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an excellent defensive player and a
good passer, and she’s made the ad
justment to the college game.”
Brand previously played on the
Australian National Team before com
ing to Nebraska.
The 5-foot-9-inch outside hitter
said a friend who played volleyball at
Florida State recommended that she
leave Australia and test the college
volleyball waters in the United States.
“1 heard through the grapevine that
there was this opportunity,” Brand
said. “1 wanted to go to a good school
and not an average volleyball school.”
Brand said she had seen a lot of
differences between Nebraska and her
hometown of Adelaide, Australia.
“There’s no ocean here, so I feel
very claustrophobic,” Brand said. “But
the people here arc really friendly and
really nice.”
Brand competed in 22 of
Nebraska’s 32 matches last year and
helped the Huskcrs to a 27-5 .record
and a trip to the NCAA Midcast Re
gional.
Brand has also been honored on
the Phillips 66 Academic All-Big
Eight honorable mention list as well
as on the Big Eight Academic Honor
Roll as an exercise science major.
She said she and the team had set
higher goals for this year.
“I’d like in my final year to win a
national championship because we’ve
been so close,” she said.
This year’s team has the ability to
bring home a national title from
December’s NCAA Championships
in Albuquerque, N.M., she said.
“We need to play as a team and be
competitive rather than expect to win
just because we’re Nebraska,” Brand
said.
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From Staff Reports
The Nebraska volleyball team is
ranked third in Volleyball Monthly’s
preseason rankings.
The Huskers, who return four start
ers from last year’s team, which fin
ished 27-5, is the only non-West Coast
team to crack the top seven.
Nebraska was ranked seventh last
season before Ohio State ended the
Huskers’ season in the final of the
NCAA Mideast Regional in Lincoln.
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day with an exhibition match against
Nebraska alumni before facing New
Mexico on Sept. 4 in the FirsTier
Invitational.
UCLA, last year’s national cham
pion, which beat Nebraska in a four
game match in Lincoln last season, is
ranked No. 1. Behind the Bruins is
Long Beach State, the team that lost
to UCLA in last year’s national cham
pionship match.
Two other Comhusker opponents
made it into the Top Ten: Pacific,
which Nebraska plays Sept. 5 in the
FirsTier Invitational, is ranked fifth;
and Southern California, which Ne
braska plays Nov. 13, is ranked sev
enth.
Colorado, a team expected to chal
lenge Nebraska for the Big Eight cham
pionship, is ranked 18th. Oklahoma,
another two-time Comhusker oppo
nent, received votes but did not crack
the Top 20.
Source: Volleyball
Monthly Magazine
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