. I mean, it was definitely nice to come here and not know anybody but then have Murtha to fall back on. We were pretty good friends in high school. He has definitely not changed at all. He's the same goofy guy as he was in high school.
What is there to do in Hutchinson, Minn.?
Not much. There's a river, you can go fishing in the river - there are a lot of carp. Yeah. We've got a sanctuary that's pretty cool. There is ducks, geese, deer. There's just not much to do in Hutch - get together, play basketball, that's it.
-compiled by staff writer Katelyn Kerkhove
