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AMES, IOWA - Tenisha Matlock has become a jack-of-all-trades of sorts for the ISU volleyball team.

This may come as no surprise for volleyball fans who know it isn’t uncommon to play all around the rotation, but Matlock’s situation is a bit different than that.

LINCOLN - Four Nebraska volleyball players were honored Wednesday morning, as the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced its 2011 All-America team. Junior outside hitter Gina Mancuso led the charge as a first-team selection, while junior outside hitter Hannah Werth, sophomore right side hitter Morgan Broekhuis and junior setter Lauren Cook were chosen as honorable-mention selections.

Nebraska continues to lead the nation with 71 AVCA All-America certificates (first, second and third team) by 35 athletes with at least one Husker earning All-America honors in 30 consecutive seasons. In 12 seasons at Nebraska, Head Coach John Cook has coached his players to 36 All-America honors.

A key asset to the Huskers this season, Mancuso did not disappoint in her junior year as she was named an unanimous All-Big Ten First-Team pick and led the Huskers in kills, totaling 407 for an average of 3.60 kills per set. She also notched 2.66 digs per set. Her efforts kept her ranked in the top ten in the Big Ten Conference for total kills during the entire season. She notched at least 10 kills in 27 matches during 2011 and posted a career-high 25 kills against Kansas State. She was also named the Big Ten Player-of-the-Week two times in 2011. Mancuso is the latest in the long line of successful attackers at Nebraska, as a total of 24 All-America certificates have been earned by Husker outside hitters since 1996.

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For the fourth time in six years, the Cyclones are heading to the Sweet 16. With last year's upset loss to Creighton in the first round, ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch appreciates advancing just that much more.

"When you get there three times in a row, you almost think this is something we're going to do every year," Johnson-Lynch said. "You forget that there are a lot of good teams in the tournament and if you're off a little bit you can lose.

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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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SIOUX CITY -- A season filled with unknowns has certainly yielded quite a few pleasant surprises.
As the Morningside College volleyball team heads into more of the same in the NAIA women's volleyball championships, first-year Coach Sara Horn can only hope a little ignorance keeps adding up to bliss.

"I really didn't know what to expect,'' said Horn, reflecting on her expectations as she prepared for her first season with the Mustangs. "People asked me how I thought we would be and I just didn't know.''
When Great Plains Athletic Conference coaches picked her team to finish eighth in an 11-team race, she was scarcely delighted.

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TOPEKA, Kan, - At age 9, little Mollie Lacy first picked up the game of volleyball.

Even though it was not her favorite sport, she continued playing through her high school days and picked up a deep love for the game.

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Editor's Note
The following story is part two of a three part series of now the winningest coach in Iowa State volleyball history- Christy Johnson-Lynch. This series will go into detail about where she started, what kind of coach she has become and what she has done with the program at Iowa State.

AMES, IOWA - When coach Christy Johnson-Lynch arrived in Ames, the volleyball closet needed a new wardrobe. In the nine seasons before she was hired as head coach, Iowa State had gone a combined 59-212. It had not made the post season since 1995.

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Editor's Note
The following story is part one of a three part series of now the winningest coach in Iowa State volleyball history- Christy Johnson-Lynch. This series will go into detail about where she started, what kind of coach she has become and what she has done with the program at Iowa State.

AMES, IOWA - Very few people have successfully built a program from a struggling team scrapping for every win to a successful powerhouse that is a contender for the Big 12 Conference title every year.