WASHINGTON STATE VOLLEYBALL RELEASE @ USF Powerade/Asics Challenge Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, San Francisco Washington State, Tulsa, UC Santa Barbara, Univ. of San Francisco Linda Chalich • Assistant Sports Information Director (Volleyball Contact) • W-509-335-0268 • C-509-432-3263 • [email protected] 2010 WSU VOLLEYBALL COUGAR VOLLEYBALL TRAVELS TO THE CITY BY THE BAY SCHEDULE & RESULTS The Washington State University volleyball team takes its 2-1 record to San Francisco this weekend for the Powerade/Asics Challenge Tournament hosted by the University of San AUGUST Francisco...Cougs meet Tulsa (1-2) Friday afternoon, UC Santa Barbara (1-1) Saturday Nike Cougar Invitational, Pullman morning, and USF (0-3) Saturday night...all matches will be played in the War Memorial 27 W, 3-0 # UC Irvine Gym (capacity 5,300). 28 W, 3-1 # Weber State L, 0-3 # Idaho TUNE IN FOR COUGAR VOLLEYBALL ON RADIO Cougar volleyball fans can listen to all the road contests during the 2010 season LIVE in SEPTEMBER the Palouse on KQQQ-AM radio (1150 on the AM dial), or Border 104 (KHTR, 104.3 on Powerade/Asics Challenge, San Fran- the FM dial)…veteran area broadcaster Steve Grubbs is the voice of Cougar volleyball cisco for the sixth season...these road matches are also available for listening on the internet by 3 ^ Tulsa at USF, 4:30 p.m. purchasing a subscription through the Cougars All-Access button on the wsucougars.com 4 ^ UC Santa Barbara, 9:30 a.m. website. ^ San Francisco, 7 p.m. QUITE THE OPENING ACT! Nike Cougar Challenge, Pullman The Washington State volleyball team has won its season-opening match 19 of the past 9 + Eastern Washington, 7 p.m. 20 years…last weekend the Cougars took a 3-0 win over UC Irvine at the Nike Cougar 10 + Montana State 7 p.m. Invitational in Pullman. 11 + Cal Poly, 8 p.m. 14 Gonzaga, 7 p.m. LAST WEEK 24 at * Oregon, 7 p.m. Three teams left the Nike Cougar Invitational with 2-1 records: WSU, Idaho and UC Ir- 25 at * Oregon State, 7 p.m. vine...Weber State went winless in three matches...Cougar Meagan Ganzer was named the tournament MVP...Oceana Bush, Rachel Todorovich, and Brittany Tillman also named to OCTOBER all-tourney team. 1 * UCLA, 7 p.m. 2 * USC, 7 p.m. ANOTHER TOUGH SCHEDULE FOR COUGS 8 at * Washington, 7 p.m. The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Div. I Coaches Top 25 Poll (Aug. 15 at * California, 7 p.m. 30), has seven WSU’s opponents ranked in the top 25, all Pac-10 schools so the Cougs 16 at * Stanford, 7 p.m. will play each twice…conference teams include No. 3 Stanford, No. 9 Washington, No. 22 * Arizona State, 7 p.m. 10 USC, No. 11 California, No. 14 UCLA, No. 18 Oregon, and No. 24 Arizona… “also 23 * Arizona, 7 p.m. received votes” in the preseason poll are non-conference opponents Cal Poly (No. 29), 29 at * USC, 7 p.m. and UC Santa Barbara (T-No. 38)…complete poll is on the second page of this release or 31 at * UCLA, 1 p.m. go to www.avca.org for the weekly Coaches Top 25 poll. NOVEMBER PALILEO NAMED 2009 PAC-10 VOLLEYBALL COACH OF THE YEAR 5 * Washington, 7 p.m. Andrew Palileo was named Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the Cou- 12 * Stanford, 7 p.m. gars to their first winning season since 2002, and garnering six league wins, the most since 13 * California, 7 p.m. 2002…inherited a program that hadn’t won more than three conference matches in a year 19 at * Arizona, 7 p.m. for four consecutive seasons…mentored the Cougars to an 18-13 overall record and into 20 at * Arizona State, 7 p.m. the 2009 NCAA Championship Tournament…only one loss came to unranked team. 26 * Oregon, 7 p.m. 27 * Oregon State, 7 p.m. COUGAR COACHING STAFF Head Coach Andrew Palileo is in his third season at WSU...returned the Cougars to the # Nike Cougar Invitational, Pullman NCAA Championship tournament in his second year...Palileo has a 30-33 overall record ^ San Francisco Asics Challenge at WSU, and a 14-year career record of 269-174…associate head coach Brian Lamppa + Nike Cougar Challenge, Pullman * Pacific-10 Conference Matches (third season)...assistant coach Jennifer Fry (first season)...Kara Kiefer, coordinator of op- All Times Pacific erations (second season)...Tina Martin, volunteer coach (second season with program). WASHINGTON STATE VOLLEYBALL RELEASE at USF Powerade/Asics Challenge Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, San Francisco Page 2 OPPONENT NOTEWORTHY: ABOUT THE TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE (1-2 record) Friday, September 3, 4:30 p.m. Washington State sophomore middle blocker Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Conley Kipp will see her older sister, Kasey Enrollment: 4,166 Kipp, across the net this weekend. Kasey is a Colors: Old Gold, Royal Blue & Crimson senior middle blocker for UC Santa Barba- Nickname: Golden Hurricane ra. The Kipps are from Newport Beach, Calif. Web Site: www.tulsahurricane.com Head Coach: Ed Allen (Ball State ‘88) Former Cougar volleyball assistant coach Record at UT/Years: 102-34 / 4 Ken Ko is serving as a volunteer coach Career Record/Years: 467-180 / 18 for the San Francisco Dons this year. Assistant Coaches: Julia Silva, Ryan Wills Ko worked at WSU from 2004-07 and 2009 Record: 26-7 then at Univ. of Florida for two seasons. Conference: Conference USA (13-3 / 2nd) Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 10 / 2 Series Record: Washington State leads the series 1-0 (WSU streak +1) AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 Poll Date W/L Location Score 2010 POLL Aug. 30, 1996 W, 3-0 Pullman 15-9, 15-6, 15-4 August 30, 2010 Rank School (1st-Place Votes) Total Pts. ‘10 Record Last Week 1 Penn State (51) 1480 3-0 1 2 Texas (5) 1398 3-0 3 ABOUT THE UC SANTA BARBARA GAUCHOS (1-1 record) 3 Stanford (4) 1359 3-0 4 4 Hawai’i 1246 3-0 5 Saturday, September 4, 9:30 a.m. 5 Illinois 1184 3-0 6 Location: Santa Barbara, California 6 Florida 1177 2-0 13 Enrollment: 29,251 7 Nebraska 1142 1-1 2 Colors: Blue & Gold 8 Minnesota 1123 3-0 6 Nickname: Gauchos 9 Washington 1060 2-0 8 10 USC 966 3-0 10 Web Site: www.ucsbgauchos.com 11 California 882 2-0 11 Head Coach: Kathy Gregory (Cal State Los Angeles ‘68) 12 Iowa State 818 1-1 9 Record at UCSB /Years: 831-370 / 35 13 Florida State 706 3-0 15 Career Record/Years: 831-370 / 35 14 UCLA 625 2-1 16 Associate Head Coach: Jeri Estes 15 Colorado State 612 2-0 17 Assistant Coach: Dan Ahiers 16 Kentucky 467 0-2 14 2009 Record: 22-8 17 Tennessee 425 3-0 19 Conference: Big West (11-5 / 2nd) 18 Oregon 378 3-0 20 Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 10 / 4 19 Michigan 368 2-1 12 Series Record: UC Santa Barbara leads the series 1-0 (WSU streak -1) 20 Dayton 359 3-0 21 Date - - - - - - - - -W/L- - - - - - Location Score 21 LSU 337 3-0 23 Sept. 12-14, 1991 - - - - L, 0-3- - - - - - @ Fullerton 13-15, 1-15, 9-15 22 Northern Iowa 284 3-0 24 23 Long Beach State 241 4-0 NR 24 Arizona 205 2-1 18 25 San Deigo 161 1-2 22 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO DONS (0-3 record) Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or Saturday, September 4, 7 p.m. more ballots: Ohio State 90; New Mexico 55; St. Location: San Francisco, California Mary’s 44; Cal Poly 31; Michigan State 29; Baylor Enrollment: 8,000 24; San Diego State 24; Texas A&M 19; Missouri 18; Colors: Green & Gold Pepperdine 17; Duke 15; Toledo 13; Cincinnati 12; UC Nickname: Dons Santa Barbara 12; New Mexico State 10; Wisconsin 10; President: Fr. Stephen J. Privett, S.J. Utah 9; Rice 8; Missouri State 7; Oklahoma 6 ;SMU 5; Florida International 3; Santa Clara 3. Athletics Director: Debra Gore-Mann Web Site: www.usfdons.com 11 schools were listed on only one ballot for a total of Head Coach: Gilad Doron (Temple ‘00) 23 points. Record at USF/Years: 52-26 / 3 Career Record/Years: 98-79 / 6 Assistant Coaches: Melissa Walbridge, TBA Other National Preseason Rankings 2009 Record: 13-14 August 30, 2010 Conference: West Coast Conference (7-7 / T-4th) Rich Kern Poll: Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 6 / 5 1. Penn State Series Record: San Francisco leads the series 5-1 (WSU streak -1) 41. Washington State Date - - - - -W/L - - -Location- - - - - Score Volleyball Magazine Poll: Nov. 12, 1982- - L, 2-3 - - Pullman- - - - - 7-15, 15-6, 15-5, 10-15, 10-15 No poll at publication Oct. 7, 1983- - L, 2-3 - - @ San Francisco- - 15-3, 15-10, 11-15, 12-15, 15-7 Pablo Rankings (From end of 2009 season): Sept. 7-9, 1984 - L, 0-2 - - @ Davis, Calif.- - 11-13, 3-11 1. Penn State Oct. 11, 1984 - - L, 0-3 - - Pullman- - - - - 10-15, 13-15, 12-15 57. Washington State Sept. 14, 2002- - W, 3-0- - @ San Francisco- - 30-24, 31-29, 30-19 Aug. 30, 2003- - L, 2-3 - - Pullman- - - - - 25-30, 30-28, 28-30, 30-28, 5-15 WASHINGTON STATE VOLLEYBALL RELEASE at USF Powerade/Asics Challenge Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, San Francisco Page 3 PAC-10 CURRENT 2010 STANDINGS (through 8/29/10) CLIMBING INTO WSU RECORDS: (Nat.