Having not logged a winning season since 2021, Joplin High School volleyball has turned to a proven winner to lead it for the 2026 season.
Head coach Delice Downing will look to turn the squad around in her first year at the helm of the program. The Eagles finished 5-26-1 last season.
Downing is a former collegiate coach who captured back-to-back NJCAA national ****** les for the Coffeyville Community College Ravens in 2017 and 2018. She also was an NJCAA National Coach of the Year and was named Conference and District Coach of the Year multiple times.
After Coffeyville, Downing surpassed the 500-win mark in her career while coaching at Hutchinson Community College. Last year, she coached at Hesston High School in Kansas, where in her first season she led the team to the Kansas 3A state tournament, where they finished fifth.
"I thought I was ready to let coaching go because my daughter (sophomore Aah'Lice Jackson) is at the age where I want to watch her more, but this opportunity came and I now have the opportunity to coach my daughter," Downing said.
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Head coach Delice Downing will look to turn the squad around in her first year at the helm of the program. The Eagles finished 5-26-1 last season.
Downing is a former collegiate coach who captured back-to-back NJCAA national ****** les for the Coffeyville Community College Ravens in 2017 and 2018. She also was an NJCAA National Coach of the Year and was named Conference and District Coach of the Year multiple times.
After Coffeyville, Downing surpassed the 500-win mark in her career while coaching at Hutchinson Community College. Last year, she coached at Hesston High School in Kansas, where in her first season she led the team to the Kansas 3A state tournament, where they finished fifth.
"I thought I was ready to let coaching go because my daughter (sophomore Aah'Lice Jackson) is at the age where I want to watch her more, but this opportunity came and I now have the opportunity to coach my daughter," Downing said.
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