Career Highlights First year as head coach at Lake Forest Served as head volleyball and softball coach at Illinois College from 2002-07 Led Illinois College to a 105-100 overall record and 31-23 mark in Midwest Conference matches in six seasons Directed players to 17 All-Conference, 31 Academic All-Conference, and two Academic All-American honors Spent the 2000 and 2001 seasons as an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Tiffin University

The 2008 season will be the first at Lake Forest for head coach Jennifer Saylor.

From July of 2002 through 2007 Saylor was the head volleyball coach at fellow Midwest Conference member Illinois College. She led the Lady Blue volleyball team to a 105-100 overall record and 31-23 mark in league play during her tenure. The squad posted a program-best 25-12 overall record in 2004 and placed first in the MWC South Division standings at 7-2.

Saylor's players at Illinois College were named all-conference 17 times, including seven first team selections. They also earned 31 Academic All-Midwest honors and a pair of Academic All-American accolades during her six years as head coach.

In addition to coaching the volleyball team, Saylor was Illinois College’s head softball coach and Director of the Bellatti Fitness Center on campus. The softball team claimed the 2005 MWC South Division title and she was named the division’s Coach of the Year three times.

Saylor spent the 2001 season as an assistant volleyball coach and assistant athletic trainer at Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio. She also coached local club programs that year.

After a four-year playing career, the final two as a team captain, Saylor graduated from Heidelberg College, also located in Tiffin, Ohio, in 2000. She then earned a master’s degree in sports science from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama, in December of 2001.

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Assistant Coach Ian Peckler