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Beach team

weaver75

weaver75

Special Counsel
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Texas started a beach team this year. Like Nebraska, they are using indoor team members and not recruiting beach only players. Today, in Hawaii, Nebraska and Texas played and NU won 3-2, with most matches going three sets. Neither team is competitive with beach only teams (Hawaii beat both teams 5-0), but it sounds like the team is having fun.
 




weaver75 said:
Texas started a beach team this year. Like Nebraska, they are using indoor team members and not recruiting beach only players. Today, in Hawaii, Nebraska and Texas played and NU won 3-2, with most matches going three sets. Neither team is competitive with beach only teams (Hawaii beat both teams 5-0), but it sounds like the team is having fun.
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One can really tell the difference between schools that recruit specifically for Beach and those that don't. Beach and indoor are two separate sports and it shows in our results this year.
 
gazelle said:
One can really tell the difference between schools that recruit specifically for Beach and those that don't. Beach and indoor are two separate sports and it shows in our results this year.
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For sure. Every year, actually. We beat the Midwest smaller schools we play at home in our sand, and lose to the major beach teams, and are competitive with some of the smaller southern schools and teams like Texas and Oregon (who we beat 3-2 today) that are doing what we do — using beach as practice/perk for the indoor team. At 9-4, we are doing about as well as we ever have.
 
gazelle said:
One can really tell the difference between schools that recruit specifically for Beach and those that don't. Beach and indoor are two separate sports and it shows in our results this year.
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Kind of like polo and water polo?

Horses aren't good swimmers.
 




weaver75 said:
For sure. Every year, actually. We beat the Midwest smaller schools we play at home in our sand, and lose to the major beach teams, and are competitive with some of the smaller southern schools and teams like Texas and Oregon (who we beat 3-2 today) that are doing what we do — using beach as practice/perk for the indoor team. At 9-4, we are doing about as well as we ever have.
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Yes, I agree. I was just noting it so that those who might wonder how a traditional volleyball powerhouse like Nebraska can lose 5-0 to a school like Spring College can understand why that happens. Ladies who are recruited on a Beach volleyball scholarship cannot play indoor volleyball. (which is confusing because ladies on indoor volleyball scholarship can play beach volleyball) Beach volleyball players do nothing but play and train for Beach volleyball all year long. Since Beach volleyball is so different than indoor volleyball, it is understandable that Nebraska could get soundly beaten by teams that recruit and train specifically for Beach volleyball.
 



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