Volleyball background pays off ■
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Reporter
Bill ic Winsett has been around vol
leyball her entire life.
Growing up in a home that pro
duced four Division I volleyball play
ers, the 5-foot-11 outside hitter on the
Nebraska volleyball team didn’t face a
difficultdccision when choosing which
sport to play.
But instead of focusing solely on
volleyball, the junior from Boonvillc,
Ind., chose to play three sports.
She earned 12 letters in four years
at Boonvillc High School, participat- *
ing in basketball, volleyball and track.
“I was six years behind the sister
closest to me,” Winsctt said. “They
didn’t want to play with me because I
was bad, and it was no fun for them.
But they showed me how exciting it
could be and how nothing could re
place that feeling.”
Winsett said she would like to fol
low in her sister Barbara’s footsteps by
making a trip to the Final Four.
“I think that is definitely a possibil
ity,” she said.
Winsett is one of two junior starters
returning from a team that finished last
season with a 25-6 record. Another
junior, Christy Johnson, redshirted a
year ago, but carried just as much
experience as any reluming starter,
Winsett said.
Along with Johnson, senior Kelly
Aspegrcn and sophomore Jen
McFadden, Winsett was one of four
Huskers who played on the 1994 U.S.
Olympic Festival team this past sum
mer.
Combined with her experience on
the Nebraska squad a year ago, W insett
said the Olympic Festival helped make
her a more confident player.
“The experience let me feel I could
be the one the team could look for if
they need a point,” she said.
Comhuskcr coach Terry Pettit said
he noticed the difference.
“I think Billie has become a great
player,” Pettit said. “She has a lot more
confidence. £h£, has alwpy§ been a
Travis Heying/DN
Nebraska outside hitter Billie Winsett, a junior from Boonville,
Ind., prepares to serve during practice. Winsett is entering her
third year at Nebraska and second as a starter.
great passer. Her attack and blocking
arc significantly better. I think she has
gone up another level.”
Despite Nebraska’srecord last year,
Winsctt said the Huskers were disap
pointed with the way the season ended.
After an 11-0 start, the Huskers fin
ished second to Colorado in the Big
Eight and lost to Notre Dame in the
second round of the NCAA tourna
ment.
“It’s kind of a different viewpoint
coming from second and ending up on
a bad note in the NCAA tournament,”
Winsctt said. “We are not necessarily
looking to be great at the beginning of
the season, but being great at the end of
the season.”
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raring for West Virginia, so it gives us
i little extra time for both Texas Tech
md UCLA right now. As the week
progresses, we’ll focus exclusively on
rexas Tech.”
Texas Tech will have less than a
veck to focusexclusively on its Thurs
day night matchup with Nebraska,
pccausc it plays Saturday against New
Mexico.
Osborne said the schedule could
work in the Red Raiders’ favor if they
gained momentum with a win Satur
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Osborne said the Kickoff Classic
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“What I didn’t like (about NU’s
“What I didn't like
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OSBORNE
head football coach
schedule) was playing Sept. 8 and
having that as your first game,” he
said. “Texas Tech would have had a
game on us, and UCLA would have
had an extra game, and sometimes
that’s worth something. This way we ’ re
able to get that early game in there.”
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