Volleyball at Mary Baldwin College

Volleyball Coaches

Paul Yee

Paul Yee enters his fourth season as the Head Coach for Mary Baldwin and looks to continue to improve the program, not only on the court, but as positive individuals, in the classroom and in the community. MBC Volleyball was given the Team Sportsmanship award by the USA South in 2008 and 2009,

We want our people to be a great Volleyball player and Student-Athlete for MBC. – Making good Decisions is essential and we want athletes to make positive decisions at all times. We are only concerned with the improvement issue each day, whether for Volleyball, team spirit, or academics, we need to be mindful – Understanding what we need to do and how to do it. “No matter how good we are, we can always get better.”

Paul looks to help make Mary Baldwin’s volleyball program into a highly competitive program in the USA South conference. "This program has gained experience throughout last season and we will look to build on the successes of last season. The players are learning and competing each day to make this program better."

540-887-7153
pyee@mbc.edu

Jason Axford

Jason joined the staff of Mary Baldwin College in 2009, after a one year hiatus from coaching, in an effort to help build our program. Prior to Mary Baldwin, Jason has had much success as a Head and Assistant Volleyball Coach with College programs.

Jason was first the assistant coach for Eastern Mennonite Men's Volleyball from ‘98-‘99, played professionally in Klagenfurt, Austria for 1 year while also winning the South Africa Club National Championships later that same year; and then returned in ‘00-‘01 to the USA as the Men's assistant for the second time. He then went on to become the head coach of the Men's team from ‘01-‘04 and coached his team to the Final Four in 2004. Jason holds the distinction of being the only EMU Alumnus to have gone to the Final Four both as a player in '98 and then as a coach in '04 when EMU hosted the Final Four.

Jason then entered the women’s side of volleyball as the 1st assistant at Bridgewater College until 2008, where they won the ODAC regular season title in his final year. Currently he competes on AVP Next tour with hopes of Qualifying with South Africa in the 2012 Olympics in beach volleyball.

jasonaxford@yahoo.com