Location Seattle, WA Colors Purple and Gold Head coach Keegan Cook (2nd year) | Nickname Huskies University University of Washington Conference Pacific-12 Conference | |
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Home arena Hec Edmundson Pavilion (Capacity: 10,000) Arena Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion Similar USC Trojans women's volleyball, Stanford Cardinal women's volleyball, UCLA Bruins women's volleyball | ||
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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 Januray 2015.
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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.
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.