Fellowship Christian Names New Girls' Volleyball, Basketball Coach

Submitted by John Heid, sports information director with Fellowship Christian School

Kayla Rechenbach has been named new director of volleyball, head girls’ varsity volleyball coach and head JV girls basketball coach at Fellowship Christian School, Athletic Director Bryan Lindner announced last week.

“We are excited to bring Kayla on board,” Lindner said. “She has an outstanding background in volleyball, including many years as a player and several years as a coach at the scholastic and amateur levels.”

Rechenbach, a 2011 graduate of Lee University, comes to FCS from West Forsyth High School, where she spent two years as a physical education teacher, head junior varsity girls’ volleyball coach, assistant varsity volleyball coach and varsity assistant girls’ basketball coach.

During the 2012-13 school year, Rechenbach served as physical education director at Peachtree Park Prep School in Alpharetta. She was a long-term substitute teacher with Cleveland City Schools (Tenn.) in the spring of 2012.

Rechenbach inherits a program that won a school-record 35 games, captured its first Area championship and won all 11 Area matches for the first time in school history. The Lady Paladin squad also reached the GHSA Single A Volleyball semifinals for the first time ever last fall.

“While Coach Rechenbach has big shoes to fill, her natural leadership and coaching abilities will help our varsity program build on the successes of 2014 and continue the positive growth,” Lindner said.

Rechenbach, who holds a USA Volleyball IMPACT certification, was an assistant coach with the Atlanta Juniors Volleyball Club’s 18-year-old team in 2013. She served as a student assistant for the Lee University volleyball club in 2011, and was an assistant coach for Cleveland and Ooltewah high schools after graduating from Lee in December 2011.

During her collegiate career, Rechenbach played both volleyball and basketball at Berry College in Rome and Lee. In two years at Lee, she was a NAIA honorable mention All-America player twice. Rechenbach also twice named to the NAIA All-Southeast Region Team and earned the MVP award at consecutive SSAC Tournaments during her two seasons at Lee. She was an All-East Division Player as a member of the Lee basketball squad.

Another highlight of Rechenbach’s career at Lee was being named Paul Conn Female Athlete of the Year. She was named NAIA All American Scholar-Athlete twice, and was named to SSAC All-Academic Team on three occasions.

Lee finished third at the NAIA national volleyball tournament during Rechenbach’s junior and senior seasons, including a 39-1 mark her senior year. That club was ranked No. 1 in the nation during the season. She also helped her team finish third at nationals during her junior season in basketball.

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