Volleyball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Michigan native Lindi Sallach is in her fourth season as an assistant volleyball coach at Mississippi State University and her sixth year in association with MSU head volleyball coach Jenny Hazelwood.
She joined the MSU staff in the spring of 2009 following a three-year coaching term at Austin Peay State University she served briefly as interim head coach and the next two seasons as the top assistant on Hazelwood's volleyball coaching staff at APSU.
Her primary responsibilities with the Volleyball Bulldogs include the coordination of team travel, camps, video exchange, community service projects, and managing the team's equipment. On the court Sallach works with MSU's setters and oversees the team's overall defensive strategy.
The Mississippi State assistant is a native of Temperance, Mich., and a graduate of Bedford High School, where she enjoyed a stellar prep career in volleyball and played on coach Jodi Manore's BHS teams that captured state championships in 1998 and 2001.
Sallach continued her volleyball career on the NCAA Division I level, playing for coach Kelley Hartley Hutton at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne. She was a standout setter during her four-year career (2001-04) at IPFW, establishing school career (4,650), season (1,296) and match (56) records for assists and the single-season digs mark (1,085). She was honored as IPFW's female athlete of the year following her freshman and senior seasons and twice during her career was accorded first-team All-Independent honors.
She earned her bachelor's degree in secondary education at IPFW in 2005 and launched her coaching career at schools in Temperance, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. She also directed successful summer volleyball camps at Bedford (Mich.) High School and Wyandotte (Mich.) High School.
Her career coaching path led to Clarksville, Tenn., and Austin Peay State University in 2006. She served as an assistant coach on the staff of Corey Carlin and as interim head coach following Carlin's departure after the 2006 season. She remained on staff at APSU when Jenny Hazelwood was named head coach of the Lady Govs, serving for two seasons as Hazelwood's first assistant. During that span Sallach helped engineer one of college volleyball's biggest one-season turnaround in 2008. That season saw the Lady Govs post a 22-11 record, a nation-leading 14-win improvement over their 8-25 finish in 2007.
Sallach was recognized in March 2008 as one of the nation's top young volleyball coaches by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as one of the inaugural winners of the AVCA's Thirty Under 30 Award.
She is married to Scott Sallach, who coaches tight ends as an assistant football coach at Mississippi State.
