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Peggy Martin

Head Coach

In her 33rd year at the helm of the Jennies, Peggy Martin is not only the dean of Central Missouri’s coaching staff, but also the winningest  volleyball coach in NCAA Division II history, garnering her 1,000th career victory in 2006. In April, she announced that 2008 would be her last season, retiring at year’s end.

In April of 2006, she was inducted into her hometown Sports Hall of Fame in Mobile, Ala. before earning a distinguished alumni award from Indiana University in the spring of 2007.

Martin’s 1,035-271-8 record makes her the first coach in the Division II volleyball ranks to reach the 1,000-victory plateau, while her .791 winning percentage is in the top 10 among active head coaches in Division II.

Under Martin’s guidance, the Jennies have won at least 25 matches 30 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 25 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 also 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 mark.

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

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

Martin came to UCM from Florida Southern College, where she spent one season as 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.

In Mobile, Martin was a three-sport athlete at Mercy High School, competing in volleyball, basketball, and track in the CYO Leagues.  She helped lead the basketball team to an undefeated record in basketball all four years.

Martin continued her athletic career at Indiana University, where she helped 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 at St. Pius X Junior High School 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,” and “Training the Libero.”

She has 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 has also served as chair of the Curriculum Committee for the AVCA Convention.

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