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Coaching Staff

Sara Horn
Assistant Volleyball Coach

Sara Horn has played a key role in the success of the Wayne State College volleyball program in her two seasons as assistant coach with the Wildcats. Wayne State earned its second straight trip to the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Volleyball Tournament in 2006 after finishing with a 30-8 overall record. The 'Cats advanced to the semi-finals of the regional for the first time in school history.

Horn is in charge of strength and conditioning of WSC volleyball players and serves as camp director. She also handles practice preparation, team travel arrangements, scouting and plays a key role in recruiting. Under the assistance of Horn, Wayne State compiled a 15-3 mark in the Northern Sun Conference to take second place during the 2006 league schedule.

The former Sara Westling brings a wealth of volleyball knowledge and experience to the Wildcat coaching staff. After a stellar high school career at Lincoln Northeast, Horn played her first year of collegiate volleyball at the University of Pacific. She then transferred to the University of Nebraska where she finished her collegiate career. She was a member of Nebraska's national championship team in 2000 and was a three time All-Academic Big 12 selection. While playing at Nebraska and Pacific, Horn learned from two of the best coaches in college volleyball (John Cook at Nebraska and John Dunning, now at Stanford).

Sara is married to Guy Horn, an assistant athletic trainer at Wayne State College. The couple resides in Wayne.
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Christina Houghtelling
Graduate Assistant Volleyball Coach

Wayne State College head volleyball coach Scott Kneifl announced today that Christina Houghtelling has been hired as graduate assistant volleyball coach for the Wildcats.

Houghtelling just completed a stellar volleyball career at the University of Nebraska where she was a two-time AVCA All-American and two-time All Big 12 performer, helping the Huskers with four Big 12 titles while reaching the NCAA National Semi-Finals twice during her career. She was the AVCA National Player of the Year in 2005 and was named the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior in 2007. Houghtelling finished her Husker career with 1,009 career kills to rank 19th on the all-time list. During her senior season last fall, she averaged 3.02 kills, 3.95 digs and 0.30 service aces per game, ranking eighth in the Big 12 in digs and 10th in service aces. Houghtelling also excelled in the classroom, earning ESPN The Magazine First Team Academic All-America honors in 2005 and 2007.

The Cambridge, Nebraska native received her degree from the University of Nebraska in December in elementary education and is currently playing professional volleyball in Puerto Rico. She will join the Wildcat coaching staff in May.

“I am extremely excited to have Christina join our staff at Wayne State College,” said Coach Kneifl. “Her experience at both Nebraska and playing professionally in Puerto Rico will give us many different ideas to help develop our program even further.”