Coach A.Y.

Amanda's passion for volleyball began by playing indoor at thirteen years old and beach at sixteen. Still holding the assist record at Middleburg High School in Middleburg, FL, Amanda started as a freshman at Jacksonville University. After her first year, she transferred to and graduated from East Tennessee State University where she led the Buc's as their setter for 3 seasons.

 

Pursuing her dreams of coaching, Amanda (known by her athletes as "coach A.Y") spent two years as the assistant coach at Augusta State University, which is now Augusta University.

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After attaining her Master's degree in Kinesiology, she moved to Atlanta, GA to work for A5 where she assisted the 16's team to make a run at Nationals in Minneapolis, MN. Moving south after her stint in Georgia, she returned home to Florida to administer the National Volleyball League's beach volleyball academy. In 2017, as head coach, Amanda led Grandview High School to a district title in her first season. Coach A.Y is also the head boy's volleyball coach at Spanish River High School. In her first season with the Sharks, she received coach of the year as they finished top 8 in the state after a preseason ranking of below 100. 

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AY has a tremendous passion to grow the sport as the master coach at Rival Volleyball club.