A bucket list day at Devaney for one Nebraska Volleyball fan

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Of the just under 8,000 people in attendance at Sunday's Husker volleyball match against Iowa, one fan had a longer wait than most to get through the doors of the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The one place she had never seen her Huskers play from was their home court in Lincoln.

That changed Sunday, thanks to social media and one fellow Husker down south.

After the team swept Stanford on September 18, Stevens left her usual congratulatory comment under the Husker Volleyball Facebook page.

"I wrote that I'd like to go to a game," she said. "I've never been and it's on my bucket list.

The phrase "bucket list" resonated all the way in Oak Island, North Carolina when Rocky Almond, a longtime Nebraska teacher and fellow fan, saw it.

"I saw that," Almond said. And I'm like, 'Oh, I can't let that go.' I've been blessed with so many bucket list things, that now I'm kinda helping others go through theirs."

Almond posted a call to action on his page, looking to find any available tickets to give to Susan. It wasn't long before a former student of his in Lincoln was able to provide two for Sunday's rivalry matchup.

Stevens says it did take some convincing that the offer from a North Carolina phone number was real.

"I was leary," she said. "I thought 'Oh jeez! I cannot believe he saw that!"

That skepticism wore off quickly. On Sunday, her and a classmate made the drive from Pierce to Lincoln for Stevens to witness her first in-person Husker win.

And it went just as she expected it.

"I'm hoping for a sweep," she said before the game.

A sweep was exactly what she got. A performance good enough to make her want to come back for a second game someday.

"I could go all the time," Stevens said as she left Devaney.