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Hal Messersmith enters his fourth season at UAB in 2009 and his third in the director of volleyball operations role. He moved into that position in 2007 after serving in 2006 as a volunteer assistant coach for the Blazers. At UAB, Messersmith has been a part of the most succesful three-year span in program history, helping the Blazers to three 20-win seasons and two appearances in the NCAA tournament. Messersmith has worked with his wife, UAB head coach Kerry Messersmith, for the past eight seasons. He spent five years with her on the staff at Georgia Southern prior to arriving at UAB in 2006. "We've done some major changes within the structure of our staff, and part of that has allowed Hal to focus fully on his director of operations role," Kerry Messersmith said. "He'll kind of run the office, and I think it's going to really benefit our program." As the Blazers' director of volleyball operations, Messersmith performs various administrative roles in addition to overseeing the academic and financial aid aspects of the program. He organizes team travel and facilities scheduling while also coordinating all video operations for the Blazers. In addition to his eight seasons in collegiate volleyball, Messersmith has nearly 20 years of head coaching experience in college football, baseball and basketball. From the mid-1980s through 2001, he posted 17 winning seasons in those sports while graduating 95 percent of his student-athletes. Messersmith's coaching experience includes stops at Chadron State, Allen County (Kan.) Community College, Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College and Arizona Western College. |
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