San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball

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San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball
San Jose State Athletics wordmark.svg
Founded1974
University San Jose State University
Athletic directorJeff Konya
Head coachTodd Kress (2nd season)
Conference MW
Location San Jose, California
Home arena Spartan Gym, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall (capacity: c. 1,000 [1] )
ColorsGold, white, and blue [2]
     
AIAW/NCAA Tournament semifinal
1984
AIAW/NCAA Regional Final
1984
AIAW/NCAA regional semifinal
1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
AIAW/NCAA Tournament appearance
1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001

The San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team represents San Jose State University in NCAA Division I college volleyball as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The program began in 1974. Since 2014, it also includes women's beach volleyball, played in the spring semester in the Southland Conference. Men's volleyball is a non-varsity sport at the university. [3]

Contents

History

The Spartans had a volleyball team as early as 1971. [4] The program was officially organized in 1974, with Jane Ward as the first head coach; [5] she was also head volleyball coach at Cabrillo College. [6] Under her the Spartans finished at the top of their conference every year from 1974 to 1978 (the Northern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, then the Northern California Athletic Conference) and finished seventh in the NCAA Division I tournament in 1978. [6] [7] Sheila Silvaggio was a first team All-American in 1978. [8]

After a single season in 1980 with Marti Brugler as head coach, the Spartans hired Dick Montgomery, formerly a men's volleyball coach at USC and Long Beach State, [9] under whom the team topped the conference (the Northern Pacific Athletic Conference) in 1984 and 1985, went to the NCAA tournament every year, and in 1984 reached the Final Four, its highest ever national result. [5] [10] [11] In September 1986, one poll ranked the team No. 1 in the nation. [12] As of 2023, Montgomery's 191–99 record over 9 seasons gives him the highest win percentage in the history of the program, .659; [10] [13] he was inducted into the Spartans Hall of Fame in 2000. [14] During Montgomery's tenure, the Spartans had two first team All-Americans: Teri DeBusk in 1985 and Lisa Ice in 1986. (Ice was a second team All-American in 1985 and is the only San Jose State athlete to win an NCAA Top Six Award, for 1986.) [8] [15]

After two years under John Corbelli, Craig Choate became head coach in 1993. Over 14 years, he amassed a 244–191 win–loss record (.561 win percentage), to become the program's winningest coach. [13] In 1994, the Spartans placed second at the National Invitational Volleyball Championship. [16] [17] Choate was succeeded by Oscar Crespo, who retired in 2013, the Spartans' first year in the Mountain West Conference, [18] succeeded by Jolene Shepardson. Beach volleyball was added as a spring term sport in 2014, [19] [20] and was coached by Shepardson's husband, Aaron Shepardson. [21] After Shepardson's resignation in early 2020, [22] she was succeeded by Trent Kersten; [23] after Kersten's resignation, Todd Kress became head coach in early 2023. [24]

2024 season

Spartans vs. Cal, 2009 (San Jose foreground, in blue) Women's volleyball, SJSU at Cal 2009-09-12 5.JPG
Spartans vs. Cal, 2009 (San Jose foreground, in blue)

In September 2024, soon after the start of the fall volleyball season, Brooke Slusser, a co-captain of the Spartans volleyball team, joined a lawsuit brought against the NCAA by the Independent Council on Women's Sports for permitting transgender athletes to play women's sports, publicly revealing that the Spartans volleyball team included a trans woman. [25] [26] [27] [28] [note 1] The player, who played as a girl in high school and club volleyball, was in her final year of eligibility in 2024, having been recruited by Kersten and joining the Spartans in 2022. [25] In late November, Slusser, an assistant coach, and 10 former and current Mountain West Conference players filed suit against San Jose State, the Mountain West Conference, and others, seeking an injunction on grounds of sex discrimination; [28] [29] [30] the case was rejected by a judge [25] and an appeal was denied by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. [31] [32]

Starting with non-conference opponent the Southern Utah Thunderbirds on September 14, [25] five teams forfeited games against San Jose, some more than once; the Spartans finished the season with a 14–7 record and after Boise State declined to play them in the semifinal, advanced on a bye to the conference final, [33] where they were defeated by the Colorado State Rams. [26] [30] [34] Of the team's 12 regular season conference wins, six were by forfeit. [33] The team's season was a topic of national discussion, including Donald Trump endorsing a claim in the lawsuit against the NCAA that the player hit dangerously hard. [25] [35] [36] The assistant coach was suspended after filing a Title IX complaint against San Jose State [29] and giving what the university said was inaccurate information in an interview with Quillette . [37] [38] Kress said the players and coaching staff had received "appalling, hateful messages". [26] [30] In December, seven team members entered the NCAA transfer portal. [30]

NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament results

YearRoundOpponentResult
1982 First round
Regional semifinals		 UC Santa Barbara
Hawaii 		W 3–2
L 0–3
1983 First round Cal Poly L 1–3
1984 First round
Regional semifinals
Regional Finals
Semifinals		 Purdue
Oregon
Fresno State
UCLA 		W 3–1
W 3–0
W 3–1
L 0–3
1985 First round
Regional semifinals		 Long Beach State
Cal Poly		W 3–0
L 0–3
1986 First round
Regional semifinals		Cal Poly
Hawaii		W 3–1
L 2–3
1987 First round
Regional semifinals		 Idaho State
Pacific 		W 3–0
L 0–3
1988 First round San Diego State L 1–3
1989 First roundPacificL 0–3
1990 First roundLong Beach StateL 0–3
1998 First round Colorado L 0–3
2000 First roundLong Beach StateL 1–3
2001 First round
Second round		 Santa Clara
Stanford 		W 3–2
L 0–3

Coaches

Beach volleyball 2016, Spartans vs. Stanford (Spartan spiker right, in gold) NCAA beach volleyball match at Stanford in 2016 (26517288255).jpg
Beach volleyball 2016, Spartans vs. Stanford (Spartan spiker right, in gold)

Conferences

Notable players

Notes

  1. ↑ Many news outlets chose not to name the player, who has not publicly self-identified as trans, for example:
    • Baron, Ethan (November 18, 2024). "New lawsuit explicitly targets San Jose State over transgender volleyball firestorm". The Mercury News. San Jose. This news organization is not naming the player who Slusser and others have identified as transgender, as the player has not confirmed this.
    • Ostler, Scott (November 20, 2024). "At center of trans hysteria at SJSU, a great volleyball match breaks out". San Francisco Chronicle. her transgender teammate, whom The Chronicle is not naming as she has not spoken publicly about her identity.

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