Buss Becomes First Non-Class A Player to Reach 2,000 Career Kills

<p>Wichita State recruit and Lincoln Lutheran senior Marriah Buss became the first non-Class A player in state history to surpass the 2,000 career kill mark on Thursday night.</p> <p>Buss had a combined 22 kills in a triangular against Omaha Gross and Ralston to bring her career total up to 2,013. Buss has had double-digit kills in 27 consecutive matches dating back to last year.</p> <p>The most kills in Nebraska high school history in a player's career is 2,444 by Kyla Roehrig, the Papillion-LaVista graduate who went on to have a standout volleyball career at Minnesota plus one season of post-graduate basketball at Northwest Missouri State.</p> <p>As a freshman, Buss set the single-match record for kills in Class B with 38 when she played at Beatrice. She then switched to Lincoln Lutheran starting her sophomore year. Because a majority of the seasons she played in high school were at the Class C1 level - per NSAA rules - her career numbers are inclusive of all her seasons, even when she played Class B for Beatrice.</p> <p>Buss entered her senior season with 1,748, which was already the Class C1 career record. Only two other non-Class A players in state history have surpassed 1,900 kills, that being Sterling's Courtney <span class="SpellE">VanGroningen, who finished her career with a Class D2 record 1,901 and Waverly's Olivia Boender, who owns the Class B career record with 1,910.</span></p> <p>Buss is now 431 kills behind Roehrig, meaning her season total would have to get to 696 to become the state's all-time kill leader. She had 684 kills her sophomore year, but averaged 7.3 kills per set that season. She's averaging 5.9 per set this year.</p>