Gale Lackey
- Head Women's Volleyball Coach
(860) 685-2925 - glackey@wesleyan.edu
 Now in her 27th year at Wesleyan, Gale
Lackey will handle the volleyball Cardinals for a 20th
term in 2004. Gale has compiled a 330-269 mark over her 19
seasons with the volleyball team. Gale surpassed the
300-win plateau for her career two years ago as she now has 343. 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.
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.
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Joe Rouse -
Assistant Coach
A member of Wesleyan's
philosophy department since 1981, and a professor in the
Science in Society Program as well, Joe Rouse will serve
as Gale's assistant coach for an 20th year. A 1973
graduate of Oberlin College, Joe has 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.
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