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Nebraska to Add Sand Volleyball as 24th Intercollegiate Sport

The University of Nebraska announced on Wednesday that it will add sand volleyball as a women's intercollegiate sport, beginning with the spring 2013 competition season.
The addition of sand volleyball to Nebraska's list of sport offerings, gives the Huskers 24 intercollegiate programs, including 14 women's teams and 10 men's teams. Sand volleyball is the first sport Nebraska has added since women's rifle began competition in the 1998-99 season.
Sand volleyball was approved as an NCAA Emerging Sport for women in 2009 and began play in the 2011-12 school year. Fifteen schools sponsored varsity teams in the spring of 2012, the first season of competition for Division I schools.

Entire article: http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=100&SPID=23&SPSID=11

Nebraska wants to be a leader in college volleyball, from winning championships to how it recruits and develops players.
With that in mind, despite there being snow on the ground in Lincoln on Wednesday, the NU athletic department announced it will add sand volleyball as a women?s varsity sport beginning immediately.
In part, Nebraska is just keeping up with the Joneses, with several top programs already playing the sport. The opening practice of the nine-week season will be Thursday, and the first competition will probably come during a trip to California over spring break in March, when most of the Huskers' 2013 matches will be played.

http://journalstar.com/sports/huske...cle_c81528f9-b237-5944-98db-c76a7969f9b6.html

This sport could be ratings bonanza for the BTN.

The only question for the Huskers (i.e. Lincoln, NE) is:

WHERE"S THE BEACH!

 

[ochre]

The only question for the Huskers (i.e. Lincoln, NE) is:

WHERE"S THE BEACH!

Linoma!

 

[alexhortdog95]

Linoma!

That's not a beach, it's a cesspool.

But you gotta admit - that'll be one hell of a home field advantage.

 

[ScriptOhio]

But you gotta admit - that'll be one hell of a home field advantage.

I like it. If you could actually get some of the warm weather teams to come to Lincoln to play.

When you think about it more B1G schools should add women's beach volleyball. It would help with Title IX compliance, setting up a sandbox court in front of some bleachers is relatively cheap (heck a few bars in Columbus has some sand volleyball courts), and would give the BTN more programming options in the spring.

:tongue2:

FWIW, Arizona just added it too.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/ua/free/20130116arizona-wildcats-add-womens-sand-volleyball.html

 

[AuburnBuckeye]

Let's stop beating around the bush. Every school needs to add a mudpit lingerie football team

 

[ScriptOhio]

In case you didn't know (and I didn't until I read it):

Sand volleyball features five two-woman teams ranked by ability, and each duo plays against the corresponding team or teams from other schools. In a dual meet, the winning team is the school winning three of five matches. Individual matches are two sets played to 21 points, with a tiebreaker set to 15, if needed. All sets are rally scoring and must be won by two points.

The NCAA allows a total of six scholarships for the sport, which can be split among the roster.

There will be 29 teams competing in sand volleyball this season with another 47 considering adding the sport for the 2014 season. A sport can reach NCAA status after 40 teams have competed for two consecutive seasons. So, the first NCAA championship figures to be held in 2016