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Nebraska volleyball sets world record with attendance: 'Women's sports are a big deal here'
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Sep 1, 2023, 4:04:41 PM9/1/23
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More than 92K fans packed into the Huskers football stadium Wednesday
night
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nebraska-volleyball-sets-world-record-
attendance-womens-sports-big-deal-here
Nebraska’s women’s volleyball team set a new world record on Wednesday
night, as more than 92,000 fans packed in Memorial Stadium to watch the
Cornhuskers defeat Omaha in a three-set sweep.
Playing a regular season match in Nebraska’s football stadium, the Huskers
achieved their goal of breaking the record for the largest attendance at a
women's sporting event ever with 92,003 fans packing into the stadium
which officially seats just over 85,000.
"I’ve probably cried five times today, I’m not kidding," head coach John
Cook said in a press conference after the match. "Several times I’ve had
to bite my lip to hold it together. It’s been a very emotional day."
"There is a lot of satisfaction in that," Cook said of the record. "It’s a
celebration of Nebraska volleyball at all levels in the state, and we took
a chance by playing in Memorial Stadium and to go for the record and break
it. So not only do we make a statement to everybody else about how
important volleyball is here and [that] we want the record, we [showed] it
to the world."
"I don’t think anybody could have envisioned that when this whole thing
started."
The previous record of 91,648 was set just last year when Barcelona
defeated Real Madrid during a Champions League soccer match at Camp Nou
Stadium in Spain.
"You don’t think you’re going to be part of a world record event, and
seeing how much everyone supports volleyball and wanted to be part of that
record is awesome to see," Omaha outside hitter Shayla McCormick said.
The record-breaking night is just another Nebraska’s women’s volleyball
team can add to their list.
According to the team website, the attendance on Wednesday also surpassed
the previous record for an American women’s sporting event set in 1999 in
the United States’ FIFA World Cup Final against China.
It also topped the previous records for any NCAA volleyball match and an
NCAA volleyball regular-season match. Nebraska also holds an NCAA women’s
record having sold out 306 consecutive regular-season matches.
"Women’s sports are a big deal here. And they got to experience what the
men get to experience on the same level as all the greatest football teams
that have played here. We just got to experience it," Cook said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nebraska-volleyball-sets-world-record-
attendance-womens-sports-big-deal-here
Nebraska’s women’s volleyball team set a new world record on Wednesday
night, as more than 92,000 fans packed in Memorial Stadium to watch the
Cornhuskers defeat Omaha in a three-set sweep.
Playing a regular season match in Nebraska’s football stadium, the Huskers
achieved their goal of breaking the record for the largest attendance at a
women's sporting event ever with 92,003 fans packing into the stadium
which officially seats just over 85,000.
"I’ve probably cried five times today, I’m not kidding," head coach John
Cook said in a press conference after the match. "Several times I’ve had
to bite my lip to hold it together. It’s been a very emotional day."
"There is a lot of satisfaction in that," Cook said of the record. "It’s a
celebration of Nebraska volleyball at all levels in the state, and we took
a chance by playing in Memorial Stadium and to go for the record and break
it. So not only do we make a statement to everybody else about how
important volleyball is here and [that] we want the record, we [showed] it
to the world."
"I don’t think anybody could have envisioned that when this whole thing
started."
The previous record of 91,648 was set just last year when Barcelona
defeated Real Madrid during a Champions League soccer match at Camp Nou
Stadium in Spain.
"You don’t think you’re going to be part of a world record event, and
seeing how much everyone supports volleyball and wanted to be part of that
record is awesome to see," Omaha outside hitter Shayla McCormick said.
The record-breaking night is just another Nebraska’s women’s volleyball
team can add to their list.
According to the team website, the attendance on Wednesday also surpassed
the previous record for an American women’s sporting event set in 1999 in
the United States’ FIFA World Cup Final against China.
It also topped the previous records for any NCAA volleyball match and an
NCAA volleyball regular-season match. Nebraska also holds an NCAA women’s
record having sold out 306 consecutive regular-season matches.
"Women’s sports are a big deal here. And they got to experience what the
men get to experience on the same level as all the greatest football teams
that have played here. We just got to experience it," Cook said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nebraska-volleyball-sets-world-record-
attendance-womens-sports-big-deal-here
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We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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