Jim McLaughlin (coach)
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | ||
| Place of birth | Malibu, California, United States | |
| Home town | Malibu, California, United States | |
| College(s) | UC Santa Barbara | |
| Team information | ||
| Current team | Washington Women's Volleyball | |
| Previous teams coached | ||
| Years | Team | |
| 1986-89 1990-96 1997-2000 2001-Present |
Pepperdine men's volleyball assistant coach USC Men's volleyball head coach Kansas State women's volleyball head coach Washington Women's Volleyball Head Coach |
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| Best results | ||
| Years | Event | Result |
| 1990 2004 |
NCAA Men's National Championship NCAA National Championship |
1st 3rd |
Jim McLaughlin (born in Malibu, California) is the head coach for the University of Washington women's volleyball team (2001-present) in which he led the team to their first NCAA title in 2005 after defeating the University of Nebraska in San Antonio, Texas and took the #1 ranking from them, which was held all year up until that point. He also led the Huskies to the final four in 2004 and 2006.
McLaughlin is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and was a setter on the volleyball team and earned honorable mention all-American honors in his senior year. He is married to the former Margaret Jarc, a four-year soccer monogram winner at the University of Notre Dame. The couple has three daughters, Megan (9) and Molly (7), and Merit (born in October 2006).
[edit] Turning Washington Around
When McLaughlin took over for the Washington program in 2001, the team was last in the Pac-10 conference. In his first year at UW, he led the Huskies to an 11-16 record and a 4-14 mark in the Pac-10. The team's 11 wins in 2001 were the most for the program since 1997, while six players received Pac-10 All-Academic honors. In 2003, he was named the Pac-10 coach of the year.
In 2004, he made history by coaching the team to their first Pac 10 title in school history. McLaughlin also earned his first AVCA National Coach of the Year. UW pulled nearly 42,000 fans through its doors in 13 home dates for the nation's fifth-highest attendance average and set a then-school record on Oct. 23, 2004 when 5,712 fans came out to see the Huskies defeat Stanford. It marked the fourth-highest attendance figure in Pac-10 history.
Then, in 2005, just his fourth year at UW, he led the team to the schools first ever NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship and a 32-1 record overall. He was also named Pac-10 coach of the year. He made history as being the first coach in NCAA history to win a national championship in both men and women's volleyball, as he led the 1990 USC men's volleyball team to a national championship.
In 2006, he led the team to their third straight national semifinal, falling to eventual national runner up Stanford.
