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HEAD COACH DARRIN McCLUREDarrin McClure has served as head coach for The Universityof Tennessee at Martin volleyball program since 2008.Having previously served as an assistant coach in 2005 andOVC OpponentsW-L2006 seasons, then guiding the program back to the Ohio ValleyAustin Peay . 1-10Conference Tournament for the first time in six seasons as interimBelmont . 1-1head coach for the 2008 campaign, McClure was officially namedEastern Illinois . 6-4the program’s sixth head coach on Jan. 13, 2009.Eastern Kentucky . 5-4Despite playing the majority of last season with oneJacksonville State . 4-6upperclassman, the Skyhawks qualified for the OVC TournamentMorehead State . 0-11for the third time in five seasons under McClure. UT MartinMurray State. 3-8finished the season with a 10-21 overall record and 6-10 markSIU Edwardsville . 4-4Southeast Missouri . 4-6against OVC competition.Tennessee State . 3-7In 2012, McClure coached a pair of All-OVC selections in KaseyTennessee Tech . 3-6Elswick and Amanda Crask. Elswick earned All-OVC honors forthe third time in her storied career, becoming just the third playerin program history to achieve that feat. Crask picked up All-OVCOther Opponents . W-Lnewcomer accolades after a freshman season in which she handedAlabama. 0-1out 884 assists and added 158 kills and 218 digs.Alabama A&M . 2-0The 2012 season also marked the end of the career of one ofAlabama State . 1-0UT Martin’s all-time greats in Elswick. An honorable mention AllArkansas . 0-2American in 2011, Elswick became the first player in SkyhawkArkansas-Little Rock . 0-1history to lead the team in digs in four straight seasons (505 as a freshman, 606 as a sophomore,Arkansas-Pine Bluff . 1-0NCAA single-season record 852 as a junior, 643 as a senior). A two-time OVC Defensive Player of theArkansas State . 0-2Year, she wrapped up her momentous career as the OVC’s all-time career digs leader (2,606).Auburn. 0-1Bucknell . 0-1McClure enjoyed tremendous success in 2011 - a season where he picked up the OVC CoachCentenary . 1-0of the Year award after guiding a team that was picked 10th in the preseason polls to the leagueCitadel . 1-0championship match. The Skyhawks won 19 matches and 12 league decisions, which were the mostDePaul . 0-1for the program since 2002 and was the program’s first winning season since 2006.Evansville . 0-4In 2010, McClure coached Lauren Montague, who graduated as one of the all-time greats inGeorgia Southern . 0-1Skyhawk history. She became the seventh player to record 1,000 career kills and graduated as one ofIllinois-Chicago . 1-0three players in program history to finish their career in the top-10 career lists in kills and digs.Illinois State . 0-1McClure took the nation’s youngest team in his second season through the year with an 8-21Indiana . 1-0record. Included in that record was a five-set win over Indiana to open the Indiana Adidas Classic.Jackson State . 1-0In his first season guiding the program on an interim basis, McClure was able to bring in aKansas . 0-1talented recruiting class that contributed from day one. That paired with a core group of returnersKentucky . 0-1helped him lead the Skyhawks to a 9-24 overall record but more impressively a 7-11 OVC mark. HeLamar . 0-1Lipscomb . 0-1also guided UT Martin back to the OVC Tournament, which hadn’t been done since the 2002 season.Louisiana Tech . 1-0While at UT Martin, McClure’s teams have given back to the community in a big way. TheLoyola . 0-1Skyhawks have raised more than 8,500 over five seasons in the fight against breast cancer and LouMemphis . 0-1Gehrig’s Disease.Mercer . 0-1Prior to returning to his undergraduate alma mater in a head coaching capacity, McClureMississippi State . 1-0was a history teacher at Martin Middle School. At the same time he also directed the volleyballMontana State . 1-0program at the University School of Jackson andNicholls State . 0-1guided them through the rebuilding process afterNorth Texas . 0-2graduating a wealth of talent from their districtNorthwestern State. 1-1championship squad. With a majority of freshmenPresbyterian . 1-0and sophomores on the floor, he guided USJ to aSam Houston State . 0-1third-place showing in his first year at the helm.South Alabama . 0-1Southeastern Louisiana . 1-0Additionally, McClure also coached the JacksonSouthern Illinois . 