Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story
Autor John Mabry Cuvânt înainte de Jordan Larsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2023
Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to recount how volleyball took hold at Nebraska, through Pat Sullivan, the team’s first coach; through such early figures as Cathy Noth, a decorated player and later an assistant coach into the 1990s; through Terry Pettit, who coached the team for twenty-three seasons and led it to its first National Championship in 1995; and through John Cook, who took over as head coach in 2000. John Mabry highlights the small Nebraska towns that have sent some of the best players to the program and helped build statewide support for the team. Public television helped too, with its power to broadcast games early on and thus build a following across the state.
The success of Nebraska’s volleyball program is one of the greatest stories in sports. As Karch Kiraly, head coach for the U.S. National Women’s Volleyball Team, said: “If you want to learn about women’s college volleyball, your first stop has to be Lincoln, Nebraska.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496225863
ISBN-10: 1496225864
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 27 photographs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496225864
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 27 photographs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
John Mabry was the sports editor for the Lincoln Journal Star from 1997 to 2007. During that time he helped cover the Husker volleyball team at five NCAA Final Fours. He has written more than five hundred features for the Journal Star and its niche publications and is the author of Heart Felt: The Jenna Cooper Story. Jordan Larson led the Husker volleyball team to the NCAA National Championship in 2006 and led the U.S. women’s team to an Olympic gold medal in 2021.
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1
Plymouth
To try to properly tell the story of Nebraska Volleyball, and
the program’s first milestone journey, it seems like a really
good place to start with a pilgrim from the mighty village of
Plymouth, Nebraska.
Kathleen Ann Drewes was born to Ed and Velma Drewes
on October 26, 1950. Kathy grew up in Plymouth, a resilient
place in the northeast corner of Jefferson County. The original
Plymouth was founded in 1872 by a group of New Englanders
who named their new home after Plymouth, Massachusetts.
That first Plymouth in Nebraska actually had to close up shop
because of conflicts with the railroads over depot locations.
As a result, Plymouth was relocated about twenty years later.
It was a short trip about three miles up the road to where
the village is located today, on the divide between Cub Creek
and Dry Creek, on Highway 4 just 15 miles west of Beatrice.
It’s now home to four hundred residents, roughly the same
population as when Kathy was a girl.
Ed Drewes was a self-employed pipe organ and piano tuner
and technician. For work he traveled throughout Nebraska
and several other nearby states. Velma helped Ed with that
work and took care of the kids and the family home as well.
The Drewes attended a beautiful church—St. Paul’s Lutheran,
a landmark that you can’t miss when coming into town. Light-
ning caused a fire that destroyed the church in 1913, but the
members regathered and rebuilt just a year later. That’s where
Kathy went to school from grades 3 through 8. Her first volleyball
memories are from those days on the St. Paul’s playground
during recess. Her brother, Dick, helped her athletic
dreams along when he took a teaching job in nearby Clatonia.
This was just as Kathy was getting ready for high school.
“When he was at Clatonia, he did some basketball and football
coaching. They also had volleyball, and they had a year that
they were just tremendous, and I was very inspired watching
those girls play. That gave me something to shoot for when
I got into high school.”
Kathy Drewes had the height to match her love for athletics.
By the time she finished high school she was a little
more than 6-foot-1, so volleyball and basketball were a good
fit for her. She loved all of it. On the volleyball court, she was
a spiker. “At that time, you had a setter and the rest were hitters.
Of course, we called them spikers back then. So you
had one setter, and the rest were spikers, so I was a spiker. It
wasn’t classified like you have all these position titles now.”
She was a star for the Plymouth High Pilgrims for two years,
in a variety of sports and activities—Kathy loved music, too—but
then came change. There were new challenges at every
turn for the Pilgrims and the Drewes family. The consolidation
of the towns of Plymouth, DeWitt, and Swanton led to
the creation of Tri County High, which is where Kathy finished
high school. The nifty new school just south of DeWitt
came with a big scare. “My junior year, they told us we probably
wouldn’t see any more volleyball because they thought
with all of the schools consolidating the girls sports would
probably just be phased out. Of course, all of the girls were
not real happy about that so we actually signed petitions to
try to get volleyball back in for our senior year.”
The petition plan worked. “They let us play our senior year,
and then they said girls sports were here to stay because the
other consolidating schools around were also keeping the
girls sports, so we were overjoyed with that, but we had to
fight for it.”
