LOUDONVILLE, NY – With year four about to commence in under head coach Vilis Ozols, the Siena Volleyball program has announced the addition of Therese DeCan as a Volunteer Assistant Coach. DeCan joins Ozols and current Assistant Coach Michael Bynon to round out the coaching staff.
 
"We are so happy to have Therese be a part of our program as an Assistant Coach," said Ozols. "She is a proven head coach at the high school level and has a wonderful volleyball coaching background and great knowledge. She also has an amazing teacher's demeanor with remarkable personal interaction skills that will make her an immediate asset to our athletes and our staff."
 
DeCan joins the program as a current employee at Siena, holding the position of Clinical Supervisor of Student Teachers. In that role, DeCan mentors and supervises student teachers during their practical clinical work in the school setting. She also meets and collaborates with student teachers to help them with best practices, and provides evaluations of teaching performance. Prior to joining Siena in 2020, DeCan worked in Thiland as a Year Two teacher and an Attending Teacher at SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, New York.
 
DeCan began her teaching career in 1993 at Cambridge Central School District where she worked until 2019. It was at Cambridge she began her coaching career as well as Varsity Girls Volleyball Head Coach in 2014, leading the program to multiple sectional appearances.
 
Siena begins their 2021 fall season on Friday, August 27 at the Rumble in the Rockies tournament hosted by the University of Wyoming as the Saints take on the Saint Mary's Gaels at 12 p.m. and the host Cowgirls at 8:30 p.m.