Georgia’s Lizzy Stemke Resigns As Head Coach

  0 Carly DeMarque | December 01st, 2016 | College - Women's Indoor, College Coaching Changes, News, SEC

After six years with Georgia, Lizzy Stemke has been dismissed as Georgia’s head volleyball coach, though it is being deemed a resignation.

The Bulldogs’ season ended last week with a loss in the SEC tournament, their overall season record was 13-18, 1-17 in the SEC. In her six years at Georgia, Stemke went 79-105 overall and 32-80 in the SEC.

Stemke posted only one winning season in her time at Georgia, coming in 2013 when the team went 22-10 overall and 11-9 in the SEC.

Despite starting the 2016 season off with a 12-1 record after non-conference play, the Bulldogs couldn’t do anything right in the SEC. Their lone conference win came to South Carolina in a four set match. The remaining matches were sweeps and four set matches, with only three five set matches taking place.

In August 2010 Georgia hired a new Athletics Director Greg McGarity, who fired then-head volleyball coach Joel McCartney in the middle of a season that ended 15-17 overall and 6-14 in the SEC. McGarity hired Stemke, who was previously an assistant at Nebraska.

With Stemke’s resignation, Georgia will begin a national search for a new head coach.

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Carly DeMarque

Carly DeMarque has been involved with competitive volleyball for the majority of her life, playing competitively at the club and collegiate level for 15 years and coaching club for five. Now a retired Division I volleyball athlete out of McNeese State University, she continues her volleyball enthusiasm by stepping back into …

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