Nebraska Volleyball signs five to 2025 class
Nebraska Volleyball signed five student-athletes to its Class of 2025. The Huskers put together the second-best 2025 recruiting class in the country, according to PrepVolleyball.com.
The group has lots of experience with USA Volleyball and winning at the high school and club levels.
Nebraska signed outside hitter Teraya Sigler, setter Campbell Flynn, opposite Ryan Hunter, libero Keri Leimbach and middle blocker Manaia Ogbechie.
Sigler, Flynn were a part of the U.S. Girls U19 Team which won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB U19 World Championships in Croatia and at the 2023 NORCECA U19 Pan American Cup.
Sigler won gold for the U.S. Girls U21 team at the 2024 NORCECA Continental Championship in Canada. Flynn helped the U.S. Girls U21 team place sixth at the 2023 FIVB U21 World Championships in Mexico. Ogbechie and the U.S. Girls U19 Team won gold at the 2024 NORCECA Continental Championship in Honduras.
Sigler, Flynn and Ogbechie are three of 24 players named to the AVCA National Player of the Year Watch List. The trio will also compete in the Under Armour Next All-America Game in January.
Here is a quick rundown of each Husker signee:
Teraya Sigler, 6-foot-3 outside hitter
Outside hitter Teraya Sigler is the No. 1 prospect in the Class of 2025, according to PrepVolleyball.com and PrepDig.com. She helped Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ar. to three straight Arizona 5A state titles and is compete for another. As a freshman as Phoenix Country Day, she won the Arizona 2A state title.
Sigler was the 2023 Gatorade Arizona Volleyball Player of the Year and The Arizona Republic Player of the Year. She won back-to-back 16 Open and 17 Open national championships with Arizona Storm. The outside hitter was the Most Valuable Player in both tournaments.
As a senior at Horizon, she is averaging 5.7 kills per set with 540 total kills. She is hitting .373 in 2024, her highest percentage yet. The 2025 Nebraska Volleyball signee has 1,872 career kills and 1,080 career digs with at least one more high school match left.
“Teraya has a heavy, heavy arm, but she’s also a very good all-round six-rotation player,” Husker Head Coach John Cook said in a statement. “Teraya is an extremely physical outside hitter but also a great passer. She has amazing leadership skills and is a vocal leader who will be a voice in our gym from day one.
“Teraya has really good range with her shots, and she’s a very smart attacker. She is just very skilled all-around as a player and has an incredible work ethic. Teraya has already performed on the biggest of stages with the U.S. Youth National Teams and with her club, AZ Storm. She will come into our gym with a great attitude and will be a fierce competitor on the pin.”
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Campbell Flynn, 6-foot-3 setter
Setter Campbell Flynn is the highest-ranked setter in the Class of 2025, according to PrepDig.com. She is ranked No. 4 overall by PrepDig.com and No. 7 overall by PrepVolleyball.com. The 6-foot-3 athlete led Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Mich. to the 2023 Michigan Division 1 state championship as a junior.
As a senior, Flynn is averaging 8.7 assists per set with 1,973 career assists. She averages 2.4 digs per set and 0.6 service aces per set in her final year at Mercy. Flynn was the 2023 Gatorade Michigan Volleyball Player of the Year and is a two-time Michigan Division 1 first-team all-state selection.
The 2025 setter plays club for Legacy, one of the top clubs in the country. It is the same club that current Nebraska Volleyball outside Harper Murray played for.
“Campbell is an extremely talented setter who plays with a poised demeanor on the court,” Cook said in a statement. “She’s got the calm presence you look for in a setter and never gets too high or too low. At 6-3, Campbell is a taller, left-handed setter. She’s very physical and athletic and can make sets from anywhere on the court.
“Her setting can be unpredictable for defenses in that way. Campbell is very active at the net, almost like another attacker out there at times. Campbell has been a setter for multiple U.S. Youth National Teams and led her high school to a state championship. Her decision-making and leadership will be a great benefit to our program. We’ve been watching Campbell since she was 12 or 13 years old and she’s always wanted to be a Husker.”
