NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship
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The NCAA
Men's Volleyball Championship is the tournament that determines the national championship of American
college volleyball
.
The "Final Four
" is a term used exclusively by NCAA Basketball but is commonly used to describe the Men's Volleyball Championship. The official name of this championship is the "National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship".
Schools from the Pacific Coast region have dominated this sport, in particular UCLA
. Al Scates
, the coach at UCLA, has won more NCAA Titles (19) than any other coach.
Men's volleyball, however, does not have an official divisional structure—all teams, regardless of their divisional affiliation, are eligible to compete for the NCAA championship. This is different from the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
, in which separate tournaments are conducted for all three divisions, mainly because there are far more NCAA member schools offering women's volleyball than the men's game. All schools that sponsor men's volleyball and are members of either Division I or II are allowed to offer financial aid for the sport that is equivalent to a maximum of 4.5 full scholarships.
Although the NCAA only sponsors a single men's volleyball championship, open to all schools that sponsor the sport at varsity level (as opposed to club level), a parallel men's volleyball championship tournament is conducted that is open only to men's volleyball programs that are members of NCAA Division III. For sponsorship reasons, it is currently named the "Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship Tournament (Final Four)". Though it has never occurred, a NCAA Division III school may qualify for the at-large bid to the "NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Tournament". Only NCAA Division III teams from the EIVA may earn an automatic bid.
There are three general regions for men's volleyball: "West", "Mid-West", and "East". The three major conferences that currently represent these regions are the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
(MPSF), Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
(MIVA), and Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
(EIVA). The other conferences include Conference Carolinas
, New England Collegiate Conference
, the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association
(NECVA), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC). Teams from the ECAC are members of the NECVA. Members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA), a separate athletics governing body whose members are primarily smaller institutions, regularly play matches against NCAA teams.
Because of the lack of an official divisional structure in men's volleyball, the three major conferences have member schools that normally participate in all three NCAA divisions. The MPSF men's volleyball league, otherwise made up entirely of Division I schools, has one Division II member, UC San Diego
. Only four of the 7 members of the MIVA are Division I schools; the remaining seven members include three Division II schools. The 11 members of EIVA include eight in Division I and three in Division III. The sizes of the conferences have fluctuated over the years as new men's volleyball programs arise and other programs are dropped from their schools.
Currently, each of the three major conferences ((MPSF), (MIVA) and (EIVA)) receive an automatic bid to the Final Four with one additional at-large bid. The remaining bid is an at-large bid that may be awarded to any team in Division I, II, or III. Generally, the best team in the nation (usually from one of the 3 major conferences), who did not receive the automatic bid, receives the at-large bid.
George Mason University
Harvard University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark
Sacred Heart University
Saint Francis University of Pennsylvania
Springfield College (NCAA Division III)
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Ball State University
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Loyola University Chicago
Ohio State University
Grand Canyon University (NCAA Division II)
Lewis University (NCAA Division II)
Quincy University (NCAA Division II)
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Brigham Young University
California State University, Northridge
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
California State University, Long Beach
University of the Pacific
Pepperdine University
Stanford University
University of Southern California
University of California, San Diego (NCAA Division II)
Conference Carolinas-NCAA Division II
Erskine College (begins sponsoring men's volleyball in 2012-13)
Barton University (begins sponsoring men's volleyball in 2011–12)
Lees-McRae College
Mount Olive College
Limestone College
Pfeiffer University
King College (TN)
North East Collegiate Volleyball Association-NCAA Division III
CUNYAC
Baruch College
Brooklyn College
City College of New York
Hunter College
Lehman College, City University of New York
Medgar Evers College
New York City College of Technology
York College
Metro
Lancaster Bible College
Kean University
New Jersey City University
Ramapo College
Skyline
Yeshiva University
Polytechnic University (New York)
The Sage Colleges
College of Mount St. Vincent
SUNY Purchase
New England
Elms College
Endicott College
Lesley University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newbury College
Regis College
Southern Vermont College
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Daniel Webster College
GNAC
Rivier College
Emmanuel College
Lasell College
Emerson College
