Coaching Staff

Volleyball - Head Coach

Email: Karen Glover

Karen Glover heads into her second year holding the reins of the AWC Volleyball program after having the ‘interim’ part of her title removed last February. Glover arrived at AWC in the summer of 2008 knowing about the winning tradition of the program, and proceeded to keep things going by leading the ’08 Lady Mats to their 9th consecutive Region I Championship match. It was the second straight Region I title game that Glover’s teams had participated in after she led Phoenix College to a region title and beyond in 2007 before coming to Yuma. She spent two seasons at PC not only learning to coach the college game-it was her first college coaching stint-but dominating the game as well. Glover turned the Lady Bears’ Volleyball program completely around, taking a 10-win team the year before she arrived to a playoff-bound 2006 squad that won 17 of their last 25 games. Glover’s 2007 Bears’ squad continued to build on that momentum, winning their first 9 conference games, tying the Lady Matadors as ACCAC Co-Champions with a 16-2 conference mark. The top-seeded Lady Bears breezed through the Region I DII Playoffs to win their first title since 1999, then won 2 of their 4 matches at the NJCAA Division II Tournament, finishing 4th overall. Overall, Glover had a 45-24 record in her two-year tenure at PC, and was named the 2007 ACCAC Coach of the Year. Glover’s PC teams also made the NJCAA Fall Academic Team of the Year list both years. Glover came to PC after winning five region volleyball titles and a pair of Arizona State Class 4A Volleyball titles in seven years as the head volleyball coach at Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek near Phoenix. Glover is also a CAP 1 level-certified coach through USA Volleyball. Glover began her coaching career after playing both volleyball and softball at Hiram College in her native Ohio, where she also earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Communications. Glover is currently pursuing her Master’s in Sport Psychology.

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.