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U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N HUSKY VOLLEYBALL Contact: Michael Bruscas • Tel: 206-714-5556 • E-Mail: [email protected] • www.GoHuskies.com 2021 Schedule and Results Huskies Start Season Where They Want To Finish Overall: 0-0 Pac-12: 0-0 FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 SPORTS IMPORTS CLASSIC #4 WASHINGTON vs. Ohio • 1:30 pm PT A27 vs Ohio 1:30 pm Columbus, Ohio • Nationwide Arena A28 at #11 Ohio State 4:00 pm PAC-12/BIG TEN CHALLENGE S3 at Illinois 6:00 pm S4 vs Iowa 3:00 pm PEPPERDINE TOURNAMENT SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 S10 at Pepperdine 7:00 pm #4 WASHINGTON at #11 Ohio State • 4 pm PT S11 vs Cal Poly 6:00 pm Columbus, Ohio • Nationwide Arena Live video on BTN+ S16 VS MONTANA STATE 11:00 AM S16 VS FRESNO STATE 7:00 PM S17 VS PORTLAND 6:00 PM PAC-12 SCHEDULE THIS WEEK: 2021, Part 2 begins this week for the Washington volleyball team. Just over four months since the conclu- S22 VS UTAH (ESPNU) 8:00 PM sion of the delayed 2020 season, the Huskies will start another run through a more traditional slate of games, beginning S26 at Washington State (P12N) 12:00 pm Friday with its first non-conference matches since 2019. The Huskies are headed to Columbus, Ohio and Nationwide O1 VS UCLA (P12N) 8:00 PM Arena, which is where they would prefer to end the season as well, as the arena is the site for the 2021 National O3 VS USC (P12N) 1:00 PM Championships in December. O8 at Arizona (P12N) 6:00 pm Ohio State is the host for the Sports Imports Classic, which will see the fourth-ranked Huskies open their season on O10 at Arizona State 12:00 pm Friday, Aug. 27, against the Ohio Bobcats at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Then on Saturday, Washington faces the 11th-ranked (P12N) O14 at Oregon 7:00 pm Buckeyes at 4 p.m. PT in a match streamed online via Big Ten Network Plus. O17 at Oregon State (P12N) 1:00 pm O22 VS CALIFORNIA (P12N) 7:00 PM The Huskies returned all but one letterwinner, Maria Bogomolova, from the 2020-21 team that made a run to the Final O24 VS STANFORD 1:00 PM Four in April following a Pac-12 title, ending the year with a 20-4 overall record and a 17-3 mark in Pac-12 play. It was O29 at USC (P12N) 8:00 pm the program's fifth Final Four and first under Head Coach Keegan Cook, and the program's sixth Pac-12 title, and third O31 at UCLA (ESPNU) 4:00 pm under Cook. N5 VS ARIZONA STATE 7:00 PM Three Huskies earned AVCA All-America honors last season: Samantha Drechsel, Claire Hoffman, and Ella May Powell; N7 VS ARIZONA (P12N) 12:00 PM all three were also named 2021 Preseason All-Pac-12, as Washington was voted the Pac-12 preseason favorite. N11 at Stanford (P12N) TBD N14 at California (P12N) TBD N19 VS OREGON STATE (P12N) TBD The 2021 Washington Huskies N21 VS OREGON (P12N) TBD No. Name Pos. Ht. Cl. Hometown Last School Pronunciation N24 at Colorado 12:00 pm 1 Lauren Sanders MB 6-4 5th Yr Snohomish, Wash. Glacier Peak HS N27 VS WASHINGTON STATE (P12N) TBD 2 Maeve Griffin L 5-8 2nd Yr Gig Harbor, Wash. Peninsula HS mayv 4 Emoni Bush OH 6-3 2nd Yr Campbell River, Canada Carihi Secondary uh-MAW-nee All times Pacific and subject to change 5 Emma Calle L 5-11 5th Yr Villa Park, Calif. Villa Park HS cal-lay (P12N) - Matches televised live on Pac-12 6 Molly Wilson S 5-11 1st Yr Murrieta, Calif. Murrieta HS Network (ESPNU) - Matches televised live on ESPNU 7 Ella May Powell S 6-0 4th Yr Fayetteville, Ark. Fayetteville HS Home matches in bold ALL CAPS 9 Samantha Drechsel OH 6-4 5th Yr Woodinville, Wash. U. of Maryland DREX-ull 10 Dani Cole OH 6-1 4th Yr Leander, Texas Rouse HS 11 Shannon Crenshaw OH/L 6-2 4th Yr Longwood, Fla. Bishop Moore Catholic HS 12 Marin Grote MB 6-4 4th Yr Burbank, Calif. John Burroughs HS MAIR-in groat 14 Olivia Mikkelsen S 5-10 3rd Yr Nine Mile Falls, Wash. Lakeside HS mick-ull-son 15 Audra Wilmes OH 6-1 1st Yr West Linn, Ore. West Linn HS Wilm-ess 17 Sianna Houghton L 5-10 3rd Yr Menlo Park, Calif. Menlo HS see-AW-nuh HOH-ton 18 Madi Endsley OH 6-2 2nd Yr Temecula, Calif. Cathedral Catholic HS 20 Lauren Bays L 5-8 1st Yr Orange County, Calif. Foothill HS 21 Claire Hoffman OH 6-2 4th Yr Pleasant Hill, Ore. Marist HS 22 Sophie Summers MB 6-3 3rd Yr Portland, Ore. Sunset HS Head Coach: Keegan Cook, 7th Season Associate Head Coach: Leslie Gabriel, 21st Season; Assistant Coach: Jason Mansfield, 4th Season Director of Ops: Caleigh Ryan; Athletic Trainer: Jen Stueckle; Technical Coord.: Phil Puathasnanon 2005 NCAA Champions • 25 NCAA Tournaments • Five NCAA Final Fours • Six Pac-12 Conference Titles • 53 AVCA All-America Awards • 110 All-Pac-12 Honors 2021 Washington Volleyball • Weekly Release • Page 2 • August 24, 2021 2021 QUICK FACTS SERIES HISTORY KEEGAN COOK Keegan Cook’s six seasons as Head UNIVERSITY Coach of Husky Volleyball have vs. Ohio - Huskies lead 2-0 Location ................................................Seattle, Wash. continued to strengthen the legacy Streak: Huskies won 2 of the past two decades ... six sea- Founded .....................................................Nov. 4, 1861 Last