But her decision to leave came well before coach John Cook settled on retirement. Larson had made up her mind to move on before Final Four weekend in mid-December, Nebraska volleyball sports ...
The first of them, Jan. 23, was the day legendary volleyball coach John Cook came to him with two words. “It’s time,” Dannen said on his monthly radio show Wednesday night. After 25 years ...
John Cook walked into a metaphorical hornet’s nest. His boss, then-athletic director Tom Osborne, was livid. The new arena in the Haymarket was coming and was going to have Nebraska basketball ...
In his final news conference as Nebraska volleyball coach, John Cook gave viewers the full Cook experience. You never know what Cook might say at the podium. He might be critical of the NCAA one ...
John Cook was the one. In the late 1990s, Nebraska volleyball coach Terry Pettit was ready for a new coach to take what he’d built for 20 years and take it to the next level. He wanted a coach ...
John Cook sat in the driver’s seat of his vehicle and wept. Parked in Lot 8 outside the Hawks Championship Center, Nebraska’s longtime volleyball coach didn’t know if he could do this. It ...
More tears streamed down his face. The gravity of the moment — the retirement of his longtime boss, Nebraska’s John Cook — had just sunk in for Reyes. “I’m super — really happy for him ...