Albertus Magnus College
Mount Ida College
Johnson & Wales University
United Volleyball Conference
Bard College
Medaille College
Nazareth College
D'Youville College
State University of New York Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology
New York University
Vassar College
State University of New York College at New Paltz
Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College
Elmira College
Hilbert College
Continental Volleyball Conference
Thiel College
Stevenson University
Philadelphia Biblical University
Juniata College
Eastern Mennonite University
The College of Mount St. Joseph (OH)
Fontbonne University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Carthage College
University of California, Santa Cruz
Independent
University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pidras (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey (NCAA Division II)
St. Joseph's College, New York (NCAA Division III)
-based universities dominate the men's volleyball national championship; Penn State, Ohio State and Brigham Young University
are the only non-California universities to have won the NCAA Div. I championship; Hawaii and Lewis
also won the championship tournament, but had their victories vacated due to NCAA rules violations. Only six non-California universities have participated in the NCAA Div. I championship match (Brigham Young, Penn St., Ohio St., IPFW, Hawaii, and Lewis
), although universities such as Princeton
and Ball State
have participated in the final four.
UCLA, Southern California, Penn State, Stanford, and Long Beach State are the only schools in Division I to have won an NCAA national championship in both men and women's volleyball. (But for Hawaii's vacated 2002 title, it would have matched this feat with 3 NCAA and 1 AIAW women's national championships.) In addition, Stanford (1996-97) and Penn State (2007-08) are the only universities the men and women's volleyball programs of which have won the national championship in the same academic year.
±Vacated due to NCAA violations
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
Men's Volleyball Championship is the tournament that determines the national championship of American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
college volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
.
The "Final Four
Final four
Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...
" is a term used exclusively by NCAA Basketball but is commonly used to describe the Men's Volleyball Championship. The official name of this championship is the "National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship".
Schools from the Pacific Coast region have dominated this sport, in particular UCLA
UCLA Bruins
The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I...
. Al Scates
Al Scates
Al Scates is an American former volleyball player and is the current volleyball coach of the UCLA Bruins of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation...
, the coach at UCLA, has won more NCAA Titles (19) than any other coach.
Competition structure
The competition structure of men's volleyball is dramatically different from that of most sports sponsored by the NCAA. In most sports, teams are divided into three divisions:- Division I, generally consisting of large universities that devote the most resources to athletics; these schools offer substantial numbers of athletic scholarshipAthletic scholarshipAn athletic scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university awarded to an individual based predominantly on his or her ability to play in a sport...
s to attract team members (with a few voluntary exceptions, most notably the Ivy LeagueIvy LeagueThe Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
). - Division II, generally consisting of smaller institutions; these schools are also allowed to offer athletic scholarships, but in substantially smaller numbers.
- Division III, generally consisting of smaller schools and a few large institutions that prefer to focus on academics; schools in this group are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships
Men's volleyball, however, does not have an official divisional structure—all teams, regardless of their divisional affiliation, are eligible to compete for the NCAA championship. This is different from the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
The NCAA has contested team championships in women's volleyball since 1981. The following is a list of the champions of each division with their record for the year in which they won the championship, and the runner up, city, site and other final four participants for division I...
, in which separate tournaments are conducted for all three divisions, mainly because there are far more NCAA member schools offering women's volleyball than the men's game. All schools that sponsor men's volleyball and are members of either Division I or II are allowed to offer financial aid for the sport that is equivalent to a maximum of 4.5 full scholarships.
Although the NCAA only sponsors a single men's volleyball championship, open to all schools that sponsor the sport at varsity level (as opposed to club level), a parallel men's volleyball championship tournament is conducted that is open only to men's volleyball programs that are members of NCAA Division III. For sponsorship reasons, it is currently named the "Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship Tournament (Final Four)". Though it has never occurred, a NCAA Division III school may qualify for the at-large bid to the "NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Tournament". Only NCAA Division III teams from the EIVA may earn an automatic bid.
