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EARLY & RECENT OLYMPIANS, CHAMPIONSHIP COACHES TOP 2022, 2023 SCIVBHOF INDUCTION CLASSES; 2 GREATS FOR SERVICE

Olympians from the 20th and 21st century, plus championship coaches top the list for the 2022 and 2023 Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame (SCIVBHOF) induction classes. They will be honored on Sunday night, May 5, 2024 as the HOF moves back on schedule from missed selections due to COVID. Topping the 2022 list 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, former Cal Poly Pomona/Arizona/Minnesota leader, Rosie Wegrich, Mira Costa High School’s DaeLea Aldrich, and Santa Barbara HS and City College’s Rick Olmstead. Alice Chambers Sanchez, who worked in the sport for almost 60 years, was selected for the SCIVBHOF Lifetime Service Award.

Heading the 2023 SCIVBHOF list are 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist winning Libero Rich Lambourne and numerous-time Golden West College championship women’s coach Albert Gasparian. Mary Perry, who played for both the first and second USA Olympic teams in 1964 and 1968, plus Ninja Jorgensen and Miki McFadden, who both played with Perry on the 1968 USA Olympic Team for Mexico City were also selected. High School and College Player of the Year and 1996 Olympian Kristin Klein Keefe and High School Player of the Year and 3-time Collegiate All-American Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, both from Stanford, round-out the 2023 induction class. USC volleyball playing All-American and USA National Team sports physician and 2012 London Olympic Doctor, Bill Stetson, was selected for the 2023 Lifetime Service Award for almost 50 years in volleyball.

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…