Seahawks promote Marshall to head coach

NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina Director of Athletics Colin Sullivan announced today that women's volleyball assistant coach Lindsay Marshall has been promoted to head coach. Marshall replaces Jen Maxwell, who stepped aside from her coaching duties last week to concentrate her efforts as an educator in Early Intervention at Children's Friend and Service (www.cfsri.org).

A four-year member and two-year captain of the volleyball team at Rivier College from 2004-07, Marshall helped the Seahawks to a 10-20 mark in 2009 and the team's fifth-consecutive berth into The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) Tournament.

"I am thrilled to promote Lindsay to the position of head coach," said Sullivan. "I have every confidence that she will continue to build our young volleyball program."

While at Rivier, Marshall was a two-time GNAC All-Tournament Team (2005-06) and First Team All-GNAC selection (2006-07). She helped Rivier capture the 2007 GNAC Championship and was named Rivier College Female Athlete of the Year and Granite State Libero of the Year following the season. Marshall began her coaching career with Athletes' Competitive Edge (ACE), where she was the head coach for a U-16 team, and later worked as an assistant coach with the Blast Volleyball Academy in Providence (2007-08).

"I am excited to take over this young, growing program that Jen has put countless time into," said Marshall, who was instrumental in the improvement of Salve Regina liberos Lisa Zabel (Madison, Conn.) and Jessica Meyer (Seymour, Conn.) this past fall. "I look forward to and can't wait to see this program grow even more."