There are three general regions for men's volleyball: "West", "Mid-West", and "East". The three major conferences that currently represent these regions are the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates at the NCAA Division I level.-History:...
(MPSF), Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
The Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. Its member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Illinois in the west to Ohio in the east...
(MIVA), and Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. Its member institutions are located in the Northeast United States....
(EIVA). The other conferences include Conference Carolinas
Conference Carolinas
Conference Carolinas, formerly known as the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference , is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division II. Conference Carolinas reached its modern incarnation in 1994. Member institutions are located in the southeastern United States in...
, New England Collegiate Conference
New England Collegiate Conference
The New England Collegiate Conference has been the name of two incarnations of collegiate athletic conferences.-Former Division II conference:...
, the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association
North East Collegiate Volleyball Association
The North East Collegiate Volleyball Association is a men's volleyball collegiate association founded in 1995. It is the largest known single-sport conference in the United States...
(NECVA), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference
Eastern College Athletic Conference
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 21 sports . It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois...
(ECAC). Teams from the ECAC are members of the NECVA. Members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...
(NAIA), a separate athletics governing body whose members are primarily smaller institutions, regularly play matches against NCAA teams.
Because of the lack of an official divisional structure in men's volleyball, the three major conferences have member schools that normally participate in all three NCAA divisions. The MPSF men's volleyball league, otherwise made up entirely of Division I schools, has one Division II member, UC San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
. Only four of the 7 members of the MIVA are Division I schools; the remaining seven members include three Division II schools. The 11 members of EIVA include eight in Division I and three in Division III. The sizes of the conferences have fluctuated over the years as new men's volleyball programs arise and other programs are dropped from their schools.
Currently, each of the three major conferences ((MPSF), (MIVA) and (EIVA)) receive an automatic bid to the Final Four with one additional at-large bid. The remaining bid is an at-large bid that may be awarded to any team in Division I, II, or III. Generally, the best team in the nation (usually from one of the 3 major conferences), who did not receive the automatic bid, receives the at-large bid.
Members
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball AssociationGeorge Mason University
Harvard University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark
Sacred Heart University
Saint Francis University of Pennsylvania
Springfield College (NCAA Division III)
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Ball State University
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Loyola University Chicago
Ohio State University
Grand Canyon University (NCAA Division II)
Lewis University (NCAA Division II)
Quincy University (NCAA Division II)
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Brigham Young University
California State University, Northridge
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
California State University, Long Beach
University of the Pacific
Pepperdine University
Stanford University
University of Southern California
University of California, San Diego (NCAA Division II)
Conference Carolinas-NCAA Division II
Erskine College (begins sponsoring men's volleyball in 2012-13)
Barton University (begins sponsoring men's volleyball in 2011–12)
Lees-McRae College
Mount Olive College
Limestone College
Pfeiffer University
King College (TN)
North East Collegiate Volleyball Association-NCAA Division III
CUNYAC
Baruch College
Brooklyn College
City College of New York
Hunter College
Lehman College, City University of New York
Medgar Evers College
New York City College of Technology
York College
Metro
Lancaster Bible College
Kean University
New Jersey City University
Ramapo College
Skyline
Yeshiva University
Polytechnic University (New York)
The Sage Colleges
College of Mount St. Vincent
SUNY Purchase
New England
Elms College
Endicott College
Lesley University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newbury College
Regis College
Southern Vermont College
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Daniel Webster College
GNAC
Rivier College
Emmanuel College
Lasell College
Emerson College
Albertus Magnus College
Mount Ida College
Johnson & Wales University
United Volleyball Conference
Bard College
Medaille College
Nazareth College
D'Youville College
State University of New York Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology
New York University
Vassar College
State University of New York College at New Paltz
Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College
Elmira College
Hilbert College
Continental Volleyball Conference
Thiel College
Stevenson University
Philadelphia Biblical University
Juniata College
Eastern Mennonite University
The College of Mount St. Joseph (OH)
Fontbonne University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Carthage College
University of California, Santa Cruz
Independent
University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pidras (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey (NCAA Division II)
St. Joseph's College, New York (NCAA Division III)
Championship teams
CaliforniaCalifornia
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
-based universities dominate the men's volleyball national championship; Penn State, Ohio State and Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
are the only non-California universities to have won the NCAA Div. I championship; Hawaii and Lewis
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students...
