Three men with Santa Barbara ties are being honored for their accomplishments in the sport of volleyball
Rick Olmstead, Jim McLaughlin and Don Shaw have been selected as members of the 2022 induction class of the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Olmstead famously coached Karch Kiraly at Santa Barbara High and led the boys team to a CIF-Southern Section championship in 1978. Five years later, he guided the SBCC men’s volleyball team to the California Community College state title.
The long-time Carpinteria resident remains active in the game as an official. He continues to call indoor matches at the collegiate level and officiates beach matches and tournaments.
Olmstead is a member of the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Hall of Fame.
McLaughlin and Shaw are UCSB alums and American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductees.
McLaughlin is the only coach in NCAA history to guide a men’s and women’s team to Division 1 volleyball national championships. He took the USC men to a title in 1990 and guided the Washington women to the 2005 championship.
McLaughlin was the starting setter for coach Ken Preston’s Gauchos in 1982-83 and earned honorable mention All-American honors as a senior. He got his start in coaching as a student assistant for the UCSB men’s and women’s teams
He moved on to Pepperdine, where he served as an assistant with the men’s team for five years (1985-89), helping the 1986 team win the NCAA title.
In his first year as a head coach, McLaughlin guided USC to the NCAA title in 1990. The Trojans were runners-up the following year.
He switched to coaching in the women’s game in 1996, starting as an assistant at Notre Dame. He was head coach at Kansas State for four years before spending the next 13 years at Washington, winning the NCAA title in 2005.
He coached three seasons at Notre Dame (2015-2017) before stepping down.
Jim McLauglin’s brother, Rick, is the coach of the UCSB men’s volleyball team.
Shaw coached the Stanford women’s program for 16 years and won four NCAA championships (1992, ’94, ’96, ’97) and made the title match eight times. His overall career winning percentage of .863 (440-70) still ranks as the best in NCAA history.
He started his coaching career at UCSB, serving as an assistant in 1976. He was hired as an assistant for the men’s and women’s teams at Stanford in 1980 and became the head women’s coach in 1986. He stepped down in 1999 and took over the men’s program from 2002-2006.
Joining Olmstead, McLaughlin and Shaw in the 2022 SCIVBHOF Class are DaeLea Aldrich, who guided Mira Costa High’s girls volleyball program to eight CIF-Southern Section titles, three state championships and two mythical national titles in 10 seasons; Olympic gold medalist and former Long Beach State All-American middle blocker David Lee, and former UCLA All-American and Olympic medalist Elaine Youngs. Alice Chambers Sanchez, who played and worked in the sport for almost 60 years, was the Lifetime Service selection.