COUGAR VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION GUIDE INFORMATION 2018 SCHEDULE the UNIVERSITY AUGUST LOCATION: Pullman, Wash
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2018 COUGAR VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION GUIDE INFORMATION 2018 SCHEDULE THE UNIVERSITY AUGUST LOCATION: Pullman, Wash. Saturday 25 vs VCU 1 PM AFFILIATION: NCAA Division I Sunday 26 at NC State 9:30 AM CONFERENCE: Pac-12 Friday 31 at No. 17 Northern Iowa 4 PM ENROLLMENT: 20,286 NICKNAME: Cougars SEPTEMBER COLORS: Crimson and Gray PRESIDENT: Kirk H. Schulz Saturday 1 at No. 17 Northern Iowa 9:30 AM DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: Pat Chun Friday 7 McNeese State 12 PM SWA: Anne McCoy Illinois State 7:30 PM FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE: Nancy Swanger Saturday 8 Stony Brook 12 PM Friday 14 vs Northern Illinois 8 AM COUGAR VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION HEAD COACH: Jen Greeny (Washington State, 1999) at Western Kentucky 5 PM RECORD AT WSU: 122-125 / 8th year Saturday 15 vs. East Tennessee State 9 AM RECORD OVERALL: 234-149 / 12th year Thursday 20 at No. 13 Washington * 8 PM ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH: Burdette Greeny (WSU ‘99) Sunday 23 at No. 12 Oregon * 12 PM ASSISTANT COACH: Shannon Hunt (WSU ‘98) Friday 28 No. 25 Utah * 7 PM COORDINATOR OF OPERATIONS: Kaysie Shebeneck (Texas A&M ‘17) Sunday 30 No. 23 Colorado * 12 PM TECHNICAL OPERATIONS: Grant Schoenlein HOME COURT: Bohler Gym (2,752) OCTOBER 2017 RECORD: 18-16 Friday 5 at (RV) Arizona State * 8 PM 2017 PAC-12 RECORD: 6-14 / 9th Sunday 7 at No. 21 Arizona * 12 PM 2017 FINAL AVCA RANKING: n/a Friday 12 at Stanford * 8 PM STARTERS RETURNING/LOST: 4+Libero / 1 Sunday 14 at Cal * 1 PM LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST: 10 / 4 NEWCOMERS: 4 Friday 19 USC * 8 PM Sunday 21 UCLA * 12 PM TEAM HISTORY Wednesday 24 at Utah * 6 PM FIRST YEAR OF VOLLEYBALL: 1973 Friday 26 at Colorado * 6 PM ALL-TIME RECORD/YEARS: 693-722 / 46th year ALL-TIME PAC-12 RECORD/YEARS: 197-403 / 32 years NCAA TOURNAMENT RECORD: 11-12 / 12 years NOVEMBER LAST NCAA TOURNAMENT: 2017 - def. Florida State (3-1), Friday 2 Arizona * 7 PM lost to Nebraska (0-3) Sunday 4 Arizona State * 12 PM FIRST TEAM ALL-PAC-12: 10 athletes earning 17 honors Thursday 8 at UCLA * 6 PM Sunday 11 at USC * 1:30 PM VOLLEYBALL OFFICEVOLLEYBALL OFFICE Friday 16 Stanford * 7 PM Sunday 18 Cal * 12 PM Wednesday 21 Oregon State * 7 PM Head Coach Jen Greeny Saturday 24 Washington * 4 PM (Washington State 1999) Thr.-Fri. 29-30 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBD Record at WSU 122-125 / 8 years Career Record 234-149 / 12 years DECEMBER Sat. 1 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBD Associate Head Coach Burdette Greeny Fri.-Sat. 7-8 NCAA Regionals TBD (Washington State 1999) Thr.-Sat. 13-15 NCAA Final Four TBD * Pac-12 Conference match Assistant Coach Shannon Hunt All home matches played at Bohler Gym (Washington State 1998) All times listed are Pacific time Denoted matches televised on Pac-12 Network Operations Coordinator Kaysie Shebeneck (Texas A&M 2017) ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Technical Coordinator Grant Schoenlein Associate Director of Athletics Bill Stevens Volunteer Coach James Dorr Asst. Dir. Athletic Comm. Jessica Holmes Volunteer Coach Casey Schoenlein Bobby Alworth Ben Laskey Office Phone 509-335-4290 Devon Lucal Office FAX 509-335-7168 Building Address Bohler Athletic Complex 230 Volleyball Contact Devon Lucal Mailing Address P.O. Box 641602 Office Phone 509-335-0268 Pullman, WA Cell Phone 513-720-8488 99164-1602 Email [email protected] 2 VOLLEYBALL‘18‘17 2018 WSU VOLLEYBALL ROSTER No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Previous School) 1 Penny Tusa S 5-8 So. 1V Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach Poly HS) 2 Kalyah Williams MB 6-0 Fr. HS Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach Poly HS) 3 Lida Kastanou OPP 6-2 Fr. HS Athens, Greece (Moraitis School) 4 Alexis Dirige DS/L 5-2 Jr. 2V San Francisco, Calif. (Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep.) 5 McKenna Woodford OH 6-4 Sr. 3V Chandler, Ariz. (Hamilton HS) 6 Jocelyn Urias MB 6-3 Jr. 2V Tijuana, Mexico (José Vasconcelos Bilingual School) 8 Charity Bradley OH 6-4 Fr. HS St. George, Utah (Emery HS) 9 Hannah Pukis S 5-11 Fr. HS Tacoma, Wash. (Bellarmine Prep) 10 Taylor Mims MB 6-3 Sr. 3V Billings, Mont. (Billings Senior HS) 12 Claire Martin MB 6-4 Sr. 3V Bremerton, Wash. (Bellarmine Prep) 13 Olivia Coale DS 5-6 Sr. 3V Vancouver, Wash. (Skyview HS) 14 Kelii Aria McComber DS 5-6 Fr. HS Kapolei, Hawaii (Punahou School) 15 Abby Phillips DS 5-5 Sr. 1V Central City, Iowa (Marion HS/Iowa State) 18 Ella Lajos MB 6-3 Sr. 