Meeting: Huskies won 3-0 in Madison, Wisc. (8/25/06) sons as Head Coach have resulted Enrollment ................46,000 (31,000 undergraduate) Nickname .........................................................Huskies in three Pac-12 Championships and four trips to the Elite Eight, with Colors: ................................................Purple and Gold vs. Ohio State - Huskies lead 3-2 UW reaching the 2020 Final Four ... Conference ........................................................Pac-12 Streak: Huskies won 2 eleven different Huskies have Last Meeting: Huskies won 3-2 in Lexington, Ky. (12/11/15) Home Facility ...........Alaska Airlines Arena (10,000) earned AVCA All-America honors in Cook's time, cover- Website ...................................www.GoHuskies.com ing every position on the court ... the Huskies are 152-39 over President ........................................Ana Marie Cauce Cook’s first five years with a league record of 90-30 ... the first Athletics Director ............................. Jennifer Cohen time Head Coach guided Washington to a 31-3 record, a Pac-12 Championship, and a trip to the Elite Eight in 2015, and he was VOLLEYBALL STAFF named AVCA Pacific North Region Coach of the Year ... Head Coach ...........................................Keegan Cook despite graduating six seniors from the 2015 team, the 2016 Alma Mater ................................... Saint Mary’s, 2007 WASHINGTON’S 2021 squad won the Pac-12 title again with a 29-5 overall record and a second straight Elite Eight appearance ... coming off Record at Washington ......152-40 (5 seasons)* RECORD WHEN... a Sweet-16 run in 2018, the 2019 squad took second in the Career Record .....................152-40 (5 seasons)* Pac-12 and made another run to the Elite Eight, led by First *does not include current season Overall Record ..................................................0-0 Team All-American Kara Bajema, and finished No. 6 in the final Associate Head Coach Pac-12 Record ..................................................0-0 AVCA poll ... coached the U.S. Junior National Team to gold Leslie Gabriel ..........................Washington, 2000 At Home .............................................................0-0 at the 2018 NORCECA Championships and in the summer of Assistant Coach Away ..................................................................0-0 2016, was head coach of the USA Collegiate National Team Jason Mansfield ......... Ashworth College, 2016 Neutral Site .......................................................0-0 on a tour of China ... head coach of the U.S. World University Athletic Trainer ..................................... Jen Stueckle In Three-Set Matches .....................................0-0 Games team in 2019 in Naples, Italy ... officially took the Director of Volleyball Operations ...... Caleigh Ryan In Four-Set Matches ........................................0-0 reins as the Head Coach of Husky Volleyball in January Sr. Assoc. Athletic Director for VB .............Erin O’Connell In Five-Set Matches ........................................0-0 of 2015, following two of the best years in Washington history as an assistant ... in first year as an assistant, Cook helped the Volleyball Office Phone ......................(206) 543-0432 Winning Set One ..............................................0-0 Huskies advance to the 2013 Final Four and then was named Losing Set One..................................................0-0 Head Coach of the new Beach Volleyball program which played 2021 TEAM INFORMATION Leading 2-0 ........................................................0-0 its inaugural matches in April of 2014 ... Cook’s second sea- Letterwinners Returning/Lost .............................12/1 Trailing 0-2 .........................................................0-0 son saw the Huskies roll to a 25-0 record to start the season, Starters Returning/Lost .......................... 6 + Libero/0 Tied 1-1 ...............................................................0-0 the longest win streak in program history ... working with the 2021 Newcomers ........................ 3 True Fr. + 2 RS Fr. Leading 2-1 ........................................................0-0 Husky offense, Cook helped produce big improvements, going 2020-21 Record ......................................................20-4 Trailing 1-2 .........................................................0-0 from .251 the year before Cook’s arrival to .274 and 14th in the 2020-21 Pac-12 Record/Finish ....................17-3 / 1st Tied 2-2 ...............................................................0-0 NCAA in 2013, to .311 and a fourth-place national ranking in 2020-21 Postseason Play .............NCAA Semifinals 2014, then to No. 2 in the nation at .305 in 2015 ... got his start Hitting below .200 .............................................0-0 in collegiate coaching at Saint Mary’s, going from a volunteer 2020-21 Final AVCA Ranking ..................................4th Hitting .200-.249 ................................................0-0 assistant up to the top assistant coach ..