After helping guide Springfield College to a NCAA Division III Championship final in 2025, Jordan Amling is set to start the budding Lycoming College volleyball program in 2027, Director of Athletics Mike Clark has announced.
“Jordan has played and coached championship-level volleyball during both his days as a student-assistant at Vanguard and as a coach at Springfield,” Clark said. “His ambition to succeed, commitment to player development and his high level of energy are all going to be assets that our future men’s volleyball players are going to really enjoy.”
Amling said: “I would like to thank President Edmonds and Athletic Director Mike Clark for the opportunity to launch the men’s volleyball program at Lycoming College. I am so grateful to be able to lead the team into its inaugural season. I look forward to recruiting the first class of Warrior men’s volleyball athletes that will strive for excellence together both on and off the court. It’s an honor to join the Lycoming community in building a strong and enduring foundation for the program. Go Warriors!”
Amling spent the past two seasons as the graduate assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Springfield College, where he helped the team to a pair of Division III Championship appearances, reaching the finals in 2025. The Pride went 44-12 (.786) in his two years with the program, including a 25-5 mark in 2025 that included just three losses to Division III opponents.
Amling collaborated on practice planning and developed scouting reports in addition to serving as the program’s recruiting coordinator under 11-time national champion coach Charlie Sullivan.
Prior to his time at Springfield, Amling served as a student-assistant coach with the program at Vanguard University, assisting the team on its way to the 2023 NAIA Championship and two Golden State Athletic Conference titles in 2021 and 2022, as the team made three appearances in the NAIA Championship and reached the semifinals in 2021.
Amling has also worked as a coach with the Balboa Bay Volleyball Club for four years.
A Yorba Linda, Calif., native, Amling earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, Health and Human Performance from Vanguard University in 2023 and a Master’s in Education, Athletic Leadership from Springfield College in 2025.
Lycoming College announced the addition of men’s volleyball as the athletic department’s 20th NCAA sport on April 23, with plans to begin competition in 2027, the first year the sport will be sponsored by the Landmark Conference, which will also feature Wilkes University, Elizabethtown College, Juniata College, the University of Scranton and Drew University.
Men's volleyball is the first sport to be added at Lycoming College since field hockey and baseball were jointly reinstated to the College's varsity offerings in 2020 ahead of their first competition year in 2022-23.
What they are saying about Coach Amling…
“Jordan is an extremely capable, driven young coach. We were fortunate to have him on staff when we won the national championship (at Vanguard in 2023). Jordan has invested himself into becoming a highly-qualified head coach and I’m positive Lycoming College will see the payoff. He’s simply a great coach and an even better individual. I wish him and the Warriors much success!”
- Brian Rofer, head men’s volleyball coach at Vanguard University
“Jordan is a great coach who genuinely has concern for his student-athletes development and well-being and I am sure the structure he creates in the program at Lycoming will enable the team to be successful.”
- Charlie Sullivan, head men’s volleyball coach at Springfield College
