Brian Hazelwood Volunteer Assistant Coach // @BHazelwoodMSU // Third Season Brian Hazelwood enters his third season as a volunteer assistant with the Mississippi State volleyball program. He is assigned on-court coaching duties as well as assists in the offensive and defensive game planning throughout the season. The Clinton, Miss., native also aids in the preparation of scouting reports for each of the Bulldogs’ opponents.
Hazelwood was a two-time All-Southeastern Conference placekicker during his MSU career (1995-98). He later played four seasons as a placekicker in the arena football league, earning second-team all-league honors in three of his four seasons. He is married to Jenny Hazelwood and they are the parents of two children, Allison Riley and Andrew Brian.
Alicia Catlette
Kari Kebach
Strength Coach // Third Season
Overseeing the conditioning and strength training of the volleyball Bulldogs is Mississippi State assistant strength coach Alicia Catlette. Catlette is a 2008 graduate of Ohio University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in psychology. A native of Mogadore, Ohio, she was a four-year member of the Ohio University softball team, where she earned All-MAC honors as an infielder. She then earned a graduate degree in exercise and sport sciences at Texas Tech University, where she served as a graduate assistant strength coach and worked with Texas Tech’s athletes in women’s basketball, baseball, volleyball, softball, women’s tennis and women’s soccer. More recently Catlette served a six-month internship at the University of Tennessee. In Knoxville she worked with the Lady Vols’ basketball, softball, volleyball, soccer, rowing, tennis, golf and swimming & diving teams and assisted in the development and implementation of resistance training, speed, agility, quickness and conditioning programs for UT student-athletes. Catlette holds strength and conditioning coach certification through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association and USA Weightlifting.
Kylie Amato
Ann Carr
Athletic Trainer // Third Season
Sr. Women’s Assoc. // 20th Season
Kari Kebach is in her third year as an assistant athletic trainer in Mississippi State’s sports medicine department. In addition to volleyball Kebach also serves as the athletic trainer for the Mississippi State University softball program. A native of Pierre, South Dakota, she earned a bachelor’s of science degree in athletic training from South Dakota State University in the spring of 2005. She then received a master’s degrees in sports medicine/biomechanics in May 2009 from the University of Tennessee. While with UT in Knoxville she served as the graduate assistant/intern athletic trainer with the Lady Vols volleyball team. Upon completion of her internship at Tennessee, she moved to Nashville, Tenn., where she served as an athletic trainer at Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute. At VOI she provided high school out-reach coverage, treated patients in the outpatient physical therapy clinic, and served as an instructor within the Peabody College at Vanderbilt.
A 19-year veteran in athletic administration at Mississippi State and a former Lady Bulldog athlete, Ann Carr serves as senior associate athletics director and senior women’s administrator. Carr is in her second stint with the Mississippi State athletic department. She served for seven years as Assistant Athletic Director for Student Life, working with the personal development of MSU’s studentathletes in addition to responsibilities as academic counselor for the Bulldog football team. In June 2006 she was named associate athletic director for women’s sports and was elevated to her current position in June 2008. Carr serves as the director of the department’s Life Skills program, which includes the support systems and career programs for all MSU student-athletes, and its CHAMPS program. As SWA, Carr oversees the operation and the supervision of State’s nine athletics teams for women and serves as the direct departmental liaison with the Bulldog volleyball team. Hired in 1993 as an assistant director in the athletic academic office, she returned to the department in 1999. A native of Brookhaven, Miss., Carr was a four-year letterwinner (1986-90) in basketball at Mississippi State. Carr, a 1990 graduate of State, also earned her master’s degree in counseling at MSU in 1992.
Midge Davis
Lee VanHorn
Academic Counselor // First Season
Office Associate // Sixth Season
Kylie Amato, a native of Toomsuba, Miss., enters her fifth year with MSU and first with the volleyball team. Prior to joining MSU, Amato was the Assistant Director at Florida State where she served, the last seven years, as the Academic Counselor for Women’s Basketball, Baseball and Women’s Tennis. In addition, she served as the Advising Coordinator between Academic Athletic Advising and Advising First. She also served as a staff representative to FSU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and is an active member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics. Amato was a letter winner in volleyball at the West Alabama where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. Moving into coaching thereafter, Amato joined the Northwestern State volleyball program as a graduate assistant coach. While there, she earned her Master’s Degree in Sports Administration.
Tending to the countless administrative tasks associated with the Volleyball Bulldogs and the MSU coaching staff is Midge Davis, in her fifth year on the Mississippi State University Athletics Department staff. In addition to her administrative duties with volleyball, she also serves in a similar capacity with MSU soccer and both the men’s and women’s golf programs. A native of Mantachie, Miss., Davis earned an associate degree at Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Ark. She previously served for 14 years as an administrative assistant at East Central Community College in Decatur, Miss. She is married to Gene Davis, recently retired after a 36-year career as a college administrator. They have one son, Blake Hedrick.
Sports Information Director // 1st Season
Overseeing the publicity needs of the Volleyball Bulldogs is Lee VanHorn, who begins his fifth season with the Mississippi State athletic department but first with the volleyball team. He is also the primary contact for the men’s and women’s golf programs. He will also assist with the MSU athletics website, HailState.com, and continue working to grow and expand the department’s social media platforms. VanHorn has served as the primary contact for the golf programs over the previous three seasons while a student assistant in the media relations office. During his four years as a student assistant, he worked with all of the Bulldogs’ varsity sports and took an active leadership role with the department’s student volunteers. The Winona, Miss., native received his bachelor’s of business administration with an emphasis in management in Dec. of 2012.
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