Three Husker volleyball players make first-team All-America

Andi Jackson, Harper Murray and Bergen Reilly all earned first-team All-American honors from the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Wednesday. Rebekah Allick was recognized on the second team.

It was the second straight year that Jackson was voted on to the first team. She set a Big Ten record for hitting percentage in conference games at .559 this season.

Murray and Reilly each earned a spot on the AVCA All-American team for the third season in a row, but made the first team for the first time this year. It was the first All-American honor for Allick in her fourth year of college.

For the Creighton Bluejays, Ava Martin and Kiara Reinhardt were voted onto the second team, while Annalea Maeder joined the third team.

All three Bluejays on the AVCA team are seniors, and this year’s team is the 14th in a row that included a Creighton player.

A committee of 11 Division I volleyball coaches selects the 42 players that make up the first, second and third teams for the prestigious honor.

Nebraska tied with Kentucky and Texas A&M for the most players on the first, second or third teams, with four players each. Creighton was next in line with three players.

The Huskers and Bluejays are among seven schools to place more than one All-American on the AVCA team for five years straight, joining Kentucky, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Stanford and Wisconsin.

Both in-state programs dropped a match in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament last weekend.

NU fell, 3-2, against Texas A&M. The Cornhuskers ended the campaign 33-1 under first-year coach Dani Busboom Kelly. Only one team in school history has finished the season undefeated. That was the 2000 squad, former head coach John Cook’s first in Lincoln.

Creighton lost to Kentucky in a 3-0 sweep. The Bluejays were also under a first-year head coach, Brian Rosen, who led the program to its second consecutive and third-ever Elite Eight appearance. It finished the season with a 28-6 record and a 16-0 conference record.