They compete in the Big Ten Conference and play their home games at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, which was built in 1927 and renovated in 2000.

Behind the leadership of its first ever AVCA 1st Team All-American Laurie Wetzel (Puyallup, WA), the lady Huskies finished tied for fifth having beaten Stanford though coming up short against the UCLA Bruins.

In these experimental years, Neville's swing hitters' offense was fashioned after the contemporaneous international men's game.

[2] In 2004, the Huskies won their first-ever Pac-10 title, and McLaughlin earned his first AVCA National Coach of the Year honor.

In his fifth year at UW in 2005, he led the program to its only national title and a 32–1 (.970) record as Washington swept all six of their matches in the tournament,[3] including top-ranked Nebraska in the final at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

A young Coach Keegan's tenure has begun with the awarding of several All-Americans moreover, significantly, in Kara Bajema (c/o 2019), Lianna Sybeldon (consensus) and Courtney Schwan (uniquely, of the PNW).