HEAD COACH NANCY DORSEY

Nancy Dorsey, a 4 year letter winner at the University of Kansas, has been coaching for the past 16 years. Dorsey and her husband Bryan started the program here at St. James, and have been coaching here since. In just 11 varsity seasons, Dorsey’s teams have played in 11 straight state championship games, winning 8 State Championships (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017) and finished 2nd three times (2007, 2014, 2016). In the past 11 seasons, Dorsey’s teams have also received National recognition, being crowned the PrepVolleyball.com National Champions twice in 2010 and 2013, was 3rd in the nation in 2015, and placed 4th in 2008 and 2011. In 2013, Dorsey’s teams remained unbeaten, going 46-0, dropping only a single set the entire season. In 2013, Dorsey was named the American Family Insurance All-USA Coach of the Year. She has received numerous other coaching awards including the 2013 KCA Coach of the Year,  4A Coach of the Year (2008, 2009), 5A Coach of the Year (2012, 2013, 2015, 2017), the Greater Kansas City Volleyball Coaches Association Coach of the Year (2008, 2011) and in 2013 she was a Kansas City Sports Commission Coach of the Year Finalist. In 2015, Dorsey was selected as the AVCA National Coach of the Year. She coaches along side her husband, and the two share five children together; triplets, Finley, Ellen and Cooper (7), Fiona (6) and Fletcher (3).