DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Vol. LXVII, Issue 20
www.daily49er.com
Monday, September 28, 2015
Mr. 800 LBSU women’s volleyball coach Brian Gimmillaro joined elite company over the weekend. By Natasha Viti
Contributing Writer
Photo by Bobby Yagake
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he Long Beach State women’s volleyball team won its matches this weekend against UC Davis and UC Irvine, giving head coach Brian Gimmillaro his 800th and 801st career wins at LBSU. “If you stick around long enough you’ll get 800,” Gimmillaro said. “We’ve won 80 percent of our matches and maintaining it for 31 years is the hard part. That’s what I’m most proud News 2
of. But I’m certainly lucky enough to be surrounded by the right people.” Gimmillaro said the special part about his accomplishment is that it was all done as a 49er. “Some of the other people [on the list of 800 wins] didn’t do it at the same school,” Gimmillaro said. “You can be successful and celebrated as a coach without having to leave Long Beach. [Plus] it didn’t have the reputation athletically that some of the football
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schools do, so I’m very proud of that.” Gimmillaro holds the record for most wins by a head coach in LBSU history. He joined the elite group of coaches who hold 800 or more wins on Friday night after beating UC Davis 3-0, but he treated it as just another game. Against the Aggies (5-11, 0-2), LBSU
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