3V San Jose, Calif. (Valley Christian HS) 19 Ashley Brown S 5-9 Jr. 1V Prosper, Texas (Prosper HS/Oklahoma) WSU Head Coach: Jen Greeny (Washington State ’99) Associate Head Coach: Burdette Greeny (WSU ’99) Assistant Coach: Shannon Hunt (WSU ‘98) Operations Coordinator: Kaysie Shebeneck (Texas A&M ’17) Volunteer Coach: James Dorr Student Coach: Casey Schoenlein Technical Coordinator: Grant Schoenlein Athletic Trainer: Jaimie Hoskins Strength & Conditioning: Ashley Hamada Student Manager: Nick Ziegelmann Sport Assistant: Shelley McLam PASSION . HUMILITY . UNITY . SERVANTHOOD . THANKFULNESS 3 JEN GREENY Great blocking was another key to the Cougars’ success in 2017 as WSU HEAD COACH was sixth-best nationally with 364.5 total blocks and 11th in team blocks per set at 2.89. Redshirt sophomore Jocelyn Urias and juniors Ella Lajos Jen Greeny completed her seventh and Claire Martin provided the most stops at the net while sophomore season as the head coach at WSU, libero Alexis Dirige became the 11th player in school history to reach 1,000 highlighted by leading the Cougars digs and did it in the fewest number of sets. back to the NCAA Championship tournament and guiding the Cougars The Fall of 2016 was the most successful season for the WSU volleyball to the second round of that tourna- program since 2002. The Cougars tallied a 22-12 overall record and an 11-9 ment for the second consecutive record for fifth place in the highly-competitive Pac-12 Conference after a year. preseason coaches’ poll predicted a ninth-place finish. Seeing her success throughout the season, Greeny’s fellow conference coaches voted her the This year was one of success. During the summer of 2017, four Cougars 2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year. WSU made history in 2016 with a trio of con- added national and international playing experience as members of secutive wins over AVCA Top 10 nationally-ranked teams in 10 days: at No. National Teams: McKenna Woodford played on the U.S. Collegiate National 4 Washington Sept. 21, at No. 9 UCLA Sept. 23 and versus No. 9 Stanford Team (CNT)-Thailand, Taylor Mims played on CNT-Europe team that won Sept. 30. Gold at the Global Challenge, Casey Schoenlein played on the CNT-Minne- apolis squad, and Jocelyn Urias played on Mexican National Team at the The Cougars earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship tourna- FIVB Grand Prix. ment for the first time in seven years and won a First Round match for the first time in 14 seasons. This season’s 22 wins is tied for fifth-most in The 2017 season was one of challenges with a nonconference schedule WSU volleyball program history and under Greeny’s leadership, WSU has that featured six matches against 2016 NCAA tournament teams as well produced the best three season win-totals in the last 14 years with 18 wins as the usual tough meetings against nationally-ranked Pac-12 opponents. in 2013, 16 wins in 2015 and 22 wins in 2016. Greeny’s WSU teams have WSU finished with a nonconference record of 11-1, an overall record of 18- posted a 62-11 non-conference record during her six years as head coach. 16, and was 6-14 in Pac-12 for ninth with a RPI of 38 (out of 334 teams) and The Cougars compete in the country’s strongest volleyball conference, a strength of schedule ranked 10th-hardest nationally. the Pac-12, where for the last 17 consecutive seasons the conference has had six or more teams advance to the NCAA Championship tournament including the record of 10 teams in 2014. Returning to the NCAA Championship tournament was more impressive when taking into account junior outside hitter starter McKenna Woodford was lost to injury for the final 18 matches of the season, starter senior Senior outside hitter Kyra Holt, an All-Pacific North Region and two-time opposite starter Casey Schoenlein was lost to injury for the final seven All-Pac-12 selection, was a versatile all-round player leading the team on matches and freshman S/OH starter Penny Tusa was lost to injury for the and off the court. Holt, the fifth player in WSU history to reach 1,000 kills final seven matches. WSU had wins over No. 13 UCLA, No. 25 Colorado and 1,000 digs in a career, claimed school records in points (2,051) and and an NCAA First Round win over Florida State before dropping a match attack attempts (5,074), and is in WSU’s career top 10 lists in kills (1,777 - to national champion Nebraska on its home court in Lincoln. 2nd), kills per set (3.74 - 5th), aces (123 - 5th), and digs (1,172 - 7th). During the 2016 season Holt was the espnW National Player of the Week for Sept. 19-25, 2016 as well as Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week and earned a Greeny has coached or played in eight of WSU’s 12 NCAA Championship trio of nonconference all-tournament honors.