Louisville-Penn State about so much more: ‘I couldn’t be more proud to be a coaching mom.’

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — The volleyball gods — and if you ever doubted, are obviously working moms — are having a moment.

How else do you explain Payton Peterson — Payton Peterson! — getting the kill that put Louisville into the national-title match?

Or Penn State pulling off a reverse sweep to oust Nebraska?

Yes, at 3 p.m. Eastern Sunday on ABC, one of two women will become the first to coach a team to an NCAA Division I volleyball national championship. 

But we were this close to having two men coaching for the title. Until the kid of a coaching mom delivered and then the team of a coaching mom fighting breast cancer rallied like no team ever had in a national semifinal.

There’s more to it than just Dani Busboom Kelly of Louisville (30-5) or Kaite Schumacher-Cawley of Penn State (34-2) breaking through for all the women before them.

It’s for Cathy George, who took Texas-Arlington to the 1989 national semifinals, the first woman coach to get that far after volleyball became an NCAA sport after years of being in the AIAW.

It’s for Florida’s Mary Wise, the first woman to coach in an NCAA final (2003, 2017) and whose Gators went to six other…