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…