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The Washington Huskies volleyball team is the intercollegiate women's volleyball team of the University of Washington in Seattle. They compete in the Big Ten Conference and play their home games at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion , which was built in 1927 and renovated in 2000.
Leslie Gabriel (née Tuiasosopo) (born August 2, 1977) is the head women's volleyball coach at the University of Washington.. From 2001 to 2022, she served as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for Washington's women's volleyball team.
The Washington Huskies are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Washington, located in Seattle. The school competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Washington students, sports teams, and alumni are called Huskies.
Courtney Lynn Thompson (born November 4, 1984) is an American former professional volleyball player who played as a setter for the United States women's national volleyball team. She won the 2005 national championship while playing for the University of Washington , and she set an NCAA record in career assists per game.
She played both indoor and beach volleyball for Washington. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] As a junior in 2018 during her indoor career, her first season as a six-rotation outside hitter, she led the team with 475 kills and 533.5 points, which was the ninth-most in a single season and also the most since 2014.
In addition to coaching indoor volleyball at Washington, he also was the head coach for the beach team in 2014 and 2015, going 8–0 during the first full season in 2015. [ 4 ] Under Cook, twelve players earned a combined 18 All-American Award and 37 all-Pac 12 selections, with 2 players earning a combined 3 Pac-12 Player of the Year honor.
There are two NCAA tournament records that were set in the 2005 tournament that still stand. Hitting percentage, match (individual record) - Nicole Fawcett, Penn State University, .889% vs. Long Island (16-0-18) Digs, match (individual record) - Taylor Rayfield, University of North Carolina - 53 digs vs. College of Charleston
She is one of only five players in Huskies history to record 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs. [2] She graduated from Washington in 2006 with a degree in communications. In October 2016, Tomašević became just the second individual volleyball player to be inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame. [3]