Amanda Ault

Hometown: Farmington Hills, MI Position: Head Coach Experience: 2nd Season

Email: ault@gwu.edu

Amanda Ault enters her second season at the helm of the George Washington volleyball team in 2012.

In her first season, Ault engineered a 10-0 start to the season including a D.C. sweep of local rivals Georgetown, American, George Mason and Howard to clinch the D.C. Challenge Championship. The start marks the best start to a season for the Colonials since the 2003 campaign. Ault also guided the Colonials to championships in the George Washington Invitational and the Third Degree Sportswear Invitational.

GW boasted a 12-1 record at the Charles E. Smith Center including the largest volleyball crowd in program history of 1,317 fans on October 14 vs. Fordham. For the season, the Colonials finished 20-10 with a 9-6 record in the A-10, a three-win overall improvement and three-win improvement in conference play from the year prior. The Colonials also qualified for the Atlantic 10 Championship for the first time since the 2008 season before bowing to Duquesne in the first round.

Under Ault's guidance, the Colonials saw seven players earn A-10 Weekly Honors while then-junior Lauren Whyte garnered A-10 All-Conference First Team, A-10 All-Academic Team and CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. The Colonials also ranked in the top four among team statistics in the Atlantic 10 in hitting percentage (4th, .207), assists (4th, 11.94/set) and kills (4th, 12.89/set).

Ault, who became the ninth Colonials volleyball coach in the program's 36-year history, came to GW from the University of Michigan where she served as a Wolverines' assistant coach for three seasons. At Michigan, she was responsible for recruiting and setters in addition to scouting opponents, practice planning and day-to-day operations.

No stranger to Atlantic 10 volleyball, Ault served seven seasons as an assistant and associate head coach at Xavier from 2001-07. She helped lead the Musketeers to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2001 and `07. Four of those Musketeer teams won 20 or more matches including a 24-11 mark in `07.

Primarily responsible for the setters at Xavier, Ault helped guide setter Jenn Welsh to A-10 Rookie of the Year honors in 2005 and to third place on Xavier's all-time assists list, while tutoring setter Molly Martin to a storied career at Xavier in which she was twice named A-10 Setter of the Year and graduated second on the school's all-time assists list. Ault was also a part of a program that boasted 17 A-10 All-Conference honors, two A-10 Rookies of the Year, two A-10 Players of the Year, one Atlantic 10 Student-Athlete of the Year and one CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year during her seven seasons.

Prior to her stint at Xavier, Ault spent two seasons as an assistant at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. The Cardinals posted a 41-26 record during her tenure, including a 24-11 mark in 2000 as the team advanced to the Southland Conference Championship match. While at Lamar, Ault earned a master's degree in kinesiology with a sports administration emphasis.

The Farmington Hills, Mich., native is a 1999 graduate of Central Michigan University, with a bachelor of science degree in health fitness, Ault was a standout setter for the Chippewas from 1994-98. She ranks fourth on Central Michigan's all-time assists list with 2,688 and graduated with the second-best single-season assist total in Chippewas' history (1,365) and ranked as high as 11th in single-season assists among NCAA Division I setters.

Amanda Ault Career Record
(as a Head Coach)