Nebraska proved as soon as once more that it’s the volleyball capital of the world. The College of Nebraska volleyball group has formally damaged the ladies’s sport world document with an introduced attendance of 92,003 at Lincoln’s Memorial Stadium on Wednesday night time. A sea of pink crammed the venue because the Cornhuskers hosted the Omaha Mavericks.
“That is unbelievable for ladies’s athletics. To do that in Nebraska, we dreamed massive tonight, we actually dreamed massive,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “(Junior setter) Kennedi Orr wrote me a be aware right now. It stated, ‘Coach, tonight the unimaginable will likely be doable.’ We did it.”
The earlier document crowd for any NCAA volleyball match was 18,755 when Nebraska performed Wisconsin on Dec. 18, 2021. The Huskers needed to goal greater — a lot greater — because the previous mark was simply shattered Wednesday.
Nebraska completed the night time with a 3-0 victory over Omaha, however the remaining rating got here second to creating historical past with a world document.
“It is unimaginable. I haven’t got sufficient phrases to explain it. … I can not describe simply how grateful I’m to be part of it and be a part of Husker nation,” freshman Andi Jackson said.
The earlier girls’s sport world attendance document was 91,648, set in 2022 throughout a UEFA Ladies’s Champions League soccer semifinal between Barcelona and Wolfsburg. Though Memorial Stadium’s official capability is simply over 85,000 for soccer video games, field-level seating was made accessible this week, which helped the Huskers get the area wanted to attain their aim.
Whereas 92,003 followers had been on the stadium, many extra had been watching worldwide. Even NBA legend Magic Johnson stated he was blown away by the assist proven to girls’s athletics.
Wednesday’s celebrations began with an exhibition between Nebraska-Kearney and Wayne State, who know one thing about massive crowds. UNK holds the DII all-time attendance document, set in 2005 after they performed Grand Valley State in entrance of 5,025 followers within the NCAA match.
Nebraska and Omaha obtained the total remedy with a tunnel stroll and a flyover earlier than their match.
Historical past was formally made this week, however the document was not precisely a shock. Tickets for “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” bought out in 48 hours in April. The occasion was so vital for this system that UNL canceled in-person courses on Wednesday to encourage college students to attend.
Nebraska has led the nation in volleyball attendance each season since 2013. The group has bought out an NCAA-record 306 consecutive common season matches, however Wednesday didn’t rely towards that streak as a result of the match was not held at Devaney Middle court docket.
“It is a celebration of Nebraska volleyball at each degree within the state,” Prepare dinner stated. “We took an opportunity by enjoying at Memorial Stadium, and to go for the document and break it. Now we have made a press release to everyone else on how vital volleyball is right here. … We simply proved it.”
