The Washington Huskies volleyball team is the intercollegiate women's volleyball team of the University of Washington and competes in the Pac-12 Conference. The team plays its home games at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, which was built in 1929 and renovated in the year 2000. Prior to 1988 the Washington Volleyball program had seen Huskies' victories but it has now emerged as a perennial power in the world of women's volleyball. The program has been able to reach the final four, win the Pac-10/12 championship, and travel the world as a competitive volleyball club. The current head coach is Keegan Cook, who began as head coach on January 2015.
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Head coaching
- 1974-1975: Joyce Johnson
- 1976-1977: Carol Garringer
- 1978-1983: Steve Suttich
- 1984-1987: Lindy Vivas
- 1988-1991: Debbie Buse
- 1991-2000: Bill Neville
- 2001-2014: Jim McLaughlin
- 2015-present: Keegan Cook
1980's AIAW team finished 28-12 with Lisa Baughn being named the All-American.
1988 was a significant year for the Husky VB Program. This year the team made its first NCAA tournament, elite eight appearance. Behind the leadership of its first ever AVCA 1st Team All-American Laurie Wetzel (Puyallup, WA), the lady Huskies finished tied for 5th having beaten Stanford tho coming up short against the UCLA Bruins.
USA National Team coach Bill Neville (UW: 1991-2000) led the program in its recruiting out of Woodinville, Washington; now, it is UW Associate Head Coach Leslie Tuiasosopo-Gabriel who has continued on as leadership of the Husky program. In these experimental years, Neville's swing hitters' offense was fashioned after the contemporaneous international men's game.
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History
When McLaughlin took over the Washington program in 2001, the team was last in the Pac-10 Conference. In his first year at UW, he led the Huskies to an 11-16 record and a 4-14 mark in the Pac-10. The team's 11 wins in 2001 were the most for the program since 1997 (it had been '97 that UW made the NCAA Sweet Sixteen). Just one year later, the Huskies went 20-11 and made the NCAA second round. Since 2003, Washington has not won fewer than 23 matches or lost more than nine in any season.
In 2004, the Huskies won their first-ever Pac-10 title, and McLaughlin earned his first AVCA National Coach of the Year honor. In his fifth year at UW in 2005, he led Washington to its first-ever NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship and a 32-1 (.970) record as Washington swept all six of their matches in the tournament, including top-ranked Nebraska in the final at the Alamodome in San Antonio. McLaughlin was named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year, and made history as the first coach in NCAA history to win a national championship in both men and women's volleyball, having led the USC men's team to a national title in 1990.
In 2006, he led UW to its third straight national semifinal, but the Dawgs fell to runner-up Stanford.
The NCAA Championships were hosted in Seattle at KeyArena at Seattle Center in 2013. The Huskies, led by AVCA National Player of the Year and Honda Award Winner Krista Vansant, won the Pac-12 title and reached the Final Four, but they fell in straight sets in the semifinals to eventual national champion Penn State.
There have been 35 All-Americans and 9 Academic All-Americans since McLaughlin's arrival.
Coach Keegan's tenure has begun with the awarding of two All-Americans in Lianna Sybeldon (consensus) and Cassie Strickland (HM).
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The program additionally has been a national leading attendance draw; their turnstile numbers are consistently among top 10 averages.
Season-by-season results
- Final Pac-10 season was 2010; became Pac-12 in 2011
Notable Players
- Melinda Beckenhauer 2x All-America (1988-89); 1st noteworthy transfer into the "U-District" from Hawaii
- Leslie Gabriel Tuiasosopo family volleyball athlete; professional volleyball player post-BCS; current Udub Associate Head Volleyball coach (2001-present)
- Sanja Tomasevic 3x All-America (2003-05); 2005 Volleyball Magazine NCAA women's P.O.Y.
- Christal Morrison program's only 4x All-American (2004-07); current member of the Association of Volleyball Professionals
- Courtney Thompson @@
- Stevie Mussie 2006 Seattle Regional MVP; 2007 All-Pac10 1st Team selection. Current Head Coach at Arizona State University.
- Jill Collymore 2009 all-star (Pac-10 Scholar Athlete of the Year, USAV Open MVP at Nationals (upwards U.S. A2 National Teams))
- Tamari Miyashiro 3x All-America (2007-09); current USA National Team libero
- Bianca Rowland program's only non-Prepvolleyball.com Wa. Senior Ace athlete, out of Seattle's King's High School, to become All-American in 2011
- Krista Vansant 3x All-American (2012-14); 1st Husky named AVCA P.O.Y. in 2013 and Academic All-American P.O.Y. in 2014 /to program's twice Honda Award winner following 2005's Courtney Thompson
- Cassie Strickland 4x All-Pac12 Honoree (2012-13 as a 5'8" Outside Hitter & 2014-15 as a Libero). 2015 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award winner. One of 6-Seniors that left UW with the most wins of any class in school history; the group combined to go 117-16 over four years.
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