Family Night February 13th from 5-7pm at the Tukwila Community Center

The Rainier Volleyball Academy family night will be held on Sunday February 13th from 5-7pm at the Tukwila Community Center.  All family members of Rainier Volleyball Players and Coaches are encouraged to attend this fun event where the girls will get a chance to finish up their serve-a-thon fundraiser, teach their families some of the things they've learned this year and mix in with their families and coaches for a fun scrimmage. 

We hope to see you all there. 

2011 Rainier Volleyball Tournament Schedule

January
16-17  NW Juniors MLK Tournament 

February
19-21  NW Juniors President’s Day Tournament 

March
20  Domino’s Pizza Tournament
26  Sports for Youth

April
17  Tulip Festival 
30-5/1  USAV Puget Sound Regional Championship
 

Getting ready for the NCAA Tournament

The NCAA Women's Volleyball tournament starts Thursday.  Seattle will host matches this weekend and next.  This weekend Hawaii, Washington, Portland State and Michigan will play in Seattle.

Check out the breakdown of the NCAA Seattle Region at NCAA.com

Thursday night, The Rainbow Wahine of Hawaii have Portland State at 5pm and the UW Huskies face Michigan at 7:30.  The winners of each match play Friday night with the winner advancing to the Regional tournament held in Seattle the following weekend. 

Want Tickets?  Visit gohuskies.com

SPU Falcons Win Big Honors in GNAC

SEATTLE – Sarah Risser has done it again. So has coach Chris Johnson. And so too has a Seattle Pacific volleyball freshman.


Sarah RisserSenior outside hitter Risser has been named to the All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference first-team volleyball all-stars for the second year in a row. She was one of three SPU players to earn first-team honors, joined by junior outside hitter Lindsey Wodrich and freshman middle blocker Nikki Lowell.
But Lowell didn’t stop there, she was named the GNAC’s Freshman of the Year. That is the third time in the past four seasons a Falcon has claimed that honor. Current senior setter Joelle Perez won it in 2007, and current junior libero Anna Herold claimed it in 2008.

Chris JohnsonJohnson, who took a team pegged for third place in the preseason coaches poll all the way to a share of the conference championship, was named co-Coach of the Year, along with Western Washington’s Diane Flick. Western, the preseason conference favorite, tied SPU for third place. Johnson’s award was his third. He is now in his sixth year at the Falcons' helm.

Seattle Pacific also had three players chosen for the second team: Herold, junior opposite Paige Hoffman, and sophomore setter Shelby Swanson.  -Read More

State Volleyball Champions, USA 4th Best and UW 0-2 on the Weekend

Congratualtions to Washington's Volleyball State Champions. 


4A  Jackson
3A  Seattle Prep
2A  Pullman
1A  Chelan
2B  Reardan
1B  Almira/Coulee-Hartline


View the brackets Here


Team USA Finishes Fifth, Russia is the World Champion
The US Women's National Team finished in fourth place behind Russia, Brazil and Japan.  Stacy Sykora and Logan Tom were named to the all tournament team.  The finish is a noted improvement over their 9th place finish in the last FIVB World Championship.  The Americans are currently ranked second in the world behind Brazil. 


Read more at USAvolleyball.org


UW Loses to Cal and Stanford, Still #11
The University of Washington Huskies played well in spurts, but suffered from inconsistency as they fell to #4 Cal and #2 Stanford over the weekend.  The poor results didn't effect the Huskies position in the AVCA rankings as they stayed at #11.  This weekend the Dawgs head to Arizona for two matches before coming home to finish up the PAC 10 season against Oregon and Oregon State. 


Read more about the Dawgs

Four Remain to Battle for 4A Volleyball Title

Issaquah, Olympia, Jackson and Mead make up the Semifinals of the WIAA 4A Volleyball Tournament. 

The match of the day from the first two rounds yesterday was defending champions Mead defeating Graham-Kapowsin in 15-12 in the thrilling finale of a marathon match.  The defending champs also dropped a set against underdog Kentwood early in the day.  Now they face a Jackson team hot to avenge a loss to Mead in the Spokane Crossover Tournament last month. 

Check out the Bracket Here

US Women Lose to Brazil, Advance to Semifinals

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 10, 2010) – The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team has filled the final spot of the 2010 FIVB Women’s World Championship semifinal round that starts Nov. 13 in Tokyo. However, the advancement was not the planned method to continue its quest for the first World Championship gold medal in program history.

On the final day of the second round, the No. 2 Americans needed to defeat top-ranked Brazil on Nov. 10 to guarantee themselves a spot in the semifinals without any outside help. After Brazil won the match 25-19, 24-26, 25-19, 25-23, Team USA turned into rooters for its NORCECA rival Cuba in the final match of the day in Nagoya against Italy.  -Read More