Kelsey Lahey - Women's Volleyball Coach - University of Akron Athletics

Kelsey Lahey

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
klahey1@uakron.edu
Phone:
(330) 972-7438

Kelsey Lahey was named as an assistant coach at The University of Akron in February 2023.

Lahey comes to Akron from Georgia State University where she spent the 2022 campaign as an assistant coach, heading up operations for the program as well as training passing and overseeing defensive systems.

Additionally, Lahey spent one season as Marquette's Director of Volleyball Operations in 2021 where she directed all team travel, daily operations, and handled all technical duties of the program. She helped Marquette to an impressive 26-6 mark, including a 16-2 record in the Big East Conference before advancing to the NCAA Championship.

In 2019 and 2020, Lahey served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at her alma mater, Marist College. Following the 2019 season, her first year as an assistant, Lahey was recognized by VolleyballMag.com as one of the top up-and-coming coaches in the country, spanning NCAA Division I women's volleyball, as well as beach volleyball and Division I and II men's volleyball.

Lahey graduated from Marist College in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in political science. She ended her career at Marist sixth on the program's all-time kills list with 1,014 kills. She eclipsed the 1,000 career kills mark by accumulating 16 of the teams 24 kills against Fairfield in the MAAC Championship match in 2015. She is also currently sixth all-time in career attacks (3,253).

Her career accolades include being a two-time MAAC All-Championship Team selection, a three-time MAAC All-Academic Team selection, and a one-time All-MAAC First Team and All-ECAC Second Team selection. She was also named to the Crosstown Tournament All-Tournament Team in 2015, as well as the Volley in the Valley tournament MVP in the same year.

Lahey, a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, earned her masters of fine arts in sculpture at Boston University in 2018. Following her MFA, she spent one year as a volleyball coach in Maumee, Ohio, for Premier Volleyball Academy.