The Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Lady Norse announced the hiring of former Pittsburg State assistant Sarah Wall as their new head volleyball coach.
NEO begins the 2023 season Aug. 24 at home against Ozark Christian College.
“I believe life goes so fast, and I can’t sit around and watch it fly by me,” Wall said in a release. “I believe God sets your path, and I am willing to follow it every step of the way. I am so glad He led me to NEO.”
“We are extremely excited and fortunate to have someone like Coach Wall on our team,” NEO athletic director Joe Renfro said. “Her knowledge and experience for the sport will propel our teams into national championship contention, which is what we are all about here at NEO.”
Wall, an 1981 graduate from Joplin Parkwood High, enjoyed a successful high school volleyball head coaching career with stops at rival schools Webb City and Carl Junction.
An inductee into the Carl Junction Athletic Hall of Fame in May, Wall logged almost 400 career wins during her more than 20 years as a head coach at the high school level.
Wall’s 2013 Carl Junction team put together a 31-6-1 overall record and finished second overall in Missouri Class 3, the best finish in the history of the Carl Junction volleyball program. The 2013 team was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame a year before its head coach.
Carl Junction won six district championships and went 36-0 in the Big 8 Conference for five seasons.
Wall serves as a lead coach for the Gold Medal Squared summer volleyball camps, she owns and directs Club MVP Volleyball and she also speaks nationally for Glazier Coaches clinics.
Wall spent one season as an assistant for PSU head coach Jen Gomez, and the Gorillas finished 17-14 overall and 11-11 MIAA last season.
Wall and her husband Jesse have three children and four grandchildren. Their son, Zeke, recently completed his football career at PSU on the defensive line; he earned NCAA Division II All-America honorable mention in 2022 from the Don Hansen Committee and All-MIAA honors three times during a career in which he made 129 tackles (50 solo) with 19 tackles-for-loss and seven quarterback sacks.
