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Year-By-Year Won-Lost Records in Volleyball
Record, Head Coach, Conference Finish
1972 – NA, Nita Edlund, 5th Io-Kota
1973 – 9-7, Nita Edlund, 4th Io-Kota
1974 – 7-7, Nita Edlund, 4th Io-Kota
1975 – NA, Rich Everett, 4th Io-Kota
1976 – NA, Rich Everett, 6th Io-Kota
1977 – NA, NA, 6th Io-Kota
1978 – NA, Peter Berry, 7th Io-Kota
1979 – NA, Peter Berry, 6th Io-Kota
1980 – 10-30, Peter Berry, 6th Io-Kota
1981 – 11-22-1, Patti (Patton) Hesse, 3rd Io-Kota
1982 – 12-19-5, Patti (Patton) Hesse, 2nd Io-Kota
1983 – 25-5, Patti (Patton) Hesse, 1st Io-Kota
1984 – 26-14, Sandy Winter, 3rd Io-Kota
1985 – 17-18, Sandy Winter, 2nd Io-Kota
1986 – 34-9, Sandy Winter, 1st Io-Kota
1987 – 35-7, Sandy Winter, 2nd Io-Kota
1988 – 18-15, Sandy Winter, 1st Io-Kota
1989 – 7-22, Sandy Winter, 9th North Central
1990 – 18-22, Joan McDermott, 9th North Central
1991 – 30-10, Joan McDermott, 3rd North Central
1992 – 20-16, Joan McDermott, 6th North Central
1993 – 19-16, Joan McDermott, 6th North Central
1994 – 19-12, Joan McDermott, 5th North Central
1995 – 27-9, Joan McDermott, 5th North Central
1996 – 24-12, Gail Halink, 5th North Central
1997 – 10-23, Gail Halink, 8th North Central
1998 – 8-23, Theresa Kathman-Trees, 9th North Central
1999 – 11-27, Theresa Kathman-Trees, 6th North Central
2000 – 16-16, Theresa Kathman-Trees, 6th North Central
2001 – 14-20, Theresa Kathman-Trees, 7th North Central
2002 – 26-9, Theresa Kathman-Trees
2003 – 24-17, Jessica Phillips, 10th Great Plains Athletic
2004 – 23-13, Jessica Phillips, 5th Great Plains Athletic
2005 – 19-15, Aaron Nelson, 6th Great Plains Athletic
2006 – 18-17, Aaron Nelson, 7th Great Plains Athletic
2007 – 33-4, Rick Pruett, 1st Great Plains Athletic
First-Team All-Conference
Io-Kota Conference
1972 – Judy (Kleban) Lang
1973 – Maureen (Kolar) Nussman
1974 – Theresa (Kruse) Cooper
1983 – Lois (Liibbe) Johnson, Amy (Wilhelm) Lefler
1984 – Lisa (Erwin) Andersen
1986 – Amy (Wilhelm) Lefler, Beckie (Maahs) Wahlberg
1987 – Paula (Hunter) Olsen
1988 – Paula (Hunter) Olsen
North Central Conference
1991 – Jill (Jackes) Bartosh, Kristen Kofoed
1993 – Jill (Jackes) Bartosh
1994 – Theresa Kathman-Trees
1995 – Theresa Kathman-Trees, Karmen (Fykstra) Vanfossan
1996 – Theresa Kathman-Trees, Kate Ankrum
1997 – Tasha Feldman
2000 – Monica (Caspar) Chamberlain
2001 – Jennifer (Gruber) Livingston
Great Plains Athletic Conference
2005 – Kate Boeve
2006 – Cassie Cheever
2007 – Kali Angerman, Cassie Cheever, Amber Jarzynka
Volleyball Stories
Sandy Winter 1981, who teaches art and coaches in Corning, Iowa, was gracious enough to share a few stories from both her playing and coaching days. If these don’t tickle your funny bone, it is definitely atrophied.
“Things have changed since my playing days. More matches were added to the schedule, along with tournaments played on weekends. We operated on a tight budget, oftentimes taking a cooler full of fruit, stuff for sandwiches and a juice drink as our meals during tournament play. We had new standards, better equipment, more money for scholarships and newer uniforms. Oh, did I forget to tell you about the uniform thing when I was an underclassman? We wore the same uniforms for volleyball and basketball.
We had very successful seasons, setting a few records, but, most importantly, we stayed together as a team. Our conference ended up in a three-way tie one year, so we had a playoff to determine the champion. It was a great group of seniors: Val Uken 1987, Beckie (Maahs) Wahlberg 1987 and Amy (Wilhelm) Lefler 1989, to name a few. We traveled to Dordt for our first playoff match, and three hours later, we came out victorious! In those days we didn’t have rally scoring, so the match changed serve many times without a scoring change. I remember being very happy when it was over, but so exhausted that I really didn’t realize that we had won until later that night.
Our next match was with Briar Cliff, who had also beaten Dordt, and as luck would have it, we played there. Briar Cliff Coach Marian Pesky was an expert at psychologically beating a team before and during the match. She wore Spock ears when her team wasn’t listening to each other. She put wind-up teeth on the floor, chattering to tell her team to talk, to name a few of her usual tactics. That night was no exception. Her team came out of the locker room and she was wearing a Hawaiian outfit (we’d seen it earlier that season), but this night she brought a knee-high gorilla toy that danced when music played. It danced and danced. I think she even danced with it a bit. My team was furious – just what she wanted! I knew we were losing focus, and I had to do something! They weren’t listening to me talking to them. So I did the only civil thing I could think of (I thought about showing the gorilla a new dance that I thought of – ‘stomp’). I walked over to her bench and danced with the gorilla. Well, I am such a great dancer (not) that my team started laughing at me. Soon they forgot about the toy and focused on warming up. This helped set the tone for the whole match because any other toy she wore or used that night didn’t set them off. We won the match by taking the final game by two points – 18-16, I think.
We had a few amazing years playing volleyball, and I learned many aspects of coaching, including how important Roberta Boothby’s 1964 dance class was!
We won many matches and we had fun – it seemed that much of the players’ fun came from playing pranks on me. I went swimming many times in street clothes, watched the van drive away just as I reached for the door and my hotel room door was often newspapered shut. Yes, we had fun!
I remember my coach, Dr. Peter Berry. He was a tall guy, I believe over six foot. He had played volleyball in college and, boy, could he spike the ball! During practice, Coach was hitting down balls from a stand when I saw a ball coming right at me. Just as I was about to duck behind another player – boom – a shot right to my glasses broke the bow off. I excused myself, grabbed my handy vial of super glue and returned shortly. They lasted the rest of the season that way.
We laughed, but we worked hard. Despite our struggling seasons, Coach led us in keeping our sense of humor and not ever giving up. During my senior year, I was student teaching across town and was often late for the beginning of practice. He started teasing me about it. Well, one day I made it in plenty of time, found a jump rope and tied the handles of his office door together so he couldn’t get to practice. When he finally got in, he laughed and we pursued the process of becoming a better team.”
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