Brooke Stanley - MIT
Brooke Stanley begins her first season on head coach Paul Dill's staff during the 2024 season. In addition to coaching, her primary responsibilities will include recruiting and opponent scouting.
Stanley comes to Cambridge following an historical season during her first year as an assistant coach at the University of Mary Washington. During the 2023 campaign, she helped guide the Eagles to the program's best start (12-0), best overall record (27-3), and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. In addition, Stanley received Coast-to-Coast (C2C) Coaching Staff of the Year accolades. She also coached for multiple clubs and high schools in the Northern Virginia area, including Virginia Volleyball Academy and 540 Volleyball Academy, where she achieved numerous accolades as a head coach.
Stanley was a member of the volleyball teams at Winthrop University and Christopher Newport University, where she contributed to a Capital Athletic Conference (currently the C2C) championship in 2017. She went on to graduate from George Mason University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in tourism and events management and is currently pursuing a master's degree in sports management with a concentration in high-performance coaching from the University of Florida.
Ryan Young - Missouri - St. Louis
COACHING EXPERIENCE
Enters 15th season with the Tritons program, including 14th as head coach in 2024 after serving as an assistant coach for one year.
In 13 seasons at the helm of the program, he is 264-132 (.667).
Prior to his appointment at UMSL, served as a club coach for St. Louis High Performance, where in each of his six seasons as a head coach, he directed his teams to qualify for the Open Division in Junior Olympics. Young also coached his teams to top 10 finishes in the Open Division in 2007 and 2008.
Other coaching experience includes two years as an assistant at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and as an assistant at CBC High School.
COACHING HONORS
2019 GLVC Coach of the Year
2022 GLVC and AVCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year
2023 GLVC and AVCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year
Chuck Waddington - Angelo State
4x LSC Coach of the Year (2012, 2016, 2019, 2021)
Career Record (as of November 25th, 2024): 406-139 (.745 winning percentage)
Record inside the Junell Center/Stephens Arena (as of November 25th, 2024): 197-34 (.853 winning percentage)
Chuck Waddington and the Angelo State Belles have put the volleyball nation on notice.
Waddington, who will begin his 17th season as head coach in 2024, has guided the Belles to 12 NCAA South Central Regional Tournaments, including ten in a row from 2011-2021, and a historic run to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2016. In that time, the Belles have won four regular-season LSC Titles and five LSC Tournament Championships. He’s been named the LSC Coach of the Year four times and has helped 21 players earn AVCA All-American status. He also guided Meghan Parker to the program's first AVCA National Freshman of the Year award. He owns a career 406-139 record as head coach of the Belles, good enough for a .745 winning percentage.
He has accumulated 406 overall wins, 224 Lone Star Conference victories, 17-straight LSC Tournament appearances, and multiple All-Conference and All-Region performers. “I think we are progressing in the direction to be a national contender every year,” said Waddington, who is ASU’s fifth head coach since the program was started in 1976. “We are a program approaching the level where we will be competing for national championships year in and year out. We want to start moving up the national ladder and become a consistent program always in the top-10 and competing for that top spot.”
Austin Albers - Colorado Mesa
Austin Albers is in his first year as Colorado Mesa University's Head Volleyball Coach after being hired for the position on Feb. 14, 2025.
"I am honored to be the next head coach of Colorado Mesa Volleyball. This program has a rich tradition of success, and I am excited to build upon that legacy." Albers said. "My family and I are thrilled to join the Grand Junction community, and I look forward to working with our student-athletes to continue the tradition of excellence both on and off the court. I want to thank the hiring committee, Director of Athletics Joan McDermott, and President Marshall for their trust in me to lead this program."
Albers becomes just the fifth coach in the program's history and the third coach for the program in the past 42 years. He inherits a program that has made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances and that has won 90 matches during that time span.
Albers comes to Colorado Mesa after spending the past six seasons at Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference foe CSU Pueblo. He had a 93-61 (.604) overall record with the Pack and his team made the NCAA National Tournament in 2021 and 2022. He inherited a team that won five matches in 2018 and took them to a nine-win improvement (14-14) and a trip to the RMAC Tournament in his first season. All six of his CSU Pueblo teams qualified for the RMAC Tournament.
His teams also found success in the classroom as his program was awarded with the RMAC Brechler Award in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons. The Brechler Award is given to the program with the highest team GPA in the conference.
Prior to his time with CSU Pueblo, he was the head coach of Laramie County Community College where he had a 145-57 career record and left as the program's all-time win percentage leader (.718). He received the AVCA 30 under 30 award along with NJCAA Region IX Coach of the Year and NJCAA DI District C Coach of the Year honors.
Albers is no stranger to collegiate athletics as his father, Jhett, is a former Director of Athletics at Black Hills State and was the head volleyball coach at BHSU for 11 seasons.
He graduated with honors from Black Hills State University in May of 2012 with a bachelor's degree in exercise science management and a minor in athletic coaching. He played collegiate soccer for Western Nebraska Community College before transferring to BHSU.
Austin is married to his wife Maggie and has two children, Emmitt and Ellison.
