By Greg Echlin for VolleyballMag.com
Throughout the state, ties run deep in Nebraska volleyball.
It will certainly be on display Wednesday when No. 17 Creighton plays second-ranked Nebraska in Omaha.
So no matter what happens, when it’s over Creighton’s Norah Sis and Nebraska’s Lindsay Krause will still be best friends.
Not that the two products of Papillion won’t do their best to make sure the other loses.
The two Nebraska powerhouses square off at 5 p.m. Central not in Creighton’s home arena, but in CHI Health Center in Omaha, which happens to be the site of this year’s NCAA Championship. Capacity is 17,352 and already more than 14,000 tickets have been sold, so it’s likely it will break the single-match record for the largest regular-season volleyball-only crowd in NCAA history. In 2018, these teams played this match before a crowd of 14,022. Last year, the match drew 11,279.
Creighton (5-1) is led by Sis, a 6-foot-1 sophomore outside hitter who was the 2021 VolleyballMag.com national freshman of the year. Krause is a 6-4 sophomore outside who was second in kills for the Huskers (5-0) and a key cog in their run to the NCAA title match.
This past August 5, Sis went to Lincoln to celebrate her birthday with Krause.
“I hadn’t seen her in a long time,” Sis said. “With our busy schedules, we don’t see each other very often, which is really sad. But we’re so excited to play against each other.”
Krause also cherished the visit.
“We celebrated and it’s been so much fun,” said Krause. “We’ve been best friends and played volleyball together since we were 10 years old.”
Sis and Krause were teammates for Premier Nebraska, the club team that won an 18s national championship before each player went off to their respective colleges.
In high school, Krause played for Skutt Catholic and got to play for the USA national team that won the FIVB U18 World Championship.
Sis, who was a state high school high-jump champion and provided the photos of them as juniors, took her swings at Papilion-LaVista in Omaha. Sis’s mother, Tracie, played volleyball at Kansas.
Krause was pretty much all-everything coming out of high school, regarded as the top prospect in the state. She was No. 1 on the 2021 VolleyballMag.com Fab 50 list that included, of course, Sis. (That list included quite a few Nebraska players, including Elle Glock, who went to USC;…
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