Coached by Marilyn Russell (Pomfret), the 1972-73 UBC women's volleyball team was just the second UBC women's team in any sport to claim a national university championship, winning the 1973 Canadian Women's Interuniversity Athletic Union (CWIAU) Volleyball Championship at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia following an undefeated regular season.
The Thunderbirds followed that up with another undefeated regular season the following year (1973-74) and claimed a second consecutive CWIAU Championship before a home-town crowd at War Memorial Gymnasium. Although the era pre-dated selection of conference all-stars and All-Canadians, the team's key players in those two seasons included subsequent national team members Betty Baxter, Sandy Vosburgh and Maureen Fishleigh.
The UBC players who played in at least one of those two years are: Margaret Atkinson, Betty Baxter, Laura Buker, Sandi Burh, Ellen Crute, Lynne Day, Jo-Anne Fenton, Maureen Fishleigh, Patricia Horn, Faye Hudson, Karen Johnson, Carin McBean, Norma McDonald, Susan Murray, Jacquie Pike, Sandy Richardson (manager), Marilyn Russell (coach), Vickey Sahota, Anne Taggart (manager), Janice Van De Putte, Sandi Vosburgh, Sharon Williams and Barbara Wollner.
