Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans women's volleyball

Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans
University University of Hawai'i Hilo
Head coach Gene Krieger (2nd season)
Conference PacWest
Location Hilo, HI
Home arena Hilo Civic Auditorium (Capacity: 3,000)
Nickname Vulcans
Colors Red and Black[1]
         
AIAW/NCAA Tournament champion
1979, 1981
AIAW/NCAA Tournament runner-up
1978, 1980
AIAW/NCAA Tournament semifinal
1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
AIAW/ NCAA Tournament regional final
NAIA: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993[2]
AIAW/NCAA Tournament appearance
1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2009, 2011
Conference regular season champion
NAIA: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1993 NCAA: 1994, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2009
Hui Kaua~ "Contend" (Present Progressive Tense)

The Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans women's volleyball team is the intercollegiate women's volleyball team of the University of Hawaii at Hilo. One of the original "traditionals" in the world of small schools volleyball, the Vulcans started out as National Runners Up right out of the gates in 1978. The 1978 AIAW Div.II team was led by Cheryl Ching, Kawehi Ka'a'a, Vetoann Baker and Lyndell Lindsey.[3] Coach Sharon Peterson (a inaugural 1988 NAIA Hall of Fame honoree) was in fact coach back then, but she had been preceded by Coach Mike Wilton for partial foundations in some of 1977. On 6 March 2017, a UHH press release named Mr. Gene Krieger as the new Vulcans' Head Coach.[4]

In the first week of December, in 1979 (Orlando, FL), UHH won Hawai'i its first ever National Championship of volleyball. Later that evening, Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball would also win a national title for large national colleges (at Central Standard Time). All-American Cheryl Ching would go on to win the Honda-Broderick Cup in 1980, moreover, the first in the 50th State to do so. The program as a matter of circumstance would go from AIAW Division II to NAIA powers in 1981. Hilo is still the only multi-Champion, multi-Divisional program to win simultaneous collegiate championships in a single year (1981).[5]

Head coaching

  • 1978–2002: Sharon Peterson (511 W's – 251 L's)
  • 2003–2005: Julie Morgan
  • 2006: All-Am. Carla Carpenter-Kabalis (Interim)
  • 2007–10: Bruce Atkinson (Responsible for two AVCA Division II HM All-Americans from Brazil (C/O 2008–09))
  • 2010–2016: Tino Reyes

Throughout Coach Peterson's tenure, the Vuls as a sampling of series records would go: 2–0 against the Washington Huskies, 3–1 against the BYU Cougars, 2–2 with Minnesota, 0–1 against the Stanford Cardinal and, further, were solidly able to compete with a 1978, #4 ranked Pepperdine Waves WVB team touring the Hawaiian Islands.

History

From 1981–1984, UH Hilo was the first USA college team to win four consecutive national titles, regardless of divisional league.[6]

In 1988 the program's zenith topped out with a dominant NAIA National Championship season. Hawai'i small schools' glory was epitomized with a starting six, of seven, being awarded All-American certificates. Florence Alo (MVP / 2x 1st Team AA (1987–88)), Jessica Strickland (1st Team), Debra Namohala (2nd Team (1987 AA)), Edna Togiai (1st Team), Hae Ja Kim (2nd Team) and Sheila Scott (1st Team) who would, the latter, complete this list.[7]

In 1993, runners-up UHH would lose its final match of the NAIA in the National Championship game. In 1994, UH Hilo would once again return to the NCAA Division II league.

From 2007–present, one Hillary Hurley recorded: PacWest/AVCA Pacific Region '07 F.O.Y.; 2010 PacWest P.O.Y., as well as being a 1st Team all-PWC selection. She'd continued on professionally into the Puerto Rican League as an initial athlete, into the European continent (in 2013); she'd landed at Club NUC of Switzerland. Currently she's in Expressway Corporation (South Korea).[8]

UHH moreover, post 2010-Ramsey's graduation, circumstantially of the Pacific Northwest, they'd also field participation in the Sound Premier PVL Team (of the AVCA).

They went a winning 15–7 in the 2011–12 school's calendar year; a, one, Marley Strand-Nicolaisen (2017 assistant), the Ka'u High School junior, recruited from Naalehu, HI also. The mid-2010s attempts to build momentum with new coaching staff.

References

  1. ↑ The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Office of Intercollegiate Athletics Visual Identity and Graphics Standards (PDF). September 8, 2010. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Novel NAIA Spaced Pertinent Info" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "AIAW Champions' Results" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "New 2017 Coach".
  5. ↑ "Vulcans: The University of Hawaii at Hilo Championships".
  6. ↑ "Pioneer Sharon Peterson".
  7. ↑ "List of Hawai'i small schools all-Americans".
  8. ↑ "Present-day USAV Foreign Processing".

Further reading

  • Hawai'i Sports: History, Facts, and Statistics by Dan Cisco
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