By Terrisa Mark, Assistant Sports Information Director
HUNTSVILLE, Ala – Alabama A&M women’s volleyball head coach Rose Magers-Powell has been nominated for the International Volleyball Hall of Fame and fans can now vote on the 2022 ballot through Sunday, April 17.
The IVHOF has named 14 nominees, including Magers-Powell, and the public’s vote will narrow that to the top six.
“These nominees represent some of the biggest names in volleyball from the past two decades and beyond,” said George Mulry, executive director of the committee.
Magers-Powell just completed her eighth season leading the Bulldogs and is a current member of the Huntsville-Madison County Athletics Hall of Fame. She is an Olympic Silver medalist with an extensive international playing career as well as 25 years as a collegiate head coach and is a University of Houston Hall of Fame honoree.
Her impressive coaching skills have resulted in a 473-424 record including consecutive 20-win seasons in 2018 and 2019. She would lead the team to a 23-16 overall record and 17-1 mark in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) before going 20-15 in 2019 and 15-4 in the league the next season.
Those performances resulted in consecutive SWAC Regular Season Championships for the first time since the end of the 2000’s and a berth in the league title match. The 2018 title represented the first regular season championship since the 2009 campaign.
Mager-Powell has more than a decade of experience playing and coaching on an international level, highlighted by her time as a member of Team USA Volleyball from 1982-84.
During those years she won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. That is an accomplishment which is still tied for the highest ever won by Team USA during the Olympics.
Following her time playing for her country, Magers-Powell played and coached in Japan with NEC Professional Volleyball from 1984-90, earning three Most Valuable Player awards in the process.
She also helped the USA win gold medals at the Pan American Games and NORCECA Games, with a silver medal at the Super Three Tournament (China, Japan, USA) and a bronze medal at the World Championships.
The new class of inductees will be announced in May and the 2022 induction celebration is scheduled for Saturday, October 22 and will be live streamed for anyone that cannot travel to Holyoke, Massachusetts for the festivities.