Ryan Hunter, 6-foot-2 opposite hitter
Left-handed opposite hitter Ryan Hunter is ranked 30th by PrepDig.com and 39th by PrepVolleyball.com. She is recovering from an ACL injury, which caused her to miss her senior season at Cox Mill High School in Charlotte, NC.
As a junior, she averaged 4.3 kills per set, hit .317 and recorded 169 digs, 51 blocks and 49 aces. Hunter’s team finished runner-up at the North Carolina 4A State Tournament. She was named the Charlotte Observer North Carolina Player of the Year and a first-team all-state selection. Hunter spent her first two years of high school at Mallard Creek.
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The 6-foot-2 student-athlete played up a year for Triangle Volleyball Club until she tore her ACL in the spring of 2024.
“Ryan is a left-handed opposite hitter and is a dynamic athlete,” Cook said in a statement. “Ryan has a bubbly personality, but when the game starts she’s an intense competitor. (She) wants the ball in the big moments and likes to take the big swings. She can play six rotations and has a pretty good block already at this age, which is important for a right side.
“Ryan was involved in competitive dance growing up and didn’t start playing volleyball seriously until just a few years ago. She has been working extremely hard to come back from an unfortunate injury last spring at a club tournament.”
Keri Leimbach 5-foot-4 libero
Libero/defensive specialist Keri Leimbach is the No. 49 prospect in her class by PrepVolleyball.com and No. 40 according to PrepDig.com.
The 2025 libero is coming off a fantastic high school volleyball career at Lincoln Lutheran in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Warriors won four state championships, one in Class C1 and three in Class C2. She averaged 6.0 digs per set as a senior and finished her career with 2,063 career digs. Leimbach averaged 0.6 service aces per set over her career at Lincoln Lutheran.
The 5-foot-4 libero was a four-time first-team all-state selection. She played club for Nebraska ONE and was on 2024 PrepVolleyball.com 17U club third-team All-America selection.
“Keri is a homegrown Nebraska girl who loves the school and the state,” Cook said in a statement. “She’s always dreamed of being a Husker. Keri is a 5-4 libero but she plays with big range and personality. Her floor defense is exceptional, as she passed 2,000 career digs in high school. Keri is also a great passer. She’s calm and consistent on the court but not afraid to speak up and be fiery when it’s needed. Keri is a proven winner with four state championships in high school. We’re excited to have her come in and help us continue to be elite in the back row.”
Manaia Ogbechie, 6-foot-3 middle blocker
Last by not least is middle blocker Manaia Ogbechie. She was the last addition to Nebraska Volleyball’s 2025 class but a very welcome one. Compared to her other classmates, she is an under-the-radar player. But so was Husker Andi Jackson until the end of her high school career. Ogbechie is the No. 61 prospect by PrepVolleyball and the No. 123 by PrepDig.
As a senior at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, Cal., Ogbechie averaged 3.3 kills per set and hit .307. She added 1.2 blocks per set and 418 career blocks so far. In 2023, she helped Oaks Christian to a conference championships and to for the CIF Division I state tournament. The middle is a two-time California Division 2 first-team all-state pick (2022, 2023) and a two-time NCSAA First-Team All-American.
Ogbechie was the MVP of the 2024 NORCECA Continental Championship in Honduras while she was on the U.S. Girls U19 Team. She played club volleyball for Sports Academy. She comes from a very smart and athletic family. Her father, Nkem, played football at Stanford and her aunt, Kaego, is in Harvard Volleyball’s Hall of Fame.
“Manaia flew a little bit under the radar in the recruiting process until later in her high school career, but we are thrilled she’s going to be a Husker,” Cook said in a statement. “A 6-3 middle blocker, Manaia is very dynamic and has the ability to change a game with her offense. Manaia can touch 10 feet, 6 inches already and we’re excited to see how she can develop in our strength and conditioning program.
“Manaia’s a great, versatile athlete and a powerful attacker and blocker. She has grown a lot as a player in the USA Youth Development Programs. The other impressive thing about Manaia is that school is extremely important to her and her family, and she has very high professional goals and wants to double major in marketing and management.”
