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Nebraska middle blocker Virginia Stahr reaches for a spike attempt during the FirsTier
Volleyball Invitational earlier tnis season. Stahr's 104 kills rank her second on the Huskers.
Stahr says balance will help NU
By Mark Derowiisch
Senior Reporter
Since Nebraska middle blocker
Virginia Stahr will be busier this year,
she wants to make sure opposing
defenses are just as occupied.
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Stahr said she expects to be used
more in the Comhuskcrs' offense this
season because of the overall balance
of the team. The balance, she said,
will make Nebraska more difficult to
defend against.
“We’re definitely pushing the ball
up the middle more,” she said. “Both
(middle blocker) Carla Baker and 1
will be involved in the offense more
because our attack is global. Kalhi
DeBoer was the main person last year,
so we attacked to the outside most of
the time. Now we have such a bal
anced attack and it will be harder for
other teams to defend against it.”
Nebraska volleyball coach Terry
Pettit said Stahr will play a bigger part
in the offense this season.
“We are a little more balanced and
we have a number of attackers we
could go to,” he said. “Even when we
win matches in straight sets, they last
a long time so there’s a lot of kills
being made. Plus, we know that every
time we get the ball to Virginia, she’s
Stahr, a junior from Waco, led the
Big Eight and was ranked 3rd in the
country with a .397 hitting percentage
last season. She also had an .846
percent hitting game against Tennes
see.
Stahr said setting in the middle
more also will help the rest of the
Huskers.
“In volleyball, you try to split the
block,” she said. “Wc try to make the
blockers confused. By setting the
middle more, the defense won’t know
where we’ll go.”
This season, Slahr’s statistics have
indicated that Nebraska is trying to
push the ball up the middle more.
She’s No. 2 on the team behind Linda
Barsness in kills with 104 and leads
the starters with a .375 hitting per
centage. She also has recorded 13 solo
blocks.
“We might be attacking different
this year, but I think we’re a stronger
team,” Stahr said. “Coach Pettit is
always preparing for next year.”
With a stronger learn, Stahr said,
she thinks the Huskers have a good
chance to reach the NCAA Final
Four.
‘‘That’s our main goal,” she said.
“We want to get to the Final Four and
then win the national championship.
But we’re not looking past anybody.
We need to slop and play each game
as they come.”
Stahr said her taste of the 1986
Final Four still lingers. That season
Stahr was a freshman on the Nebraska
team that lost to Pacific in straight sets
in the championship match.
“I was so overwhelmed by the
whole thing,” Stahr said. “When I’m
put in a position like that, my brain
gets turned around. I was so helter
skelter out there.
“It was great to play with all those
great players, and I’m hoping to get
back there.”
To get to the NCAA Tournament,
Stahr said, she knows the Huskers
must first win the Big Eight tide. She
said Oklahoma’s win against the
Huskers in the 1988 Big Eight Tour
nament might give the rest of the
conference some confidence that
Nebraska can be beaten.
“The conference is always gun
ning for us,” Stahr said. “Oklahoma
thinks they can beat us again, but I
guarantee we’ll be ready for them. I
guarantee we’ll play well against
Oklahoma this year.’r
Stahr, an elementary education
major, saideach player will have to do
their job if Nebraska is going to cap
ture the conference crown.
“Coach talks a lot about roles,” she
said. “My first two years, all I did was
come in and play die front line. This
year, I will play the whole rotation,
and I’ll also help the young players
keep their confidence up.”
Pettit said Stahr is a good leader on
the team.
“She’s taken on a lot more respon
sibility this year,” Pettit said. “She
plays her best in the tough matches
and that shows she has matured as a
player.”
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