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{{short description|American volleyball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox volleyball biography
| image          = 
| caption        = 
| name           = Tonya Slacanin
| fullname       = Tonya Denise Williams (-Slacanin)
| nickname       = Teee
| birth_name     = Tonya Denise Williams
| birth_date     = {{birth-date and age|March 28, 1968}}
| birth_place    = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| height         = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}
| weight         = 
| college        = University of Hawaii
| spike          = {{convert|328|cm|in|abbr=on|order=flip}}
| block          = {{convert|304|cm|in|abbr=on|order=flip}}
| nationalyears  = 1990–1996
| nationalteam   = {{vbw|USA}}
| position       = Outside Hitter
| teamnumber     = 1
| medaltemplates-title = Medal record
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's [[volleyball]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
[[File:Olympic rings.svg|center|80px]]
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]]| [[Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Indoor]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|World Championship]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1990 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|1990 China]]|[[1990 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship squads|Indoor]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIVB World Grand Prix]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1995 FIVB World Grand Prix|1995 Shanghai]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1995 Pan American Games|1995 Mar del Plata]] | [[Volleyball at the 1995 Pan American Games|Indoor]]}}
}}

'''Tonya Slacanin'''<ref name="Slacanin">{{cite web |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Jul/29/sp/hawaii907290356.html |title='Teee' time remarkable one for UH volleyball |website=[[The Honolulu Advertiser]] |last=Miller |first=Ann |date=July 29, 2009 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502013336/https://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Jul/29/sp/hawaii907290356.html |archive-date=May 2, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> (born March 28, 1968), formerly known as '''"Teee" Williams''' or '''"Teee" Sanders''', is a retired female [[volleyball]] player from the [[United States]]. She won a bronze medal with the [[United States women's national volleyball team|USA National Team]] at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in Barcelona.<ref name="Olympedia" /> She also competed at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in Atlanta, finishing in seventh place.<ref name="Olympedia" />

Among her achievements, Slacanin helped the national team win a silver medal at the [[1995 Pan American Games]] in Mar del Plata.<ref name="Olympedia" />

==College==

Slacanin played college women's volleyball with the [[Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball]] team.<ref name="Olympedia" /> She helped Hawaii to the national title in 1987.<ref name="Honolulu" /> She was a three-time AVCA first-team All-American, and the 1987 and 1989 National Player of the Year.<ref name="AA">{{Cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_volleyball_RB/2015/2015awards.pdf |website=[[NCAA]] |title=Women's Volleyball All-America Teams and Award Winners |access-date=September 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705195523/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_volleyball_RB/2015/2015awards.pdf |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref> She also set the record for most attacks in a match with 99 against [[California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo|Cal Poly]] on December 8, 1989.<ref>{{Cite tweet |website=[[Twitter]] |title=On this day in 1989, Teee Williams-Sanders tallied the most total attacks in a match in tournament history with 99 against Cal Poly. |url=https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1600866265899245568 |number=1600866265899245568 |user=NCAAVolleyball |date=December 8, 2022 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904203504/https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1600866265899245568  |archive-date=September 4, 2023  |url-status=live }}</ref> In the same season, Slacanin set a school record with 44 kills in a match against [[University of California, Santa Barbara|UC Santa Barbara]].<ref name="SI">{{Cite magazine |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1990/01/15/faces-in-the-crowd |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |publisher=Time |location=New York City |title=Faces in the Crowd |date=January 15, 1990 |access-date=September 29, 2024 }}</ref>

In 1998, Slacanin was inducted into the University of Hawaii Sports Circle of Honor.<ref name="Circle">{{Cite web |url=https://hawaiiathletics.com/honors/hall-of-fame/teee-williams/94 |website=University of Hawai'i at Manoa Athletics |title=Teee Williams |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222205230/https://hawaiiathletics.com/honors/hall-of-fame/teee-williams/94 |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==International==

Slacanin played for Orion Sesto San Giovanni Milano in the Italian championship in 1992–93, and then for PVF Parmalat Matera from 1996 to 1998.<ref name="Volleybox" /> She won the European "CEV-Cup" in 1994 with the German team USC Münster.<ref name="Volleybox" /> She also won as the national Championship and Cup title in Germany in 2004 with USC Münster.<ref name="Volleybox">{{Cite web |website=Volleybox.net |url=https://women.volleybox.net/tonya-slacanin-sanders-p17930/indoor_tournaments |title=Tonya Slacanin-Sanders (Teee) |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904210048/https://women.volleybox.net/tonya-slacanin-sanders-p17930/indoor_tournaments |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Beach volleyball==

Slacanin won a German [[beach volleyball]] tournament in 2003, partnering with [[Ines Pianka]].<ref name="Olympedia">{{Cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53265 |title=Teee Sanders-Williams |website=Olympedia |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130122155/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53265 |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==

While playing collegiately at the [[University of Hawaii]], Slacanin married an Army soldier by the last name Sanders, and her name became Teee Williams-Sanders.<ref name="Honolulu" /> The marriage ended in divorce with Slacanin taking back her maiden name of Williams.<ref name="Honolulu">{{Cite news |url=https://archives.starbulletin.com/1996/07/12/sports/story1.html |last=Luis |first=Cindy |newspaper=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date=July 12, 1996 |title=Williams is sky high for Games |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904204649/https://archives.starbulletin.com/1996/07/12/sports/story1.html |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> She has since remarried, and is currently Tonya Slacanin.<ref name="Slacanin" />

==International competitions==
*1990 &ndash; Goodwill Games
*1990 &ndash; World Championships (bronze)
*1991 &ndash; World Cup
*1992 &ndash; Summer Olympics (bronze)
*1992 &ndash; FIVB Super Four (bronze)
*1993 &ndash; FIVB Grand Champions Cup
*1994 &ndash; World Grand Prix
*1994 &ndash; [[1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship|World Championship]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - United States |url=http://todor66.com/volleyball/World/Women_1994.html |last=Krastev |first=Todor |website=Todor66.com |access-date=November 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627000816/http://todor66.com/volleyball/World/Women_1994.html |archive-date=June 27, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1995 &ndash; Pan American Games (silver)
*1995 &ndash; Canada Cup (gold)
*1995 &ndash; World Grand Prix (gold)

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* {{Olympics.com profile|tonya-williams|Tonya Williams}}
* [https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53265 Olympedia profile: Teee Sanders-Williams]
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/vball/women/tee.htm Teee Williams] at ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* [https://socalindoorvolleyballhof.com/tonya-teee-williams-slacanin/ Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame]
* [https://hawaiiathletics.com/honors/hall-of-fame/teee-williams/94 University of Hawaii Sports Circle of Honor]
* {{Beach Volleyball Database|1408|Tonya Williams}}'
* [https://women.volleybox.net/tonya-slacanin-sanders-p17930 Volleybox.net profile]
* {{Sports-Reference|sa/teee-sanders-williams-1|Tonya Denise "Teee" Sanders-Williams}}
* {{databaseOlympics|SANDETEE01}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006083919/http://www.olympic-usa.org/13220.htm |date=October 6, 2007 |title=US Olympic Team}}

{{United States women's volleyball squad 1992 Summer Olympics}}
{{Footer USA Volleyball 1996 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball players]]
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[[Category:African-American volleyball players]]
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