Arcadia University Women's Volleyball

Emily Poole enters her fourth season as the Head Women's Volleyball Coach at Arcadia in 2025.    In Poole's first season coaching the Knights, she took her No. 2 seeded team to the MAC Freedom Championship. The women's volleyball team had four players named to the MAC Freedom All- Conference teams including Player of the Year,  Estefanía Martínez-Solá. Martínez-Solá was also named an AVCA All-American, the second in program history. Poole was named Co-Coach of the Year for the 2022 season.   Poole came to Glenside after serving as the Women's Volleyball Graduate Assistant at Lehigh University for two seasons. In that position, Poole assisted in planning and running of all practices and training, coordinated travel, food, and hotel accommodations, assisted in recruiting, student-athletes, managing and promoting prospect camps, maintained relationships with club directors, and created and managed content for team social media accounts.   Prior to her collegiate coaching career, Poole gained experience as a Summer Program Assistant Director at Spooky Nook Sports and as an Assistant Coach with East Coast Power Volleyball.   Poole was a four-year member of Lehigh's women's volleyball program, earning Second Team All-Patriot League honors in 2018 and the Outstanding Athlete Award in 2018-19. Poole also excelled in the classroom, being named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in 2016, 2018, and 2019. Poole graduated from Lehigh in 2020 with a degree in International Relations, and earned her Master's in Environmental Policy and Design from Lehigh in 2022.  

Isanel Kirchner begins her first season as an assistant with women's volleyball in 2025. Kirchner came to Arcadia after most recently serving as a coach with Mystique Volleyball club, where she helped develop practice plans and teach fundamental skills. Before that, Kirchner coached with Synergy Volleyball Club. Kirchner graduated from Rowan in 2025 with a degree in Communication Studies, where she was a four-year member of the Profs' women's volleyball team. While in Glassboro, Kirchner was named Second Team All-NJAC and led the team to back-to-back NJAC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances.

Alyssa Kelly enters her fourth season with the Arcadia women's volleyball coaching staff in 2025.  Kelly has previous stops as both a travel volleyball coach and a head varsity volleyball coach for three seasons.  Kelly played college volleyball at Fairmont State and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice in 2020. 

Dr. Tatjana Miletic is a full time professor in the Physics department. To view Dr. Miletic's University's bio, click here.