HEAD COACH - Peggy Martin

In her 31st year at the helm of the Jennies in 2006, Peggy Martin surpassed the 1000-victory plateau as she led the Jennies to a 29-7 record, a 24th consecutive trip to the NCAA-II post-season, and all the way to the championship match of the South Central Regional.  Career victory #1000 came on October 21, 2006 in Maryville, Missouri. For more on the impact of Peggy Martin on the Jennies program...Click Here

Martin's 1,004-266-8 record makes her the first coach in the Division II volleyball ranks to reach the 1,000-victory plateau, while her .786 winning percentage is in the top 10 among active head coaches in Division II.

This past February, she received a special award from her alma mater (University of Indiana)...More Info  In April of 2006, she was inducted into her hometown Sports Hall of Fame in Mobile, Alabama.

Under Martin's guidance, the Jennies have won at least 25 matches for 29 straight seasons and have won or shared 19 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association crowns since the league began sponsoring the sport in 1982. Her teams have also made 24 NCAA Tournament appearances in a row, the most in Division II history, and have reached the "Elite Eight" six times, highlighted by a runner-up national showing in 1987.

For her efforts, Martin has been chosen MIAA or Missouri AIAW State Coach of the Year a total of 15 times and AVCA South Central Region Coach of the Year on six occasions. She was selected as AVCA Division II National Coach of the Year in 1987 after directing the Jennies to their second-place NCAA Tournament finish and a 42-4.

Martin came to UCM in 1975 as head volleyball and softball coach. In 11 years as softball coach, she led the Jennies to a 174-156 record and two MIAA titles and was twice chosen league coach of the year.

Martin, who was once a nationally and internationally rated women's basketball referee, also served as assistant Jennies basketball coach for the 1976-77 season and as assistant athletics director from 1986-88.

Martin came to UCM from Florida Southern College, where she spent one season as head volleyball and basketball coach. Although those sports competed on the club level at the time, they were the forerunners of the school's highly successful Division II programs of today.

Martin was a three-sport athlete at Mercy High School in Mobile, Ala., competing in volleyball, basketball, and track.  She helped lead the basketball team to an undefeated record in four years of her varsity career.

Martin continued her athletic career at Indiana University, where she captained the basketball squad to three straight national-tournament berths. She also won four letters in softball and three in field hockey before receiving her bachelor's degree from there in 1972. She later took a year's leave of absence from UCM to complete her doctorate in physical education at Indiana in 1980.

Martin began her coaching career in 1972 as volleyball and basketball coach for St. Pius X Junior High in Mobile.  She left there after one year to become a graduate assistant on the volleyball and basketball staffs at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where she earned her master's degree in 1974.

Martin is active on the volleyball scene as she conducts her own camp at UCM each summer and speaks at several clinics during the year.  She has written a book, 101 Volleyball Drills, and produced four instructional videos, "Training the Setter", "Competitive Volleyball Drills", "The Slide Attack", & "Training the Libero". She also served a six-year stint as chair of the NCAA Division II Volleyball Committee and has been a member of the AVCA's post-season awards selection committee.  Martin is presently chair of the Curriculum Committee for the AVCA Convention.