2023 is shaping up to be one of the best years in Cougar Volleyball history. Head Coach Jen Greeny and her squad have turned the heads of college volleyball, rising to #4 in the country – the highest ranking in WSU history. The Cougars are looking to achieve their first ever 3-week stretch inside the top-5, this week with home sweeps against Utah and Colorado. Individual and team records look to be broken this year by a fiercely competitive, veteran volleyball team making a name for themselves. Is 2023 the year WSU volleyball cements itself as a national powerhouse? Jen Greeny believes this year can be a special year to add to her already amazing story.
“[We have] so many people coming back for their fifth year, just the experience of the team. It’s almost like they are coaches on the floor already, they know what we want. Last year we dealt with some injuries and not a lot of depth, I think it’s a little bit of unfinished business with this [2023] team.” Greeny said.
Legacy. Something Jen Greeny and her staff are looking to leave on WSU athletics as they have turned around a volleyball program that had zero conference wins when she took over the helm in 2011, into a national competitor. Greeny and her staff (which includes husband Burdette and college teammate Shannon Hunt) have since led the cougars to seven-straight NCAA tournaments with an eighth being eyed down. A stretch no other teams in WSU history have been able to achieve. Greeny knew when she took the head job over a decade ago, that she could bring WSU volleyball back to national prominence.
“I wouldn’t have taken the job if I didn’t think I could turn it around. I think being a player here and being an assistant coach in great times of cougar volleyball, we knew that you can win here. You just have to get the right people; you have to have the right system [and] stay at it. It took a while; I think it took longer than we wanted it to take but thank God [administration] let us have that time and trust,” said Greeny.
It wasn’t always easy for Greeny, but she knew that if she had the right people in the locker room, cougar volleyball would return to the postseason. 2016 was finally that year, that as head coach, Greeny had steered WSU back to the NCAA tournament. Greeny says the resilience of the 2013 recruiting class helped turned the program to where it is, and many…
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