The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced Thursdsay that Jaime Gordon will become its new executive director. He takes over for Kathy DeBoer, who announced her retirement from the AVCA earlier this month. Gordon is expected to start at the AVCA in June.
Gordon was the longtime coach at Morehead State and this past January resigned to concentrate on his other job at the Kentucky school as athletic director. Read about that here.
“The role of executive director requires a unique combination of coaching and administrative experience. Dr. Jaime Gordon comes to the AVCA as a dedicated and successful professional in both spaces,” said Keegan Cook, president of the AVCA Board of Directors and coach at Minnesota, in an AVCA news release.
“Jaime’s decision to pivot from his role as a successful sitting D1 athletic director and dedicate himself wholly to the AVCA is one that I certainly respect. I feel this is a moment of celebration that the sport of volleyball and the AVCA has grown to a position where we can attract a candidate as qualified and experienced as Jaime.”
Gordon has spent the past 20 years in athletics at Morehead State where he became the winningest coach in the school’s history in any sport before…
