The recruiting tip for one of the Nebraska volleyball team’s impact freshmen can be traced back to the E-Z Stop, a gas station along U.S. 77 in Cortland, a small town about 15 miles south of Lincoln, where farmers stop for coffee and to catch up.
That’s when 6-foot-5 middle blocker Callie Schwarzenbach got on the radar of the Nebraska coaches. It’s a unique story, but also a very Nebraskan one, where the volleyball team is a topic of conversation.
This story goes back a few years, because in volleyball many of the best players are making their decisions when they’re sophomores in high school.