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AACC Hires Carey as Women's Volleyball Coach

Stephanie Carey, a former standout volleyball player at Broadneck High and Anne Arundel Community College, has been hired to coach the Pioneers volleyball team.

(AACC) has hired Stephanie Carey, a former setter for the Pioneers, as their new women's volleyball coach.

Carey, an Arnold resident, was a standout player at . While playing for the Bruins, Carey was part of two county, four regional and two state championship teams.

After graduating from Broadneck, she played one year at Charleston Southern University, before returning home to play one year at AACC. She then finished up her collegiate playing days with two years at Salisbury University. In 2008, she was an Academic All-American for the Sea Gulls and graduated a year later with a degree in communications and public relations.

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"My primary investment is this team and this program," Carey said.

At 23, Carey takes over for Kevin McGovern, who had led the team since 2008.

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Carey's coach at Salisbury, Margie Knight, is confident that her former player, despite her young age will be just fine.

"While Steph may be young, she was raised in a volleyball family. She has much experience way beyond most her age," Knight said in an email to Broadneck Patch.

Carey is also involved with Velocity Volleyball Club, a local nonprofit group participating at the national-travel level. Having served as a coach with Velocity for the past three years, Carey has recently accepted an assistant director position with the group.

She credits her previous coaches for helping mold her into the kind of coach is today. Her stepfather, Romonzo Beans, coached her for all four years at Broadneck and then in 2007 at AACC, while Knight guided her at Salisbury.

"When she was [a] Sea Gull, she saw the game through coaches' eyes, not a player's. She understands the game and has the concept of making changes within a set. She is able to analyze and make quick decisions," Knight said.

Carey hopes to host a "Dig Pink" event, a nationally recognized movement in the volleyball community that raises funds and awareness for breast cancer research.

"Anne Arundel is a fantastic school and it receives awards every single year, and that's not being recognized by the students in this county—not to the degree that it needs to be," Carey said. "Building up these young ladies as student athletes, they'll be able to go ahead and advance themselves in a career while continuing to play this sport for the rest of their life."

The Pioneers kicked off the regular-season schedule Wednesday night with a loss against Hagerstown Community College.

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