Women's Volleyball (1:00 Class)

Our group selected women’s volleyball as the team for our centennial project. We didn't have an early choice, but we thought it would be an interesting sport to choose and learn more about due to its rich and fairly modern history. Women’s volleyball has been around since 1976 at BGSU. We expected to find material on the sport rather easily since it is less than 40 years old. This was actually the case and we were able to find all of the information we needed very easily.

We found rosters from the BGSU archives and found a great deal of information from the BGSU Women’s Volleyball Media Guide found online. It contained all the information, statistics, and pictures from every volleyball player that has played at BGSU. We used this information to attempt to contact former great volleyball players to interview. However, this was a difficult process because we were unable to come up with the contact information we needed. Overall, the media guide was a tremendous help to our research for this project.

Women’s volleyball started to thrive in the mid to late 1980s. There have only been three head volleyball coaches at BGSU and the most distinguished of them is Denise Van De Walle (Above). She continues to lead the Falcons today and just recently won her 500th game against the team from up north. BGSU has been home to some of the best MAC players around when it comes to volleyball. We have numerous record holders and championships from years past.

Members of this group include: Eric Arbogast, Alex Aspacher, Phil Kaiser, and John Shifley