Former Aztec All-American Angela Rock Named to 2027 SCIVBHOF Induction Class
SAN DIEGO – Former San Diego State volleyball star and U.S. Olympian Angela Rock has been selected for induction into the 11th class of the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Joining Rock as 2027 enshrinees are Kevin Barnett, Carolyn Becker Morel, Dain Blanton, Lois Haraughty, Jenny Johnson Jordan, John Kosty, Paul Nihipalim, Dave Rubio, Walter Schiller and John Lee (Lifetime Service).
A four-year standout with the Aztecs as an outside hitter from 1981-84, Rock earned first-team AVCA All-America honors as a senior in 1984 after setting a single-season program record with 752 kills. Along with team MVP plaudits, she also garnered first-team all-Western Collegiate Athletic Association accolades that season before receiving NCAA Regional all-tournament distinction.
In addition, Rock played on SDSU’s two NCAA Final Four teams during her freshman and sophomore campaigns in 1981 and 1982. She ranks sixth in program history with 174 career service aces and is slotted seventh on the Aztecs’ all-time charts with 1,455 kills and 3,260 attacks.
Following her illustrious collegiate career, Rock joined the U.S. national volleyball team, collecting MVP honors in 1985 before appearing in the Goodwill Games, Pan American Games and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.
One of the most successful players in beach volleyball history, Rock won 27 events from 1987-2000 while playing on both the Women’s Professional Volleyball Association (WPVA) and Federation de International Volleyball (FIVB) tours. She was named the WPVA Tour's Best Hitter in 1991 after winning 12 titles.
Rock was inducted into the SDSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Rock currently serves as associate head coach of the Cal Poly beach volleyball team after joining the Mustang program as an assistant coach prior to the 2024 campaign.
Rock has also spent time as a head coach and an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I, Division II and community college level, including stops at Alaska Fairbanks, Cuyamaca College, UC Santa Barbara, Florida State, Southwestern College, Saint Mary’s and Stanford.
Rock received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Diego State, before earning a master’s in educational/instructional technology from National University and a master’s in physical education from Azusa Pacific.
A graduate of El Toro (Calif.) High School, Rock is one of 11 Aztec players or coaches to be enshrined into the SCIVBHOF, joining Laurel Brassey Iversen, Deitre Collins-Parker, John Hyden, Chris Marlowe, Duncan McFarland, Liane Sato, Rudy Suwara and the late Jack Henn. Current SDSU women's volleyball coaches Brent Hilliard and Steve Timmons have also been inducted into the SCIVBHOF.
The Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame was founded in the summer of 2016 to publicize, promote, market and recognize the great accomplishments in the sport of indoor volleyball by players, coaches and administrators/officials who have ties to the area from San Diego to Santa Barbara.
Originally built at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, California, the SCIVBHOF was moved to the Forza1 Performance Center in Temecula-Winchester in January 2021.
For more information on the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame, please visit: https://socalindoorvolleyballhof.com/