COLUMBUS, Ohio — Louisville volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly was named the national coach of the year and got a contract extension Thursday.
“I always hoped to coach a team that really understood what it took to be in this position,” said Busboom Kelly, who was hoping to become the first female head coach to lead a women’s volleyball team to the Division I championship.
In just her fifth season, she led the Cardinals to the program’s first volleyball final four, first NCAA No.
10 seed Nebraska will be going for its sixth NCAA title, having last won the championship in 2017.
“We’ve kind of figured it out now,” senior Lauren Stivrins said after the Huskers’ 16-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-22 victory over No.
A Nebraska native, Busboom Kelly played for her home-state school from 2003 to 2006 and then was an assistant coach there during the Huskers’ 2015 national championship season.
I was on my couch watching her play in the final four,” Louisville fifth-year senior Anna Stevenson said of the 2017 season.