Coaching Staff • Blue Devil Volleyball

Jessica Casey
Head Coach

Jessica Casey has been Blue Devils head coach since 2004. She was a four-year collegiate volleyball athlete first at Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colorado, later at Huron University in Huron, South Dakota. She graduated with a B.S. in Secondary History Education with a minor in coaching. She learned quickly the hard way. As her first experience, she was hired at NAIA Bacone College in Muskogee , Oklahoma to initiate the school's first ever volleyball team. At Bacone, besides coaching the team, she handled team organization, purchasing, recruiting, travel arrangements as well as being in charge of all intramural activities. With her hard knocks experience at Bacone she returned to her home state of Colorado , where she was hired to coach volleyball at Lamar Community, a bitter rival of her alma mater Otero. After two years she left the security of a full-time position at Lamar for the adventure of the unknown: an adjunct head coach position at Merced College , where her fiancé (now husband, Bob) played JC football and was returning to coach football and track. She blended well with the circumstance was hired full-time teacher and coach within a year. “The best part of coaching at the community college level,” she says, “is the fact we get to prepare the athletes for the next steps in life, athletically and academically.” Along with her coaching, she immediately began work on a Masters Degree in Human Performance and Sport from New Mexico Highlands, which she expects to receive in the summer of 2008. .

Mary-Michal Rawling
Assistant Coach

Mary-Michal Rawling joins the Blue Devils this year as an assistant coach. She graduated from Modesto High School and received her BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Clark University in Worcester, MA. At Clark, Mary-Michal continued to play volleyball as a defensive specialist and still holds the school record for total digs in a season and total career digs. Mary-Michal spends her days as the Program Manager for the Merced/Mariposa County Asthma Coalition

Christine Wilson
Student Assistant

Wilson graduated Golden Valley High School in 2004 and continued her education and love for volleyball at Merced College. Wilson took on an active playing role at Merced College for two years, splitting time as a right side hitter and middle hitter. After graduating in 2006 with an Associate in Arts for Social Science, Wilson moved on to CSU Stanislaus to finish her education. She will be graduating this fall with a Bachelors Degree in Social Science and a minor in history, psychology and political science. Wilson will then enter into the credentialing program for teachers within the next year. Wilson hopes to not only be able to show her love for history to her students but coach high school volleyball as well. We are excited to have Wilson on our coaching staff this year.