Coach Shae Speth, Head Varsity Coach
The 2017 season will be my 11th season coaching at GU, my 9th as Head Coach of the Prospectors. We have made the state playoffs the past 7 seasons, and I look forward to continuing that streak. The team finished 4th in 2012, 2nd in 2014, 3rd in 2015, and 3rd in 2016!!
Working with student athletes is very rewarding, and I love to see all of their hard work in practice pay off when it's game time. I teach Social Studies and English at Grant Union, and enjoy spending time with these girls on and off the court. Having played volleyball at Grant Union, and as a member of the 1989 State Championship team, sportsmanship, tradition, and success are extremely important to me now as a coach. I look forward to another rewarding and successful season.
In 2009 I attended the University of Nebraska Coaches Clinic with sessions by Hugh McCutcheon (2008 Men's Gold Medal Olympic Coach, former USA Women's Coach), Sue Enquist (11x softball National Champion as a player and coach), Coach John Cook and the Nebraska players, and Gwen Egbert (college, high school, and club coach who recently coached Nebraska Juniors to a national championship). It was great to see that even state, national, and Olympic championship programs work on fundamentals at every practice!! In 2013, 2015, and 2016, I attended the AVCA convention and NCAA Final Four. It was an amazing experience to network with hundreds of high school, club, and college coaches. Each spring from 2010-2017, I attended Gold Medal Squared coaching clinics at the University of Washington, learning techniques and systems used by the USA Olympic teams and top college programs, from top coaches in the nation. It was very exciting to learn more from such a successful program and system, the same as our summer team camp.
Personally, I have been married to my husband Steve for 23 years. We have 3 children: Caity; Trejan, a freshman in college,; and Eli, in 5th Grade. I have a BS in Secondary Education from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and an MA in History from the University of Nebraska. After spending time after high school in California (Univ. of San Francisco), Washington (WSU), and 12 years in Nebraska, we moved back to Grant County in 2006, and love being here.