Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball

Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball
University	University of Tennessee
Conference	SEC Eastern Division
Location	Knoxville, TN
Head coach	Rob Patrick (15th year)
Arena	Thompson-Boling Arena (Capacity: 7,500)
Nickname	Volunteers
Colors	Orange and White
AIAW and NCAA Tournament Final Four
2005
AIAW and NCAA Tournament Appearances
1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Conference Tournament Champions
1981, 1982, 1984, 2004
Conference Regular Season Champions
1981, 1982, 1984, 2004, 2011

The Tennessee Volunteers women's volleyball team represents the University of Tennessee located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers (or "Vols") compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Volunteers play their home matches in the Thompson–Boling Arena on the university's campus, and are currently led by head coach Rob Patrick.

Along with all other UT women's sports teams, it used the nickname "Lady Volunteers" (or the short form "Lady Vols") until the 2015–16 school year, when the school dropped the "Lady" prefix from the nicknames of all women's teams except in basketball.^[1]

Overview of Volunteers Volleyball Program

Since the Volunteers have begun competing in the NCAA they have begun a successful trend of winning and have recently built a very sound program that competes for conference championships regularly. The Vols have managed to make the NCAA Volleyball Tournament and AIAW Tournament a total of 13 times and have reached the semi-finals in the tournament in 2005.

The Volunteers are currently coached by Rob Patrick who has managed to take the program to new heights.

Program record and history

The University of Tennessee first fielded a women's varsity volleyball team in the fall of 1958 and first kept recordings of games in 1973. Since then, the Volunteers have won four Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships.