Liz Masakayan
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| Full name | Elizabeth Lee Masakayan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Liz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino / American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 31, 1964 Quezon City, Philippines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College / University | UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 3 (national team) 21 (UCLA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Liz Masakayan (born December 31, 1964, in Quezon City, Philippines)[1] is a former indoor and beach volleyball player, and is currently a coach. She participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics with the United States women's national volleyball team, and as a beach volleyball player won a total of 47 tournaments in her career.[2][3]
Early life
Volleyball was the last organized sport Masakayan tried out for in her first year (10th grade) at Santa Monica High School (a three-year school back in the 1980s).[4] Her first year was spent on the junior varsity squad, and the last two on the varsity counterpart, where the team won the California state championship in 1981.[5]
Masakayan played Little League baseball when she was ten, the first year it allowed girls to play due to Title IX.[1] Most of the time she was the only girl on the team.[1] Masakayan heard a lot of comments over four years from playing on a team full of boys but says, "I learned at an early age that if you just worked hard, had fun, and treated people nicely, that everything would fall into place, like winning".[1] She played soccer for seven years and ran track for four years.[1] Masakayan helped form the first girls' soccer team at Santa Monica High School.[1]
Career
College
After winning the 1984 NCAA Championships at UCLA, where she still holds numerous single season and career records, Masakayan was given the Broderick Award for being the nation's premier collegiate volleyball player.[3][6][7] Masakayan was a two-time AVCA first-team All-American, and was named the 1985–86 UCLA Female Athlete of the Year.[8][3] She has also been inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.[9]
National team
As an indoor player, Masakayan was an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team for five years, and competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in South Korea.[2] She won bronze medals at the 1990 World Championships in Beijing, China, 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, and 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow, Soviet Union.[2][10]
Beach volleyball
The pair of
Masakayan and her partner, Elaine Youngs, narrowly missed qualifying for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Australia.[12] They captured the first tournament of the millennium in February 2000 at Vitoria, Brazil.[3] The pair also won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Marseille, France.[3]
Throughout Masakayan's beach volleyball career, she won 47 tournaments and reached the final four 61 times.[3] In 2001, she was the Santa Barbara champion, and in December captured the bronze medal at the FIVB (Fédération Internationale de Volleyball) season finale in Fortaleza, Brazil, where Masakayan announced her retirement from international competition.[3] She retired from domestic competition after playing four tournaments in 2005.[3]
Coaching
Indoor coaching
As an indoor coach, Masakayan was an assistant coach at UCLA when they won the National Championships in 1991 and runner-up in 1992.
Beach volleyball coaching
Masakayan coached the beach volleyball team of Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh, who were ranked second in the AVP in 2007.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Liz Masakayan Biography". LizMasakayan.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Liz Masakayan". Olympedia. Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Liz Masakayan". Beach Volleyball Database. Archived from the original on June 4, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ Masakayan, Liz (May 23, 2018). "Liz Masakayan Acceptance Speech" (video). YouTube. VolleyMob.
- ^ "UCLA, USC Again Dominate So. Calif. Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame Finalists for May 6, 2018 2nd Induction Class" (PDF). Socalindoorvolleyballhof.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 21, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
- ^ Ripton, Ray (October 10, 1985). "She Used to Say There Was 'More to Life' : But These Days Volleyball Is Playing a Bigger Part for Bruin Star". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 27, 2020. (subscription required)
- ^ "Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Volleyball". Collegiate Women Sports Awards. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- NCAA. Archived(PDF) from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Liz Masakayan: Bouncing Volleyball Courts and Positions". Asiance. November 2007. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ^ So, Jannelle (June 21, 2005). "Fil-Am athlete honored in LA". The Philippine Star. Archived from the original on September 13, 2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ^ Smith, Shelley (July 5, 1993). "Liz Masakayan and Karolyn Kirby". Sports Illustrated. New York City: Time Inc. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
- ^ "Liz Masakayan, 2018". Socalindoorvolleyballhof.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
