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

     Now in her 32nd year at Wesleyan, Gale Lackey will handle the volleyball Cardinals for a 25th term in 2009. Gale has compiled a 416-320 mark over her 24 seasons with the volleyball team. Gale joined the Wesleyan staff in 1978 after spending a year coaching volleyball at the University of Bridgeport. With 13 wins there, Gale has a lofty 429 victories in her career, which ranks among the national leaders in Division III.  Prior to her stint at Bridgeport, 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 nine winning seasons over the last 10 years with a collective 182-91 mark (a .667 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 25th 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.

David White - Assistant Coach

     Enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Wesleyan after receiving his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin in 2008, David White comes aboard to lend a hand at Wesleyan in 2009.  A veteran player since his high school days at St. Ignatius Prep in Chicago, David was a three-year member, team captain and all-New England choice as part of the Bowdoin men's volleyball club while also assisting the women's program as both an assistant coach and statistician.  During the 2008-09 year, David served as treasurer for Wesleyan's men's volleyball club and will be a team captain this year.  He also is experienced at beach and grass volleyball, competing in tournaments annually each summer since 2003.