Utah women’s volleyball coach Beth Launiere stood on the sideline of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena, losing her voice as she strained to be heard amid a noisy crowd. She kept from overreacting in a match that appeared headed toward a sweep for the hometown Ducks.
“I knew we'd get it turned around,” she said the next day, “and sure enough ...”
The Utes ended losing to Oregon in five sets, though. So that snapshot is somewhat unfair as a summary of her career, among nearly 1,000 matches — especially when that remains No. 18 Utah’s only Pac-12 defeat this season.