Jessica Wolverton

Wolverton enters her seventh season at the helm of the Green Terror.

In her debut campaign, she guided a team of mostly freshmen to seven victories. She mentored two of the conference’s top hitters and was one of just two teams with multiple hitters in the top 12 individually.

A year later, Wolverton led the squad to a 19-9 season, earning Centennial Conference (CC) and ECAC tournament berths with only freshmen and sophomores on the roster. She earned conference Coach of the Year honors after the campaign, once again mentoring two of the CC’s top hitters to all-conference honors.

In 2014, Wolverton once again guided her Green Terror squad to a 19-win campaign and ECAC tournament appearance. Her squad posted the second-best hitting percentage in the conference.

In 2015, she guided the squad to the program’s first conference tournament title and first championship since 1999. Her team turned in a 21-8 record and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1989.

The two-time CC Coach of the Year became just the second person to win a CC title as both a player and a coach.

Prior to taking over at McDaniel, she spent the previous two seasons as the head volleyball coach at Sewanee: The University of the South.

At Sewanee, she was instrumental in building a team that had just eight wins in the three seasons before her arrival in Tennessee. In 2011, she brought in eight freshmen – the biggest recruiting class in program history – and quadrupled her win total, recording the program’s most victories in 10 years. Three of her players were named to all-tournament teams during the 2011 season, tripling the total from the previous year.

A Lancaster, Pa., native, Wolverton was a standout volleyball and soccer player at Hempfield High School before playing volleyball collegiately at CC-rival Gettysburg. In 2010, she was inducted into the Hempfield Athletics Hall of Fame.

The 2003 CC Player of the Year, she was part of four conference championship teams during her time as a Bullet. She was a first-team AVCA All-Mid-Atlantic selection in 2003, also garnering honorable mention All-America accolades, before being selected as an honorable mention all-region selection in 2004. During her four years leading the team, the Bullets racked up a 108-34 record, including a 37-3 mark in conference play.

A two-time All-CC first-team selection, she finished her career at Gettysburg 1,605 career kills – a total which still ranks third in program history. She also notched 1,339 career digs, which is still ninth all-time, to become one of just eight players in program history to be part of the 1,000-kill, 1,000-dig club.

A career .220 hitter and team captain as a senior, she still ranks in the Gettysburg top 15 with 211 service aces. She also had 187 total blocks, including 118 block assists, and had 103 assists. She also finished with 42 double-doubles, including in the final eight matches of her collegiate career.

After graduation, she went to Florida State University and spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons as a graduate assistant with the Seminoles volleyball program while earning her master’s of science from the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems.

Over the next three years, Wolverton spent time as a high school and middle school teacher in psychology and physical education at The Maclay Prepatory School in Tallahassee, Fla. She also served as the head volleyball coach, compiling a record of 60-28 in three seasons. She won a district championship each year at the helm, earned two regional championships and made two Florida Final Four appearances. She was also named Big Bend Coach of the Year in 2008.

At the same time, Wolverton was involved in the Tallahassee Juniors Volleyball Club, serving as the head coach and on the Board of Directors for the U-17 team until she returned to the college ranks in 2010.

While at Sewanee, she also served as the assistant sports information director and as an instructor in the physical education department.

Wolverton graduated cum laude from Gettysburg in 2005 with a bachelor of arts in psychology.