Notre Dame coach honored for 1,400 wins

NDP volleyball coach Betty Wroubel honored by national organization for hitting win milestone.

At the 2017 American Volleyball Coaches Association Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri, last week, longtime Notre Dame volleyball coach Betty Wroubel, right, receives the AVCA 2017 AVCA Victory Club Award from AVCA executive director Kathy DeBoer for getting to 1,400 wins. Wroubel also coaches softball and serves as Notre Dame's athletic director and assistant principal.

Last year, NDP's Betty Wroubel earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association's 2016 Victory Club Award for 1,300 wins. There was little doubt she'd hit the next milestone, 1,400 wins, this season, and she and her Irish volleyball team did not disappoint as Notre Dame helped their head coach hit that mark in early October after defeating Regina High School.

Last week, at the American Volleyball Coaches Association Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri, NDP's Wroubel was formally presented the 2017 AVCA Victory Club Award by AVCA executive director Kathy DeBoer for getting to 1,400 wins.

Now, she's looking at 1,500 likely very soon as the Irish, which steamrolled through the 2017 season to win a Class B state championship — Wroubel's third — and finished the season with a No. 8 national ranking, are well-positioned for a repeat.

Wroubel and her Notre Dame team celebrate the Class B state championship last month in Battle Creek. (Photo by Drew Ellis, Oakland Press)

Just ask Gabi Shilling.

“I think this team can be amazing next year,” said NDP senior Shilling, who was one of the team's major contributors throughout this past season. “You have a lot of key players returning and a lot of good hitters. It really comes down to how hard they work, but they definitely will have the talent to repeat.”

Fingers crossed!

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Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org