2009 NCAA Women's Volleyball Champions Penn State University 2008 NCAA Women's Volleyball Champions Penn State University Penn State three-peats as women's NCAA champions TAMPA, Fla. - The top-ranked Penn State women's volleyball team made history Saturday night becoming the first team to win three consecutive national titles with a 3-2 (22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13) come-from-behind victory against No. 2 Texas (29-2). Head coach Russ Rose has now won 1,001 career matches and Penn State's winning streak extended to 102 straight matches. The last time a team rallied from a 2-0 deficit was in 2008. Stanford came back against Texas in 2008 in the NCAA National Semifinals to advance to the National Championship match. Senior Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) led the Nittany Lions with 21 kills, while both junior Blair Brown (Purcellville, Va.) and freshman Darcy Dorton (Muncie, Ind.) contributed 13 kills each. The Nittany Lions had five players with double-digit digs led by junior libero Alyssa D'Errico (Byron, N.Y.) who posted a career-high 22. Brown made 14 saves, Hodge had 13 and junior Cathy Quilico (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and senior setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) had 12 apiece. Junior Fatima Balza (Merida, Venezuela) had a team-best nine total blocks and Hodge put up five. Glass dished out 53 helpers in the match and both D'Errico and Quilico had two aces each. Hodge, Wilson and Glass were all named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament team. The trio was joined by Minnesota's Haily Cowles and Texas' Ashley Engle and Juliann Faucette. Longhorn Destinee Hooker was named the Most Outstanding Player. The Nittany Lions finished the match with 61 kills on .234 hitting, while Texas had 71 kills with a .251 attack percentage. Penn State posted 57 assists, four aces, 80 digs and 14.0 total team blocks. Texas finished the night with 67 assists, five aces, 81 digs and 12.0 team blocks. Penn State defends NCAA Division I Women's title in 2008 Penn State claimed its second straight NCAA Division I women's volleyball title, ending its perfect season at 38-0 by defeating Stanford 3-0 in Omaha, NE on December 20, 2008. Megan Hodge powered the attack, spiking 16 kills as the Nittany Lions won by scores of 23-20, 26-24 and 25-23. The victory stretched Penn State's NCAA-record winning streak to 64 consecutive matches that extends back to September, 2007 when Stanford inflicted the last setback.