Director
Jay Umboh

Jay has been coaching volleyball since 1996. He's worked with MTSU and UT-Chattanooga as their 1st assistant coach, where his duties included recruiting, game planning, running practice and organizing volleyball camps. He's recruited top athletes that have made the All South Team, All Conference, All Tournament, and Rookie of the Year. While at UTC, he helped them attain their highest winning percentage and reached Conference Finals. Jay has been head coach and director with several clubs in Nashville (Head coach at Alliance, Williamson County Select. Director/Coach at Nashville VBC, SportsCom VBC).  Jay is also coached at MLK HS. During his first year there in 2012, he led their Freshman team to a 15-1 record and won the city championship. He then became the varsity head coach at MLK and in 2017 led the team to second place in the district and qualified for their first regional tournament. Jay graduated from MTSU and learned to play there where he captained the MTSU collegiate men's club. Jay is still playing competitive volleyball at outdoor and indoor tournaments/leagues. Jay is big on technique and fundamentals, and loves coaching all levels, from beginners just learning the game, up to collegiate athletes. Jay has been with Spike since 2012. Jay got his USAV IMPACT certification in 2011 and AVP Beach Volleyball Training Certificate in 2017.

Associate Director
Emily Bean

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Emily Bean lettered in volleyball for three seasons at Pike High School, earning First-Team All-County honors, as well as All-Conference honors in 2009 and was also named to the ICGSA South All-Star team her senior year. She played her club volleyball career for Team Indiana, one of the top clubs in the Midwest Region. Emily verbally committed her junior year to play collegiate volleyball at Kennesaw State University. During her career at Kennesaw State she earned All-Tournament honors and ASUN player of the week nominations. Her senior year she studied and played abroad in Spain for a semester contributing to a local semi-pro team. 

This will be her tenth year of coaching. Prior to joining Spike (2016) she coached numerous summer volleyball camps at the university and club level. She began coaching club in 2012 at Cobb Atlanta Volleyball club in Atlanta. Emily has also been training as a beach volleyball coach receiving her LEVEL 1 AVP Coaching Certification and opening a brand new 3 court facility in 2017.

Emily enjoys coaching not only because of her passion for the game but for the ability to help young athletes grow as young adults and learn valuable life skills.