Grand Island graduate Haedyn Hoos leads Red team to victory in NCA all-star volleyball match

When the Grand Island graduate made her third kill in a six-point run in the third set, Rich Brodersen shouted, “Point, Bishops!”

Because she’s a UNK player and Brodersen is on the mic for Loper games, she’ll activate that call multiple times if she plays like she did during the Reds’ sweep of the Blues, 25-18, 25-21, 25-20, at the Lincoln North Star gym.

Hoos had five kills in the second set and seven in the third, accounting for 14 of the Reds’ 75 points.

“She did a great job. She really played this game,” said Elkhorn North graduate and future Northern Iowa setter Reese Booth. “She found shots. She had powerful swings. She had some great defensive plays and she got some big serving runs. She was just really great all over the court.”

Hoos helped Grand Island reach state for the first time since 2013. She finished with 423 kills on a .249 hitting efficiency and finished with 316 digs.

This, she said, was one of her best nights.

“It’s been so much fun just meeting new teammates, some I’ve met already, and just building more relationships on and off the court is awesome,” Hoos said. “Reese is awesome. She’s so easy to talk to, she communicates what I want, what she wants for me, which is open, and it just worked out really well.”

She hadn’t heard Brodersen’s slip of the tongue, but “it’s hilarious.”

Papillion-La Vista South’s Morgan Bode, who is transferring to South Dakota, had 11 points, nine of which came on kills, for the Reds. Her former teammate and future Coyote teammate, Lauren Medeck, had three kills in each set to lead the Blues with nine points.

Booth and her former Wolves teammate Ava Spies, who is transferring to Wayne State, received the competition’s most valuable teammate awards.