The Most Watched Women’s Sporting Event in History: Nebraska Women’s Volleyball?

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska is the house that Tom Osborne built. It’s the hallowed place where so many Cornhusker fans of a certain age remember the football team dominating the 1990s, winning national championships, and breaking NCAA records. Memorial Stadium also holds the record for longest streak of sellout games…but there’s one game taking place there tonight that might set a whole nother record of its own. The Nebraska women’s volleyball team is set to play against the University of Nebraska, Omaha tonight at Memorial Stadium, and a crowd of over 91,000 is expected. That has the potential not just to set a new attendance record at the stadium…it can possibly be the most attended women’s sporting event in the world. So today, ESPN’s Liz Merrill tells us how this all came together, why it’s such a big deal…and why it’s really not as much of a surprise as outsiders might think it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Liz Merrill, what's the largest crowd that has ever watched a women's sporting event
0:05.0	in the US?
0:06.0	Well, the current record for a women's sporting event in the United States was 90,185 fans
0:13.4	who watched the US women's soccer team beat China in the 99 World Cup at the Rose Bowl
0:19.6	in Pasadena.
0:20.6	Great crowd today, a record crowd for not just women's soccer, but a women's sporting event.
0:27.4	And as some might remember, it's the Brandy Chastain sports bra moment.
0:32.4	Chastain will take it.
0:34.4	Go!
0:35.4	Speaking of that sports bra moment, I think the entire world watched that.
0:47.5	So across the world, what is the record for the largest crowd that has watched a women's
0:51.9	sporting event?
0:53.2	That record is held by a Wafo women's champion league match in Barcelona.
1:00.0	It's 91,553 fans and it happened in March 2022.
1:05.2	So that was just last year.
1:07.2	So with that in context, what is going on in Lincoln, Nebraska tonight and why is it so
1:12.9	significant?
1:14.6	The Nebraska corn huskers quite possibly could set a record.
1:23.6	They're going to their football stadium.
1:26.4	They are putting a stage on the football field and they're playing a volleyball match.
1:34.6	They're playing the University of Nebraska at Omaha tonight at Memorial Stadium and more
1:39.9	than 91,000 fans are expected.
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