USD Volleyball 2001

2001 SAN O ·IEG,O TORERO VOLL EVBA.LL. WEST COAST CONFERENCE VOLLEYBALL

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CONFERENCE HISTORY

WEST COAST POWER

Hi stori call y, five member teams have earned national rank– ings, incl uding; Go nzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, San Diego and Santa C lara, and each of those have advanced to post-season play. Vo ll eyba ll is one of 13 sports the 48 -year– o ld conference sponsors. Started in 1952 as a men's basketball league fo r five Bay Area sc hoo ls, the WCC added women' s ath leti cs to its line-up in I985. Five current members (Loyo la Mary– mount , Pepperdine, San Diego, San Franc isco and Santa Clara) chartered the vo ll eyball league along with two associates, US Internati ona l and Nevada-Reno. The latter pair departed in 1987 when the a li gnmen t grew to its current con– figuration to include Gonzaga, Portland and Saint Mary's, all ofwhich were elevated from NAIA status. All WCC members are private in– stituti ons with high academic standards and lofty athletic traditions.

West Coast Conference vo ll eyba ll has emerged as one of the best vo ll eyball confer– ences in the nation. Three teams - Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and Santa C lara - vaulted into the NCAA post-season in 2000. In 1999 the WCC sent four teams to the tournament, just the second time in conference hi story in any sport that the league forwarded four teams-- half the league-- to NCAA play. In that same sea– son all four WCC vo ll eyball teams posted first round victories in the NCAA, another confer– ence first. This season the WCC has placed

three teams in the preseason USA TODAY/AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 poll. Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and San– ta C lara all were coaches picks fo r the top 25, while the Univer– sity of San Diego ranked #36 overall after receiving 18 votes.

Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara

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Overall

School

I . Pepperdine (7) 2. Loyola Marymount ( I ) 3. San Diego Santa Clara

27-5 24-7 20-9

13-1 12-2 10-4

Santa Clara# Pepperdine#

Loyola Marymount#

14-14 11-15 12-1 5

7-7 7-7

San Diego

5. San Francisco 6. Saint Mary's 7. Portland

Saint Mary's San Francisco

4-10 2- 12 1-1 3

6-22 5-25

Portland Gonzaga

8. Gonzaga

2001 PRE-SEASON

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A VCA VOLLEYBALL POLL

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2000 Results

School

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1

34-0 29-3 30-6 33-5 31 -2 28-5 25-8 24-8 29-5 26-7 28-4 26-8 32-5 30-4 26-7 24-7 20-9 22-9 26-7 23-8 27-5 22-7 20-9 25-8 19-1 2

Nebraska (63)

2000 All-West Coast Con,erence Teams

4 6 2 3 5

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

USC (2)

Penn State Wisconsin

YNEZ CARRASCO, SCU YNEZ CARRASCO, SCU

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: DEFENDER OF THE YEAR:

Hawai ' i Arizona

7

UCLA

14 12 19 13

Long Beach State

FIRST TEAM

Florida

YR Sr. Sr.

POS

School

Name

10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Stanford

OH OH OH

Santa Clara Santa Clara

Ynez Carrasco

BYU

Amy Kohl

8 9

Pacific

Jr.

LMU

Sarah McFarland

IJC Santa Barbara

s s

So.

Pepperdine Santa Clara

Melissa Plass

10

Colorado State

Sr.

Roz Pelayo

11

15 Minnesota

So.

OH

Stacy Rouwenhorst Pepperdine

15 18 23 16 21 20 17

Ohio State

Pepperdine* Texas A&M Kansas State Notre Dame

SECOND TEAM

YR Jr. Sr.

POS

School

Name

OH OH

Saint Mary's

Heather Dill

Utah

Meghan Coolbaugh Saint Mary's

Loyola Marymount s

Fr.

Santa Clara* South Carolina

Nicole Oehlman Brook Terhune

Sr. Jr.

MB MB MB

Santa Clara

NR

Lindsey Lampert San Diego

25

Loyola Marymount*

So.

Pepperdine

Jennifer Fopma

NR

Georgia Tech

* wee Team., I 100 I Oppo11e111., i11 hold

USD HONORABLE MENTION SELECTIONS

Sr. So.

5-8

OH OH

San Diego San Diego

Adrian Frediani Noel Frohman

*USD recieved 18 votes, ra11ki11g them 36 ;,, the co1111try

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