OMAHA, Neb. – Michaela Schimmer and Kelley Wollak have signed National Letters of Intent to join the UNO volleyball program in 2012, Head Coach Rose Shires announced Thursday.

Michaela Schimmer
Schimmer is a 6-0 setter and rightside hitter from Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb. A four-year letterwinner in volleyball for Coach Diane Ronzee, she helped the Vikings to four straight state runner-up finishes from 2008 to 2011, as well as district championships and conference titles all four years. In Schimmer's senior season, Northwest compiled a record of 34-5, and she went on to earn all-state accolades from both the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star for the third consecutive year.

“Michaela is an outstanding athlete who has the ability to immediately impact the team as both a setter and a rightside hitter,” Shires said. “She is an exceptional setter who understands how to get her team to win.”

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.

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LINCOLN — The NU Coliseum seemed like home for Kansas State’s Taylor Johnson.

Johnson, a former standout athlete at Northwest High School, had played at the Coliseum three times during her high school years. All three were losses in the Class B state championship games.

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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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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The Northwest volleyball team had won 10 straight Class B, District 5 titles going into the final Thursday at Kearney High School.

Change that to 11.