also won the championship tournament, but had their victories vacated due to NCAA rules violations. Only six non-California universities have participated in the NCAA Div. I championship match (Brigham Young, Penn St., Ohio St., IPFW, Hawaii, and Lewis
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students...
), although universities such as Princeton
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and Ball State
Ball State University
Ball State University is a state-run research university located in Muncie, Indiana. It is also known as Ball State or simply BSU.Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans and includes 106 buildings...
have participated in the final four.
UCLA, Southern California, Penn State, Stanford, and Long Beach State are the only schools in Division I to have won an NCAA national championship in both men and women's volleyball. (But for Hawaii's vacated 2002 title, it would have matched this feat with 3 NCAA and 1 AIAW women's national championships.) In addition, Stanford (1996-97) and Penn State (2007-08) are the only universities the men and women's volleyball programs of which have won the national championship in the same academic year.
2011 Tournament
- May 5, 2011 – UC Santa Barbara def. Southern California, 29-27, 24-26, 25-15, 25-18; Ohio State def. Penn St., 25-18, 24-26, 25-22, 25-23.
- May 7, 2011 – Ohio State def. UC Santa Barbara, 20-25, 25-20, 25-19, 22-25, 15-9.
| Year | National Champion | Score | Runner-up | City and venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (24–1) |
3–0 | Long Beach State Long Beach State 49ers 'An NCAA Division I member, Long Beach State has 18 sports teams and plays competitively in baseball, cross country, softball, track and field, women's tennis, and women's soccer, as well as both men's and women's basketball, volleyball, water polo and golf teams... |
Los Angeles, CA Los Ángeles Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants... |
Pauley Pavilion Pauley Pavilion Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams... |
| 1971 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (29–1) |
3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1972 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (27–7) |
3–2 | San Diego State | Muncie, IN Muncie, Indiana Muncie is a city in Center Township, Delaware County in east central Indiana, best known as the home of Ball State University and the birthplace of the Ball Corporation. It is the principal city of the Muncie, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 118,769... |
Irving Gymnasium Irving Gymnasium Irving Gymnasium is an indoor athletics facility on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Opened in 1962 with a capacity of 4,200 spectators, it hosted primarily Ball State Cardinals basketball and volleyball games until the John E. Worthen Arena was opened in 1992... |
| 1973 | San Diego State (21–5) | 3–1 | Long Beach State | San Diego, CA | San Diego State |
| 1974 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (30–5) |
3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean... , CA |
UC Santa Barbara |
| 1975 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (27–8) |
3–1 | UC Santa Barbara | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1976 | UCLA UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I... (15–2) |
3–2 | San Diego State | Muncie, IN | Irving Gymnasium |
| 1977 | Southern California USC Trojans The USC Trojans are the athletic teams representing the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. While the men's teams are nicknamed the Trojans, the women's athletic teams are referred to as either the Trojans or Women of Troy... (18–1) |
3–1 | Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of The Ohio State University, named after the state tree, the Buckeye. The Buckeyes participate in the NCAA's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports... |
Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1978 | Pepperdine Pepperdine University Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of... (21–4) |
3–2 | UCLA | Columbus, OH Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city... |
St. John Arena St. John Arena St. John Arena is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The arena was named for Lynn St. John, who served as Ohio State's men's basketball coach and athletic director until 1947.... |
| 1979 | UCLA (30–0) | 3–1 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1980 | Southern California (22–6) | 3–1 | UCLA | Muncie, IN | Irving Gymnasium |
| 1981 | UCLA (32–3) | 3–2 | Southern California | Santa Barbara, CA | UCSB Events Center |
