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The 2008 Penn State volleyball team poses with the NCAA championship trophy after defeating Stanford University in the finals. In what was the final set, Penn State eased up to the 21-17 lead. Two consecutive kills from Megan Hodge put Penn State just two points away from their second straight national title at 23-18.
John Marion Williams (December 10, 1935 – September 2, 2021) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi from 1972 to 1990, compiling and record of 122–81–3 and winning an NCAA Division II Football Championship in 1989.
The NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament is an annual event that leads to the championship in women's volleyball from teams in Division I contested by the NCAA each winter since 1981. Penn State won the most recent tournament, defeating Louisville 3–1 at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
This is a list of college women's volleyball coaches in the United States with a minimum of 750 wins at the collegiate level. Entering 2023, Peggy Martin, who previously coached at Central Missouri and currently coaches at Spring Hill College, is the all-time leader with 1,434 wins.
[1] The event was sponsored by the CBS College Sports Network, American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) and the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP). [2] In 2006, the AVP sanctioned a combine that selected 8 players from 8 colleges and paired them into teams (title was won by Bibiana Candelas /Paula Gentil ).
After a pair of regional final losses in 2019 and 2020 (though the 2020 Tournament was held in the spring of 2021), NU defeated No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Pittsburgh in the 2021 Tournament to reach the school's tenth national title match; Nebraska's five-set loss to Wisconsin set a new NCAA volleyball attendance record. [43]
Turlock High School basketball coach John Williams is pictured celebrating in 2020. Williams, 48, died Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, from injuries suffered in a car crash.
The Huskers became just the second team in NCAA history to finish the season undefeated with a national title, joining the 1998 Long Beach State squad. Nebraska, ranked No. 1 in the AVCA/USA Today Coaches poll for 14 straight weeks, swept 26 of its 33 opponents in 2000. It was Nebraska head coach John Cook's first season with the program.