Real Orange Heroes: Syracuse Volleyball Coach Jing Pu

by Sean Keeley on Oct 12, 2011 9:30 AM EDT in Real Orange Heroes

You can't talk about Syracuse Orange volleyball without talking about Jing Pu.

Syracuse's head coach since 1995, Pu is the two-time Big East Coach of the Year (‘96, ‘04), has over 400 career victories, has coached two All-Americans and has fifteen winning seasons in sixteen years.

via www.suathletics.com

This past Friday, the volleyball squad topped Villanova (25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 28-26) as Pu earned his 100th-career Big East victory.

Andrea Fisher, Sam Hinz, Noemie Lefebvre and Nicolette Serratore each had at least 10 kills, while Lefebvre, Laura Homann, Julia Mindlina and Ashley Williams had double-digit digs.

His overall record heading into this season was 465-257 and his SU record was 326-207. With a 13-6 season so far, those numbers just continue to climb. I credit his stretching techniques.

DOC Gross gets all the credit for making Syracuse into New York's College Team. Coach Pu actually puts that into practice:

"Jing has this thing where we need to beat all the New York state teams, so he sort of pushes us to make sure we beat them," middle blocker Sam Hinz said.

In the midst of a four-match wining streak, the Orange host Georgetown this Sunday at the Women’s Building at 2 p.m. Be there.

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I just hope nobody takes away our Pu. He’s an Orange Pu and always should be.

Dictated, but not read.

by ezcuse on Oct 12, 2011 9:48 AM EDT reply actions

Ummm...

It took him 12 years to win 100 BE games?

The only thing I know about collegiate women’s volleyball is the shorts they wear, but that sure doesn’t sound like very many wins to me.

by zibby on Oct 12, 2011 10:23 AM EDT reply actions

Well

It took G-Rob 4 years to win 3 BE games.

Dictated, but not read.

by ezcuse on Oct 12, 2011 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions

The girls I knew on the team

really liked this guy as a coach. He has some good experience. Not the most emotional guy, but his assistants take care of that end of things.

May Doug Marrone bless you and keep you.

by ryanwk628 on Oct 12, 2011 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

He's straight stoic at the games

Just writes notes and watches the game, doesn’t say much. It’s really funny, just watching him take everything in so quietly.

by Dan Lyons on Oct 12, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Attending volleyball games is fun! As is field hockey. It’s actually more fun if you get in trouble for cheering. And women’s ice hockey. And Soccer (although the mens team isn’t that in to winning). And even women’s lacrosse even if you do spend the whole game wanting them to just effing hit each other. Women’s basketball is the MOST fun if you sit right behind the opposing team bench. If you haven’t been to a non-revenue sporting event at SU, grab some loud friends and go forth and heckle! Seriously.

/non-revenue sports pitch.

'Cuse 2010, Michigan 2012

by Orange22 on Oct 12, 2011 6:53 PM EDT reply actions

haha, I used to do that at my high school girls' basketball games

I’ve had ushers come up and warn me on more than one occasion. But I never heckled the opposing team, just the officials (when they deserved it, which was more of the time, because let’s face it, you don’t exactly get top notch officials for middle-of-nowhere HS girls basketball games).

Shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip

by MrPlow99 on Oct 13, 2011 8:31 AM EDT up reply actions

We like to heckle the opposing team AND the officials. We are equal opportunity hecklers. Turns out officials don’t like it when you ask them how much they have on the game.

'Cuse 2010, Michigan 2012

by Orange22 on Oct 13, 2011 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions