Our Staff

Caleb Adams serves as the Camp Director for the Marci Jenkins Volleyball Camps.

In 2024, Adams enters his fifth season at Virginia Tech and will primarily work with setters and offensive schemes.

Previously at Virginia Tech, Adams focused on training Tech's back court defenders and servers.  In 2023, Iliana Rodriguez, a graduate transfer from St. John’s, would come in and lead the Hokies in production at the libero position. Rodriguez would finish her only season at Tech with 400 digs, 7^th in the ACC, and the second-highest single season total during Adams’ tenure. Rodriguez would also be the only member of the 2023 squad to play every single set during the season.  Under Adams, Tech would see a new entry in the record books, as Logan Mosley finished her senior campaign with 196 digs, bringing her career total to 1,304, finishing 8^th in program history. A graduate transfer from Iowa, Maddie Slagle, would join the Hokies and lead the team in digs with 383. Mosley and Slagle both would end the season tied with freshman Hanna Borer for most sets played at 107, not missing a single set throughout the 2022 season.
 
2021 would add to Adams’ strong track record with the back row. Logan Mosley would continue to perform well as a libero with guidance from Adams. Mosley finished the season with a team-leading 409 digs, good for 7^th in the ACC, recording her 1,000^th career dig against Louisville. Adams would also aid in the development of freshman Mary Page, who would finish with 151 digs and a .946 receiving percentage. That season would see the highest output in digs for the Hokies during Adams’ tenure, finishing the year with 1493 total digs.
 
Joining at the beginning of the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Adams aided in the development of back row play, and it was his first time working with then sophomore Logan Mosley, who finished the season with 192 digs and a .959 receiving percentage as a libero. As a team during Adams’ first year with the Hokies with 799 team digs in 17 matches, averaging 12.48 digs per set.

Most recently, Adams spent eight years (2012-2019) with Radford volleyball, while also employed as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. While coaching with Marci Byers, Radford claimed three Big South regular season titles, two Big South tournament championships and competed in three national tournaments (NCAA in 2013, 2017, NIVC in 2018). In Adams’ time with the Highlanders, he aided in the development of setters, exemplified by two athletes, Haley Kleespies and Jena Braden, who finished first and third in career assists, respectively, in program history.
 
Prior to his entry into the collegiate coaching ranks, Adams served as co-head coach of Kellam High School in Virginia Beach, Va.  From 2008-2011 Adams helped lead the Knights to a combined 97-13 record (.882%), including back-to-back state titles (2010, 2011) with an undefeated season in 2011. He saw nine athletes named to the All-Beach District first team, six to the All-Eastern Region first team, five on the Group AAA All-State team, and a two-time AAA State Player of the Year, Cheyanne James, who would also play for Adams at Radford University.  Additionally, Adams co-founded the Beach Elite Volleyball Club of Virginia Beach, Va.
 
Adams attended North Carolina State (1993-1997), earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Math Education.  In 2011 Adams was awarded his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University.
 
Presently Adams is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Radford University.  He resides in Radford with his wife, Karen, and five daughters, Trinity (a member of UF Gator volleyball program), Mattox, Raelin, and twins, Vivienne and Genevieve.

William Tatge joined the Virginia Tech staff as an assistant coach in May 2024. 

Tatge had previously been on staff at Bradley in February of 2023, with the Braves securing victories against Indiana State, Evansville and Albany.

Prior to his tenure at Bradley University, Tatge was an assistant coach and primary recruiting coordinator at Georgia State. While Tatge was with the Panthers, they earned Sun Belt victories against Marshall and Louisiana-Monroe.

Tatge was on Iowa’s staff prior to joining Georgia State, serving as an assistant coach and interim head coach.

Before joining the Hawkeyes, Tatge spent two seasons at Louisiana Tech, helping the Lady Techsters to their best season since 2003, including an 11-4 start. Tatge spent the 2018 season as a volunteer assistant coach at Ohio State.

Prior to his time with the Buckeyes, Tatge was the head women’s volleyball coach at Lees-McRae (DII), where he led them to the postseason in 2015 and 2016. He additionally served as the assistant coach for men’s volleyball at Lees-McRae.

Tatge spent two years as Montreat College (NAIA), being named the Appalachian Athletic Conference Assistant Coach of the Year and AVCA Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2014.

Tatge also spent time as the head men’s and assistant women’s volleyball coach at Durham University in England.

During his undergraduate studies, Tatge played as a right-side hitter for Indiana University’s club volleyball team, and as a setter/right-side hitter for Durham University during his postgraduate studies. He also previously competed internationally for Team Northumbria and the English National League.

He earned his master’s degree in management from Durham University Business School, a top 75 globally-recognized program, and has a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in coaching and business administration.

Head coach Marci Byers annouced the addition of Victoria Brisack to the staff as the recruiting coordinator and assistant coach in April of 2025.

Brisack joins the Virginia Tech staff from High Point, where she served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Panthers.  In her single season with the program, she implemented a training program with the offensive systems that produced two Big South Conference Offensive Players of the Year, a three-time Big South Conference Player of the Year and the No. 1 offense in the Big South Conferece during the 2024 season.  The success on the court led to the Panthers earning the 2024 Big South regular season title and the tournament championship.  After a complete sweep of the championship opportunities for the program, the staff was named the Big South Conference Coaching Staff of the Year.  Along with her coaching and recruiting responsibilities, Brisack assisted with administrative duties and travel planning.

Prior to High Point, Brisack spent two years with the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons where she oversaw all recruiting efforts, served as the director of operations and ran offensive analysis and play calling.  In her two seasons on staff, Brisack coached individuals to three Horizon League All-Freshman Team performances, two First Team All-Horizon League selections, two Freshman of the Year winners, one Horizon League Player of the Year and one All-American status.

At Notre Dame as a volunteer assistant coach, Brisack provided technical feedback to the servers and defense, specifically the back row. She aided the scouting operation with analysis and in-game strategy to lead the Fighting Irish to a 10-8 ACC season in 2021.  In her role, she also assisted with the program's operations.

Brisack's collegiate coaching career began at Marquette in 2020 where she assisted with the training and development of setters, while assisting the program with summer camp organization and promotion.

Brisack, a Verona, Wisc. native, earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Indiana University in December of 2019, with minors in exercise science and spanish, where she was a four-year starter for the IU volleyball program.  As a student-athlete at Indiana, Brisack accumulated 2,735 assists, 43 total blocks, 76 aces and 80 kills as a setter.  She saw action in 385 sets and 111 matches over the course of her four-year career.