Nebraska Cornhuskers Women's Volleyball

Nebraska Cornhuskers Women's Volleyball

Nebraska is home to one of the nation's most storied collegiate women's volleyball programs. The Nebraska women's volleyball team has won three NCAA Women's Volleyball National Championships, in 1995, 2000, and 2006 and has had three NCAA National Runner-Up finishes in 1986, 1989, and 2005 as well as 5 other NCAA National Semifinal (Final Four) appearances in 1990, 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2008 bringing the program total to 11 NCAA Final Four appearances. Nebraska also is one of only three programs east of the west coast to have won a NCAA Women's Volleyball National Championship.

The Husker Volleyball program started in 1975. Nebraska is the most winning program since 2000 when John Cook became head coach. Since 1988, Nebraska has been in the top 16 every year in the final CBS College Sports/AVCA National Poll and been in the top 5 sixteen of those years. They are one of only two programs in the country to be ranked in every AVCA poll since its inception in 1982. The Huskers have had more combined AVCA 1st and 2nd team All-Americans than any other program with 69, and has produced 4 AVCA National Player of the Year award winners.

Nebraska volleyball is a very popular spectator sport in the state. In 2008, AVCA Kathy DeBoer described Nebraska as "the epicenter of volleyball fandom". The four largest ever NCAA volleyball crowds, and seven of the top ten largest NCAA volleyball crowds, were in the state of Nebraska, including the largest ever crowd of 17,430 in the 2008 NCAA National Semifinals and the second most all time (17,209) for the 2006 National Championship match between Nebraska and Stanford.