The Waynesburg University women’s volleyball team competed in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference tri-match in Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon. This was the Yellow Jackets’ first conference action of the season. The Jackets competed against Geneva College and host team Chatham University. In the first match, the Jackets fell to Geneva, in straight sets. Waynesburg kept it close … Continue reading
Picked to finish in last place again in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, head coach Hayley Kirby and the Waynesburg University volleyball team are ready to make some noise starting this weekend in Pittsburgh. “I want to shock some people,” Kirby said. “They don’t think that we are going to be any good and it’s just … Continue reading
First home game, first victory. That’s was the story Wednesday night for the Waynesburg University volleyball team. The Yellow Jackets came back from 13-10 to win the fifth and deciding set, , 15-10, sealing the match victory three sets to two against La Roche. “I knew we could do it the whole time,” head coach … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University volleyball team fell in a pair of non-conference road matches to end the second week of the semester. Franciscan University downed the Jackets Thursday night, three sets to one. That was followed by a three-set sweep of the Jackets at the hands of Mount Aloysius the next evening. “Every game is a … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University women’s volleyball team went to Saint Vincent College to compete in the opening weekend of the volleyball season. Although the Yellow Jackets didn’t win any matches, but the team was competitive throughout the opening weekend. After two losses on Friday to Pitt-Greensburg and Otterbein, Waynesburg played two more games Saturday against La … Continue reading
A newfound energy along with a positive, winning attitude will be seen this fall inside the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse. For head women’s volleyball coach Hayley Kirby, the energy and momentum from the team’s first Presidents’ Athletic Conference win since 2015– a 3-1 win over Thiel on the last day of the season– returned to preseason … Continue reading
For the first time since 2014, the Waynesburg volleyball team is on the upswing thanks in part to a brand-new coaching regime. Head coach Hayley Kirby and assistant coach Kate McCullough are brand new to the coaching staff but are no strangers to the sport. Kirby spent the first three years of her coaching career … Continue reading
Tuesday night’s Presidents’ Athletic Conference volleyball matchup between Waynesburg and St. Vincent was hard-fought. After an impressive win over Central State last week, the Yellow Jackets competed in PAC play against the Bearcats by winning the first set but came up short by dropping the next three sets consecutively to fall to 0-5 in conference … Continue reading
Senior athletic training major Kara Sapp came to Waynesburg from New Jersey because of three things. “I chose Waynesburg because it gave me the option to not just study and be an athletic trainer and become one, but I also wanted to play volleyball and I was able to participate in a lot of different … Continue reading
After consecutive one win seasons and being winless in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference since 2016, the volleyball team has finally hired a new head coach. Hayley Kirby has been hired from Earlham College, where she was an assistant coach for two years and last year was associate head coach for a team that went 15-13 … Continue reading
