Missouri University of Science and Technology Women's Volleyball

Jacquie Cason enters her second season as the head women's volleyball coach. Before joining the S&T staff in March 2024, she was with Northwest Missouri State. She was with the Bearcats for the last five years, the first two as a graduate assistant coach before becoming the top assistant in the Bearcat program in July 2021. In her time at Northwest, the Bearcats had a record of 100-39, including NCAA Division II Tournament appearances in 2021 and 2022 and trips to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Tournament in those five seasons. Northwest reached the championship game of the MIAA Tournament in the spring season in 2021 and again in the fall season of that calendar year.  The Bearcats also won the MIAA regular season title in 2022, and while playing in the highly competitive MIAA and in the same region with teams in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, recorded 18 wins over nationally-ranked teams during those five seasons.  One of those 18 wins came over No.-1 ranked Washburn during the 2021 campaign, which was among five victories over teams ranked in the top five in the nation since the start of the 2019 season. At Northwest, Cason was involved in numerous aspects of the program, including being the program's recruiting coordinator, managing budgets and fundraising projects, tracking academic progress, and coordinating practice planning and travel. Her primary coaching areas centered around training the middle and pin hitters. Northwest finished among the top five in kills and attack percentage in the MIAA in four of the last five seasons, including leading the conference with 13.3 kills per set in the spring of 2021 and also ranked among the top five in blocks in three of those seasons.   Before going to Northwest, Cason spent one year at Eastern Illinois University and one year at Nicholls State University as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. She was involved with scouting, film preparation and analysis, coaching the offense, and developing blocking schemes at both schools.   Cason began her coaching career at Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Ky., where her junior varsity squad recorded the best record in the state in 2016. She also served as an assistant varsity coach during Sacred Heart's successful 2016 state championship run, the school's first state championship in 13 years. Sacred Heart finished that season with a No. 3 ranking in the nation among high school programs, which included championships at the LIVT Tournament held in Louisville and the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix.   Cason played collegiately at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she played as a pin hitter. She served as team captain her senior season and totaled 100 or more kills in each season at UTEP, where her attack percentage mark of .306 during the 2010 season still ranks as the sixth-best single-season mark in program history. In addition, she amassed more than 250 hours of community service over her five-year career. She was a four-time Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll selection, a seven-time honoree on the Dean's List for a semester grade point average of 3.5 higher and received the Conference USA Commissioner's Medalist award in 2011.    She earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from UTEP in 2015 and earned her master's degree in applied health sciences at Northwest Missouri State in 2021.  She is originally from Vail, Ariz.

Missouri S&T Athletics announced Cooper Martin as the head coach for women's volleyball in February 2026, making her the fifth head coach in program history. Martin joined the Miners after a two-season stint with Drake University where she served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. While with the Bulldogs she focused primarily on the offense, with an emphasis on working with setters. Prior to Drake, Martin served as the Head Beach/Assistant Indoor volleyball coach at Southwest Baptist University for the 2023-2024 season. From 2021-23, Martin taught English and coached volleyball at Lubbock Christian High School where her team made consecutive state tournament appearances for the first time in school history. Martin graduated from Decatur High School in Decatur, Texas. There, Martin led her team to two consecutive state championship titles while earning MVP honors. Martin played and later coached indoor and beach volleyball at Texas Advantage Volleyball Club in Dallas, Texas. She then went on to play collegiate volleyball at Dallas Baptist University where she earned her degree in Sports Management.