MINNEAPOLIS -- Washington State Volleyball Associate Head Coach Burdette Greeny was named the Division I American Volleyball Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year, as was announced by the AVCA Thursday.  
 
Greeny, who is in his eighth season with the Cougar Volleyball program, has been incredibly influential in the success of Washington State alongside head coach, and wife Jen Greeny. WSU is coming off three straight consecutive trips to the NCAA Championship Tournament Second Round, and most recently advanced into the Sweet Sixteen in 2018 after the Cougars defeated reigning Big Sky Champion Northern Arizona in round one, and then Tennessee in the round two. WSU earned a No. 16 overall seed in the tournament this past season as well, insuring that the Cougars would host the opening two rounds of action inside Bohler Gym for the first time since 1997.
 
Burdette has helped lead the recruiting process for Washington State, as the Cougars have been only one of 15 programs in the nation to have two Top 25, and one Honorable Mention recruiting class between 2013, and 2015. The 2013 and 2015 recruiting classes are two of the highest-ranked recruiting classes ever in any sport at WSU. Among Greeny's Washington State recruits are six PrepVolleyball.com Top 100 players and two Gatorade State Players of the Year.
 
Washington State certainly saw a great payoff in the 2018 senior class this season, as all six Cougars were instrumental in the success of the program. A senior class which featured defensive and serving specialist in Olivia Coale, and Abby Phillips, to the unstoppable forces of Claire Martin, and Ella Lajos in the middle, and the offensive firepower on the outside of Taylor Mims, and McKenna Woodford. Mims, and Woodford each earned All-Pac-12 Team honors, along with Urias, and junior Ashley Brown receiving All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention picks. WSU saw Taylor, McKenna, and Jocelyn each earn AVCA All-Region selections, and most recently was announced that Mims was named an AVCA Third Team All-American, and Woodford, and Urias each got an All-American Honorable Mention nod. Washington State student-athletes also took care of business off the court as Olivia Coale, Ella Lajos, Claire Martin, Alexis Dirige, Penny Tusa, and Woodford were each named Pac-12 All-Academic selections.  
 
The Cougars will now look towards the spring season of 2019 in preparation for the fall, in which WSU has signed six student-athletes to come into the program and continued to aid in the success of Washington State Volleyball moving forward.