“I’ve probably cried five times today and I’m not kidding. Several times I’ve had to bite my lip to hold it together. It’s been a very emotional day. I lost it when I saw the alumni. I lost it when I hugged Briana Holman. I haven’t seen her since she left here. She’s been playing in Israel. It means so much to me. I lost it during the pep rally when Kennedi Orr wrote me a note. I was too emotional to read the whole thing so I read the last line and it said ‘Coach, today we are going to make the impossible possible.’ After this beautiful note she wrote to all her teammates.”

“There is a lot of satisfaction to know that it’s not me. It’s a celebration of Nebraska volleyball at all levels. We took a chance playing a game in Memorial Stadium and to go for the record and break it. Not only did we make a statement on how important volleyball is here, we want that record to be known around the world now. I don’t think anyone could have envisioned all this when this started. It feels like a great accomplishment for this sport called ‘volleyball’ played by the women in Nebraska. It’s a state treasure and we just proved it.”

“I think the biggest thing is that women’s sports are a big deal here. They got to experience what the means and get to experience on the same level as all the greatest football teams that have ever played here. We got to experience it and maybe in some ways even more based on ways the crowd interacted and students on the field. The students on the field, I think thats what set this thing off. You’re surrounded by all these people on the field and people in the stands and that changes it.”

“I was trying to stay in the moment and present and soak it all in. I was super excited so I just couldn’t hold a serious face and it was crazy emotions.”

“Once we got going a crowd is a crowd and once we got focused on the six people on the court the biggest thing was managing the wind and focusing on our side.”

“I think it’s huge for little girls to see a women’s sports and volleyball played on this big of a stage and having so many people invested in it. When you’re little, you have so many dreams and big goals and I think having something to look up to like this to is something a lot of little girls will keep in their back of their mind when pursuing volleyball.”

“We were walking out of the tunnel on the second set and we heard on the speaker that we had just broken the world record. We celebrated in the tunnel walking out. It’s incredible. I can’t describe how grateful I am to be a part of Husker Nation.”

“Our team has worked so hard and Nebraska volleyball is a huge legacy. We have to give credit to the women who did it before us because we wouldn’t be here without them.”

“This team is ready. We’re competitive and we’re ready to go. I am really excited for this season to see how we do.”