That was 1967. That was also when Kathy lost her father to
a heart attack the first week of her senior year . Ed Drewes
had no life insurance. Everyone had to pitch in to make ends
meet. Kathy said her mom worked hard to pay the bills. “She
was employed at Formfit Rogers in Beatrice and later at Wasserman
Wood Products near our home in Plymouth. The
company manufactured pallets. The wood was often heavy,
and it was physically very hard work, although I don’t recall
ever hearing her complain.”
But despite the hardships at home, Kathy had her mind
set on going to Lincoln to get her degree. She finished up at
Tri County as part of the school’s first graduating class. She
worked at the co-op filling station in Plymouth. She was a
waitress at the Plymouth Steak House. Whatever it took,
she was going to college at the University of Nebraska. “My
mother and brother were so supportive. I also worked as a
health tech in my dorm for a couple of years. I graduated
with a bachelor of science in education, with a major in vocal
music and a minor in English.”
She also played some volleyball, but that happened mostly
by accident, starting in 1968. “I was enrolled in a field hockey
class. In Teachers College we had to take some required physical
education classes as well as some electives. I needed to
switch to another physical education class due to my music
school requirements. I enrolled in a volleyball class. Dr. Janette
Sayre, professor of physical education, was our instructor.
She talked to me and said, ‘You should play on the university
team,’ to which I replied, ‘I never knew we had one.’ This
was the second year that varsity intercollegiate volleyball was
being played.”
Plymouth
To try to properly tell the story of Nebraska Volleyball, and
the program’s first milestone journey, it seems like a really
good place to start with a pilgrim from the mighty village of
Plymouth, Nebraska.
Kathleen Ann Drewes was born to Ed and Velma Drewes
on October 26, 1950. Kathy grew up in Plymouth, a resilient
place in the northeast corner of Jefferson County. The original
Plymouth was founded in 1872 by a group of New Englanders
who named their new home after Plymouth, Massachusetts.
That first Plymouth in Nebraska actually had to close up shop
because of conflicts with the railroads over depot locations.
As a result, Plymouth was relocated about twenty years later.
It was a short trip about three miles up the road to where
the village is located today, on the divide between Cub Creek
and Dry Creek, on Highway 4 just 15 miles west of Beatrice.
It’s now home to four hundred residents, roughly the same
population as when Kathy was a girl.
Ed Drewes was a self-employed pipe organ and piano tuner
and technician. For work he traveled throughout Nebraska
and several other nearby states. Velma helped Ed with that
work and took care of the kids and the family home as well.
The Drewes attended a beautiful church—St. Paul’s Lutheran,
a landmark that you can’t miss when coming into town. Light-
ning caused a fire that destroyed the church in 1913, but the
members regathered and rebuilt just a year later. That’s where
Kathy went to school from grades 3 through 8. Her first volleyball
memories are from those days on the St. Paul’s playground
during recess. Her brother, Dick, helped her athletic
dreams along when he took a teaching job in nearby Clatonia.
This was just as Kathy was getting ready for high school.
“When he was at Clatonia, he did some basketball and football
coaching. They also had volleyball, and they had a year that
they were just tremendous, and I was very inspired watching
those girls play. That gave me something to shoot for when
I got into high school.”
Kathy Drewes had the height to match her love for athletics.
By the time she finished high school she was a little
more than 6-foot-1, so volleyball and basketball were a good
fit for her. She loved all of it. On the volleyball court, she was
a spiker. “At that time, you had a setter and the rest were hitters.
Of course, we called them spikers back then. So you
had one setter, and the rest were spikers, so I was a spiker. It
wasn’t classified like you have all these position titles now.”
She was a star for the Plymouth High Pilgrims for two years,
in a variety of sports and activities—Kathy loved music, too—but
then came change. There were new challenges at every
turn for the Pilgrims and the Drewes family. The consolidation
of the towns of Plymouth, DeWitt, and Swanton led to
the creation of Tri County High, which is where Kathy finished
high school. The nifty new school just south of DeWitt
came with a big scare. “My junior year, they told us we probably
wouldn’t see any more volleyball because they thought
with all of the schools consolidating the girls sports would
probably just be phased out. Of course, all of the girls were
not real happy about that so we actually signed petitions to
try to get volleyball back in for our senior year.”
The petition plan worked. “They let us play our senior year,
and then they said girls sports were here to stay because the
other consolidating schools around were also keeping the
girls sports, so we were overjoyed with that, but we had to
fight for it.”
