08/01/2022
Olympic medalists and championship coaches top the list for the 2022 Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame (SCIVBHOF) induction class. They will be honored on Sunday night, May 5, 2024 with the upcoming 2023 class as the HOF moves back on schedule from missed selections due to COVID. Topping 2022 are Olympic medalists David Lee from Long Beach State and UCLA’s Elaine Youngs. Championship coaches include Stanford’s Don Shaw, USC men;s and Washington women’s Jim McLaughlin, UC San Diego’s Doug Dannevick, Rosie Wegrich, Mira Costa High School’s DaeLea Aldrich, and Santa Barbara HS and City College’s Rick Olmstead. Alice Chambers Sanchez was selected for the SCIVBHOF Lifetime Service Award.
Lee, who led Long Beach State to the 2004 NCAA finals, won gold for the USA Olympic team at 2008 Beijing, and bronze at 2016 Rio before retiring from the program. He played at the Beach for SCIVBHOFer Alan Knipe and for SCIVBHOFer John Speraw on the USA team. He is still playing beach and won his first AVP event on July 24 in Atlantic City. Youngs was a rare four-time collegiate All-American at UCLA, and won the 1991 NCAA while playing in four straight Volley Fours, and on the 1996 Atlanta Olympic indoor team. After retiring indoors, she and won a bronze medal at Athens 2004 in Olympic beach with fellow SCIVBHOFer Holly McPeak.
Shaw, who was a multi-sport standout at Palisades High School before attending Loyola Marymount University for college and being an International Volleyball League (IVL) professional playear, coached Stanford to its first four NCAA titles in the 1990s, and is the all-time women’s NCAA percentage coaching leader (440-70, .863). McLaughlin was the first coach in NCAA history to win titles in both men’s (USC in 1990) and in women’s (Washington in 2005). He was also an All-American setter for UC Santa Barbara. Dannevick won six NCAA Division III titles as the head coach at UC San Diego and dominated in the 1980s and 1990s with 10 championship appearances in 12 years. Wegrich, who played at San Diego State and was an all-star defender in the IVL, finished her 43-year college coaching career in the top 15 among in all-time NCAA wins with 780, along with numerous NCAA appearances at Minnesota, Arizona and Cal Poly Pomona. Aldrich dominated high school girls’ volleyball, leading Mira Costa to many league, CIF and California State titles after playing at Long Beach State.
Olmstead coached a CIF title at Santa Barbara HS with SCIVBHOFer Karch Kiraly as his top player, and a California State JC title at Santa Barbara City College. He has been a national and international official for almost 50 years, plus his son Shawn and daughter Heather are top college NCAA coaches at BYU.
89-YEAR OLD ALICE CHAMBERS SANCHEZ SELECTED FOR SCIVBHOF LIFETIME HONOR
Alice Chambers Sanchez, who will turn 90-years old next March, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame (SCIVBHOF) Lifetime Service Award. Attending Narbonne High School in Lomita, she did not begin playing volleyball until the age of 25 in a house wives league after she was married with four children. She started organizing and running Southern California area tournaments back in 1960, and ran events for 59 years until stopping in 2019 at the age of 86. Her work and expertise included all of the scheduling for as many as 90 teams and officials over one event.
Alice played in her first USVBA championships in San Antonio in 1963 and played for 52 years until retiring in 2015. Playing for the Mavericks, she won titles in the 30s, 35s, 40s, 45s, 50s, 55s, 60s and 65s. She helped start the 30s division in 1977 in Hilo, Hawaii and was part of the winning team. She also won numerous senior national titles starting in 1983. She accomplished everything without ever being an All-American, “but with my competitive drive, I could match any of the All-Americans,” said Chambers Sanchez.
Nominated by SCIVBHOF members Kathy Gregory and Charlie Brande, they said of Alice, “There is not a better person to honor in Southern California with this honor for all of the players and coaches she has touched over her long volleyball career.”
She will be honored on May 5, 2024 with the 2022 and 2023 induction classes.
