Four-year letterwinner and two-time All-American Mary Ashley Tippins will be a student assistant coach this season while she completes her degree at Georgia Tech.
Tippins was a two-time AVCA honorable mention All-American and All-ACC setter. After leading the ACC and finishing 20th in the nation in assists in 2009, the Atlanta native was fourth in the league in 2010 with 10.87 assists a set. Tippins passed Allie Niekamp for third place all-time in assists at Georgia Tech and finished with 3,646 in her career. Tippins also averaged 2.37 digs, 0.71 kills, 0.51 blocks and 0.16 service aces per set as a senior and had 12 double-doubles while coming within a couple of kills of a triple double two different times.