Jill Stucky
	Position: Associate Head Coach Experience: Fifth Year Degree: Wyoming, '96

Jill (Jones) Stucky begins her fifth season at the University of Wyoming and her first as an associate head coach. Stucky came from the University of Kansas in Lawrence where she spent ten seasons as an assistant coach. Among her many duties, she was the main recruiting coordinator, travel coordinator, responsible for opponent scouting and video breakdown, along with being a liaison for the student-athletes with many facets of the athletics department such as team equipment, housing, academic services and the training room. In 2004, she had one of the Top Ten recruiting classes in the country. She was also the Big XII Conference Representative for the Assistant Coaches Committee through the American Volleyball Coaches Association. One of their best seasons was a 22-11 overall record and a third place finish in the Big XII in 2003. They also made three NCAA Appearances.

Prior to that, she spent one season as an assistant coach at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kan., under current Kansas head coach Ray Bechard. During that year, she helped the Cougars to a 59-3 record and a Final Four appearance at the NJCAA Tournament. Her duties included assisting with practice, strength and conditioning, along with day to day operations. While at BCCC, she also served as an athletics academic advisor on top of her coaching duties. As an athletics academic advisor, she oversaw the academic advisement for baseball, men's and women's track and volleyball.

Her playing career began at the University of Wyoming where she was a three-year letterwinner for the Cowgirls. She was a team captain as a junior. In 1994, she helped the Cowgirls to a 17-13 record and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. As a senior, she led the team in service aces, digs and kills, and still ranks among the Top 15 in each of those categories in school history. An excellent student, she earned Western Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete honors in addition to being named to the School of Education's Dean's List. Stucky received a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in English from Wyoming in 1996 and continued her education by earning a master's degree in sports administration from Kansas in 2002.

She has also been involved in several volleyball camps throughout the region. She has worked camps at Wichita State, Wyoming, Colorado State and Barton County Community College in addition to the University of Kansas camps and satellite clinics.

Her coaching experience also reaches beyond the collegiate ranks, as she previously served as the head coach of the USAV Sport-2-Sport 17-and-Under Elite Team in Lawrence, Kan., and the 18-and-Under Elite Volleytech Sports Club team in Great Bend, Kan. She was also the head coach of the Snowy Range 18-and-Under Volleyball Club team in Laramie, Wyo. in 1997.

She and her husband, Kyle, were married in the spring of 2002. They have three daughters, Alexis, Madeline and Ashlyn.