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Nebraska’s fight song begins, “There is no place like Nebraska.” When it comes to volleyball, those words never rang more true than Wednesday night.

The Cornhuskers laid claim to the world record for largest attendance at a women’s sporting event with 92,003 filling Memorial Stadium for their volleyball match against Omaha.

The university took aim at the record last spring when it announced it would hold a daylong celebration of a sport that enjoys immense popularity in this state of fewer than 2 million.

“We took a chance by playing in Memorial Stadium, and to go for the record and break it. ... I don’t think anybody could have envisioned that when this whole thing started,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “It feels like a great accomplishment for this sport called volleyball played by women. It’s a state treasure. We proved it.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Volleyball is an incredible sport, and needs to be more popular in the US than it currently is. Nebraska is doing their part, it seems.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Intentionally trying to break a record is not as impressive as people just really liking the sport. I doubt they'll even get 10% of this crowd the next time they play. I'm not saying people shouldn't like women's volleyball. I like it in the olympics. I'm just saying most people don't give a shit about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Am Nebraskan, can confirm we just really like volleyball. Look up sellout streaks for both football and volleyball if you don't want to take my word on that.

We didn't set out to break the record, that only became the narrative the last week or so when it became clear it might happen.

Good chance we do this again and still get 90k people to attend!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ok, fair enough.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

So you’d say olympic yes?