Concordia University Meghan Tinkham signed with Concordia University.

SEWARD - Concordia University head volleyball coach Rachel Miller has announced the signing of Meghan Tinkham. Tinkham prepped at Kearney High School where she participated in three sports for the Bearcats.

During all four of her years at Kearney High, Tinkham was an all-academic and all-conference selection in both volleyball and basketball. She helped lead her volleyball teams to four straight conference championships, and the Bearcats were district champions during her sophomore and senior seasons.

Meghan was also a member of the honor roll during all four years at Kearney High.

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University of Nebraska at Kearney volleyball coach Rick Squiers calls middle blocker Nikki Scott the whole package.

“A hard worker, a great attitude, a great student and a talented player,'' he said. “She's kind of what you hope every recruit can become.''

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KEARNEY - The Nebraska-Kearney volleyball team continued its winning ways Friday night by sweeping past Chadron State in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference match in Kearney. The scores were 25-11, 25-15, 25-16.

The No. 4 ranked Lopers posted 50 kills and had just 13 hitting errors while compiling a .366 hitting percentage. They are now 30-1 for the season and 18-0 in the RMAC with one match to play during the regular season.

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KEARNEY - Nebraska-Kearney volleyball coach Rick Squiers announced the names of three high school seniors who will suit up for the Lopers next year.

They are middles Katie Sokolowski (Kearney Catholic) and Ellie Pesavento (Omaha Marian) and outside hitter Ashley Leitner (Lincoln Southwest).

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KEARNEY -- Wayne State College coach Scott Kneifl doesn't downplay the importance of developing a recruiting pipeline into Central Nebraska.

"We've gone from being a borderline top-25 team to a legitimate top-25 team by recruiting Central Nebraska," Kneifl said. "Central Nebraska is a hotbed for volleyball -- the coaches are fabulous, the kids play hard and they play a lot."

Coming to a close.

Well Loper volleyball came to an end this week. We played Minnesota-Duluth
in the first round of Regionals and got beat in three sets. This just being our third
loss of the season and just like that, it's done. It was a tough way to finish. Duluth
was very, very good! They had big girls along the net that could hammer any ball
to the floor! We tried different things and rotations to try and stop them, but
nothing seemed to work. Slowly, we realized that this game was slipping away
from us. It wasn't that we played bad either! We defended pretty well, we just
couldn't get the ball to fall on their side of the court.

Afterwards, we were pretty upset but knew that this loss didn't put a damper on
what we had accomplished this season! We did a lot of good things and had an
outstanding record of 33-3.

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OMAHA - Parents probably would agree that most 14-year-olds find it difficult to commit to just about anything.

But not Amber and Kadie Rolfzen, who already have the next eight years of their lives mapped out. The next four will be spent attending Papillion-La Vista South High School, and the four after that will be spent at the University of Nebraska.

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As many options to help defray travel expenses in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference exist as there are schools under consideration to join the conference.

The RMAC is studying expanding to 16 or even 20 schools, but one suggestion was to actually go smaller.

INDIANAPOLIS — Nebraska ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division I home volleyball attendance last fall behind Hawaii, which averaged 6,423 for 20 matches.

The Huskers, who played 15 of their home contests at the 4,030-seat NU Coliseum, averaged 5,197 for 18 home matches. NU drew 13,870 to the Devaney Center on Sept. 13 for a loss to UCLA.

The Huskers also were credited with home matches for two NCAA regional tournament contests at Qwest Center Omaha. NU drew 8,935 for a Dec. 11 win over Iowa State and 9,253 for a Dec. 12 loss to Texas. Those Qwest Center Omaha contests were part of the Husker season-ticket package and set up by the Nebraska athletic department.

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KEARNEY — Kearney Catholic’s Katie Sokolowski had all the physical tools to be a star prep athlete.

Her height — she’s 6-foot-2 — strength and versatility made her a tough matchup in any sport.