Head volleyball coach Will Condon begins his fifth season at the helm of the Armstrong Atlantic State program after leading the Pirates to four consecutive NCAA Championships berths.

The 2011 season was a historic one for the Pirates as they began the year with a school- and Peach Belt Conference-record 31 match win streak. Armstrong went 36-3 overall, tying a school record for wins in a season, whlie capturing the Peach Belt Confernce regular season title and making an appearance in the NCAA Southeast Region. PBC Player of the Year Brittany Wolf became Armstrong’s first volleyball player named to an AVCA All-American team while four other players - Brendyce Budd, Jessica Santaniello, Leia Pittman and Ashley Seal - earned All-PBC and All-Region honors.

In 2010, the Pirates reeled off 12 wins in their last 14 regular season matches to earn an at-large berth into the NCAA Championships, while also advancing to the Peach Belt Conference tournament title match. The previous year, Armstrong finished second in the PBC and advanced to the NCAA Championships again.

In his debut season with the Pirates in 2008, Armstrong went 28-7, capturing the Peach Belt regular season and tournament titles to earn a berth in the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2004. The Pirates defeated Lander, Lincoln Memorial and Catawba to capture the Southeast Region title and advance to the NCAA DII Elite Eight.

Condon joined the Pirates from fellow Peach Belt Conference school USC Aiken, where he served as the Pacers’ head volleyball coach for the past eight seasons, compiling a 161-100 record as the winningest coach in that school’s history.

The Peach Belt Conference’s Coach of the Year in 2006, the Pacers under Condon collected back-to-back Peach Belt regular season and tournament titles in 2006 and 2007. The titles were the first for the Pacer program since 1995.

USC Aiken also made its first-ever appearances in the NCAA Championships in both seasons, advancing to the NCAA South Regional.

Condon became USC Aiken’s ninth head coach in 2000 and immediately enjoyed success as he took a squad that had finished 11-18 in the previous season and directed them to a 24-10 overall record and a 9-5 conference mark, finishing third in the PBC.

In 2001, USC Aiken was again in the upper half of the conference standings with a 19-12 overall record (7-7 PBC), placing the team fourth. After a 13-21 mark in 2003, the Lady Pacers posted one of the biggest turnarounds in conference history with a 21-13 record in 2004. Finishing 8-6 in the PBC, USC Aiken was one game back of third place.

The 2004 season saw Condon and the Pacers put up another 20-win season with a 21-13 record and an 8-6 mark in the league, setting the stage for a four-year run in which USC Aiken would win 35 of 48 conference matches, culminating in the undefeated 10-0 mark the Pacers compiled in 2007, the first undefeated league mark in the PBC - and only the third league school ever to compile an unbeaten volleyball league record.

While at USC Aiken, Condon coached one ESPN: The Magazine/CoSIDA All-American and PBC Player of the Year (Mandy Gerolstein), one PBC Freshman of the Year (Amy Long), 13 All-PBC performers and 20 PBC Player of the Week honorees.

Four times Condon directed the Pacers to 20-win seasons while at USC Aiken and he leaves the school having won 40 of his last 50 matches over the last two seasons.

Prior to taking over the USC Aiken program, Condon served as an assistant coach at Emporia State (Kan.) for four seasons. While at Emporia State, his teams finished among the top 12 in the nation in hitting percentage in three of the four years he was there.

Condon is a 1996 graduate of Clemson, earning his bachelor’s of science degree in management. He also competed on the Clemson men’s club volleyball squad. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Emporia State in 1999.

An active member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), Condon is married to Lesley Michelle and the couple have one child, Ella.

Alli Arbogast begins her second season with Pirate volleyball coaching staff as an assistant for the 2012 season.

Arbogast joined the Pirates in 2011 from the University of South Florida, where she was a four-year standout for the Bulls from 2006-2009. A first-team All-Big East Conference middle hitter and AVCA All-Northeast Region performer as a senior, Arbogast finished her four-year career at USF as the school’s fourth all-time leading blocker with 430 total blocks and second all-time leader in block assists with 380. She hit .326 as a senior and led the Big East in blocking, averaging 1.49 blocks per set and ranking among the Top 10 nationally.

After her time with the Bulls, Arbogast played professionally in Italy for one season before returning to the states. 

A native of St. Louis, Mo., Arbogast graduated from USF with her bachelor’s of arts degree in communication in 2010. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in sports medicine from Armstrong.