That was 1967. That was also when Kathy lost her father to
a heart attack the first week of her senior year . Ed Drewes
had no life insurance. Everyone had to pitch in to make ends
meet. Kathy said her mom worked hard to pay the bills. “She
was employed at Formfit Rogers in Beatrice and later at Wasserman
Wood Products near our home in Plymouth. The
company manufactured pallets. The wood was often heavy,
and it was physically very hard work, although I don’t recall
ever hearing her complain.”
But despite the hardships at home, Kathy had her mind
set on going to Lincoln to get her degree. She finished up at
Tri County as part of the school’s first graduating class. She
worked at the co-op filling station in Plymouth. She was a
waitress at the Plymouth Steak House. Whatever it took,
she was going to college at the University of Nebraska. “My
mother and brother were so supportive. I also worked as a
health tech in my dorm for a couple of years. I graduated
with a bachelor of science in education, with a major in vocal
music and a minor in English.”
She also played some volleyball, but that happened mostly
by accident, starting in 1968. “I was enrolled in a field hockey
class. In Teachers College we had to take some required physical
education classes as well as some electives. I needed to
switch to another physical education class due to my music
school requirements. I enrolled in a volleyball class. Dr. Janette
Sayre, professor of physical education, was our instructor.
She talked to me and said, ‘You should play on the university
team,’ to which I replied, ‘I never knew we had one.’ This
was the second year that varsity intercollegiate volleyball was
being played.”
Cuprins
Foreword by Jordan Larson
Preface
Introduction
1. Plymouth
2. Off and Running
3. Have Setters, Will Travel
4. The Building
5. Rhymes with Growth
6. Bertrand
7. How the West Was Warned
8. Firth
9. Ogallala
10. Waco
11. Blair
12. Heights and Sounds
13. First at Last
14. Thanksgiving
Preface
Introduction
1. Plymouth
2. Off and Running
3. Have Setters, Will Travel
4. The Building
5. Rhymes with Growth
6. Bertrand
7. How the West Was Warned
8. Firth
9. Ogallala
10. Waco
11. Blair
12. Heights and Sounds
13. First at Last
14. Thanksgiving
Recenzii
“John Mabry digs deep and brings out the behind-the-scenes stories and characters. While reading his stories of the early days of Nebraska Volleyball, I felt like I was there in person. The timing of this book is so appropriate, with the fifty-year anniversary of Title IX. Anyone who loves volleyball will appreciate this book, and Nebraska volleyball fans will cherish it.”—John Cook, Nebraska volleyball head coach and coauthor of Dream Like a Champion: Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way
“John Mabry has documented the history of Nebraska Volleyball with details that will entertain the most enthusiastic fan and those who are interested in a good story. The focus of the book is the love affair the state of Nebraska has for great volleyball.”—Terry Pettit, Nebraska volleyball head coach (1977–99) and University of Nebraska Athletic Hall of Famer
“John Mabry has done a beautiful job seeking out people to tell the story of Nebraska Volleyball. John gives value to every story, big or small. A joy to read and relive. . . . Go Big Red!”—Cathy Noth, Nebraska Volleyball player (1981–84), University of Nebraska Athletic Hall of Famer, and former U.S. National Team player
“John Mabry has found a way to commemorate the Nebraska volleyball program and its history—not just from a facts-and-figures perspective, but from a human-interest perspective, for it is the people who truly are Nebraska volleyball. . . . It is a pleasure to remember, learn, and rejoice in the many stories John has uncovered.”—Karen Dahlgren Schonewise, Nebraska Volleyball player (1983–86), University of Nebraska Athletic Hall of Famer
“Within these pages John Mabry reveals Nebraska Volleyball’s rich history, its now-legendary figures, and the stories that bring to life this magical fifty-year ride. Bravo, John, for capturing this quintessential Nebraska story of daily hard work building something great. The story of Husker volleyball should fill Nebraskans with pride and inspire all those who understand it.”—John Baylor, play-by-play radio announcer for Nebraska Volleyball since 1994
“How are great programs built? The bold ideas and big wins are always well known, but there are also hundreds of small decisions and personal stories powering any dynasty. Nebraska Volleyball digs into the details, offering a comprehensive look at why the Huskers are what they are—a program that stands among the greats in any sport.”—Brandon Vogel, managing editor of Hail Varsity and coauthor of Dream Like A Champion
"Every chapter has one memory after another, after another, after another! There are so many human sides of stories that give so much depth to understanding Husker volleyball. The pages turn so easily, and the book is hard to put down. For those of you who love Husker volleyball, you will realize there are so many more stories to be told to add to our understanding of the recent years."—John Strope, Nebraska History
Descriere
Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first National Championship and beyond.