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Jamie McCormack

  • Title
    Head Volleyball Coach
  • Email
    jmccormack@piedmont.edu
  • Phone
    1055
  • Year
    9th Season
  • Alma Mater
    Huntingdon, 2007 (BA)
  • Piedmont Record
    90-121 (.427% - 8 seasons)
  • Career Record
    90-121 (.427% - 8 seasons)
Coaching Highlights at Piedmont (2016-Present)
- NCAA Statistical Leader (Taylor Herrmann - Digs Per Set - 2022)
- CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-American (Jessica Beil - 2021)
- USA South Tournament Final Appearance (2018)
- USA South Libero of the Year (Haley Hixon - 2016)
- CCS Libero of the Year (Taylor Herrmann - 2023)
- CCS Rookie of the Year (Kaylee Ashcraft - 2023)
- 6 All-CCS Selections
- 8 All-USA South Selections 
- 11 CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-District Selections 
 
Jamie McCormack

Collegiate Career at Univ. of Arkansas Fort Smith (2003), Huntingdon College (2004-2006)
Three-time All-Conference Selection at Huntingdon
Helped UA-Fort Smith to 38-4 record
UA-Fort Smith conference championship
UA-Fort Smith finished 12th in the country
 
Jamie McCormack enters her ninth season as Head Volleyball Coach in the fall of 2024. In her first eight seasons with the Lady Lions, McCormack has totaled three "of the year" honors including a pair in the 2023 season with Taylor Herrmann earning CCS Libero of the Year and Kaylee Ashcraft named CCS Rookie of the Year. 

The Lions totaled five on the CCS all-conference listing in 2023 making it a total of six for McCormack in two seasons in the league. Also in her career, Taylor Herrmann was the NCAA statistical leader in digs per set as a junior in 2022. 

The fall of 2021 was highlighted by McCormack's first CoSIDA Academic All-American under her watch, as libero Jessica Beil earned the honor. Beil was joined by teammate Bri King in earning CoSIDA All-District honors.

In the shortened spring 2020 campaign Piedmont delivered four wins with two being in conference.

The 2019 season saw the Lady Lions total 10 wins including going 6-8 in league play. The Lady Lions made the USA South tournament for the fourth year in a row dropping a close 3-2 battle against Covenant in the opening round.

In 2018, McCormack led the Lady Lions to a remarkable conference tournament run as Piedmont closed the regular season with five straight wins. Piedmont entered the conference tournament as the No. 4 seed but won three-straight with an upset over top-seeded Covenant and second-seeded William Peace. 

The Lady Lions would face Meredith in the championship game, but fell 3-0 to the top-seeded East Division Avenging Angels. 
 
The Lady Lions have posted 16 or more wins in three seasons under McCormack culminating in 13 straight winning seasons for Piedmont through the 2018 season. In 2016, Piedmont dropped its first-round match in the USA South tournament but advanced to the quarterfinals in 2017 improving in McCormack’s second season.
 
McCormack faced the Lady Lions during her own collegiate career as she played for fellow USA South member Huntingdon College from 2004-2006. The Hawks and Lady Lions squared off nine times during those three years with Huntingdon holding a slim 5-4 edge in those match-ups.
 
McCormack enjoyed a decorated collegiate career both at Huntingdon, where she was a three-time All-Conference selection, and at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith where she spent her freshman year helping the Lady Lions to a National Tournament appearance, finishing 12th in the country.  UA-Fort Smith posted a 38-4 record in McCormack's freshman year including a 31-match winning streak on the way to claiming a conference title in 2003.

Following her collegiate playing career, McCormack would return to the Huntingdon volleyball program as an Assistant Coach. McCormack mentored four players in the top ten of the league in total kills after placing second in the league in kills, kills per set, and hitting percentage during her own senior season. The Hawks reached the championship game of the Great South Athletic Conference Tournament in 2012 with McCormack helping guide the team.

Prior to entering the coaching ranks, McCormack spent time learning from some of the game's greats including current Division I Alabama A&M Head Coach Rose Magers-Powell, a member of the United States Volleyball team that posted a Silver Medal finish at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.  

McCormack's coaching influence also runs through her family as she spent a season coaching with her mother, Libby Hoffman, at UMS-Wright in Mobile, Alabama helping the Bulldogs to an Elite 8 appearance in the State Tournament. Hoffman was also Jamie's high school coach during her playing days at Bob Jones High school in Huntsville, Alabama as the two posted a combined 100 wins in her final two seasons. In 2002, McCormack helped the program to its first-ever appearance in the State Tournament making the Elite 8 and earned All-Tournament honors.

Prior to joining the Piedmont athletic department in 2016, McCormack spent three years in the corporate world as an APS Team Lead for Career Builder working with some of the company's largest accounts.
 
A 2007 graduate of Huntingdon College, McCormack earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

McCormack's Year-by-Year Coaching Record (2016-Present)

Season Record Pct. School Name
2023 14-16 .467 Piedmont
2022 6-21 .222 Piedmont
2021 6-20 .231 Piedmont
2021 SP 4-11 .267 Piedmont
2019     10-19 .345 Piedmont
2018 16-11 .593 Piedmont
2017 16-11 .593 Piedmont
2016 18-12 .600 Piedmont
Totals 90-121 .427 1 School


McCormack's Coaching Record by School (2016-Present)
School Name Seasons Record Winning Pct.
Piedmont (2016-Present) 8 90-121 .427


Last updated 8/24