1-2Juniors Club Team to a second-place finish in theStephen F. Austin . 0-1region. The Jackson Juniors were formally knownTexas A&M-Corpus Christi . 1-0as the Gotcha Volleyball Club, which he was a coTexas State . 0-1founder of in 2004.Troy . 0-2McClure gained valuable playing experienceUAB . 0-1prior to joining the UT Martin volleyball program.UMKC . 0-1He played middle blocker and outside hitter for theVirginia Tech . 0-1Paducah Volleyball Club for five years from 1994-99Wright State . 1-0and guided them to a pair of tournament victories.He was also part of the Spike-It-Up Amateur Volleyball Tour that competed 2v2 competitionthroughout the Southeast and Midwest. He helped guide his Spike-It-Up team to its highestfinish of third during a tour stop in Cincinnati, Ohio.During the offseason, McClure has twice attended the Gold Medal Squared Coaching Camp,an elite coaching clinic conducted by former US Olympic team coach Carl McGowan and twotime Olympic gold medal winning coach Marv Dumphy. He and some of the top collegiatecoaches in the nation worked with the Olympic pair to learn from their proven coaching andmotivational techniques.McClure is married to his wife Jennifer, who is also a graduate of UT Martin and the couplehas one son, Miles.McCLURE VS. ALL OPPONENTS42013 UT Martin Volleyball

ASSISTANT COACH JULIA NOEJulia Noe has been a member of The University of Tennessee at Martin coaching staff underhead coach Darrin McClure since 2011. Noe was previously a volunteer assistant at WesternKentucky and an assistant coach of the prestigious Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy(KIVA) 18 Red club team based out of Louisville, Ky.Primarily working with the setters at UT Martin, Noe has coached the only two Skyhawksto compile a triple-double in a match, as Jenna Miller (10 kills, 42 assists, 18 digs againstJacksonville State on Oct. 10, 2011) and Amanda Crask (15 kills, 40 assists, 17 digs against SIUEdwardsville on Nov. 14, 2012) both recorded the feat.Last season, Noe helped guide Crask to an All-OVC Newcomer selection. As a freshman,Crask led the Skyhawks in matches started (30), assists (884, 8.42 per set) and attack percentage(.215) while adding 158 kills, 23 service aces, 218 digs and 34 blocks. Crask registered 10double-doubles and handed out at least 30 or more assists on 18 different occasions.Noe’s impact was immediately felt in her first season at UT Martin in 2011. The Skyhawksposted their first winning season since 2006 and made it to the OVC Tournament championshipmatch for the first time since 2002. UT Martin’s 19 overall wins and 12 OVC victories were alsothe most since 2002.Also in 2011, Noe oversaw a squad that ranked second in program history with 1,561 assists. She coached Miller, whograduated with the third-most career assists (3,140) in Skyhawk history.Noe helped the Lady Toppers to a 25-9 record in 2009, while also previously serving as a varsity assistant coach at herhigh school alma mater (Sacred Heart Academy) and co-head coach of the Bravo 18-1 club squad in 2010.As a player, Noe was an integral piece of the Western Kentucky University volleyball team from 2005-08 and establishedherself as one of the greatest setters to ever don the Lady Topper uniform. In her four seasons (2005-08), the Lady Topperscompiled a 110-32 record, including a 52-11 Sun Belt Conference slate. Western Kentucky made three NCAA Tournamentappearances while winning a pair of SBC East championships and SBC tournament titles in Noe’s tenure as a player.Noe’s storied playing career included three all-conference selections (2006-08), a spot on the 2008 All-SBC Tournamentteam and a first-team American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-South Region mention in 2008. That same year,she was also named as an AVCA All-American honorable mention.A Louisville native, Noe received national attention as a junior. She received the Collegiate Volleyball Update (CVU.com) National Player of the Week on Oct. 2, 2007, becoming the first Western Kentucky player to earn a national player ofthe week accolade since 2003. In her record-setting week, she averaged 13.78 assists, 2.56 kills and 2.67 digs per game whilehitting .413 in a pair of SBC victories.During her senior campaign, Noe’s steadiness helped the LadyToppers consistently rank in the