Entering the 1984 season little was expected of the Fresno State volleyball squad. The program had finished the previous season with a 12-12 record. Prognosticators pegged the Bulldogs for a fifth-place finish in the NorPac Conference.

Leilani Overstreet did not agree with the naysayers. The Fresno State head coach gave her players homemade buttons that read, “Make Our Mark.” That is exactly what the Bulldogs did.

Early in the season, the Bulldogs made believers of their opponents by reeling off six straight wins. In late October the team earned the first national ranking in the program’s history at number 19. Two weeks later they blitzed the 7^th-ranked team in the country, San Jose State, for their 23^rd win of the season, a new school record. The win pushed Fresno State into first place in the NorPac.

The team finished the regular season 24-12. They ranked 19^th in the nation and for the first time in school history advanced to the NCAA regionals.

In the semi-finals of the Northwest Regional Fresno State produced a thrilling five-set win over the third-ranked team in the nation, Cal Poly. It was a result the San Luis Obispo Tribune called one of the biggest upsets in the history of the NCAA tournament. The following night the Bulldogs were eliminated from the postseason by San Jose State.

In all the 1984 Bulldogs established twenty-seven new school records. Ruth Lawanson was named a first-team All-American. Overstreet was chosen National Coach of the Year. Upon conclusion of their remarkable season, Overstreet and her players turned their buttons upside down so it appropriately read “Wow.”