Ashley McDonough enters her fifth season as head coach of the Ladies program and also serves as the head coach of the Men’s Competitive Club Volleyball team which is entering its fourth season. 

Centenary was once again one of the top teams in the country in total digs, recording an impressive 2,022 during the 2022 season. The Ladies also recorded double-digit wins for the third time in the last four seasons. 

Senior DS/L Jaycie Proctor (Paris, Texas) finished her career as one of the top players in the division III era (2011-present) in program history in her record-breaking three seasons with the Ladies. Proctor recorded a whopping 558 digs this season and averaged 4.93 digs per set as she played in 32 matches and 113 sets. She finishes her stellar career with 1,112 digs, fourth-most in the D3 era, her 558 this season are the second-most in a single season in the D3 era, and she is also the career leader in digs per set (4.56). Proctor ranked second in the conference in digs and in the top 35 in the country in all of division III.

Proctor was named to the College Sports Communicators 2022 Volleyball Academic All-District ®Team after the season. The 2022 Academic All‐District® Women's Volleyball Team, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student‐athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. Proctor was one of just 13 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference student-athletes to be named to the prestigious team and is the first volleyball player in Centenary program history to earn the honor.

Senior S/RS Rachel Demerjian (Glendora, Calif.) also finished her superb career with the Ladies as one of the top players in program history in the D3 era. She is the all-time leader in assists (2,948), fourth in digs (1,038), sixth in service aces (90), and seventh in sets played (385). Demerjian played in 108 career matches and also tallied 208 kills and 334.5 points. She was named Second-Team All-SCAC as a freshman and is a three-time member of the SCAC Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll.

Senior MB Liz Lowe (San Antonio, Texas) capped her successful career with the Ladies by playing in 32 matches and 115 sets and recording 289 kills, 2.51 kills peer set and 195 digs. She ranks in the top 10 in the conference in kills and reached double digits in kills 15 times this season. She also added 37 service aces, 17 blocks, 13 assists, and 40 block assists. She is ranked sixth all-time in the division III era (2011-present) in program history in kills with 688.

Freshman S Meadow Smith (Mansfield, Texas) turned in an impressive rookie season for the Ladies as she played in 31 matches and 108 sets and totaled 494 assists and 220 digs. Her 494 assists are the ninth-most in a single season in the division III era (2011-present) in program history and she topped 20 assists in a match 10 times this season highlighted by a season-best 37 versus Texas Lutheran on Oct. 2. She made an immediate impact in her first collegiate match with 28 assists versus Howard Payne on Sept. 2. She finished in the top five in the conference in assists this season.

Sophomore RS Jaylin St. Martin (New Orleans, La.) followed an impressive rookie campaign with a sensational sophomore season as she played in 31 matches and 111 total sets and amassed 279 kills and 143 digs and finished with 2.52 kills per set. She added 10 solo blocks, 44 block assists, 21 aces, and nine assists as one of the Ladies’ top all-around players. Her 279 kills rank ninth all-time in the division III era (2011-present) in program history for a single season and her 2.52 kills per set rank 10th. She posted double-digits 12 times in a match this season and matched her single-game career-high with 17 kills versus Texas A&M-Texarkana on Sept. 6. She in ranked in the top 10 in the conference this season in kills.

McDonough led the Ladies to a 15-22 overall record and a 2-14 mark in SCAC play in 2021. The Ladies finished 9-2 at home with an impressive eight sweeps and went 13-8 against non-conference competition. In 2019, the Ladies finished the regular season ranked first in the nation in total digs/set. In McDonough's tenure, she has coached the only Centenary player to ever receive all-conference honors more than once. Outside Hitter Alyssa Davis (Leonard, Texas) was named to the 2021 All-SCAC Volleyball Third Team, as she landed on the third team for the second-consecutive season and is the first player in the division III era (2011-present) to be named All-SCAC twice.

Davis is also just the second Centenary volleyball player in program history (D1 or D3) to be named all-conference more than once as Kim Bolin was named to the All Trans-America Athletic Conference team in 1997 and 1998. Only three players have been named all-conference during the current D3 era – Davis twice, Demerjian who was named to the Second Team All-Conference squad in 2018, and Desiree Frey earned Second Team honors in 2016.

McDonough led Centenary to an 11-24 overall record and a 7-11 finish in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play in her first season in 2019. The Ladies finished third in the nation in division III (first after the regular season) in team digs with 2,642. Marissa Sandoval, a senior from San Antonio, had a superb season for the Ladies as she collected 754 total digs, the third-highest total in the nation in division III. That number was the most by any division III player in the regular season and a Centenary division III era single-season record. She was also named the Libero of the Year on the 2019 All-Louisiana Volleyball Team, by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. Sandoval's 1,993 career digs are the most in program history in the division III era and she also set the record for digs in a single match (47) set this season in a 3-2 win over Schreiner on Oct. 19. Centenary went 3-11 in the abbreviated 2020 COVID season, in which all 14 matches were conference contests. She is 29-57 overall with the Ladies in her three seasons at the helm.

McDonough served as the head coach of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, for four seasons (2015-18) prior to coming to Shreveport. Despite fielding only eight student-athletes in McDonough's first season at Knox in 2015, the volleyball team had as many wins as the three previous seasons combined. In 2016 and 2017, the Lady Prairie Fire led the Midwest Conference in total digs and digs per set. For the 2017 season, the Lady Prairie Fire posted the most wins since the 1995 season. She also coached NCAA record holder Keiyah Triplett in her 2016 record-breaking match where she averaged 14 digs/set in a three-set match.

Individual achievements for Knox volleyball under McDonough's direction include libero Keiyah Triplett finishing the 2016 season fourth in the nation in digs per set (6.93), becoming the highest-ranking volleyball player in that category in Knox history. McDonough also coached opposite hitter Rose Griffin to three All-Conference honors. Griffin finished her collegiate career second in school history in total kills. In 2018, McDonough once again coached a libero into the national rankings. Sophomore Mady Ferris finished the regular season fourth in the country in digs per set (5.56). Ferris (686) broke the single-season dig record.

Prior to her stint at Knox, McDonough spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons at Cayuga Community College. In her first season, she guided the Spartans to their most wins since the reintroduction of the program in 2010.  She also had two All Mid-State Athletic Conference (MSAC) honorees.

Her previous coaching experience also includes serving as a volunteer assistant at the University of Houston, the head coach at Cayuga Community College, a head coach and drill instructor for the Gulf Coast Volleyball Association's 13-15 age groups, and the varsity volleyball head coach at Living Stones Christian Academy.

Outside of coaching volleyball, McDonough has an impressive resume in non-profit development, fundraising, and marketing. She served as the founder/president of Helping Houston's Homeless (2004-2006), the development director for Asians Against Domestic Abuse (2010), a member of the United Way Speakers Bureau (2009), the education and events coordinator at Bay Area Turning Point (2008), and as treasurer for the Bay Area Alliance for Youth and Families (2009). She also worked closely with the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFL) and assisted with the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA), working in a prevention education role (2008-2010). From 2009-2011, McDonough ran a small marketing company in the Houston area called AMAC Solutions.

A 2005 graduate of Houston-Clear Lake with a degree in criminology, McDonough, a native of Chicago, received a master of business administration from the University of Phoenix.