[Husker] National Championship

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

Holy cow.... nothing against Kari Cooper, but you could see the difference 
in experience when Tracy Stalls came back into this game. Cooper is a 
freshman, Stalls a senior. 

I wrote this....

http://www.cornnation.com/story/2006/12/15/01230/940

which included this statement about this Nebraska volleyball team: 
This Nebraska team has played as well as anyone could have expected 
throughout this season. They lost last year's NCAA Player of the Year, 
Christina Houghtelling, before the season. They replaced her with the Big 
12 newcomer of the year in Rachel Holloway, changed their offense from a 
6-2 to a 5-1, lost one match throughout the entire season and won a 
regional outside the state of Nebraska to advance to the Final Four for 
the first time after coming back from a 0-2 deficit against Minnesota.
I finally reviewed Steve Smith's "Forever Red" book, and in it he mentions 
the difference between "husker football fans" and "school loyalists". 
(It's a great book and Christmas IS coming). I am the latter, but when you 
look at this volleyball team, the players they have, and what they've been 
through, wow. What a great story, season, team. All in one. 
Saturday night. Get a party together. Watch the game. Be a loyalist, if 
for no other reason than to watch 6' 5" Sarah Pavan mash that ball when 
she's on. It's great stuff. 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 12/14/2006 10:46:58 PM:

> Well, the Huskers are finally in the National Championship Game. 
> The Husker Volleyball Team will face #2 Stanford in a matchup that 
> they have been waiting for since they announced the hosting of the 
> final 4 in the Qwest Center in Omaha.  A record crowd to watch an 
> NCAA volleyball game witnessed some tense action in the NU-UCLA game
> as NU won 3-1.  Nebraska will face the winner of the Stanford-
> Washington game played later in the evening.  Sarah Pavan collected 
> 22 kills and Tracy Stalls hit .577 as top-ranked Nebraska (32-1) 
> overcame a first-game loss to defeat fourth-seed UCLA (33-4).
> 
> Steven J
> Class of 83
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