Goldey-Beacom College Women's Volleyball

Alexa Poss in one season took Goldey-Beacom's volleyball program from the ranks of also-rans to beyond competitive.  The goal of winning the program's first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference title since 2005 continues as she looks for elevated success in her second year. Goldey-Beacom only had gone to the conference tournament once in the last 16 seasons before Poss' arrival in 2024.  After the 2022 team had two wins and the 2023 squad won just five sets, the 2024 unit went 15-15 overall, 8-8 in the CACC and advanced to the conference tournament. GBC clinched its spot in the CACC Tournament on the last day of the season, recording a heartstopping 3-2 victory at Wilmington.  The good news continued after the season with Caitlyn Burch picked first team all-league, Gaby Fernandez named second team and Piper Nanouski tabbed third team.   Poss in 2022 took over a squad at Albright College that the previous year went 5-11 and ended the season with seven consecutive losses.  Things changed her first season with a 10-13 record and continued into last year, when the Lions went 16-10 and won eight straight matches midway through the campaign.   That 2023 season marked the best overall record for the program in 20 years and saw the first player named Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week since 2019.   Poss in 2023 brought in 11 players for the program’s first full recruiting class and over two seasons generated more than $10,000 in fundraising and donations.   Poss was a three-year player at Albright, leading the squad with 480 assists in 2019 that placed her fifth in the Commonwealth Conference.  In her sophomore campaign of 2018, she paced the Lions with 479 assists and 44 aces.   Also in her sophomore year, Poss represented Albright with the Beyond Sports Tour in Costa Rica.   She also has served since 2022 as the Nike Volleyball Camp Director at Albright.  Poss organized and directed four different camps over the years with over 100 campers and constructed over 10 different sessions in skill set and recruiting seminars.   Poss from 2018-19 was the head coach for the Delaware United Volleyball Club and was the club’s assistant coach from 2017-18.   The Annapolis, MD native played her freshman season in 2017 at Immaculata University after competing at Saint Mary’s High School.  At the latter, she was twice named the team’s Most Valuable Player, All-Anne Arundel County and all-conference.  

Jessica Tynes is in her fourth season as an assistant coach for Goldey-Beacom.   Tynes arrived from MOT Charter High School, where she spent two seasons as its JV coach.  She was in charge of designing practices that primarily assisted the freshmen and sophomores in hopes of making the varsity squad.  She also assisted the varsity practices and monitored the players' grades.   She also spent six months as an assistant coach with Premier Volleyball Club of Delaware, training 16-year-olds and arranging all of the practices.  Tynes also spent two years (2018-19) as an assistant with Wesley College, helping with recruiting, academics, planning practices and inventory of apparel.   Tynes is a Jobs for Delaware Graduates teacher at The John Dickinson School in Wilmington. She teaches high-school students life skills, how to get jobs, critical thinkings skills, emotional intelligence and finance among other things.   Tynes graduated Wesley College in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology, earning a spot on the Dean’s List her final year.  She also was a four-year member of the volleyball team, serving as captain her final season.   She earned her Master’s in Criminal Justice from Wesley in 2020.