Volleyball Coaching Staff
Head
Coach Emily H. Gann - Podcast
Emily H. Gann begins her fourth year as Guilford's fourth volleyball coach and continues her restoration of the Quakers' winning tradition. Recruiting has been one of Gann's biggest tasks in the early going, and through three years she has welcomed 12 new, first-year students to the team, all of whom are expected to are make regular contributions.
Gann joined Guilford’s staff in July 2006 and has coached the Piedmont Triad Volleyball Club (PTVC) 17 Team since 2005. She started coaching with PTVC in 2003 and has helped two teams to the U.S. Junior Olympic Volleyball Championships. The Piedmont Triad 16 team placed 28th at the 2005 championships and the 2006 Piedmont Triad 17 squad finished 17th. Hayes also coaches top high school volleyball prospects with the North Carolina High Performance Team.
A four-year letter winner at Elon University, Gann became the school’s first All-Southern Conference volleyball performer as a second-team selection in 2005. She helped coach Mary Tendler’s Phoenix to their first winning season since 1997 and led the team in kills and hitting percentage. Gann graduated ranked among Elon’s career leaders in kills, blocks and aces. Her 480 kills in 2003 stood fourth all time and earned the team’s Most Valuable Player Award.
Gann earned her bachelor’s degree in special education and worked at Asheboro Middle School before coming to Guilford. She played high school volleyball for Dee Hodgin at Asheboro High School and club volleyball with the PTVC and the Central Carolina Area Volleyball Association. She received her Increased Mastery and Professional Application of Coaching Theory (IMPACT) certification from USA Volleyball.
The former Emily Hayes, Gann and her husband, John, married in July 2008 and reside in Greensboro.
Frank Motondo came to Guilford in 2007 from New Jersey where he was head coach of West Windsor Plainsboro (N.J.) High School's boys' and girls' volleyball teams from 2003-05. In 2006, he was a volunteer assistant coach for Seton Hall University. A member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and the United States Association of Volleyball, Motondo moved to North Carolina in 2007 and has worked as an assistant coach with the Piedmont Triad Volleyball Club Juniors-17 team. He and his wife, Katie, live in Burlington with their two children.