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.

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. 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.

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All-Americans 

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

Kristen Andre, 2004, 2005
Sarah Blum, 2006
April Chapple, 1984
Leslie Cikra, 2011
Nikki Fowler, 2008, 2009, 2010
Chloe Goldman, 2009
Leah Hinkey, 2010
DeeDee Harrison, 2011
Kayla Jeter, 2010

Julie Knytych, 2004, 2005
Amy Morris, 2004, 2005
Ellen Mullins, 2012
Michelle, Piantadosi 2004
Mary Pollmiller, 2011
Beverly Robinson, 1982
Kelsey Robinson, 2011, 2012
Yuliya Stoyanova, 2005, 2006

See also
List of NCAA Division I women's volleyball programs

References

External links
 

 
Category:1958 establishments in Tennessee
Category:Volleyball clubs established in 1958