Bria Rasmussen, Julia Ecklund and Hannah Roberg helped guide the Grand Island volleyball team to the state tournament in 2011 and now the three will be going their separate ways this fall for college.

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The Nebraska Coaches Association has finalized the rosters for the 2012 NCA All-Star Volleyball team.

The 29th annual all-star volleyball match will be played on Tuesday, July 24, at Lincoln North Star High School beginning at 7:00 p.m.

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The Nebraska Coaches Association has finalized the rosters for the 2012 NCA All-Star Volleyball team.

The 29th annual all-star volleyball match will be played on Tuesday, July 24, at Lincoln North Star High School beginning at 7:00 p.m.

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It was another overpowering season for Papillion-La Vista South, which once again dominates the All-Nebraska volleyball team.

Three Titans — twin sisters Kadie and Amber Rolfzen and Kelly Hunter — repeat as first-team selections. That trio helped Papio South finish undefeated for the second straight year, secure the school's second Class A crown and earn a No. 1 rating from two national websites.

Darren Ivy/NebVolleyball Iowa State's Tenisha Matlock makes a dig at the UNK Spring Volleyball Tournament while fellow Nebraskans Kelsey Petersen (8), Jamie Straube (14), Caitlin Mahoney (7) and Carley Jenson (1) look on.

When the NCAA Div. I Volleyball Tournament gets underway on Thursday and Friday across the country, the state of Nebraska will be well represented on the rosters of the teams that made it.

The home-state University of Nebraska-Lincoln volleyball team boasts eight Nebraska natives on its roster, but there are also at least 14 other native Nebraskans on other team's rosters that made the tournament.

Of these 22 Division I players, they hail for 20 different Nebraska high schools.

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SUPER SQUAD

Michaela Schimmer

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week’s ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (41-0) 1
2. Omaha Marian (34-8) 2
3. Omaha Burke (32-7) 3
4. Lincoln Southwest (29-6) 4
5. Bellevue East (30-10) 6
6. Lincoln Northeast (22-17) NR
7. Grand Island (29-6) 5
8. Papillion-LaVista (17-20) 8
9. Millard West (17-17) 9
10. Omaha Westside (18-17) 7

Contenders: Lincoln North Star, Omaha Benson, Kearney

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GRAND ISLAND - Seven busloads of Lincoln Northeast students and another 100 or so who made the trip on their own turned the Heartland Events Center into "Pershing Center West" on Thursday afternoon.

The Rockets made it well worth the trip. With a student section that outnumbered Grand Island's, Northeast overcame a shaky start to knock off the fifth-ranked Islanders on their own turf 16-25, 25-21, 25-16, 26-24 in a Class A first-round state volleyball tournament match.

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Any comparisons to respected sports icons such as "Rudy" are not to be handed out lightly.

The Nebraska volleyball team has its own "Rooty" in senior co-captain Brigette Root. That's a comparison to Rudy Ruettiger, the Notre Dame football player who came in and had a tackle in his final game with the Irish in 1975, and was the inspiration for the movie "Rudy."

The official state tournament brackets will be released on Saturday morning by the NSAA.
A
Papillion-LaVista South (34-0) vs. Millard West (17-16)
Grand Island (19-5) vs. Lincoln Northeast (21-15)
Omaha Burke (30-6) vs. Bellevue East (30-9)
Omaha Marian (32-8) vs. Lincoln Southwest (29-5)

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