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Volleyball
Coaching Staff
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Northwest Missouri State (41-58) Virginia Wesleyan (38-22) |
Anna Tool
Head Coach
Office: (660) 562-1782
atool@nwmissouri.edu
Northwest Missouri State head volleyball coach Anna Tool begins her third season at the helm of the Bearcats after leading her teams to the MIAA postseason tournament in each of her first two seasons.
Tool has led Northwest to an NCAA regional ranking and has defeated three teams ranked in the AVCA Top 25. In her short tenure, 43 school records have been set or tied.
Tool led the 2007 squad to a 17-17 record, the best season for a Northwest team since 2000, en route to a second MIAA Tournament appearance. With an aggressive offense, the Bearcats’ 15.46 kills per game outpaced the previous school record set in Tool’s first season.
Tool completed her first season at Northwest with a 14-19 record, earning the most wins by an inaugural Bearcat coach since 1987. Northwest made its first appearance in the MIAA tournament since the event’s inception in 2003 and saw Molly Hankins and MacKenzie Heston become the first Bearcats to earn All-MIAA honors since 2000. Alicia Johnson joined the duo by earning all-conference honors in 2007.
Tool graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. As a four-year volleyball and basketball athlete with the Cougars, Tool lettered in both sports all four years, was named to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) all-conference teams twice for each sport and was named to the academic all-conference teams once in volleyball and basketball. Tool set school volleyball records in career attack percentage and single-game attacks.
Tool’s transition into coaching began as a graduate assistant volleyball coach at South Dakota State in 1999. She spent two years in the role before earning her master’s degree in sport pedagogy with an emphasis in athletic administration.
The Jackrabbits had a team grade point average of 3.41 with Tool set to focus on team academics. The mark earned the program an American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) award in 1999.
Tool was instrumental in the development of North Central Conference (NCC) Freshman of the Year Angie Rime in 1999. She helped Rose Ebnet and Shauna Sturm achieve All-America status in 2000 when SDSU won an NCC championship, advanced to the regional final and finished as the fourth-ranked team in the nation. Ebnet and Sturm were the first All-Americans in program history.
Tool served as an assistant coach at North Carolina State University from 2001-03 before obtaining her first head coaching gig at Virginia Wesleyan College. In Tool’s two seasons at VWC, the Marlins twice competed in the semifinals of the Old Dominion Conference tournament and compiled two consecutive 19-win seasons. Tool also served as the assistant men’s and women’s tennis coach at VWC in 2004.
Tool holds membership in the AVCA and teaches classes at Northwest in officiating volleyball and the fundamentals of coaching volleyball.
Tool and her husband, Ryan, reside in Maryville and have two children, Carter (5) and Taylor (2).
Allison Rogers
Assistant Coach
Office: (660) 562-1026
arogers@nwmissouri.edu
Former Bearcat volleyball student-athlete Allison Rogers begins her first season as an assistant coach for the Northwest volleyball program. Hyland will be involved in all facets of the team from practice planning to recruiting. She will assist in evaluating prospects, corresponding with them, and coordinating campus visits.
Rogers was the head volleyball coach for Craig High School while also serving as an elementary and secondary school counselor in 2007-08. She started work on a master’s degree in guidance and counseling at Northwest after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology/sociology in 2007.
Rogers rejoins coach Tool after a playing career spanning 2002-06. She spent a one-year stint earning All-America honors in volleyball at Des Moines Area Community College in 2003 before returning to Maryville in 2004. Her 3.06 career kills per game average ranks fifth in Bearcat history.
Rogers recently married Ben Rogers, a conservationist for the state of Missouri.
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