Jenny Michael was named as the fifth head coach of the LMU volleyball program in December, 2010.
She comes to LMU after a five-year stint as the assistant coach at Troy University, a Division-I institution located in Troy, Ala.
Before heading to Troy, Michael was an assistant coach at the varsity level and a head coach at the junior varsity level at Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, Washington, where she also taught mathematics.
Michael started coaching at the collegiate level as a graduate assistant at NCAA Division II and Peach Belt Conference power, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga. She held the graduate assistant position there from 2002 until 2004, when she was promoted to a role as the full-time assistant coach. In 2005, Michael was promoted to first assistant coach.
While at Armstrong Atlantic, the Pirates won the Peach Belt Conference Tournament championship in 2002, and made three trips to the NCAA Tournament. Michael had an overall 83-21 record while serving as an assistant coach at Armstrong Atlantic State University for four seasons.
Michael played volleyball for four years at Francis Marion University, another Peach Belt Conference institution. While playing at the Florence, S.C. school, Michael was named the team captain in 2000 and 2001. She was also named the team’s Most Valuable Player in 2000.
While at Francis Marion, Michael played two seasons under her future boss at Troy, Sonny Kirkpatrick.
As an athlete at Francis Marion, Michael was a member of the 1998 Patriot team that qualified for the NCAA Tournament and won the Peach Belt Conference championship the same season. That team advanced to the NCAA Division II Regionals that same season.
In her five seasons at the helm of the LMU volleyball program, Michael has guided the Lady Railsplitters to a 93-63 cumulative mark with an impressive 64-38 record in South Atlantic Conference play. During that same span, the Lady Railsplitters have made two appearances in the NCAA Southeast Regional. With 14 South Atlantic Conference wins in her first season (2011), Coach Michael helped the Lady Railsplitters set the program record for league wins in a season. The Lady Railsplitters matched that mark again in 2013.
Michael resides in Speedwell, Tenn. She has a dog named Diesel.
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