More history for Nebraska volleyball, this time on the beach side
Monday’s matches became Nebraska’s first ever home outdoor beach matches in program history.
Nebraska started kicking the idea around last Thursday, Feb. 22. As the Huskers’ beach volleyball season got underway in its usual home inside the Hawks Championship Center, someone noticed the forecast for the week ahead. Monday’s high was expected to be somewhere in the upper-70s — maybe even the lower-80s — with a lot of sunshine.
“Looking at the forecast and obviously being (in Nebraska) three or four days out, you don't really know if that's going to be accurate or not,” Husker assistant coach Jaylen Reyes told Counter Read. “The weather could change and you’ve got to change with it but that's the nature of outdoor sports in general. You're going to play a game at 7 but if it rains, you're not going to play.”
By Friday, the forecast continued to trend in the right direction and Nebraska made the call: the beach schedule would be updated and the Huskers would move their matchups with Ottawa and Wayne State outside.
In doing so, Monday’s matches became Nebraska’s first ever home outdoor beach matches in program history.
“The first thing we should say is thank you to the University of Nebraska for letting us use the student courts,” head coach John Cook said on Monday. “These are pretty nice courts, and this is great. You can play all the indoor you want, but when you've got to deal with the wind, until you get out here and do it, there's no way you can prepare for it, so this is huge.”
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