2014 BYU Women's Volleyball

[byu71]

All right, let's make a list...

In no particular order

Erin Thorn
Tiffany Lott
Hamson

Chad Lewis's wife was pretty good wasn't she?

[Crockett]

Unlike you and '71, I'm not old enough to remember all of the athletes who have ever played at BYU. Thus the qualifier.

With a Guns N Roses avatar pic you can't be that young, though.

[Joe Public]

I didn't follow women's sports that much, but just based on what she has done, I would be hard pressed to think there was even two or three women who were as good an athlete as she is in the history of BYU.

All right, let's make a list...

In no particular order

Erin Thorn
Tiffany Lott
Hamson

I wasn't qualifying by gender. People vary in the ways they compare the men and women. Some look for equivalent accomplishments (e.g., two-time AA in men's BB = two-time AA in women's BB). Others might look at measurables regardless of gender (10.1 in 100M dash = 10.1 in 100M dash, regardless of gender) when saying who is the better athlete. I think I fall somewhere in the middle.

With respect to female athletes at BYU, though, I think SMR has a pretty good start to the list. Rohbeck (sp?) and Rose were multi-year AA in soccer for BYU. There was a female pentathlete in the late 70s who was a multi-year national champion and multi-year AA. Lacey Cramer won the NCAA indoor track 800M championship two times and was second another time. Hamson's mother was very accomplished in WBB as well, I think.

[mtnbiker]

She's probably one of the better athletes to ever play at BYU.

Which totally surprises me, in a good way, because I saw her play high school basketball when she was a sophomore. The only thing she had going for her at the time was height. She had a hard time holding onto the ball, and her shot was a flat shove at the basket. Glad to see her make so much progress over the years.

[Topper]

All right, let's make a list...

In no particular order

Erin Thorn
Tiffany Lott
Hamson

Who was the soccer player that was on the woman's national team? She is the best soccer player BYU ever had. She later gave it up to be a mom. She was from Colorado.

[Topper]

I wasn't qualifying by gender. People vary in the ways they compare the men and women. Some look for equivalent accomplishments (e.g., two-time AA in men's BB = two-time AA in women's BB). Others might look at measurables regardless of gender (10.1 in 100M dash = 10.1 in 100M dash, regardless of gender) when saying who is the better athlete. I think I fall somewhere in the middle.

With respect to female athletes at BYU, though, I think SMR has a pretty good start to the list. Rohbeck (sp?) and Rose were multi-year AA in soccer for BYU. There was a female pentathlete in the late 70s who was a multi-year national champion and multi-year AA. Lacey Cramer won the NCAA indoor track 800M championship two times and was second another time. Hamson's mother was very accomplished in WBB as well, I think.

Isn't her mother the former Theresa Spalding? She is also about 6'7". I believe Jennifer is a better athlete than her mother though.

[Joe Public]

Who was the soccer player that was on the woman's national team? She is the best soccer player BYU ever had. She later gave it up to be a mom. She was from Colorado.

I think that's Rose.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I think that's Rose.

Yup. Aleisha Cramer Rose.

[Solon]

First-team All-American in two sports. Sweet Sixteen in one sport, championship game in the other. You really need a qualifier?

That's Jackie Robinson territory.
We should also note that the benefits of Title IX for women's/girls athletics didn't really start showing up until the 1990s, so it's a much more competitive field today than was the world of Babe Zaharias or Gertrude Ederle (not to disparage those pioneering women).

[Katy Lied]

I remember when Olmstead played libero for the men's team. He was quite the defensive player.

[Guest]

BYU needs to continue to dominate with their blocking, get a hand on Penn State's slide plays, and watch those dumps and 'on twos' from Hancock to stay in it tonight.

i hope they can.

[Guest]

My daughter is hosting a viewing party tonight with a bunch of girls here. It has been great to see her so into a NCAA sport this season.

[ERCougar]

Lift on the setter. Grr

[Guest]

How can there be empty seats in the lower sections? Everyone from Texas bailed, I guess.

[ERCougar]

Penn st setter is sloppy. They finally caught her