Gale Lackey - Head Women's Volleyball Coach
(860) 685-2925 - glackey@wesleyan.edu

     Now in her 31st year at Wesleyan, Gale Lackey will handle the volleyball Cardinals for a 24th term in 2008. Gale has compiled a 395-313 mark over her 23 seasons with the volleyball team. Gale recently surpassed the 400-win mark for her career as she now has 408. Gale joined the Wesleyan staff in 1978 after spending a year coaching volleyball at the University of Bridgeport. Prior to that, Gale coached volleyball at Spring Grove (Pa.) High School for seven years. She is a 1970 graduate of West Chester (Pa.), and later earned her M. Ed. degree there.
     Named 2001 NESCAC Coach of the Year after guiding her squad to a best-ever 30-6 record, a first-place regular-season finish in the NESCAC with a 9-1 mark, and a first-ever invitation to the NCAA Division III tournament, Gale also took her 2000 squad to an ECAC North Region Division III title. In between, Gale arranged for her squad to take a memorable trip to Cuba during the winter break in January 2001. There her team competed against a Cuban junior national team.  Her teams have posted eight winning seasons over the last nine years with a collective 161-84 mark (a .657 winning percentage).
     Gale, who holds the rank of adjunct professor of physical education at the college, is the athletic department's senior woman administrator and was named an associate director of athletics in 2001.  Gale has Stage 1 level international coaching certification from the FIVB.

Joe Rouse - Assistant Coach
(860) 685-3655 - jrouse@wesleyan.edu

     A member of Wesleyan's philosophy department since 1981, chairman of the Science in Society Program and a past chairman of the Wesleyan faculty, Joe Rouse will serve as Gale's assistant coach for a 24th year. A 1973 graduate of Oberlin College, Joe had been active as a U.S. Volleyball Association club player, helping his squad finish second at the national tournament in the 40-and-over division in 1995 and seventh in the 45-and-over division in 2000. Joe received his master's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University, was granted tenure at Wesleyan in 1986 and elevated to full professor in 1991.