New leadership for Mount volleyball

Posted 8/21/17

New volleyball head coach Amy Bergin (left) instructs her Mount St. Joseph players. (Photo by Tom Utescher) by Tom Utescher The volleyball program at Mount St. Joseph Academy will be under new …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

New leadership for Mount volleyball

Posted

New volleyball head coach Amy Bergin (left) instructs her Mount St. Joseph players. (Photo by Tom Utescher)

by Tom Utescher

The volleyball program at Mount St. Joseph Academy will be under new leadership this fall; after 10 seasons, George Trabosh has resigned his post. He's an assistant coach down the street at Chestnut Hill College and is being joined on the Griffins' staff by his daughter Regina, a Mount graduate who just completed her playing career at CHC.

The Mount was fortunate to find a highly-qualified replacement close by.

New Magic mentor Amy Bergin was the head volleyball coach at Haverford College for nine seasons. She stepped down from that post in 2011 to devote more time to her two young children, who are now students at St. Philip Neri School in Lafayette Hill. She continues to coach the CYO volleyball team there.

Mount St. Joseph graduated five seniors from its 2016 Catholic Academies runner-up squad. Jacey Abdalla was a talented setter and the other four played on the front row, including Marist College recruit Courtney Kasperski.

Abdalla's sister Cassidy, a returning middle hitter, is one of six senior veterans on the 2017 Magic squad, along with fellow middle Ailene Woznicki. Classmates Mallory Baus and Peggy Gorman are defensive specialists, and twins Corinne and Elena Filograna are a libero and a defender, respectively.

There are three current juniors who were varsity regulars as sophomores during the 2016 campaign, setter Catie Esslinger and hitters Summer Adamson and Megan McGettigan.

On the sideline, Bergin will be backed up by two returning assistants who know the ropes at the Mount; former MSJ netter and current faculty member Mary Kate Steinmetz ('10), and Jerry Abdalla, the father of Cassidy and Jacey and an experienced club coach with the East Coast Power organization.