Stacey White and UW-Stevens Point Volleyball team are coming off one of the most successful seasons in program history. The 2011 UWSP squad won the program’s first Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in 30 years. The Pointers also qualified for the NCAA Divison III tournament for just the third time in program history.
White’s leadership placed three members on the 2011 WIAC First Team (Morgan Bartkowiak, Christina Brinkman and Alexis Hartman). Ally Groth earned WIAC All-Defensive honors and Jessica Dredski earned WIAC All-Sportsmanship honors last year.
White enters the 2012 season with a career mark of 183-191 through 11 years as Pointers head coach. Her win total is the second-most in UWSP history, behind only legendary coach Nancy Schoen, who led the Pointers to their only other conference championship in 1981.
White, a Monticello, Minn. native, was the head junior varsity coach and assistant varsiy coach at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn. prior to coming to UW-Stevens Point.
She graduated from UW-River Falls in 1998 with a degree in Health and Human Performance and added a Master’s Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota while coaching at Concordia. White has also coached two junior Olympic squads, leading the 18-and-under St. Croix Valley team and the 16-and-under Club Tonka squad in Minnetonka, Minn.
White, who currenlty resides in Stevens Point, was also a track and field standout at UW-River Falls, qualifying for the NCAA Division III outdoor championships in both the shot put and discus as a senior.
