Mary Wise

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**Mary Wise**
Personal information
Date of birth	August 1959
Place of birth	, United States
College(s)	Purdue University
Team information
Current team	University of Florida Women's Volleyball
Previous teams coached
Years	Team
1981-1984 1986-1990 1991-Present	Iowa State University Head Coach University of Kentucky Assistant Coach University of Florida Women's Volleyball Head Coach
Best results
Years	Event	Result
1984 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007	Big Eight Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships NCAA Final Four Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships Southeastern Conference Championships	2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st
Infobox last updated on: April 4, 2008.

Mary Wise (born August, 1959) is an American volleyball player, author, and current volleyball coach of the University of Florida Gators women's volleyball team. In her 17 years at the University of Florida, Wise has compiled a 520-53 (0.907) record, won 17 consecutive SEC regular season titles (1991-2007), 12 SEC Tournament titles (1992-96, 1998-2003, 2000) and the Gators have made 17 consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament, including 7 final four appearances and a trip to the National Championship match in 2003.

1 Biography
2 Coaching
3 Awards and accolades
4 Trivia
5 Bibliography
6 Videos
7 References

[edit] Biography

Wise graduated from Purdue in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education after a standout career as a setter for the Boilermakers. A dean’s list student, Wise was a member of Purdue’s 1980 and 1979 Big Ten Championship teams and was twice named to the All-Midwest Regional team. Wise resides in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, Mark Wise, and their two children, Matt and Mitchell.

[edit] Coaching

[edit] Iowa State University

Wise was the youngest coach in the history of the NCAA when she took the job at Iowa State University in 1981. She went 81-63 in four years at Iowa State and won no championships. She used this time to learn how to build a team from the personnel on up^[1].

[edit] University of Kentucky

Wise was out of Volleyball for a year and living in Kentucky when she was offered a position on the University of Kentucky women's volleyball program staff in 1986. Kentucky was a powerhouse in volleyball in those days, winning the SEC twice and advancing to the regional final once. Mary rose from graduate assistant to the position of associate head coach.

[edit] University of Florida

Since arriving at the University of Florida in 1991, Wise has propelled a once lackluster program into the epitome of excellence. She’s 17-for-17 with 17 Southeastern Conference Regular Season Championships to her credit. In fact, Florida has so dominated the SEC in her tenure that Wise is one of only two coaches in conference history in any sport, men or women, to win as many as 17 consecutive conference titles. The program has gone more than 10 seasons from 1994-04 having not lost a regular season SEC match - a feat unmatched by any school, ever.

In 2003, Wise's Florida team won 105 straight games during the course of the season, smashing the previous NCAA record by 36 games. Since 1991, Florida has amassed 492 victories in matches – more than any other school in the nation.

On the forefront of increasing awareness and exposure for volleyball, Wise has ushered in a philosophy of innovation when it comes to rules changes and volleyball youth opportunities. She’s routinely regarded as one of the finest resources for coaching in collegiate volleyball.

Her expertise has led to numerous appointments on international coaching staffs. In the summer of 2004 Wise took her own team on a 12-day, three-nation tour of Western Europe as the Gators faced several national and junior national teams. In May of 2006, Wise guided the USA Volleyball A2 Team at the U.S. Open Championships as the volleyball community became one of the first groups to compete in a large scale event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

Wise's Gators have also shown a commitment to playing an active role in community leadership and involvement. An annual tradition, each year members of the Gators’ volleyball team visit children at nearby Shands Hospital during the Thanksgiving holiday, while players also participate in the Goodwill Gators program. In 2003, Wise helped raise $7,500 for the Children’s Miracle Network after more than 4,000 Gator fans packed the O’Connell Center for a match against South Carolina.

In 2007, Wise picked up what is projecting to be the top recruiting class of any DI university for the class of 2008, as she signed the top 2008 recruit, as well as the #7, #16 and #27 recruit in the nation.

[edit] Awards and accolades

An 12-time winner of the SEC Coach of the Year Award (1998-02, 1995-96, 1991-93, 1999, and co winner in 2007)
Named AVCA national coach of the year twice (1996, 1992)
Named an All-Time Great Coach by the American Volleyball Coaches Association in 2006.

[edit] Trivia

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first coach to ever win 100 straight games
first female head coach in NCAA history to coach in the NCAA Championship final
first coach to ever win 90 percent of matches in first 16 seasons at one school
first in NCAA history to be named Division I head coach at age 21
first coach to ever win 110 consecutive conference matches
first female in NCAA Division I history to win 15 conference titles in first 15 seasons at one school
first coach to ever win 130 consecutive regular season conference matches
first female head coach to coach in more than one Final Four
only female coach to appear in more than one national semifinal and she reached the 500 win plateau faster than any other Division I female coach.
In the storied history of NCAA Division I men and women’s basketball, football and baseball, there hasn’t been a single coach with at least 10 seasons of coaching who can boast of having a better win percentage than Wise has at Florida (.906).

[edit] Bibliography

Volleyball Drills for Champions. Human Kinetics Publishers (1998) ISBN 0880117788
Volleyball Coaching Bible (Part IV: Individual Skills and Team Tactics, Chapter 13: Serving) ISBN 0736039678