Blinn College Women's Volleyball

Blinn College welcomes Gregg Whitis for his first season as head coach of the Buccaneers.  Whitis comes to Blinn following a four-year run as an assistant coach at New Mexico State University.   Whitis brings a wealth of coaching experience spanning more than 30 years, including over 20 seasons at NCAA Division I programs such as New Mexico State, Arizona, Tennessee, Clemson, Michigan, Southern Methodist, Indiana State, and Appalachian State.  Whitis is a revered recruiter and talent developer, with experience as a recruiting coordinator at Tennessee, Clemson, Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico State, and Appalachian State.   During his career, Whitis has recruited and coached numerous NCAA All-Americans and has helped guide four different programs to numerous appearances in the NCAA National Tournament.  In 2010, Whitis secured a recruiting class for Tennessee that ranked as the fourth-best in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com, and it later was regarded as the best in program history.  Whitis began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Indiana State from 1995 to 1997, before taking the head coaching position at the NJCAA program Kankakee Community College from 1997 to 1998.  Whitis earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Education from Olivet Nazarene University in 1991. He is originally from Bourbonnais, Ill. 

Maddie Jackson begins her second season as a Blinn assistant volleyball coach in 2025.  VanDyke arrives at Blinn after playing four seasons as a collegiate setter for New Mexico Junior College (2019), Trinity Valley Community College (2020), and the NCAA Division II program University of West Alabama (2021-22). She served one season as a graduate assistant coach at West Alabama in the fall of 2024.  VanDyke earned a bachelor's degree in health science from West Alabama and earned a master's degree in mass communications from Texas Tech University in December 2024.  VanDyke is a 2019 graduate of Atascocita High School in Humble, Texas.