“The last two years, we had the same two captains with Merritt and Lexi,” Director of Operations Lindsay Peterson told Huskers Radio. Needless to say, the volleyball squad got into the “groove” of the leadership style Merritt Beason and Lexi Rodriguez brought to the table. Unfortunately, those two graduated, and unlike John Cook handing the reins to Dani Busboom Kelly, the void they left persisted.

DBK arranged for a vote in the summer to elect a new captain, and Bergen Reilly emerged as the favorite. “I said, ‘Whoever has four votes or more, they’re going to be a captain.’ And she’s the only one that had more than four votes,” Coach Kelly said on the Inside the Coaching Mind podcast in July. However, that was a stopgap solution that needed to change ahead of the 2025 season.

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