Cook: New-Look Huskers are 'Exciting and Energizing'

[Mavric]

Few teams lost more than Nebraska, from three All-Americans to both top assistant coaches.

 

But don’t cry for the Huskers, who will field a roster in 2017 that will keep them in their annual hunt for the NCAA women’s volleyball championship.

 

As John Cook enters his 18th season in Lincoln, the sixth-winningest coach in NCAA history has every reason to be optimistic. His Huskers won the 2015 NCAA title and last year lost in the semifinals.

 

But gone from that team are 6-foot-3 twins Amber and Kadie Rolfzen and the all-time Nebraska digs leader in Justine Wong-Orantes, the Big Ten defensive player of the yeare. What’s more, top assistant Dani Busboom Kelly left to become the head coach at Louisville, and Chris Tamas got the job as head coach at Illinois and took with him his wife, volunteer assistant Jen Tamas. And technical coordinator Natalie Morgan, who handled film breakdown and statistical analysis, was hired as an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount.

 

“Yeah, we lost a lot. My motto right now is we’re in teaching mode,” Cook said. “Assume nothing.

 

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