Fresno State Athletics
Volleyball Did You Knows
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
COURTSIDE: The Bulldogs have ranked among the top 30 in the NCAA Division 1 Women's Volleyball Attendance lists the last three seasons. Fresno State was one of six WAC schools to be nationally-ranked in total and average attendance in 1997.
COURTSIDE: Outside hitter Shanus Bennett captured second team All-WAC honors last season. Bennett, who returns as the team's top kill and dig leader, notched double-figure kills in 10 of 14 WAC matches with four double-doubles. She averaged 13.50 kills (3.86 kpg) and 11.35 digs (3.24 dpg) in divisional play last year.
COURTSIDE: WAC volleyball captured the national attendance title the last two years. Hawai'i led the way, setting national attendance marks for total and average attendance for the fourth consecutive season. In act, UH topped the 100,000 mark for the third consecutive year.
COURTSIDE: After a successful debut in 1996, the expanded WAC enters its third season of volleyball competition. The league expanded from 10 to 16 teams in 1996, making it the largest NCAA Division 1-A conference in the nation.
COURTSIDE: Fresno State has reached the quarterfinal round of the WAC Volleyball Championship Tournament in Las Vegas for the last two years.
COURTSIDE: Head coach Lindy Vivas picked up her 200th career win at Fresno State on September 19, 1997 against Nevada at the Mikasa Invitational.
COURTSIDE: Garnering her first WAC Coach of the Year honors in 1992, head coach Lindy Vivas captured her second WAC Coach of the Year honors in 1998 after guiding the Bulldogs to a second place tie in the Pacific Division with an 11-3 mark.
COURTSIDE: Fresno State will bring a six-match divisional win streak into the 1998 season. Fresno State ended the 1997 season by winning 14 of its last 17 matches and 20 of its last 26.
COURTSIDE: Fresno State was ranked all season long in the the NCAA Division 1 District 7 Rankings and finished ninth in the final poll.
COURTSIDE: Fresno State recorded its fourth straight 20-win season and sixth in seven years under head coach Lindy Vivas. In fact, the Bulldogs have notched 21 wins or more six different times under Vivas while averaging 20 wins a season.
COURTSIDE: Fresno State's 24-9 record in 1998 was the best overall record under head coach Lindy Vivas and the nine losses tied for the fewest loses taken by a Bulldog team since 1977 (9).
COURTSIDE: Fresno State's 24 wins in 1998 was the second-highest number of wins in the program's history -- two shy of the school-record 26 wins that were recorded by the 1984 Bulldogs.
COURTSIDE: In 1998, the Bulldogs tied for second in the Pacific Division with an 11-3 mark. That feat tied the program's best showing and victories in the WAC since 1992 when the 'Dogs also went 11-3 and finished second.
