Supernovas Head to Dallas for Regular Season Finale

A rising figure in the sport, Robson has played an instrumental role in Omaha’s on-court success over the past three seasons, highlighted by the Supernovas winning the inaugural MLV Championship in 2024 and guiding a retooled roster to the 2025 MLV Regular Season Championship.  

Robson began his coaching career in the NAIA ranks at Viterbo University as an assistant. The program compiled an 89-19 overall record across his four seasons, including two NAIA national semifinal appearances. He also helped develop nine All-Americans and three regional Players of the Year. 

He later joined head coach Kelly Sheffield and the Wisconsin volleyball program as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022 season, helping the Badgers secure their fourth consecutive Big Ten title and a 28-4 overall record. Wisconsin advanced to the NCAA Regional Final before falling in five sets to Pittsburgh. 

PARSONS EARNS SECOND MLV WEEKLY AWARD 

• Supernovas outside hitter Sarah Parsons was named the Major League Volleyball Player of the Week for the second time this season on Tuesday, and became the first MLV player to receive the weekly award multiple times in 2026. 
• Parsons becomes the third Supernovas player to collect multiple MLV Player of the Week awards, joining opposite Emily Londot and former setter Natalia Valentín-Anderson. However, she is the first player in franchise history to earn multiple in the same season. 
• A native of Eden Prairie, Minn., Parsons continued her season-long trend of dominant play against the Columbus Fury, posting match highs with 26 points and 21 kills while finishing with a Supernovas career best .452 hitting percentage. 
• Parsons recorded some of her most dominant outings again Columbus, combining to total 87 points (5.8 per set) on 73 kills (4.87 per set), 41 digs (2.73 per set), 12 blocks, two aces and a .343 hitting percentage across the four matches versus the Fury in 2026. 
• Parsons also recorded four of the team’s franchise-record 21 blocks in the four-set win over the Fury, as the Supernovas clinched their third-straight MLV postseason spot. She has recorded 13 matches with double-digit kills this season, including five of her last six outings. 

BLOCK IT LIKE IT'S HOT 

• The Supernovas’ net presence has surged, totaling 48 blocks over the last three matches. That mark sets a new franchise record for a three-match span, surpassing the previous total of 42 from April 13–23, 2024. 
• Omaha opened the run with 13 blocks in a sweep at Orlando on April 16, matching the franchise record for a three-set match. 
• The Novas raised the bar two days later with 14 blocks in a sweep of Atlanta on April 19, establishing a new three-set match record. 
• The stretch peaked in the latest outing, where Omaha recorded 21 blocks. That total set a new franchise single-match record, stands as the top mark in MLV this season, and secured a third straight postseason berth. 
• Omaha’s 48 blocks across the three-match run are tied for the fourth-most in MLV history, trailing only totals posted by Grand Rapids and San Diego. 

Most Blocks in a Three-Match Stretch

PULSE CONNECTIONS

• Friday's match against Dallas features one of the most Supernovas-heavy rosters the franchise has ever faced, with four former Supernovas suiting up for the Pulse: setter Natalia Valentín-Anderson, middle blocker Kaitlyn Hord, opposite Kelsie Payne and libero Kendall White. 
• A franchise icon who helped build the Supernovas from the ground up, Valentín-Anderson ranks second on the team's all-time assists chart and is third in most sets played. She helped lead the Novas to the inaugural 2024 MLV Championship and lives in Omaha during the offseason. 
• White was also part of Omaha’s 2024 title team and ranks sixth in franchise history with 310 career digs. She originally signed with Vegas for 2025, but missed the season due to injury before joining Dallas. 
• Hord played for the Supernovas in 2025 and set a single-season franchise record with 82 blocks. She remains the all-time franchise leader with 83 career blocks. 
• Payne joined Hord and Valentín-Anderson on the 2025 squad that captured the MLV regular-season crown, totaling 203 points (eighth) and 162 kills (sixth) in her lone season with the Novas. 
• Oregon Reunion: Novas OH Brooke Nuneviller takes on former Oregon teammates Karson Bacon and Mimi Colyer. All three played together in 2022 while Bacon and Nuneviller were teammates for the four previous seasons (2018-2021). 
• Pulse outside hitter played with Supernovas middle blocker Janice Leao in Columbus for the 2025 MLV season. 
• Dallas backup setter Celia Cullen shared time as teammates with Omaha's Leyla Blackwell in San Diego for the 2025 season. 
• Isabel Martin and Kylie Murr each spent the 2025 MLV season with Novas setter Sydney Hilley in Indy as the three helped the Ignite reach the MLV Championship match versus Orlando. 
• Plus, Murr was teammates with Supernovas opposite Emily Londot at Ohio State from 2020-2022. 

CAN YOU DIG IT? 

• For Supernovas libero Elena Oglivie — yes, she can. Acquired in a blockbuster trade with Grand Rapids on Feb. 13, Oglivie has thrived since arriving in Omaha. 
• Her latest outing ranks among the best in league history: 32 digs in a four-set win at Atlanta on April 2. 
• The total is the most ever in a MLV four-set match and ties the league single-match record, matching Orlando’s Georgia Murphy. 
• It also sets a new Supernovas franchise record, while her 12 digs in the fourth set mark a new single-set team record. 
• The Stanford product has turned in six 20+ dig performances in 2026 and five of those have come with the Supernovas.
• During her recent surge, Oglivie now leads the league in digs per set (4.07) and is the only libero above 4.0. 

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