Kennedy Pointer - Volleyball Coach - College of Charleston Athletics

Kennedy Pointer

Kennedy (Madison) Pointer ’19 concluded her third season as an assistant coach with the College of Charleston volleyball program in the fall of 2024.

2024 (Overall Record: 25-9, CAA: 15-3)

Won the CAA Regular Season and Conference Championship in the program's 50th season.
Tynley Smeltzer earned 2024 CAA Volleyball Libero of the Year and Second Team All-CAA honors. Smeltzer is the first player in program history to earn a major conference award in back-to-back seasons.
Smeltzer became the eighth player in program history to reach 1,500 career digs.
Emily Banitt and Caitlyn Callahan garnered First Team All-CAA honors.
Allie Holland was named the CAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player.
Charleston's 17 regular season home wins were the most by a non-Power 4 program and only second in the nation behind Nebraska's 18.
Set a program record with 348.0 total blocks.
The team's 2,109 total digs finished top-25 in the country.
Charleston had 10-plus blocks in 17 of its 34 matches, including at least 14 in nine contests.
CofC also held opponent to a .130 attacking percentage or worse in 18 of the 34 games and below .100 in 12 matchups.
Callahan and Holland finished the year with the most blocks by a pair of Charleston teammates since 2006.
Callahan tied Tiffany Blum for the program record with seven blocks in an NCAA Tournament match, achieving the mark in just one set.

2023 (Overall Record: 14-16, CAA: 11-7)

Led CAA in digs per set, team attacks per set, team digs and team total attacks.
Junior Tynley Smeltzer was named the 2023 CAA Volleyball Libero of the Year and earned First Team All-CAA honors
Smeltzer lead the league in digs per set (5.04) and won Defensive Player of the Week on four separate occasions. Smeltzer set career-highs in digs (408) and digs per set on the defensive side as well as assists (69) and service aces (29) while playing in 104 of the Cougars' 106 sets
Senior outside hitter Lexi Wierzbicki earned Second Team All-CAA honors
Wierzbicki set career-high marks in kills per set (3.08), assists, service aces and digs after making the move to a six rotation outside hitter
Sofie Vogel earned CAA player of the week alongside Sopheea Mink on November 6.

2022 (Overall Record: 14-16, CAA: 9-7)

Ranked second in the CAA in both hitting percentage (.215) and blocks (2.34).
Graduate student middle blocker Claire Campbell was named to the All-CAA Second Team.
Charleston set a single-match program-record with 17 service aces in the season opener against Fresno State (Aug. 26).
Sophomore Anna Smith tied the individual five-set, single-match record with six against Fresno State.
Senior Emma Falk delivered the second-most blocks in a three-set match with 10 against Northeastern (Oct. 15).
Falk also tied for the third-most blocks in a three-set match with nine at Charleston Southern (Sept. 16).
Campbell ranked third in the CAA in hitting percentage (.358), which was good for sixth on the program’s single-season hitting percentage rankings in the rally-scoring era.
Falk (1.20) and Campbell (0.93) ranked second and ninth, respectively, in the league in blocks per set.
Falk’s average of 1.20 blocks per set ranked ninth on the program’s single-season list during the rally-scoring era.
Falk concludes her career at CofC ranked third all-time in blocks per set (1.26).
Sophomore Tynley Smeltzer ranked sixth in the CAA in digs per set (3.90).

Prior to College of Charleston

Taught for two-and-a-half years in the Charleston County School District, spending the 2021-22 academic year at Lucy Beckham High School in Mt. Pleasant.
Coached volleyball at Lucy Beckham for two seasons.

Playing Career

Four-time All-CAA selection at College of Charleston.
2018 AVCA All-American.
Ranks ninth in program history in kills (1,412) and 10th in both total points (1,593.5) and block assists (253).
Recorded at least 300 kills in three of her four seasons.
Ranked sixth-best on the program's single-season (rally-scoring era) kills list with 459 in 2018.

Personal

Earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Science in Second Education Cognate from The College.
Married to former Charleston basketball standout Marquise Pointer and they have one son, Mikkel.