Jenny Glenn - Metro State
Jenny Glenn has taken one of the most successful volleyball programs in Division II history to unprecedented heights during her eight years as the Roadrunners' head coach.
Heading into the 2024 season, she has compiled an overall record of 191-47 (.803 winning percentage), including a staggering mark of 125-9 in regular-season RMAC play for a .933 winning percentage. Over the past four seasons, MSU Denver is 98-15 overall (.867) and 60-2 in the RMAC (.968), following a three-season (2020 through 2022) run in which the Roadrunners were 73-8 overall (.901) and 47-1 in the RMAC (.979). Glenn's overall winning percentage and conference winning percentage are the best in the program's history. MSU Denver has spent nine weeks ranked No. 1 in Division II (four weeks in 2022, five weeks in 2021) by the American Volleyball Coaches' Association, was No. 3 in the final poll in both 2021 and 2022, and finished at No. 4 in 2020. The Roadrunners, No. 7 in the final 2023 poll, have been ranked in the top 10 in 39 consecutive polls, as was as 51 of the last 53, heading into the 2024 season.
In 2023, Glenn led MSU Denver to the South Central Regional final for the third consecutive season, but once again fell victim to West Texas A&M, this time in five sets in Canyon, Texas. It was MSU Denver's 23rd straight NCAA Tournament appearance. The Roadrunners won their third straight RMAC regular-season title by going 13-1 after posting back-to-back unbeaten league seasons. MSU Denver also reached the RMAC Tournament semifinal for the eighth consecutive season. The Roadrunners won their first eight RMAC matches to extend their streak of regular-season league wins to a conference-record 48 before losing 3-1 at CSU Pueblo on Oct. 21 in their eighth match away from home out of nine. For the second straight season, MSU Denver defeated the eventual national champion (Cal State Los Angeles in 2023, West Texas A&M in 2022) in a regular-season match. Glenn was named RMAC Coach of the Year for the fourth time, including three times in a row.
Aleah Hayes - Trinity Valley
Aleah Hayes is in her sixth year as head volleyball coach at Trinity Valley Community College.
Coming into the season, Hayes, only the second coach in program history, is 118-58, including a 32-7 record last season, which which set a record for wins in a season in the 14-year history of the program.
In 2023, the Cardinals won a second straight Region XIV Tournament, not losing a set in posting a 3-0 mark for a second straight year. They advanced to a third NJCAA tournament, where they finished fourth -- the best in program history.
The 2022 season was also historic with the first-ever Region XIV Conference and Tournament championships. The Cardinals went 16-0 in conference action and were 3-0 at the regional tournament, earning their second trip to the national tournament. The Cardinals finished eighth in the event held in West Plains, MO.
Hayes assumed her first head coaching job at the college after a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Columbia College, a NAIA school in Columbia, Missouri. She also has one year as an assistant at Evangel University and two years as a graduate assistant at Columbia on her resume.
Amy Woerth - Northwest Missouri State
Amy (Phelps) Woerth is the program's all-time wins leader with 200 victories entering the 2024 season.
Woerth was named the head volleyball coach at Northwest prior to the start of the 2013 season. She was the interim coach for the 2012 season.
Woerth has had 16 All-MIAA first team honorees, 14 second team honorees, two third team honorees and 21 honorable mention accolades at Northwest. In addition, 127 Northwest student-athletes have been named to the MIAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
Woerth earned her second MIAA Coach of the Year award in 2022 after leading the Bearcats to the program's first regular season MIAA championship. Woerth has coached a pair of MIAA Player of the Year recipients in Maddy Bruder (2018) and Alyssa Rezac (2022).
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.”
Jacquie Cason - Missouri S&T
Jacquie Cason enters her first season as the head women's volleyball coach. Prior to joining the S&T staff in March 2024, she was with Northwest Missouri State. She was with the Bearcats for the last five years, the first two as a graduate assistant coach before becoming the top assistant in the Bearcat program in July 2021. In her time at Northwest, the Bearcats had a record of 100-39 that included NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in 2021 and 2022 and trips to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Tournament in each of those five seasons.
Northwest reached the championship game of the MIAA Tournament in the spring season in 2021 and again in the fall season of that calendar year. The Bearcats also won the MIAA regular season title in 2022 and while playing in the highly competitive MIAA and in the same region with teams in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, recorded 18 wins over nationally-ranked teams during those five seasons. One of those 18 wins came over No.-1 ranked Washburn during the 2021 campaign which was among five victories over teams ranked in the top five in the nation since the start of the 2019 season.
At Northwest, Cason was involved in numerous aspects of the program that included being the program's recruiting coordinator, working with budgets and fundraising projects and with academic progress as well as practice planning and travel coordination. Her primary coaching areas centered around training the middle and pin hitters.