Babson College Women's Volleyball

Neely has led the program to unprecedented success over the last five years. Neely guided the Beavers to their first NEWMAC regular season and tournament titles, a single-season record 15-match winning streak and the program's first NCAA Tournament berth in 2014. Babson continued its success last fall by winning its second consecutive conference tournament championship, reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament and setting a new school record with 28 victories.  After leading the Green and White to a 17-13 mark in his first season in 2011, Neely guided Babson to a 22-8 record while winning coach of the year honors in 2012. The Beavers went 18-12 in 2013, including a 7-3 mark in league play and the program's first home conference tournament match since 1993.  Neely, who received NEWMAC Coach of the Year honors, led Babson to a historic 2014 campaign that included a share of the NEWMAC regular-season title, a NEWMAC Tournament championship and the first NCAA Tournament berth in program history. The Beavers set a new program record with 27 victories, which included a school-record 15-match winning streak, and their first NCAA Tournament triumph.  Neely came to Babson after a brilliant six-year career as head volleyball coach at Ursuline Academy in nearby Dedham. During his tenure, Ursuline went 94-40 and won four South sectional Championships. Neely was named Boston Globe Coach of the Year in 2008 after leading the program to a 20-2 mark and one of its two league titles under his guidance.   An avid volleyball player and teacher, Neely also served as a coach for Smash Volleyball's Junior Olympic teams since late 2006, and he coached the Women's club team at Northeastern University in the spring of 2011. He also worked as an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Ahern Middle School for the two years and an assistant boys basketball coach at Foxborough High School for four years.   A native of Easton, Massachusetts, Neely graduated from the University of Rochester in 1998 and later earned his law degree from the University of Georgia Law School in 2003. In addition to his coaching duties, Neely oversees Babson's highly popular club sports, which include men's and women's rugby, cheerleading, and men's and women's ice hockey. View: | Desktop

Coscia enjoyed a stellar playing career at UMass-Lowell where she finished fourth in program history with 1,321 kills and fifth in blocks with 306. She led the Northeast-10 Conference in scoring during her senior season and was a first-team All-Conference selection as both a junior and a senior. Coscia also earned All-New England honors in 2009. Her post-collegiate playing career continued last summer as a member of Team New England, the region's professional volleyball squad. The team competed in the Premier Volleyball League Championship as part of the 2014 USA Volleyball Open National Championship in Phoenix, Ariz. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native currently serves as the freshman girls coach and JV boys coach at Wellesley High School and has also served as the coach of the 17-and-under boys team in the SMASH Volleyball Club. View: | Desktop

Kaylynn Tran is in her second season as assistant coach for the Babson College women's volleyball program in 2025. In her first season with the Beavers, she helped the team to a 23-7 overall record and the semifinals of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament. She helped lead two athletes to All-Region and All-America honors.  Tran came to Babson following a successful two-year stint as an assistant women's volleyball coach at MIT. She helped the Engineers claim back-to-back NEWMAC Tournament championships in 2022 and 2023. MIT won 58 matches during Tran's tenure and made a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances, advancing to the Division III quarterfinals after winning the Medford Regional in 2022 before falling in the Cambridge Regional final after compiling 31 victories last fall.  Tran is a 2018 graduate of Bard College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and competed for both the women's volleyball and women's lacrosse teams. She amassed 283 kills and 442 digs in 124 career matches in volleyball and graduated as the Raptors' all-time leader with 534 saves while starting each of her 59 games in lacrosse.  Following graduation, Tran spent four seasons as an assistant women's volleyball coach at her alma mater where she was involved in recruiting, practice and match preparation and the coordination of the Bard volleyball skills camp before departing for MIT in August 2022. 

Fabian Ardila is in his 11th season as an assistant coach at Babson in 2025. In his first 10 years with the Beavers, Ardila has helped the program make seven NCAA Tournament appearances, which includes the program's first trip to the Elite Eight in 2018. In addition to his work at Babson, Ardila was the Technical Coordinator for the USA Girls Youth National Team that went undefeated in the NORCECA Championships and earned a bid to the World Championships in Cairo. Ardila was the resident assistant coach for the U.S. Women's National team and has worked extensively with the USA Volleyball high performance pipeline. He has served as the assistant coach of the HP Youth and Junior Continental teams at HP Championships, along with stints as associate head coach for the HP A2 youth program, and the setter and libero coach for the High Performance A2 youth program the past six years. A native of nearby Hopkinton, Ardila has three decades of coaching experience and was hired as the head girls' and boys' volleyball coach at Wellesley High School. Ardila was also inducted into the Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2017.