top five in the nation in hitting percentage.Noe’s name is found dotted all across the Western Kentucky record book.She is the program’s all-time leader in triple-doubles, amassing six ofthe program’s 16 such performances. She also ranks in the top-5 of threecareer categories: assists (4,369, third); assists per game (9.92, fourth); andhitting percentage (.317, fifth). Her single-game hitting percentage of .800(12 kills, no errors, 15 attempts) against Indiana on Aug. 26, 2007 rankas the second-best performance in Lady Topper history. She is listed sixtimes in the program’s top-10 single-season records in assists, assists pergame, service aces and service aces per game.In addition, Noe accumulated 954 digs, 632 kills, 164 blocks and 127service aces in her collegiate career.At Sacred Heart Academy, Noe was a four-year starter who led theValkyries to the KHSAA state championship in 2003. She racked up allstate, all-district, all-tournament and academic all-state awards whileat SHA and was also a three-time All-American for KIVA, winning twonational championships for the AAU squad.Noe received her bachelor of science in interior design from WesternKentucky in 20102013 Skyhawk Volleyball5

SUPPORT STAFFTamika Donaldson begins her third season at her alma mater as an athletic trainer. A 2009UT Martin graduate, she works primarily with the volleyball and men’s basketball teamswhile also assisting in all sports.Donaldson joined the Skyhawks after spending two seasons as a graduate assistantathletic trainer at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn. At Cumberland, she served asthe primary trainer for the women’s soccer, women’s basketball and cycling teams, while alsohelping out with the football squad.A Humboldt, Tenn. native, Donaldson worked with the Skyhawk football, soccer,volleyball, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams as an undergraduate at UTMartin. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in health and human performance with aconcentration on athletic training.Donaldson is currently a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA)and the Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society (TATS).Donaldson earned her Master’s in education while working at Cumberland.Ryne Rickman has worked in the UT Martin sports information office since 2008. At UTMartin, Rickman is the media contact for football, volleyball, men’s basketball, baseball, golf,equestrian, rodeo and rifle teams. Rickman also serves as official statistician at most Skyhawkhome events, produces media guides, game day programs, press releases, and serves as amedia host and coordinating event operations.While at UT Martin, Rickman has taken part in several other sports information ventures.The last four seasons, he has served as the official statistician at the Ohio Valley Conferencemen’s and women’s basketball tournament in Nashville, where he was solely responsiblefor all stats from the tournament. He also served in that same role for the 2012 NCAA Men’sBasketball Tournament Second/Third Rounds, also held in Nashville.Rickman was also Tournament Director of the 2011 OVC Tennis Tournament, held inPaducah, Ky. In March of 2009, Rickman was a media relations assistant at the NCAA men’sbasketball South Regional tournament in Memphis, arranging press conferences and postgame interviews in the Sweet 16/Elite 8 rounds. He also served as official scorer of the 2008Major/60 12 Year Old Cal Ripken World Series in Martin from Aug. 7-14, 2008, overseeing thefour-day, 10-team national Babe Ruth Little League tournament.A native of Benton, Ky., Rickman came to UT Martin from Murray State, where he graduated with a degree in journalismand a minor in recreation in May 2008. He worked part-time as a student worker in the Athletics Media Relations officefor four years and was the media contact for track and field and cross country, and also the head researcher for footballand basketball media guides. He was a co-contributor to Murray State’s 2007 football media guide, which was named bythe College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) as the Best in the Nation for Football Bowl Subdivisionuniversities.62013 UT Martin Volleyball

MEET THE SKYHAWKS2013 Skyhawk Volleyball

