WAC cutting volleyball tourney to 6 teams
By Cindy Luis
Among the cost-cutting measures adopted by the WAC Board of Directors today, women’s volleyball tournament cut to six teams. Also trimmed to six teams are men’s and women’s tennis, softball, baseball and women’s soccer. Cut to eight are men’s and women’s basketball. I’m guessing that top 2 seeds get byes with bottom four meeting first day.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
If they really wanted to save money, the powers that be should have cut the women’s volleyball tournament to 2 teams- us and whoever else. That way we can get on to the business of focusing on the real tournament.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Interesting … but what is the incentive to improve? I think back to the 8os when Hawaii and Pacific may have been the best two teams in the country but UH didn’t advance because UOP was in the same regional with them in 1985-86.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I guess the tournament is good for everyone but Hawaii for VB, I know Wahine didn’t have a post season in 1992. Was UH in the Big West or WAC at the time.
June 20th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
1992 was the only year Hawaii didn’t make the field. believe it was only 48 teams then, may have been 36. Wahine were in the Big West. They came into the WAC in 96.
92 was a year when there were so many injuries. think they had maybe 5 healthy players. Jenny Wilton playing with a sternum problem. The loss the likely kept them out was to BYUH, which was a very good team, but still NAIA. Hawaii was 15-12, 4th in the Big West.
All-Big west players that year: Sarah Chase, Kenyatta Lovelace, Kari Anderson.
One of the few years Hawaii had no All-Americans … 1984, 1997 the others. and 75 and 76 if you go back to the AIAW.