[1] Awards[2] Most Valuable Male Player: Ed Skorek (El Paso-Juarez Sol) Most Valuable Female Player: Rosie Wegrich (San Diego Breakers) Coach of the Year: Dodge Parker (Orange County Stars) All-IVA First Team[2] Ed Skorek (El Paso-Juarez Sol) Rosie Wegrich (San Diego Breakers) Jon Stanley (Denver Comets) Stan Gosciniak (Phoenix Heat) Hilary Johnson (Orange County Stars) Jon Roberts (Orange County Stars) All-IVA Second Team[2] Jose Garcia (Santa Barbara Spikers) Linda Fernandez (Santa Barbara Spikers) Bebeto DeFreitas (Santa Barbara Spikers) Larry Benecke (Denver Comets) Scott English (Phoenix Heat) Dodge Parker (Orange County Stars) Mercedes Gonzalez (Tucson Sky) Regular Season The final standings for the season are incomplete.
The latest published standings for the league that list the win–loss records for every team read as follows:[3] Continental Division West Division Before the playoffs began, the league announced that the Tucson Sky had forfeited their August 19 match against the San Diego Breakers, which had not been played due to the Sky's flight being delayed.
[4] The Santa Barbara Spikers and Orange County Stars finished the season with the records shown in the table above.
With the series tied 1-1, the teams then played a tiebreaker, which Santa Barbara won 12-6 to advance to the finals.
[12] The players for Santa Barbara were Reede Reynolds (USA), Luis Eymard (Brazil), Jose Luis Garcia (Mexico), Bebeto de Freitas (Brazil), Larry Milliken, Sue Herrington, Rosie Wegrich and Peter Stefaniuk (Canada).
[1] Rosie Wegrich of the Santa Barbara Spikers played in her thirty-third playoff match, setting the new league record.
[1] Awards[13] Most Valuable Male Player: Bebeto DeFreitas (Santa Barbara Spikers) Most Valuable Female Player: Rosie Wegrich (Santa Barbara Spikers) Coach of the Year: Byron Shewman (Tucson Sky) All-IVA First Team[13] Luiz Eymard (Santa Barbara Spikers) Bebeto DeFreitas (Santa Barbara Spikers) Rosie Wegrich (Santa Barbara Spikers) Garth Pischke (El Paso-Juarez Sol) Scott English (Tucson Sky) Irma Cordero (Tucson Sky) All-IVA Second Team[13] Ed Skorek (Seattle Smashers) Linda Fernandez (Seattle Smashers) Jon Stanley (Denver Comets) Jon Robert (Orange County Stars) Dodge Parker (Orange County Stars) Hilary Johnson (San Diego Breakers) Regular Season The league remained divided into two divisions.
[14] On June 12, William Levy, the owner of the Santa Barbara Spikers, sold the team to Don Moger.
The league refused to approve the sale, believing that Moger planned to move the Spikers to Los Angeles during the season instead of waiting until 1981.
[14][15] Next, the partnership that owned the Albuquerque Lasers announced on June 16 that it did not have enough money to continue running the franchise.
[14] Jim Matison and Don Sammis, who owned the Tucson Sky and Salt Lake Stingers, respectively, attempted to come to an agreement to purchase the league and keep it running.