Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball


The Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball team represents the University of Tennessee located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Southeastern Conference. 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" 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 championships.
YearHead CoachOverall
Record		Conference
Standing		Winning
Percentage		Postseason
1973Kaye Hart 38-6-.8642nd Region II
1974Kaye Hart 8-14-.364–
1975Diane Hale 17-8-6-.645–
1976Jodie Lambert 22-13-4-.615–
1977Bud Fields 7-11-3-.4054th Region II
1978Bud fields 20-14-3-.581–
1979Bob Bertucci 34-112nd.7565th Region II
1980Bob Bertucci 40-172nd.6962nd Region II
1981Bob Bertucci 34-22SEC Champions.607NCAA First Round
1982Bob Bertucci 31-7SEC Champions.816NCAA Regional Semifinal
1983Bob Bertucci 31-102nd.756NCAA Regional Semifinal
1984Bob Bertucci 25-11SEC Champions.694NCAA Regional Semifinal
1985Bob Bertucci 12-244th.333–
1986Bob Bertucci 22-135th.629–
1987Sandy Lynn 18-183rd.500–
1988Sandy Lynn 23-122nd.657–
1989Sandy Lynn 13-154th.464–
1990Sandy Lynn 12-173rd.414–
1991Julie Hermann 12-178th.414–
1992Julie Hermann 13-145th.481–
1993Julie Hermann 18-135th.581NCAA Second Round
1994Julie Hermann 10-2111th.323–
1995Julie Hermann 7-255th East.219–
1996Julie Hermann 17-164th East.515–
1997Rob Patrick 15-194th East.441–
1998Rob Patrick 19-104th East.655–
1999Rob Patrick 19-132nd East.594–
2000Rob Patrick 23-103rd East.700NCAA First Round
2001Rob Patrick 16-113rd East.593–
2002Rob Patrick 20-114th East.645–
2003Rob Patrick 22-92nd East.710–
2004Rob Patrick 32-3SEC Champions.914NCAA Regional Semifinal
2005Rob Patrick 25-92nd East.735NCAA Final Four
2006Rob Patrick 19-123rd East.613NCAA First Round
2007Rob Patrick 11-185th East.379–
2008Rob Patrick 22-103rd East.688NCAA First Round
2009Rob Patrick 24-82nd East.750NCAA Second Round
2010Rob Patrick 25-72nd East.781NCAA Second Round
2011Rob Patrick 28-4SEC Champions.875NCAA Second Round
2012Rob Patrick 22-82nd East.733NCAA First Round
2013Rob Patrick 9-2311th SEC.391—
2014Rob Patrick 8-2413th SEC.333—
2015Rob Patrick 21-128th SEC.636—
2016Rob Patrick 17-147th SEC.548—
2017Rob Patrick 12-1511th SEC.444—
2018Eve Rackham 26-62nd SEC.813NCAA Second Round
Total919-605-16.602

All-Americans

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