| 1982 | UCLA (29–0) | 3–0 | Penn State Penn State Nittany Lions men's volleyball Penn State has had a long tradition with their men's volleyball program. Founded in 1976 by Tom Tait, Tait coached the team from 1976–1989, and was named a USA Volleyball All-Time great coach in 2007.... |
University Park, PA University Park, Pennsylvania University Park, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is the location of the flagship campus of the Pennsylvania State University.... |
Rec Hall Rec Hall Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was opened on January 15, 1929 and is still in use. Previously, Penn State's indoor sports teams played in a building known as the Armory,... |
| 1983 | UCLA (27–4) | 3–0 | Pepperdine | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 1984 | UCLA (38–0) | 3–1 | Pepperdine | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1985 | Pepperdine (25–2) | 3–2 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1986 | Pepperdine (22–7) | 3–2 | Southern California | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 1987 | UCLA (38–3) | 3–0 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1988 | Southern California (34–4) | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Fort Wayne, IN Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana... |
ACWMC Allen County War Memorial Coliseum The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Fort Wayne, Indiana, initially built in 1952 for nearly $3 million in Fort Wayne's Johnny Appleseed Park. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum was originally designed to seat 8,000 for hockey or 10,240 for basketball... |
| 1989 | UCLA (29–5) | 3–1 | Stanford Stanford Cardinal The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams... |
Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1990 | Southern California (26–7) | 3–1 | Long Beach State | Fairfax, VA Fairfax, Virginia The City of Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City is nevertheless the county seat.... |
Patriot Center Patriot Center The Patriot Center is a 10,000-seat arena in Fairfax, Virginia. It is located on the campus of George Mason University , and has attracted 9.6 million people to over 2,958 events. In 2010, the Patriot Center was ranked No. 7 nationwide and No... |
| 1991 | Long Beach State (31–4) | 3–1 | Southern California | Honolulu, HI | Neal S. Blaisdell Center Neal S. Blaisdell Center The Neal S. Blaisdell Center in downtown Honolulu, Honolulu CDP is a community center for the City & County of Honolulu. Constructed in 1964 on the historic Ward Estate and originally called the Hawaii International Center, the center was renamed after Mayor of Honolulu Neal S. Blaisdell... |
| 1992 | Pepperdine (24–4) | 3–0 | Stanford | Muncie, IN | John E. Worthen Arena John E. Worthen Arena John E. Worthen Arena is a basketball arena in Muncie, Indiana. The arena opened in the year 1992 and it is home to the Ball State University Cardinals men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams... |
| 1993 | UCLA (24–3) | 3–0 | Cal St. Northridge California State University, Northridge California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States.... |
Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1994 | Penn State (26–3) | 3–2 | UCLA | Fort Wayne, IN | ACWMC |
| 1995 | UCLA (31–1) | 3–0 | Penn State | Springfield, MA Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern... |
Springfield Civic Center MassMutual Center The MassMutual Center is a multi-purpose arena and convention center, in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Built in the city's Metro Center across from Court Square, the facility opened in 1972 as the Springfield Civic Center and was at that time considered to be the largest arena in the... |
| 1996 | UCLA (26–5) | 3–2 | Hawaii Hawaii Rainbow Warriors The University of Hawaii Warriors, University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, or University of Hawaii Rainbows are the team names of the men's sports programs at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.... |
Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1997 | Stanford (27–4) | 3–2 | UCLA | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 1998 | UCLA (28–4) | 3–0 | Pepperdine | Honolulu, HI | Stan Sheriff Center Stan Sheriff Center The Stan Sheriff Center is a 10,300-seat multi-purpose arena in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa... |
| 1999 | BYU Brigham Young University Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students... (30–1) |
3–0 | Long Beach State | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 2000 | UCLA (29–5) | 3–0 | Ohio State | Fort Wayne, IN | ACWMC |
