Nebraska sports officials have pointed to the women’s event participation record of 91,648, set in a Champions League soccer match when Barcelona beat Real Madrid 5-2 at Camp Nou Stadium in 2022.
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“If there’s one position that can do it, it’s Nebraska,” Huskers freshman hitter Harper Murray said.
Memorial Stadium’s official capacity is just over 85,000 for soccer, but that number will be higher for this occasion as seats are available in the box. The box is at the north end of the stadium, which is the floor of the Huskers football stadium headquarters. team.
The U. S. record attendance at a women’s sporting event was 90,185 for the 1999 FIFA World Cup final between the United States and China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
Memorial Stadium will be on display in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald AP).
Nebraska has sold out 306 consecutive regular-season games, though Wednesday’s event likely wouldn’t count toward the series because it likely wouldn’t take place on the team’s Devaney Center field. The Huskers have led the country in attendance every season since 2013. , and 8 of the nine largest crowds in NCAA volleyball history are games involving Nebraska.
“I keep thinking about the U. S. football team that played in the Rose Bowl,” Huskers coach John Cook said. “It was a wonderful time for women’s football and football took off. I think there’s another wonderful possibility of this taking place in the game of volleyball. “
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Nebraska has won five national volleyball championships and its program is one of the few in Division I that generates revenue — $1 million last year, according to athletic department chief financial officer Doug Ewald.
Tickets for Nebraska Volleyball Day went on sale in late April and sold more than 82,000 in three days. Adults entered for $25 and youth for $5.
The magnitude of the event led Chancellor Rodney Bennett to cancel the day’s categories. NCAA President Charlie Baker and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti are expected to attend. The same goes for Husker volleyball players who have been part of coach Terry Pettit’s iconic teams for 4 decades. High school groups in a state that stretches 430 miles from border to border are exempt from categories in order to attend.
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Volleyball has surpassed basketball as the number one women’s team game in top schools with 455,000 female players in the United States. It has long been number one in Nebraska. The state ranks 38th in terms of population, with only 2 million inhabitants; It is ranked 25th nationally for the number of volleyball players in top schools, with 7,000.