Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball

The Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball team represents the University of Tennessee located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers (or "Vols") compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Volunteers play their home matches in the Thompson–Boling Arena on the university's campus, and are currently led by 1st year head coach Eve Rackham.

Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball
UniversityUniversity of Tennessee
Head coachEve Rackham (1st season)
ConferenceSEC
Eastern Division
LocationKnoxville, TN
Home arenaThompson–Boling Arena (Capacity: 21,678)
NicknameVolunteers
ColorsOrange and White[1]
         
AIAW/NCAA Tournament semifinal
2005
AIAW/NCAA Regional Final
2005
AIAW/NCAA Regional Semifinal
1982, 1983, 1984, 2004, 2005
AIAW/NCAA Second Round
1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018
AIAW/NCAA Tournament appearance
1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018
Conference tournament champion
1981, 1982, 1984, 2004
Conference regular season champion
1981, 1982, 1984, 2004, 2011

Along with all other UT women's sports teams, it used the nickname "Lady Volunteers" (or the short form "Lady Vols") until the 2015–16 school year, when the school dropped the "Lady" prefix from the nicknames of all women's teams except in basketball.[2] In late 2017 the university reinstated the “Lady Volunteer” nickname for all women’s sports teams.

Since the Volunteers have begun competing in the NCAA they have begun a successful trend of winning and have recently built a very sound program that competes for conference championships regularly. The Vols have managed to make the NCAA Volleyball Tournament and AIAW Tournament a total of 13 times and reached the semi-finals in the tournament in 2005.

Former Lady Vol coach Rob Patrick retired in 2017 after 21 seasons as the head coach. On January 10, 2018, athletic director Phillip Fulmer announced Eve Rackham as the new head coach for the Lady Volunteers.

Program record and history

The University of Tennessee first fielded a women's varsity volleyball team in the fall of 1958 and first kept recordings of games in 1973. Since then, the Volunteers have won four Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships.

Year Head Coach Overall
Record		 Conference
Standing		 Winning
Percentage		 Postseason
(SEC) (1979–present)
1973 Kaye Hart (1st) 38-6 - .864 2nd Region II
1974 Kaye Hart (2nd) 8-14 - .364 –
1975 Diane Hale (1st) 17-8-6 - .645 –
1976 Jodie Lambert (1st) 22-13-4 - .615 –
1977 Bud Fields (1st) 7-11-3 - .405 4th Region II
1978 Bud fields (2nd) 20-14-3 - .581 –
1979 Bob Bertucci (1st) 34-11 2nd .756 5th Region II
1980 Bob Bertucci (2nd) 40-17 2nd .696 2nd Region II
1981 Bob Bertucci (3rd) 34-22 SEC Champions .607 NCAA First Round
1982 Bob Bertucci (4th) 31-7 SEC Champions .816 NCAA Regional Semifinal
1983 Bob Bertucci (5th) 31-10 2nd .756 NCAA Regional Semifinal
1984 Bob Bertucci (6th) 25-11 SEC Champions .694 NCAA Regional Semifinal
1985 Bob Bertucci (7th) 12-24 4th .333 –
1986 Bob Bertucci (8th) 22-13 5th .629 –
1987 Sandy Lynn (1st) 18-18 3rd .500 –
1988 Sandy Lynn (2nd) 23-12 2nd .657 –
1989 Sandy Lynn (3rd) 13-15 4th .464 –
1990 Sandy Lynn (4th) 12-17 3rd .414 –
1991 Julie Hermann (1st) 12-17 8th .414 –
1992 Julie Hermann (2nd) 13-14 5th .481 –
1993 Julie Hermann (3rd) 18-13 5th .581 NCAA Second Round
1994 Julie Hermann (4th) 10-21 11th .323 –
1995 Julie Hermann (5th) 7-25 5th East .219 –
1996 Julie Hermann (6th) 17-16 4th East .515 –
1997 Rob Patrick (1st) 15-19 4th East .441 –
1998 Rob Patrick (2nd) 19-10 4th East .655 –
1999 Rob Patrick (3rd) 19-13 2nd East .594 –
2000 Rob Patrick (4th) 23-10 3rd East .700 NCAA First Round
2001 Rob Patrick (5th) 16-11 3rd East .593 –
2002 Rob Patrick (6th) 20-11 4th East .645 –
2003 Rob Patrick (7th) 22-9 2nd East .710 –
2004 Rob Patrick (8th) 32-3 SEC Champions .914 NCAA Regional Semifinal
2005 Rob Patrick (9th) 25-9 2nd East .735 NCAA Final Four
2006 Rob Patrick (10th) 19-12 3rd East .613 NCAA First Round
2007 Rob Patrick (11th) 11-18 5th East .379 –
2008 Rob Patrick (12th) 22-10 3rd East .688 NCAA First Round
2009 Rob Patrick (13th) 24-8 2nd East .750 NCAA Second Round
2010 Rob Patrick (14th) 25-7 2nd East .781 NCAA Second Round
2011 Rob Patrick (15th) 28-4 SEC Champions .875 NCAA Second Round
2012 Rob Patrick (16th) 22-8 2nd East .733 NCAA First Round
2013 Rob Patrick (17th) 9-23 11th SEC .391 —
2014 Rob Patrick (18th) 8-24 13th SEC .333 —
2015 Rob Patrick (19th) 21-12 8th SEC .636 —
2016 Rob Patrick (20th) 17-14 7th SEC .548 —
2017 Rob Patrick (21st) 12-15 11th SEC .444 —
2018 Eve Rackham (1st) 26-6 2nd SEC .813 NCAA Second Round
Total 919-605-16 .602

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All-Americans

Tennessee has 17 All-Americans including two AVCA All-America first team selections [4]

See also

References

  1. "Color Palettes | Brand Guidelines". Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  2. Megargee, Steve (June 26, 2015). "Tennessee set to make move to a lone 'Lady Vols' team". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.utsports.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/121212aaa.html
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