UH Wahine timeline
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1980-81
Track earns its first dual meet victory — male or female — over a major college opponent, defeating Villanova. Swimmer Diane Kutsunai — who later became an assistant coach — and diver Michele Loiseau qualify for nationals. Dr. Donnis Thompson wins National Association for Girls and Women in Sport Honor Fellow Award. Volleyball, with four freshmen starting, takes third in nation. Diane Sebastian earns All-America honors a third consecutive year and is invited to play on national team. Of the 80-plus female athletes, one is a senior. Pat Halat, Gillian Cooper and freshmen Rose Thomas and Rosie Vera Cruz qualify for tennis regionals. Cross country is ninth in regional. In January, Dave Shoji is hired as assistant academic advisor and becomes women's program's first full-time coach (also coaches men).
1981-82
Jackie Pung takes over golf program. Jeanne Childs (breaststroke), Andrea Hawcridge (backstroke) and Diane Kutsunai (butterfly) are All-American swimmers. Nahaku Brown and Deitre Collins earn All-America honors in volleyball. Tennis goes 28-0 and Gillian Cooper is first of three straight tennis players to capture Bonham Award. Cross country has first home meet. Women's program has athletes from eight countries and 16 states. In September 1981, the federal government finds UH in compliance with Title IX, based on "strides made and its three-year plan for future improvements." It issues 60-page investigative report outlining disparities and discrepancies in UH's women's program, and plans to reform.
1982-83
Program officially enters NCAA. Volleyball wins national championship in five games over USC. Deitre Collins and Kori Pulaski earn All-America honors and Collins is the sport's Broderick Award winner. Swimming and diving finishes 13th nationally with five swimmers, including future water polo Olympian Maureen O'Toole. Jeanne Childs wins NCAA titles in 100 and 200 breaststroke. Childs and Andrea Hawcridge are All-Americans. Basketball makes its first postseason appearance, at the NWIT, under new head coach Jerry Busone. Tennis wins a record 41 matches, extends two-season winning streak to 50, and Joy Minaai wins Bonham Award. Gwen Loud wins long jump at Martin Luther King Games and takes fourth at NCAA Championship, where she is named All-American. A record six Wahine qualify for track nationals. Cindy Boerner becomes second Women's Athletic Director.
1983-84
Volleyball defends its NCAA championship, dropping one game in the postseason. Deitre Collins becomes first volleyball player to win Broderick Cup, given to the premier female collegiate athlete. Collins and Joyce Kapua'ala Ka'apuni are All-Americans. Gwen Loud wins NCAA long jump with leap of 22-5fl, and earns All-America honors again. Gay Bouchakian takes over golf program. Softball names Alika Thompson first coach. Tennis' Rose Thomas and Rosie Vera Cruz are the state's most successful doubles team. Thomas wins Bonham Award.
1984-85
Wahine join their first conference, the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (later re-named Big West). Diver Susan McDaniel wins PCAA 1- and 3-meter events and qualifies for NCAA finals. Softball upsets top-ranked UCLA in its first season. Basketball gets its first 20-win season under first-year coach Bill Nepfel, with Lynette Liu and Kim Everett becoming the first Wahine to score more than 1,000 points. Track is dropped. Volleyball goes 33-11 after losing five starters, and is upset in NCAA first round. Freshmen Tita Ahuna, Mahina Eleneki and Suzanne Eagye start. Swimmer Andrea Hawcridge wins Bonham Award.
1985-86
Golf is ranked No. 32 in the country and Bobbi Kokx — a future UH golf coach — becomes first Wahine to win an intercollegiate tournament. Swimming and diving wins its first PCAA title, clinching it when Leilani DeJesus, Cay Andres, Sandra Budd and Lisa Miller win final event in UH-record time. Susan McDaniel defends her conference diving titles — and finishes 21st in NCAA — and freshmen Karen Bellio and Kristin Kindig take second and third. In his 12th year, Al Minn is named PCAA Coach of the Year. Klum Gym plays host to its first volleyball postseason. Reserve volleyball player Sue Hlavenka wins Bonham Award.
1986-87
Basketball finishes second in PCAA, giving Long Beach State its first conference defeat. Bill Nepfel is PCAA Coach of the Year and Judy Mosley Freshman of the Year as Wahine go a program-best 21-7. Softball (33-16) wins more games than its first two years combined. Suzanne Eagye is first-team volleyball All-American. Teammate Tita Ahuna earns second-team honors a second year. Susan McDaniel wins a third 3-meter conference championship and captures Bonham Award and PCAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. Teammate Kristy Kirdy is victorious in 1-meter. Beth McLachlin inducted into UH Hall of Honor.
1987-88
Volleyball wins fourth national championship. Suzanne Eagye is PCAA Player of the Year, Broderick Award winner and All-American, with teammates Teee Williams and Diana Jessie. Williams is national Player of the Year in her first collegiate season, and Tita Ahuna captures Bonham Award. Dave Shoji is Southwest Region Coach of the Year. Lisa Miller is All-American swimmer after finishing sixth nationally in the 100 breaststroke. Basketball is televised for first time. Jeff Thompson is first full-time basketball assistant, under head coach Vince Goo. Softball earns first national ranking, is televised for first time and loses eight four-year pioneers. Blythe Sakashita becomes first to earn all-conference and all-region honors.
1988-89
With four first-year starters, volleyball loses to Texas in NCAA Championship final. Teee Williams is co-Player of the Year in Big West and first-team All-American. Anna Vorwerk and Martina Cincerova are second-team All-Americans. Dave Shoji is Big West and Northwest Region Coach of the Year. Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic starts. Kristy Kindig wins her second 3-meter diving title in Big West, Karen Bellio captures 1-meter and Sandra Budd is Bonham winner. Sophomore Mina Hall earns all-conference tennis honors. Basketball earns first NCAA Championship berth, Judy Mosley its inaugural first-team all-conference selection and Vince Goo is conference Coach of the Year. As a junior, Mosley sets career records for points and rebounds. Dr. Donnis Thompson inducted into Hall of Honor. Cindy Boerner Mazda leaves to take a position with the Atlantic-10 Conference and Marilyn Moniz-Kaho'ohanohano becomes third Assistant Athletic Director for Women's Sports.
1989-90
Volleyball wins third consecutive Big West championship, and Teee Williams-Sanders shares national Player of the Year honors, becomes a three-time All-American and is invited to join national team. Karrie Trieschman is also All-American. Basketball is ranked as high as 12th, beats Montana — before 8,407 in Missoula — for its first NCAA Tournament victory, then loses to eventual national champion Stanford. Judy Mosley becomes program's first All-American, school's career scoring and rebounding leader (male or female), is named Big West co-Player of the Year and wins Jack Bonham Award. Softball hires school's first full-time female coach — Rayla Allison. Swimmer Tara Eaves and diver Heather Hasslinger win conference championships. Deitre Collins inducted into Hall of Honor.
