15's Coaches
15 Black
Head Coach
Carrie DeMange
(937) 307-3187
Coach Carrie's Bio
Coach Carrie’s impressive college playing career and coaching career are second to none. As a college volleyball player at Duke University, Carrie was a four year starter as a middle blocker and was the ACC Player of the Year her senior year in 2008 as was as the all-time kill leader in the ACC with 1,976 kills. Coach Carrie was also recently inducted into her high school’s Hall of Fame.
Her impressive playing experience is equally matched by her coaching experience. Carrie served as the North Tahoe High School varsity head coach from 2012-2018 and currently serves as the JV coach at Greenhill. Additionally, she has coached at four volleyball clubs with various experience at different age levels.
Favorite core value at DIG
Carrie loves the quote from Remember the Titans, “Attitude reflects leadership, Captain!” The core value, INTEGRITY, is extremely important to Carrie. Having a foundation of strong moral principles and holding yourself and others to a high standard creates a roadmap for success. “I like to remind my players that they are there for each other and to step foot in the gym everyday with passion and integrity,” Carrie says.
Personal
Carrie absolutely loves traveling in her spare time and since college has visited Greece, Italy, France, Iceland, England, Ireland, Guatemala and Mexico! Next on her list is scuba diving in Croatia. Besides traveling, she enjoys playing volleyball in adult volleyball leagues.
15 Black
Asst. Coach
Abby Ludeman
Coach Abby's Bio
Coach Abby is entering her second year with DIG. Last year, she was the head coach of the 15 Blue team. Coach Abby found her love for volleyball when she was eight years old and never looked back. When it came to deciding to play Division I volleyball, she opted to focus on her academics instead, but after one semester at SMU, missed the game so much and started playing for the SMU club volleyball team. Besides volleyball, Abby also grew up playing tennis, competitive swim, and sand volleyball.
Favorite core value at DIG
Abby’s favorite core value is EFFORT. She believes that practices are best run when the highest level of effort is put in by every individual on the team. Abby says, “My stress positively, maximum effort and ‘next point mentality’ in all of my practices and tournaments. In a game you are given the choice to either dwell on a past mistake or learn from it and focus on the next ball over. Always having the better-the-ball mentality encourages camaraderie and emphasizes teamwork. At the end of a day it takes a team to win, not just individuals.”
Personal
Abby loves to spend time with her three year old labradoodle named Monty as well as lots of time with her family. When she’s not coaching on a Sunday, you’ll find her at church and brunch with her family. In addition to that, she enjoys playing sand volleyball and her job as the creative director at Buff City Soap where she shares her love for logo design and branding.
Bio coming soon!
15 Blue
Asst. Coach
Molly Lacey
Coach Molly's Bio
DIG is excited to welcome Molly Lacey to the DIG coaching staff! Molly grew up in the Dallas area, playing club volleyball since the age of 10 where she played for many top North Texas teams. After her freshman year, she transferred to Lovejoy High School where she lettered all 3 years while winning State in 2011 and 2012. Molly had many Division 1 offers to play volleyball as a Libero but chose to attend The University of Alabama where she majored in Finance with a Specialization in Personal Wealth Management. Molly is currently on the Executive Leadership Committee of Ascent Park Cities. Molly also serves on the board for Park Cities Republican Women as the Vice President of Communications. During the week, Molly is a Vice President of Development at a Telecommunication Repair company where they conduct wireline and wireless repairs for Fortune 500 companies.
Molly is looking forward to encouraging her players to become strong well-rounded individuals. One of her favorite parts of playing sports is the metal discipline and how it develops resilient mature women who are well equipped to become successful in all their future endeavors.
Favorite core value at DIG
Molly’s favorite core value is DESIRE. She enjoys the competitive nature of sports and wants to encourage all her athletes to deeply desire not only winning but becoming the best version of themselves.
She acts as a liaison between new contracts and operations and enjoys on-boarding new clients and establishing them within the operations process.
Personal
Molly is a devoted equestrian and enjoys competing with her horse named Bennie in her spare
time. She is very passionate about Alabama football and even named her goldendoodle after Bear Bryant.
