Angelica Ljungquist

Angelica Elsa Birgitta Ljungqvist (formerly Angelica Ljungquist, born 20 December 1974) is a Swedish former volleyball player and coach, both at the amateur and professional level. She was also the associate coach for the women's volleyball team at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Early years Ljungqvist was born 20 December 1974, to Ann-Britt and Leif Ljungqvist. She grew up in Vallentuna, Sweden, and graduated from Vallentuna Gymnasium (Stockholm, Sweden) in 1993.

College Ljungqvist came to Hawai'i to play volleyball for the Rainbow Wahines in 1993. She came to play for coach Dave Shoji, who already had national championships in 1979 (AIAW), 1982, 1983, and 1987 (NCAA). She was talented enough to be named to All-American teams as a freshman, but Shoji could always find areas needing improvement. Ljungquist had difficulty getting her left hand over the net, so Shoji asked her how to say "left" in Swedish. She told him the word is "vänster", so after that he would remonstrate "vänster, vänster hand".

She not only made the All-American 2nd Team as a freshman, she made All-American team all four years, the first player from Hawai'i to earn such a distinction. In 1996, she helped lead the team to the title game of the 1996 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament. She was named to the All- Tournament team. She was also named Player of the Year by Volleyball Magazine, and the AVCA in 1996.

National team Ljungqvist played for Swedish National teams, the Swedish Indoor National Team from 1992 to 2006, and the Swedish Beach National Team from 2002 to 2003 and 2007–10.

Professional teams She played professionally on several teams in Europe, as well as Brazil, and Japan.

Ljungqvist was also named the head coach for the university's beach volleyball team in August 2020 after the indoor and beach programs merged in a financial decision stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Ljungqvist departed Hawaii in July 2021, citing family reasons.

Head coaching record