| 2001 | BYU (23–4) | 3–0 | UCLA | Long Beach, CA Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257... |
The Walter Pyramid Walter Pyramid Walter Pyramid, formerly known as Long Beach Pyramid, is a 5,000-seat, indoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, California.-History:... |
| 2002 | Hawaii (24–8)± | 3–1 | Pepperdine | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2003 | Lewis Lewis University Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students... (29–6)± |
3–2 | BYU | Long Beach, CA | The Walter Pyramid |
| 2004 | BYU (29–4) | 3–2 | Long Beach State | Honolulu, HI | Stan Sheriff Center |
| 2005 | Pepperdine (25–2) | 3–2 | UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 2006 | UCLA (26–12) | 3–0 | Penn State | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2007 | UC Irvine UC Irvine Anteaters UC Irvine's Athletics program participates in the NCAA's Division I, as members of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation... (29–5) |
3–1 | IPFW IPFW Mastodons The IPFW Mastodons are the athletic teams of Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. The Mastodons compete as an National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I school in the The Summit League for most sports and in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association for men's... |
Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 2008 | Penn State (30–1) | 3–1 | Pepperdine | Irvine, CA Irvine, California Irvine is a suburban incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the city has a population of 212,375 as of the 2010 census. However, the California... |
Bren Events Center Bren Events Center Donald Bren Events Center is a 4,984-seat, indoor multi-purpose stadium, on the campus of the University of Irvine, in California.-Construction and history:... |
| 2009 | UC Irvine (27–5) | 3–2 | Southern California | Provo, UT Provo, Utah Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south... |
Smith Fieldhouse Smith Fieldhouse The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse is a 5,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Provo, Utah. Built in 1951, it is the home of the Brigham Young University Cougars volleyball teams, and was named for George Albert Smith, the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died the... |
| 2010 | Stanford (24-6) | 3–0 | Penn State (24-8) | Stanford, CA Stanford, California Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census.... |
Maples Pavilion Maples Pavilion Maples Pavilion is a 7,392-seat multi-purpose arena in Stanford, California built in 1968. Maples underwent a $30 million renovation in March 2004, which wrapped up in time for conference play in December of that year... |
| 2011 | Ohio State (26-6) | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara (18-15) | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2012 | Los Angeles, CA | Galen Center Galen Center The Galen Center is a multipurpose indoor arena and athletic facility owned and operated by the University of Southern California. Located at the southeast corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles, it is right across the street from the campus and... |
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| 2013 | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion | |||
±Vacated due to NCAA violations
NCAA Championships by University
| School | # | Last |
|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 19 | 2006 |
| Pepperdine | 5 | 2005 |
| Southern California | 4 | 1990 |
| BYU | 3 | 2004 |
| UC Irvine | 2 | 2009 |
| Penn State | 2 | 2008 |
| Stanford | 2 | 2010 |
| Ohio State | 1 | 2011 |
| Long Beach State | 1 | 1991 |
| San Diego State | 1 | 1973 |
See also
- AVCA
- NCAA Women's Volleyball ChampionshipNCAA Women's Volleyball ChampionshipThe NCAA has contested team championships in women's volleyball since 1981. The following is a list of the champions of each division with their record for the year in which they won the championship, and the runner up, city, site and other final four participants for division I...
- Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Volleyball Champions
External links
- UCLA's 2006 Men's Volleyball National Championship
- NCAA site - Men's Volleyball
- American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) - Men's Volleyball
- Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) - Men's Volleyball
- Official Website of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA)
- Official Website of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA)
- Official Website of the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA)
- Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) - Men's Volleyball