Jordan Lay

ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH/RECRUITING COORDINATOR FIRST SEASON AT MSU

Jordan Lay was hired on May 6, 2022 as the Mississippi State volleyball associate head coach and recruiting coordinator.

Lay was named the Lamar University head coach in January 2020. He comes to Beaumont from Wofford where he has spent the previous four seasons as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator.

During his four seasons at Wofford, Lay built a name for himself as one of the top recuiters in the sport bringing in back-to-back top 150 recruiting classes. Once on campus, Lay helped tuned those recruits into some of the Southern Conference’s top talent. Lay’s recruiting efforts produced 11 All-Conference selections, including the 2017 Southern Confernece Player of the Year and four first-team selections. He also had three players garner All-Freshman team honors as well.

In Lay’s first season with the Terriers, he helped guide Wofford to its first winning season since 2012. That season also marked the school’s first winning record in conference play in program history. That same year, Wofford also recorded several other first, including the program’s first conference Freshman of the Year honor, and the team’s first first-team All-Conference selection. The Terriers followed that up with a 22-win season the following year advancing to the SoCon Championship match for the first time in program history.

Lay’s efforts did not go unnoticed on a national level. In 2018, Lay was a recipient of the AVCA’s Thirty Under Thirty Award.

Lay joined the Wofford staff after spending the previous three seasons as head coach at NCAA Division ll West Alabama. Lay took over a UWA program that had seen little success prior to his arrival and built them into one of the Gulf South Conference’s stronger teams. Prior to his arrival, the Tigers won a total of three confernence matches and every season under Lay the Tiger watched that number increase. UWA posted a respectable 9-11 mark in his third season before acceptiing the position at Wofford. The nine conference wins was a high-water mark for the program.

Prior to West Alabama, Lay was the head coach for one season at NAIA Belhaven University. In that one season, he was named the Southern States Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the Blazers to a 27-9 (.750) overall record. Following two wins in the conference tournament, Belhaven set a new program record for wins in a season. Lay also spent one season as an assistant at Belhaven.

Additionally, Lay served as an assistant coach with Team Indiana Volleyball Club and at Park Tudor High School in Indianapolis before relocating to Belhaven. He was also the head coach of the Butler University women’s club team that won the 2010 Vanderbilt Invitational.

A native of Indianapolis, Ind., Lay earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Butler in 2011.