2015 AVCA Coaches of the Year
NCAA Division I Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon, University of Minnesota
NCAA Division I Assistant Coach Laura Kuhn, University of Kansas
NCAA Division II Head Coach Bob White, Palm Beach Atlantic
NCAA Division II Assistant Coach Bouaketh Chanthavisouk, Gannon University
Division III Head Coach Ryan Meek, Hendrix College
Division III Assistant Coach Kevin Judd, California Lutheran University
NAIA Head Coach Chris Nichols: Missouri Baptist University
NAIA Assistant Coach Abbie Wright: Biola University
Two-Year Colleges Head Coach Cliff Hastings - Parkland College
Two-Year Colleges Assistant Coach Monica Medvid - Hillsborough Community College
NCCAA Head Coach Scott Masterson - Providence University College
NCCAA Assistant Coach Marci Novak - Indiana Wesleyan University
University of Minnesota’s Hugh McCutcheon, who has coached both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams to Olympic medals, was named the AVCA Coach of the Year in 2015 in his fourth season in the college game. His Gophers dropped an NCAA semifinals match to the University of Texas, but still finished the season with a 30-5 record. Below, the ultimate spoils went to the University of Nebraska when they hoisted the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship trophy after beating Texas in the title game held in Omaha. It was the fourth championship trophy for Coach John Cook and the Cornhuskers.
for Texas is 6-4 opposite Ebony Nwanebu, a junior who transferred from University of Southern California but played just one match this year because of injuries. (The Longhorns will petition the NCAA to get a medical redshirt for Nwanebu, who was a first-team AVCA All-American as a freshman in 2013; if it’s approved, she’ll have two years of eligibility remaining.) As for the Huskers, they’ll be well stocked to defend their title. Foecke, Hunter, libero Justine Wong-Orantes, Amber Rolfzen (third-team AVCA All-American), Kadie Rolfzen (first-team AVCA All-American) and defensive specialists/liberos Sydney Townsend and Kenzie Maloney all return. Four of those players – Hunter, the
Rolfzen twins and Townsend – are Nebraska natives, and that’s significant to Cook. “Three of them [Hunter and the
Rolfzens] are from Omaha, and Sydney is from Lincoln,” he said. “That’s four in a state of 1.8 million people. I think that might be the edge that we have. There’s something about those in-state kids. It means so much to them.”
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