Watch: Epic video sets stage for first-of-its-kind Nebraska volleyball match

That’s as a result of when the Huskers dash out of the locker room a couple of minutes earlier than the match, they know there might be numerous followers there, from the entrance row to the standing-room-only part on the high of the sector — about 8,000 spectators in whole.

However subsequent fall, the Husker volleyball gamers will get to really feel and expertise probably the most well-known and highly effective entrances in school sports activities with a Tunnel Stroll at 85,000-seat Memorial Stadium.

For one match this season — and possibly ever — the Huskers are transferring their present just a few blocks down the street from the Devaney Sports activities Middle to Memorial Stadium.

Final week, Nebraska introduced that it’s going to play Omaha at Memorial Stadium on Aug. 30, in the course of the second week of the season. Ticket gross sales start April 25.

The stadium match was introduced with a video posted on social media with Nebraska gamers Lindsay Krause and Lexi Rodriguez doing a preview Tunnel Stroll on the stadium.

Within the video, the gamers touched the well-known horseshoe by the Nebraska soccer locker room (Rodriguez needed to bounce; Krause didn’t). Then they make the flip and stroll the 25 yards to the doorway of the soccer area.

The ultimate shot is the huge gates swinging open to Memorial Stadium on a darkish, chilly evening with the glow of pink lights and the phrases, “by way of these gates” on the video.

“It was insane,” Krause stated of the video. “I get chills each time I watch it. I do know it’s coming, and I nonetheless get chills watching it. It was so superb.”

The video shoot got here just a few days earlier than the stadium match was introduced, and a bit forward of when coach John Cook dinner informed the group the stadium match was a achieved deal and would quickly be introduced.

“Being part of it was so cool,” Krause stated. “Attending to see the photographs that they had been taking of us. Seeing all of it come collectively.”

There may be often not less than one Nebraska soccer recreation every season the place the schedule strains up and gamers from the Husker volleyball group can attend a soccer recreation.

Now they are going to get to expertise the Tunnel Stroll in essentially the most highly effective manner.

“We’ve got one thing related in terms of volleyball after we run out of our locker room for warmups, but it surely’s positively not of the identical magnitude, particularly with the quantity of those who they’ve there, and the traditional Tunnel Stroll track that they’ve,” Krause stated. “So simply listening to that over us in that video strolling by way of it was a surreal expertise simply to see it, and never even expertise it but. However simply to see the opportunity of it.”

Krause and freshman center blocker Bekka Allick attended a information convention to formally announce the occasion that included Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and college leaders. Throughout a photograph op, Allick informed Pillen that she actually favored the cowboy boots he was carrying.

The 60-second video has acquired an enormous response on social media. Throughout 4 Athletic Division official accounts (Twitter, Fb, Instagram and YouTube) the video has been considered 588,000 instances, based on Nick Burkhardt, assistant athletic director for artistic media.

The video has 1.8 million impressions on social media, and 106,328 engagements.

The video additionally performed on a loop on the huge video display in the long run zone of Memorial Stadium on the day of the announcement.

Krause was emotional listening to Pillen speak about “Volleyball Day in Nebraska.”

That is her house state, and her sport.

“I can’t actually put into phrases how a lot this sport has meant to me, and the way a lot it’s developed me as a participant and particular person,” the Papillion native stated.

She stated it’s an honor to be a part of a program and athletic division that values and helps volleyball a lot — together with a stadium match that can take a whole lot of workers to plan and pull off.

“Simply the considered it’s insane,” Krause stated. “I’m so excited, and I can’t even think about the quantity of those who we will get to pack in right here.”

The match might be very totally different. Cook dinner typically talks about how the totally different air flows in arenas can influence the motion of the volleyball on serves. Now that airflow — or simply wind — may go up a number of notches.

The gamers joked about how they’ll be prepared for the wind after the seashore volleyball season that features out of doors matches in Hawaii and California. In addition they joked about carrying sun shades.

“I’m going to be trustworthy, it’s going to be so bizarre,” Krause stated. “However I’m so excited.”