Coaches Profiles

HEAD COACH - ED BAILEY

Coach Bailey is in his fourth year of his second tenure coaching the Jayhawk Volleyball Team. Bailey was the head coach of the Jayhawks from 1989-994. Coach Bailey also has 19 years of high school volleyball coaching experience, most notably with Holton High School which culminated in a 1993 Class C State Runner-up and a 1994 Class C State Championship. Coach Bailey graduated with a B.A. in History and Psychology from Western Michigan University and a M.A. in Educational Leadership from WMU. He is recently retired from Reeths-Puffer Schools where he served as an elementary curriculum specialist. .

ASSISTANT COACH - MIKE CRANE

Michael Crane is beginning his first year as an assistant coach for the Jayhawk Volleyball program. A graduate of Fruitport High School, Michael played for both the men's soccer team and the men's tennis team. Michael attended both Trinity International University and Trinity Christian College where he competed on the varsity soccer, volleyball, and tennis teams while pursing a degree in Elementary Education. In 2000 Michael was a member of NCCAA National Championship Team. During the course of his senior year he was named NCCAA player of the week twice and the NAIA setter of the week once.

Michael and his wife were recently married in the summer of 2009, and they reside in Fruitport with their twin boys, Isaac and Will.