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By Jason Merrihew
Staff writer
The Nebraska volleyball team
will look different from the Final
Four team of last year.
Coach Terry Pettit beefed up the
coaching staff in February by adding
Wisconsin’s Coach John Cook as an
assistant coach.
Last week, the Cornhuskers
wrapped up their six weeks of spring
practices.
“We are allowed six weeks of
spring practices, and in those six
weeks we have four play days where
we can play other colleges,” Cook
said.
The Huskers played some tough
competition during the four days.
NU stayed in Lincoln for two of the
days, and traveled to California and
Texas for the other two.
Pepperdine, San Diego, Fresno
State, Florida, Texas and Colorado
State were the top competition for
theNU.
Nebraska used these games to
give junior-to-be Jill McWilliams
some valuable experience at setter,
where McWilliams is replacing All
American Fiona Nepo.
“One offour goals for the spring
was to give Jill McWilliams lots of
opportunities in game-like situa
tions and see how she would
respond,” Cook said. “We feel pretty
good with the progress she made.”
McWilliams has the unenviable
task of filling Nepo’s shoes.
McWilliams has spent her two sea
sons with Nebraska as Nepo’s back
up.
Along with Nepo, gone are
Jaime Krondak and Megan Korver.
These three seniors take away with
them a lot of experience.
“Fiona and Jaime started all four
years, and Megan started the three
years she was here, so you are talk
ing about a lot of experience that
graduated,” Cook said.
“A lot will be determined
between now and August who will
be on the court,” Cook said.
Nancy Meendering, who was
recently named Nebraska’s Husker
Power female athlete of the year and
was a 1998 All-American, will be
the most experience player return
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last year is that you can’t rely on one
player to beat the great teams, it has
to be a team effort,” Cook said.
Besides Meendering and
McWilliams, Kim Behrends, Jenny
Kropp and Katie Jahnke have stood
out this spring.
“Kim Behrends made a lot of
progress this spring, and Jenny
Kropp took some steps toward being
a major contributor to the team, and
Katie Jahnke got a lot of playing
time over the spring,” Cook said.
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