2013 ROSTERNUMERICALNo.Name1 Lynsey Hazelwood2Colleen Larson3Emily Keaton4Chelsea Bowles5Alisha Erves6Shelby Hoskins9Julia Devinney11Allie Whimpey14Amanda Crask18 Michelle McLaughlin21Kelly Hogan35 Madison Jr.So.Fr.So.Fr.Jr.So.Fr.R-Sr.Fr.Hometown (Previous School)Louisville, Ky. (Holy Cross HS)Naperville, Ill. (Naperville North HS)St. Charles, Mo. (Incarnate Word Academy)Louisville, Ky. (Assumption HS)Tyrone, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS)New Albany, Ind. (New Albany HS)Plano, Texas (Plano West Senior HS)Cary, Ill. (Cary-Grove HS)Louisville, Ky. (Mercy Academy)Bartlett, Ill. (St. Francis HS)St. Charles, Ill. (Rosary HS)Louisville, Ky. (Sacred Heart Academy)Head Coach: Darrin McClure (UT Martin, 2006), Sixth Season at UT Martin, Sixth Season OverallAssistant Coach: Julia Noe (Western Kentucky, 2010), Third Season at UT MartinALPHABETICALNo.Name4Chelsea Bowles14Amanda Crask9Julia Devinney5Alisha Erves1 Lynsey Hazelwood21Kelly Hogan6Shelby Hoskins3Emily Keaton2Colleen Larson18 Michelle McLaughlin35 Madison Wessling11Allie r.Fr.So.R-Sr.So.Jr.Fr.Fr.Fr.Jr.Hometown (Previous School)Louisville, Ky. (Assumption HS)Louisville, Ky. (Mercy Academy)Plano, Texas (Plano West Senior HS)Tyrone, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS)Louisville, Ky. (Holy Cross HS)St. Charles, Ill. (Rosary HS)New Albany, Ind. (New Albany HS)St. Charles, Mo. (Incarnate Word Academy)Naperville, Ill. (Naperville North HS)Bartlett, Ill. (St. Francis HS)Louisville, Ky. (Sacred Heart Academy)Cary, Ill. (Cary-Grove HS)RETURNING PLAYERSNo.Name3Emily Keaton6Shelby Hoskins1 Lynsey Hazelwood14Amanda Crask11Allie Whimpey21Kelly Hogan4Chelsea BowlesPositionOHMBOHSOHOHL/DSKey Stats (2012)112 SP, 262 K, 2.34 K/S, 895 ATT, .146 ATT%, 240 DIG, 2.14 D/S, 39 BLK106 SP, 195 K, 1.84 K/S, 493 ATT, .211 ATT%, 73 DIG, 78 BLK, 0.74 BLK/S88 SP, 205 K, 2.33, K/S, 698 ATT, .107 ATT%, 156 DIG, 1.77 D/S, 17 BLK105 SP, 158 K, 1.50 K/S, 461 ATT, .215 ATT%, 884 AST, 8.42 A/S, 218 DIG70 SP, 92 K, 1.31 K/S, 290 ATT, .103 ATT%, 33 DIG, 22 BLK, 0.31 BLK/S14 SP, 37 K, 2.64 K/S, 125 ATT, .120 ATT%, 28 DIG, 2.00 D/S, 10 BLK115 SP, 4 K, 14 ATT, .214 ATT%, 38 AST, 9 SA, 242 DIG, 2.10 D/SPositionL/DSMBMBOHSMBL/DSOHKey Stats (2012)114 SP, 12 K, 50 ATT, .200 ATT%, 119 AST, 1.04 A/S, 643 DIG, 5.64 D/S110 SP, 177 K, 1.61 K/S, 530 ATT, .170 ATT%, 27 DIG, 78 BLK, 0.71 BLK/S76 SP, 118 K, 1.55 K/S, 355 ATT, .152 ATT%, 32 DIG, 48 BLK, 0.63 BLK/S71 SP, 117 K, 1.65 K/S, 418 ATT, .086 ATT%, 125 DIG, 1.76 D/S, 13 BLK25 SP, 10 K, 49 ATT, .143 ATT%, 167 AST, 6.68 A/S, 35 DIG, 7 BLK20 SP, 3 K, 11 ATT, -.091 ATT%, 1 AST, 4 SA, 9 DIG, 3 BLK28 SP, 1 ATT, 2 SA, 12 DIG, 0.43 D/S2 SPPLAYERS LOSTNo.Name10Kasey Elswick17Jackie Harter24 Dallas Zimmerman12Taylor Simons22Brandy Dennis9Lucy Martin5Krista Beyer8Rachel Hill82013 UT Martin Volleyball

PLAYER BIOSKELLY HOGAN21 R-SENIOR OUTSIDE HITTER 5-9ST. CHARLES, ILL. ROSARY HS2012: Got off to a spectacular start before suffering a season-ending knee injuryafter four matches, leading to an NCAA medical redshirt Racked up 37 kills, 28digs, three service aces, one assist and 10 blocks Reached double-digit kills intwo matches, including a double-double (13 kills, 11 digs) against Troy on Aug. 31.2011: Was a solid performer for the Skyhawks, seeing time in 128 sets spread over33 matches (32 starts) Was the only Skyhawk to post both 300-plus kills (303)and digs (313, second-most on the team) Her 1,076 attempts ranked as the thirdhighest single-season total in UT Martin history Chalked up double-digit kill totalsin 18 matches, a dozen of which came in OVC play Tallied 11 double-doubles Had a season-best 16 kills at Murray State (Oct. 28) and against Austin Peay (Nov.5) Scooped up a season-high 19 digs in the OVC Tournament quarterfinals againstJacksonville State on Nov. 16 Hit .125 to go along with 65 blocks (eight solo), 20assists, 14 service aces Named Tournament Most Valuable Player of the MississippiState Maroon Classic Was named to the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll.2010: Saw time in 101 sets (29 matches), scoring 178.5 points.Total

Athletics Web Site: www.UTMSports.com UTM VOLLEYBALL PERSONNEL Head Coach: Darrin McClure Alma Mater: UT Martin, 2006 Tenure at UT Martin: Sixth Season School Record: 52-104 Career Record: 52-104 (Five seasons) E-Mail Address: dmcclure@utm.edu Offi ce Telephone: (731) 881-7332 Assistant Coach: Julia Noe Alma Mater: Western Kentucky, 2010