“I feel like I’m literally back in college right now. Getting ready for a game day in Devaney. I never thought I would play in Devaney again,” Ally Bathenhorst said in her video with former teammate Harper Murray. After graduating from college and going pro, Batenhorst believed her days of playing in the Devaney Sports Center were truly behind her until the Alumni Scrimmage.
And it’s not difficult to see why she would think that, as UNL has tried organizing an alumni scrimmage for a while. “I just didn’t think it was actually going to become a thing,” Murray said during the pre-game conference. Thankfully, the Alumni Scrimmage became a reality and gave fans a reunion they never hoped for. What’s more? This Murray-Batenhorst reunion revealed the duo’s unspoken plan.
“So now I’m on the beach officially for good,” Ally Batenhorst said about her career shift. “Ally’s been wanting to play beach since we did it at Nebraska,” added Harper Murray, hinting that her beach volleyball move didn’t come out of nowhere. However, what the 20-year-old said next was something no one knew. “I always told Ally that we would be beach partners in the future,” said Murray.
“So one day, maybe when Ally needs a partner, I’ll be ready,” the Nebraska Huskers junior added. While Ally Batenhorst and Harper Murray didn’t play beach volleyball together during her time with Nebraska, the 23-year-old played two beach seasons at UNL. In 2022, Batenhorst went 9-11 with Keonilei Akana and 15-5 with partner Bergen Reilly in 2023. Maybe that’s what inspired Murray.
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