Illinois State University Athletics

Four-year letterwinner for the Redbirds … three-time All-Gateway/Missouri Valley Conference selection … key member of the back-to-back Gateway/MVC regular season championship teams in 1983-84 … helped lead ISU to Gateway/MVC tournament titles in 1982-84, earning three-straight NCAA Tournament bids in the process … Illinois State was 122-68 during her four-year career, including a pair of 17-1 conference finishes … still ranked No. 5 in MVC history in service aces in a season (95) and career (233) and No. 10 for kills in a season (566) in conference play … ranks in the top 20 all time in the MVC in career kills (1,595) … holds the top two spots for aces in a season in the ISU record books and is second in single-season kills (566) … also ranks second for points scored in a season (691) … holds the ISU career records for kills per set (6.46) and points per set (7.67) and ranks second in career aces (233) … also ranks fourth in ISU career kills and points (1,895) … got her start as a collegiate coach at North Dakota State in 1987-88, leading the Bison to an 87-11 (.888) record in her two seasons …  earned NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year honors in 1988 … from 1989-93, served as the head coach at Texas-Arlington and led UTA to the 1989 and 1990 NCAA Tournaments, with a school-record third-place national finish in 1989 … with the Mavs, she became the first woman to coach in the NCAA Division I Final Four (1989) and she earned Southland Conference Coach of the Year honors three times (1989, 1990, 1992) as she posted a record of 93-74 in her five seasons … she then spent 11 years guiding the Western Michigan program, where she compiled a 185-139 record as the Broncos qualified for eight consecutive MAC Tournaments … her Bronco squad made back-to-back MAC Tournament title match appearances in 1999 and 2000, capturing the title in 2000 … she reached the 300-win mark in 2000, and was named the MAC Coach of the Year that same season after guiding the Broncos to the MAC title and NCAA Tournament … in 14 years as the head coach at Michigan State, the Spartans have ascended to one of the elite programs in the country with NCAA appearances in seven of the last eight years including three trips to the Sweet 16 and an NCAA Regional Final appearance in 2017 … she has guided the Spartans to the most wins of any Michigan State head coach in program history and heads into the 2019 season with a career record of 631-414, which ranks 15th among active coaches for total wins in NCAA Division I volleyball, and she is among the top 80 coaches all-time with a career .606 winning percentage.