Huskers win Nebraska Invitational
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
and Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
Illinois ended Nebraska’s winning
streak at 20 games, but couldn’t stop
the Comhuskcrs from establishing
their best start ever with a 13-0 match
record.
Nebraska, ranked No. 6 in the latest
American Volleyball Coaches Asso
ciation Poll and No. 7 by the NCAA,
defeated the Fighting Illini 15-10,12
15, 16-14, 13-15, 15-8 to win the
Gillette Dairy/Prairie Maid Nebraska
Volleyball Invitational Saturday
night before 667 fans at the Nebraska
Coliseum.
The Huskers opened the tourna
ment with a 15-13,15-8,15-3 victory
over Loyola Mary mount Friday night,
then defeated Tennessee 15-3, 15-3,
15-1 Saturday morning.
Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said
junior setter Lori Endicott, who was
named the tournament’s most valu
able player, was one key reason the
Huskers won.
“It’s not the only reason we won,
but Endicott, she just keeps you in
there,” Pettit said. “Even when our
passing broke down, she made some
thing out of it.”
Endicott finished with 57 set as
sists and five ace serves against Illi
nois.
Nebraska players who joined Endi
cott on the all-tournament team were
senior Kathi DeBoer, freshman Val
Novak and junior Virginia Stahr.
Volleyball coaches
attribute success
to different reasons
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
Two coaches went to work Satur
day night, putting their talents on dis
play before 667 fans at the Nebraska
Coliseum.
Nebraska coach Terry Pettit, the
1986 Collegiate Volleyball Coaches’
Association Coach of the Year, and
Illinois coach Mike Hebert, the 1985
CVCA Coach of the Year, have both
received national coaching honors.
Pettit, who is now in his 11th sea
son at Nebraska, has compiled a 336
89 record, including a team-best 13-0
start this season.
Hebert has compiled a 107-49 rec
ord during his five yearsofcoaching at
Illinois. His overall career record is
296-158.
Pettit said he attributes his success
to his lengthy stay at Nebraska.
“There is a lot of stability and a lot
of support people (at Nebraska), not
just the athletic director, but other
people, including the office secretary
and custodial help,” Pettit said. “You
also establish a recruiting base. We
have it now where if a Nebraskan is a
good player, Nebraska is where she
wants to play.”
Pettit said he couldn’t comment on
the advantages sonic coaches create
by changing coaching positions, bc
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coached at Louisburg Junior College
in Louisburg, N.C., before coming to
Nebraska in 1977.
“Some coaches travel to gel a raise
in salary or pay,” Pettit said. “They
also try to get things for their program,
and if a school wants you bad enough,
they will give it to you.”
Hebert has coached at three
schools in his 12-year career. The five
years he has spent at Illinois represent
the longest he has stayed at one col
lege.
Hebert said he never planned to
change coaching positions so fre
quently. He said he has no intentions
of changing in the future.
“It takes a lot out of you to start
from scratch,” Hebert said. “I like our
program now and our talent, which is
our youth, for the next two to three
years.”
Besides being CVCA coaches of
the year, Pettit and Hebert both also
have been or arc active in the Ameri
can Volleyball Coaches’ Association.
Pettit was a member of the AVCA
Board of Directors from 1983 to 1986,
and Hebert is now AVCA president.
Rounding out the team were Illinois’
Nancy Brookhardt and Mary Eggers,
and Loyola Marymount’s Leslie
Wohlford.
Novak, an outside hitter/setter
from Oak Lawn, 111., setpersonal bests
against her home state’s university
with 15 kills, nine digs and a .556
hitting percentage.
Illinois coach Mike Hebert, who
recruited Novak, said he was im
pressed with her tournament play.
“She’s a super player and she had a
great tournament,” Hebert said.
Nebraska jumped out to a 7-2 lead
in the first game against Illinois and
never trailed on its way to the 15-10
victory.
In the second game, the Huskcrs
again jumped out loan early lead, with
an ace serve by Val Novak giving
them a 6-0 lead.
But Illinois, behind the serving of
Brookhardt and Eggers, rallied to tie
the game at 8-8 and 12-12, and then
scored the game’s last three points to
win.
Illinois led 14-9 in the third game,
but Nebraska reeled off seven unan
swered points to win the game and
take a 2-1 lead.
Pettit said sophomore DeLisa
DcBolt made the “key block” in the
third game when she stopped an
Eggers spike attempt to give Nebraska
a 15-14 lead.
In the decisive fifth game, the
Huskcrs jumped out to a 10-2 lead and
held on for the 15-8 victory.
“It was a very good victory for us,”
Pettit said. “We beat a very good team.
We really stressed each other.”
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Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan
Virginia Stahr, left, and Kathi DeBoer block a spike during Saturday night’s Gillette Dairy/Prairie
Maid Nebraska Voileyball Invitational. Nebraska won the match 15-10,12-15,16-14,13-15 and
15-8.
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