Taylor Mott returns for her seventh season at the helm of the Flagler College volleyball program. She has posted a career record of 122-71 and has been named the Florida Sun Conference’s Coach of the Year three times (2001, 2003 and 2004). Mott also serves as the Assistant Athletic Director/Compliance Officer and the women’s golf coach.

The Lady Saints have four consecutive winning seasons, the best streak in the history of the program.

“I have greatly enjoyed building this program,” said Mott. “I take pride in the athletes who are associated with it. Our athletes work hard in the gym and the classroom and are successful people because of it.”

Prior to her arrival at Flagler, Mott coached volleyball and softball at Oxford High School in Oxford, Miss. She also taught algebra at Oxford High.

Mott graduated from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and received her Master’s in curriculum and instruction. She lettered all four years for the Lady Rebels and earned Academic All-SEC honors in 1994 and 1995.

Born and raised in south Florida, Mott attended Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale. She and her husband, Brian, are the proud parents of their three-year-old daughter Dylan.

Sarah Taylor returns for her third season as the assistant coach for the Lady Saints. In her three years on the bench the team has posted a 74-24 record.

Taylor was a starter for Coach Mott during the 2000 and 2001 campaigns. The 2001 team posted the school’s first winning season in nine years and they haven’t had a losing season since 2000.

Prior to Flagler, Taylor attended St. Johns River Community College and played volleyball for Coach Cathy O’Brien. She also graduated from Bellview High School in Ocala, Fla.

Taylor is currently employed by St. Johns County and coaches a club team for the St. Augustine Volleyball Academy. The former Sarah Cone recently married Mark Taylor of St. Augustine.

Allison Pownell begins her first season as an assistant coach at Flagler. Pownell played volleyball (1997-2000) and basketball for the Lady Saints. She ranks No. 4 all-time in digs with 739. Pownell co-captained the volleyball team in 2000 and earned second-team All-Conference honors in 1999. A 2001 graduate of Flagler with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education/social sciences, Pownell currently teaches social studies at St. Augustine High School. Following graduation, she returned to her high school alma mater, Charlotte High School, to teach social studies and coach the girls’ volleyball team for two years.