Gainesville awarded volleyball tournament in 2011

Posted Jan 26, 2010 by TBO.com

Updated Jan 26, 2010 at 05:38 PM

The NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee has announced that the University of Florida will host the 2011 Southeast regional Women’s Volleyball Championships at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville.

The other sites for the regional tournaments will include: The Sports Pavilion at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.; Honolulu/Stan Sherriff Center at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu; and The Memorial Coliseum at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.

All competition will take place December 9-10, 2011.

“The committee is excited to offer these opportunities to the institutions that bid on the regional championships,” said Terry Gawlik, the chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee and the associate athletics director at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It’s great to see institutions not only willing and able to host, but also providing an avenue to expose and grow the volleyball championship across the country.”

The University of Texas will host the championship at the Alamodome in San Antonio in 2011.