Kim Exner, who played volleyball at Eastern Washington from 1995-98, led the Eagles to an amazing 46-12 record in her final two seasons while in Cheney. Exner and the Eagles were Big Sky co-regular season champions in 1997 and earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament in 1998. Exner finished her four-year career at EWU with a Big Sky Conference record 1,860 kills (4.43 a game), and had 4,331 total attempts, 643 errors and a .281 hitting percentage. Among the seven school records she broke was the single-season kills mark with 561 in 1998. She won the Big Sky Conference Player of the Week award five times during her senior season, while becoming the first player in conference history to win the AVCA National Player of the Week Award on Sept. 14, 1998. 
 
A unanimous selection for 1998 Big Sky Conference MVP and first team All-Big Sky honors, she was also the 1997 Big Sky Conference co-MVP and was a three-time first team All-Big Sky selection. Exner was also named the Inland Northwest Amateur Athlete of the Year as selected by the Spokane Sportswriters and Broadcasters in 1998. The native of Vernon, B.C., went on to serve as an assistant coach in EWU’s volleyball program, play professionally for three years in Europe and play for the Canadian National Team two years.
 
Exner, who currently resides in Missoula, Montana, was ranked 12th on the Big Sky Conference's list of "25 Greatest Female Athletes of All-Time back in 2014, while being inducted into Eastern Washington’s Hall of Fame in 2007.