“We were walking out of the tunnel after the second set, and we heard on the speaker we had just broken the world record.”
Nebraska middle blocker Andi Jackson. The five-time NCAA champion Nebraska volleyball team (the Huskers) beat Omaha 3-0 on Wednesday in a match that had 92,003 fans in attendance.
aug 31, 2023
Why It Matters: The crowd of 92,003 people made Wednesday's game at the University of Nebraska's football stadium the largest audience to ever gather for a women's sporting event. They broke the previous world record – set in 2022 in Barcelona, Spain – when 91,648 fans gathered for a Champions League soccer match between FC Barcelona and Wolfsburg.
When asked what kind of effect a match of this scale could have, Nebraska junior Lexi Rodriguez said, "I've been saying it's so huge for little girls to get to see a women's sport and volleyball being played on this big of a stage and having so many people invest in it. When you're little, you have big dreams and big goals. Having this to look up to is something that a lot of little girls will keep in the back of their mind when they're pursuing the sport of volleyball."
Nebraska volleyball sets world record for women's sports attendance