Meet Nebraska volleyball’s 2023 recruiting class, ranked No. 1 in the country

For the second time in the last three years, Nebraska has the No. 1 recruiting class in college volleyball.

Signing day for the sport was Wednesday, and Nebraska unveiled a recruiting class with five players — each of them ranked among the top-15 recruits in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com.

The class: outside hitter Harper Murray; setter Bergen Reilly; defensive specialist Laney Choboy; right-side hitter Caroline Jurevicius; and middle blocker Andi Jackson.

For the position rankings, Nebraska got the top setter (Reilly) and defensive specialist (Choboy); the No. 2 outside hitter (Murray) and the No. 3 middle blocker (Jackson).

Each of the five players plans to graduate from high school early and train with the Huskers this spring.

“The class of 2023 is a special class,” coach John Cook said in a news release. “We fill our needs at every position, and they all have very high-level international experience representing the USA. The bonds they formed on those teams have run deep.”

The first four players in the class each committed over a stretch of about two weeks in July 2021. But Choboy was a late addition, committing about one week ago. She had previously pledged to Minnesota but opened her recruiting back up after coach Hugh McCutcheon announced he won’t coach the Gophers next season.

It’s another group that should add to the talent on the roster and could help keep Nebraska among the best teams in the sport. The rankings for Nebraska’s six most recent recruiting classes: 1, 2, 1, 26, 2, 5.

This class joins No. 1 recruiting classes Nebraska also had for 2021, 2013 and 2004.

According to the Prepvolleyball.com rankings, the top-five recruiting classes are Nebraska, Texas, Purdue, Stanford and Ohio State.

Harper Murray, 6-foot-2, outside hitter, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Of note: She’s the No 2 overall recruit in the class. This summer she won gold with the U.S. Girls U19 Team at the Pan American Cup and received the Best Spiker award at the tournament. Her sister, Kendall, is a junior on the Michigan volleyball team.

Cook says: “Harper has played on the U.S. Under 18 and Under 19 Teams the past couple of summers, so she is coming to Lincoln with some valuable international experience. We expect Harper to come in right away and push to be a six-rotation outside hitter from the day she steps on campus.”

Bergen Reilly, 6-1, setter, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Of note: Reilly is Ranked No. 4…