John Cook’s horse named Nebraska volleyball’s volunteer assistant coach

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -The Nebraska Volleyball Staff has gained a brand new coach this low season. Nevertheless, the coach has by no means even been to a apply.

When Nebraska was on the highway at Wisconsin and Purdue final season, head coach John Cook dinner bought a horse. Lindsay Peterson, his director of operations, discovered the horse in Kansas and advised Cook dinner it was going to go quick. So with the Massive Ten Title on the road, Cook dinner gained a brand new member to his workers.

Grazing in a quiet area south of Lincoln is Bud. He’s an 11-year-old quarter horse and Nebraska’s volunteer assistant coach.

“Bud can be an incredible horse, an incredible path horse, nice studying horse,” Cook dinner stated.

Cook dinner bought bud again in November. He’d been getting a horse and Peterson, who already has horses, discovered Bud when she was on the lookout for one other horse.

“It simply occurred, and the subsequent factor I do know Bud is right here at Lindsay’s place and proudly owning horse primary,” Cook dinner stated.

“It goes down as ‘all different duties’ underneath my job title, but it surely’s one I actually take pleasure in as a result of I’ve a ardour for horses and to see that zeal transfer over to John and the way he’s embraced having horses,” stated Peterson.

Bud is listed on the volleyball roster and even has his personal Instagram account, which provides teaching tricks to the athletes.

“I had no concept it could take off that a lot,” Cook dinner stated. “We primarily did it for our gamers as a result of they love horses and a number of other of them come out and trip with Lindsay, and we additionally did it for recruits as a result of they stored listening to about him. So we did an Instagram web page and made him a bit superstar.”

Cook dinner’s been part of the volleyball world in Nebraska for greater than 20 years. Now, Bud and he are members of the horse world.

“I’ve met all these nice folks and the athletes on the rodeo group simply blew me away,” Cook dinner stated. “You discuss stress and having to carry out in a cut up second that’s rodeo, and this factor has gotten means greater than we ever thought it could. It’s serving to me join Nebraska volleyball with the western half and the agricultural a part of the state and that’s the good factor about all of this.”

The pinnacle coach didn’t get only one horse. In February, he bought Reba, so Bud would have a pal.

Cook dinner is hauling them to Wyoming this weekend the place they’ll spend the summer time. Whereas heading to Wyoming, he related with a College of Wyoming rodeo athlete who is ready to board them in a single day.

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