Emily Poole enters her fourth season as the Head Women's Volleyball Coach at Arcadia in 2025.
In Poole's first season coaching the Knights, she took her No. 2 seeded team to the MAC Freedom Championship. The women's volleyball team had four players named to the MAC Freedom All- Conference teams including Player of the Year, Estefanía Martínez-Solá. Martínez-Solá was also named an AVCA All-American, the second in program history. Poole was named Co-Coach of the Year for the 2022 season.
Poole came to Glenside after serving as the Women's Volleyball Graduate Assistant at Lehigh University for two seasons. In that position, Poole assisted in planning and running of all practices and training, coordinated travel, food, and hotel accommodations, assisted in recruiting, student-athletes, managing and promoting prospect camps, maintained relationships with club directors, and created and managed content for team social media accounts.
Prior to her collegiate coaching career, Poole gained experience as a Summer Program Assistant Director at Spooky Nook Sports and as an Assistant Coach with East Coast Power Volleyball.
Poole was a four-year member of Lehigh's women's volleyball program, earning Second Team All-Patriot League honors in 2018 and the Outstanding Athlete Award in 2018-19. Poole also excelled in the classroom, being named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in 2016, 2018, and 2019. Poole graduated from Lehigh in 2020 with a degree in International Relations, and earned her Master's in Environmental Policy and Design from Lehigh in 2022.
