Volleyball

9/28/2023 |  New women's volleyball league raises $35 million (AXIOS Sports) League One Volleyball, a U.S. youth volleyball group that will launch a women's pro league next year, raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Left Lane Capital.
Why it matters: Women's volleyball is having a moment, as evidenced by the 92,000 fans who showed up last month to watch Nebraska take on Omaha.

• It's also competitive at a corporate level, as two other pro leagues are launching with their own VC funding.

8/31/2023 |  Nebraska sets world record for women's sporting event attendance (AXIOS Sports) The University of Nebraska volleyball team took over a football stadium to play before a crowd of 92,003 on Wednesday evening, breaking the world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
The big picture: The match at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, broke a record set in 2022 by a Champion's League match between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

• The previous record for a women's sporting event in the U.S. was 90,185 at the 1999 Women's World Cup final. 

8/31/2023 |  Nebraska volleyball filled a football stadium. These Big Ten programs should try it next (USA TODAY)

• 92,2003 fans watched Nebraska volleyball in Memorial Stadium on Wednesday
• The crowd set a world record for highest attendance at a women's sporting event
• Which Big Ten program should try to replicate the Huskers' feat?

8/30/2023 |  Nebraska Women’s Volleyball Breaks World Record (Front Office Sports)

• Volleyball Day at Nebraska's Memorial Stadium was the most attended women's sports event in history.
• The evening was highlighted by the Cornhuskers’ volleyball team taking on in-state counterpart Nebraska-Omaha.

Nebraska won’t play its first home football game until Sept. 16, but on Wednesday night, 92,003 fans packed Lincoln’s Memorial Stadium for Volleyball Day — making it the highest-attended women’s sports event in history.

8/29/2023 |  Nebraska aiming for women's attendance record with game inside football's Memorial Stadium (USA TODAY) Nebraska is going for the record.
Actually, make that the records, plural.
One, the NCAA record for women's volleyball attendance, will be obliterated on Aug. 30, when the Cornhuskers host Nebraska-Omaha on a court erected inside the university's Memorial Stadium, which has a listed capacity of 85,458 but has in the past exceeded 90,000 spectators.