A few of the men who coach high school volleyball shared their “John Cook story†of how they ended up coaching a sport that many men in Nebraska haven’t played.
Five stories that were fun to write in 2020
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Five stories that were fun to write in 2020
Sports writer Brent C. Wagner captured the scene at events big and small in 2020.
Brent C. Wagner's fun stories: Coaching a sport few men played
Brent C. Wagner's fun stories: Watching 42 vintage games
During the work-from-home months a local teacher/football coach watched 42 vintage Nebraska football games. Then he shared his best of list with us.
Brent C. Wagner's fun stories: Nebraska preps on 'SportsCenter'
When many sports in the U.S. were on hold, the boys state basketball tournament played on, leading to Nebraska getting a long run on “SportsCenter.†Linda Cohn told us how it happened.
Brent C. Wagner's fun stories: Coach runs the Twitter account
When the college volleyball season was delayed it gave the head coach of a top-25 volleyball program time to be the gameday social media content producer for her daughter’s high school team.
Brent C. Wagner's fun stories: Crowning a champion in Shickley
For one year the state championship football games moved back to high school fields. In Shickley that meant two people on horseback directed traffic, and some fans were shuttled to the field on a hayrack.
Brent Wagner
Husker volleyball/women's basketball reporter
The Husker women have seen a lot of turbulence this season — even by 2020 standards. Why doesn't the roster have two more players on it?
His coach says Lutovsky's senior season was a lot of fun, but not for their opponents: "He's pretty vicious on the football field."
Sam Haiby's game-winner against Northwestern almost didn't happen after the guard came out of the game with a cramp.
With two close wins in a row, Nebraska gets another test at No. 15 Michigan, which has a high-scoring player familiar to the Huskers.
Hillmon's dominance and Nebraska's shaky rebounding spoils Husker women's bid for third straight win
Hillmon scored 35 points and had 22 rebounds in a dominating performance that the Wolverines needed every bit of against the Huskers.
Lexi Rodriguez admits she didn't even know how to keep score of a tennis match. But, with volleyball postponed, she became accomplished with a racquet.
“My dad has always said, ‘Be a rebounding guard'": Sam Haiby up to coaches' rebounding challenge
At 5-foot-9, Sam Haiby is one of the smaller players on the roster. Even so, she's one off the team lead this season.Â
The encouraging news is that Williams didn’t say the injury to the Huskers' second leading-scorer was season ending.
While Bourne is Nebraska’s second-leading scorer, her absence would also be big on defense as Nebraska prepares to face a high-powered offense.
At the end of last season, John Cook drew a football field with the Huskers on the 50-yard line. Now, it's time to reach the "end zone."
The Huskers could see help from Coley and MiCole Cayton when the Huskers play Illinois on Monday in Champaign, Illinois.
Nebraska is used to facing star players when it takes on Iowa; the latest is freshman Caitlin Clark, who's averaging 26 points a game.