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Nebraska volleyball's Harper Murray opened up about the program's record-breaking stadium match held in 2023. The Huskers competed against Omaha on August 20, 2023, at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, which is home to the Cornhuskers football team.The No.1 Nebraska team defeated Omaha 3-0 in front of the packed stadium with 92,003 fans. The outdoor volleyball match shattered the previous world record for women's sports attendance with 91,648 fans, which was listed during the Champions League match between FC Barcelona and Wolfsburg on April 22, 2022, in Barcelona, Spain. The match also broke the previous attendance record of any American women’s sporting event. Before the Huskers' record-breaking match, the USA’s FIFA World Cup Final against China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on July 10, 1999, held the record with 90,185 fans in the stadium. In a recent interview with B1G Volleyball, when asked about the popularity of Huskers volleyball, Murray highlighted the outdoor match and asserted confidence in recording the same feat again. "I feel like the perfect example is a stadium match," Murray said. "I think I have met some people who have asked me where I play. They were like, 'Are you in the team that played in the football stadium?' And I was like, yeah. I feel like that's a perfect example, not many schools could do that, and I am convinced that we can do it again if we really want to do. So I mean it's amazing." View this post on Instagram Instagram PostHuskers' faceoff against Creighton in September this year recorded an attendance of 17,675 fans, the highest NCAA record for an indoor regular-season. Harper Murray reveals Nebraska Volleyball's goal for 2025Harper Murray opened up about Nebraska Volleyball's goal for the 2025 season under the guidance of Coach Dani Busboom Kelly, who joined the program in January 2025. Murray highlighted that since it's Bushboom Kelly's first year as head coach with the Huskers, they want to win the NCAA Championship title and attribute the victory to her."I feel like there's always a story, and that's something that our team has talked about this year," she said via NCAA. "We have a new coach, a new era of Nebraska volleyball, and we can win a national championship in her first year here. So that's kind of been the storyline that we want to go with, and Dani talks about all the time like she wants to put a banner on the wall, not just names, and our goal is still the same and the standards are still the same." (1:14 onwards)The Nebraska Volleyball team will next face Minnesota on Saturday, November 8, 2025.
