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Nebraska plays its home games at the Bob Devaney Sports Center and has sold out every home match since 2001. [2] The team has been coached by John Cook since 2000. The program was founded in 1975 and is one of the most decorated in women's volleyball, with more wins than any other program and five national championships. [3]
John G. Cook (born April 19, 1956) is an American volleyball coach who is the head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers women's college volleyball team. In twenty-five seasons at Nebraska, he has led the Cornhuskers to four national championships (2000, 2006, 2015, 2017) and fifteen conference titles.
At the Coliseum, the Cornhuskers began a streak of 285 consecutive sellouts that continues at the Devaney Center, an NCAA record for any women's sport. [5] The arena was the subject of a CBS Sports documentary in 2011. [6] In 2008, the AVCA's Kathy DeBoer described the Coliseum as "the epicenter of volleyball fandom". [7]
Nebraska volleyball stands alone, and not just in the volleyball world, or the NCAA world. The Cornhuskers set a world record for attendance at a women's sporting event Wednesday, gathering 92,003 ...
A record 92,003 people attended the University of Nebraska volleyball game to become the largest crowd in the world to watch a women's sporting event.
The U.S. record for women's sports attendance was 90,185 for the 1999 World Cup soccer final between the U.S. and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
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The 1986 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began with 32 teams and ended on December 20, 1986, when Pacific defeated Nebraska 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match. Pacific won their second straight NCAA title in volleyball with an easy sweep of Nebraska by the scores of 15-12, 15-4, 15-4.