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Jonathan Killingbeck
Volleyball - Assistant Coach
E-Mail: jonathan.killingbeck@azwestern.edu
Jonathan Killingbeck is the newest member of the Lady Matadors’ coaching staff, having joined the ranks this January. In his five previous years of coaching volleyball, he’s seen and experienced nearly every aspect of the game of volleyball. Killingbeck came to Yuma for his first coaching foray outside of his native state of Washington after spending last season as the lead assistant volleyball coach at Whitman College, an NCAA Division III school in Walla Walla. Killingbeck helped supervise the Lady Wolverines in practice, the weight room and in the film room, while also spending a lot of time out recruiting. Before that, Killingbeck was an assistant and the director of volleyball operations at NCAA Division I Seattle University, where he spent a lot of time helping with recruiting, scouting and video editing. It’s at SU where he also learned the respected Gold Medal Squared volleyball system. Killingbeck also earned his Master’s Degree in Sports Administration and Leadership at SU, graduating with honors in the summer of 2009. Killingbeck first ‘cut his coaching teeth’ while he was earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. He was a volunteer student assistant coach for two years, helping with practice, winter and spring workouts and video editing, and while he was at CWU, the Lady Wildcats reached the NCAA Playoffs both seasons. Killingbeck has also spent the last three years gaining extra coaching experience as head coach of four different club organizations on teams ranging from ages 15 through club teams at Seattle University.
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