Janay Yancey is in her second season as head volleyball coach at Tuskegee after spending time as an assistant at Alabama State. She is only the second full-time head coach in the program's history.
In 2016, Yancey assisted ASU in earning the 2016 Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament Championship and its third NCAA appearance in school history.
Much of her on-court coaching has focused on the middle blockers. While at Hampton, her team ranked fourth in the MEAC in blocks in 2014.
In winning the MEAC, the Lady Pirates made their first-ever NCAA Div. I Tournament appearance, taking on No. 7 seed Stanford in the first round.
Yancey began her coaching career as a student assistant at Middle Tennessee State in 2010, when MTSU won the Sun Belt Conference championship with a 29-6 record and made its fifth NCAA appearance. In 2011, Yancey joined South Alabama as a graduate assistant.
Her collegiate playing career began at North Carolina State in 2006. Yancey lettered there for two seasons as a middle blocker; as a sophomore, she averaged 2.07 kills and 0.62 blocks per set. She would later transfer to Middle Tennessee State in 2008, and was named to the All-Sun Belt Tournament Team and while also earning Conference Defensive Player of the Week as a senior in 2009.
In 2008, Yancey was named to the Sun Belt’s Commissioner’s List for academic excellence.
In her final season at MTSU,she won the Sun Belt Conference Championship. Yancey currently ranks fifth in program history in career blocks per set, having averaged 1.09 blocks per set in her two years with the program. She also hit .368 in 2008, recording the seventh-best single-season hitting percentage, and her .364 hitting percentage as a senior in 2009 is the ninth-highest mark in a single season school history.
Yancey holds a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science from MTSU,and a Masters of Science in Exercise Science from South Alabama. In 2011, she was a recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Minority Coaches Scholarship.
Yancey, a native of Columbia, Tenn., is a member of the AVCA and a 2014 graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy.
