When you’re trying to make it playing for the United States women’s volleyball team, the highly selective team that picks just 12 players for the Olympics every four years, you feel like every day can make a difference.
That’s how Justine Wong-Orantes, the former first-team All-America libero for Nebraska, felt. So when she was done with school in Lincoln in May 2017 she thought she needed to quickly to get work at her new job as a professional volleyball player.
So she left Lincoln on a Saturday, drove halfway across the country to Anaheim, California, and showed up at the U.