Lady Trojan Volleyball

Coaching Staff

Dottie Saye

Head Coach

       

          Dottie Saye begins her eighteenth year as an English teacher and her fourteenth year as the varsity volleyball coach at Lassiter High School. Her previous coaching tenure at LHS also includes thirteen years as the assistant girls’ basketball coach.

          A University of Georgia graduate with a BA in Comparative Literature and a former Division I basketball player at Vanderbilt University, Coach Saye maintains that her experiences as a high school student-athlete at Wheeler High School in softball, basketball, tennis, and volleyball continue to motivate her work and goals as a high school coach. She believes that the laughter, tears, and sweat are all inherent symbols of high school athletics at its best… building strength, character, and awareness.

          Competition is part of that package. Coach Saye encourages student-athletes to “have fun.” But, she acknowledges that winning is very definitely part of that fun. Her previous statistical records support her competitive edge. From 1991 to 2000 and from 2005-2007, Coach Saye led the Lady Trojan volleyball teams to an overall win-loss record of 404-169. Ten of her thirteen teams participated in the state playoffs, including most recently the 2007 team, the 2006 State Runner-Up team, and the 2005 Area Championship team.

          Her 1995 team also finished the season as the State Runner-Up while the ’94, ’99, and ‘05 teams finished with rankings in the top five. Three other teams finished in the top ten rankings; also included in her volleyball tenure are three more Area Championships (’94, ’95, ’99), three Area Runner-Up finishes (’93, ’97, ’06), and four Cobb County Championships (’94, ’97, ’06). In addition to volleyball, Coach Saye accumulated a 111-34 win-loss coaching sub-varsity basketball teams and a 253-97 win-loss record as the assistant varsity basketball coach at LHS.

          Beyond her teaching and coaching, Coach Saye enjoys reading (this summer’s best read: Ted Sorensen’s Counselor), boating, fishing, antiquing, cooking, and gardening. She’s also “Mama” to two dogs (Ivy and Rudi), and three cats (Merle, Jig, and Roxie).

 

Frank Robinson

Varsity Assistant Coach

 

Coach Robinson begins his sixth year at Lassiter in the guidance department. His previous coaching tenure at Lassiter includes three years as Head Boys Varsity basketball coach, assistant coach for Track and Slow-Pitch softball. He has sixteen years of coaching experience with two years of coaching experience on the college level as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Clark Atlanta University. Currently, he works with the Paul Hewitt/Georgia Tech basketball camp supervising high school and college coaches in the area of teaching basketball fundamentals.

Coach Robinson is originally from Lancaster, South Carolina. He played basketball at Morris College, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree, and acquired his Master of Arts degree from Clark Atlanta University. He is happily married to Twyla for 14 years, and they have two boys, Brandon (10) and Braylan (5). His spare time is spent enjoying sporting activities with his family. Coach Robinson believes that athletes should never be satisfied with their skills and should strive to improve daily.

 

Greg Hodge

Junior Varsity Coach

 

        Coach Hodge returns to the Lady Trojan sidelines to start his 6^th season as the junior varsity coach.  Coach Hodge believes that fundamentals are the key to any successful team together with hard work, perseverance and a love of the game.  Coach Hodge is entering his 7th year at Lassiter in the Math department and his 13^th year of teaching.  He has received a Bachelor of Science from both Miami University (Ohio) and Bowling Green State University.  He has also been graduated from the Masters in Education program at Georgia State University.  In whatever spare time he can carve out, Coach Hodge enjoys sports of all kinds, movies and spending time with his family, Meredith,  6-year- old Charlie and 4-year-old Delaney.  Coach Hodge just wants to pass the message on to his family that he loves them and he’ll see them again in November.