Alabama State University Athletics

Janay Yancey was hired as an assistant volleyball coach in 2016.

Responsibilities & Accolades
- Video and statistics coordinator, recruiting, camp, game management, social media manager
Head Coach at Hampton University volleyball program (2015)
- Coached one Third Team All-Conference Player and two players who earned conference Rookie of the Week awards
Assistant Coach at Hampton University (2013-2015)
- Assisted volleyball program to win first ever MEAC Northern Division regular season title
- Assisted volleyball program in winning back-to-back MEAC Tournament titles (2013 & 2014)
 
Much of Yancey’s on-court coaching has focused on the middle blockers, as Hampton ranked fourth in the MEAC in blocks last season.
 
In winning the MEAC, the Lady Pirates made their first-ever NCAA Div. I Tournament appearance, taking on No. 7 seed Stanford in the first round.
 
Yancey began her coaching career as a student assistant at Middle Tennessee State in 2010, when MTSU won the Sun Belt Conference championship with a 29-6 record and made its fifth NCAA appearance. In 2011, Yancey joined South Alabama as a graduate assistant.
 
Her collegiate playing career began at North Carolina State in 2006, and Yancey lettered there for two seasons as a middle blocker; as a sophomore, Yancey averaged 2.07 kills and 0.62 blocks per set. She transferred to Middle Tennessee State in 2008, and she was named to the All-Sun Belt Tournament Team and was a one-time Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week as a senior in 2009.
 
In 2008, Yancey was named to the Sun Belt’s Commissioner’s List for academic excellence.
 
MTSU won the Sun Belt in 2009, and in both of Yancey’s seasons at MTSU, the team advanced to the NCAA Tournament. She ranks fifth in MTSU program history in career blocks per set, having averaged 1.09 blocks per set in her two years with the program.
 
Yancey hit .368 in 2008, recording MTSU’s seventh-best single-season hitting percentage, and her .364 hitting percentage as a senior in 2009 is the ninth-highest mark in a single season in MTSU history.
 
Yancey graduated from MTSU in 2009 with a B.S. in Exercise Science, before earning an M.S. in Exercise Science from South Alabama in 2011. In 2011, she was a recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Minority Coaches Scholarship.

Yancey, a native of Columbia, Tenn., is a member of the AVCA and a 2014 graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy.