25 August 2017 - Fort Pierce, FL - Kylee Quigley is the type of student-athlete every coach dreams of. Her 5’11” well-toned frame is custom built for Volleyball while her stellar 3.5 GPA at Fort Pierce Central exploits her confidence and understanding of a game that requires as much strategy as athletic ability.
Quigley, a marine science junkie, aspires to be a reporter for ESPN one day. That is, of course, after she is done playing volleyball – which by the looks of it will not be anytime soon.
Her mom is the Head Coach of a highly charged Cobra team in a district that includes SLW Centennial, Treasure Coast, Vero Beach and multi-time state champion Martin County whom the Lady Cobras just defeated on Tuesday, at County and down two sets to none. Her dad supports both Kylee and mom as an assistant coach. Kylee is the spitting image of her mom, Christy, a History & Legal Studies teacher at Fort Pierce Central and a standout Division One volleyball player at Florida Atlantic University where she still holds three school records and where her name appears 41 times in the school’s all-time record book.
Little Q, however, is on track to be one of the top volleyball players to come out of St. Lucie County and the Treasure Coast for that matter. This past summer she was selected as one of only twenty-five players for the Volleyball USA All Florida Team – quite an accomplishment considering that 170 of the top girls’ volleyball players in the state tried out for the team. And of course, Kylee’s team did not disappoint, taking home the Bronze hardware at the Fort Lauderdale tournament.
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| Lady Cobra Kylee Quigley -The junior defines her schools saying - "Central Can!" |
The Outside Hitter is firmly on the radar of college programs across the country, receiving letters of interest and telephone calls from coaches on a regular basis.
“Kylee is a gamer who plays with passion and fire and has the ability to affect the outcome of a match at any given time,” says Melissa Piazza, the Director of the National Volleyball League (NVL).
“She is a true winner with a bright future and a great team player” according to Piazza who was a part of back to back FHSAA state championship teams at Winter Park that included the 2006 undefeated team. Piazza earned a full four-year scholarship to the University of Central Florida, a Division I school and has been both a high school head coach or the Director of NVL since earning her college degree, so she knows a thing or two about the game.
To call Kylee humble would be an understatement. The 16-year old knows she has the talent and support to succeed at whatever she decides to do, but she is about as low key as they come and she has a tremendous admiration for others that share in her belief of just doing their job.
“I admire Michael Jordan because he is such a talented and humble man, but he knows how to be confident and I look up to a mindset like that. If I won the Powerball I would donate much of it to my family and charities and would build the best sports complex around here for every sport and all the facilities that go with it”, she says. – Humble indeed!
Yet Kylee still has that teenage girl side of her.
“I would love to spend a day with Michael Phelps because I would get to meet one of the greatest Olympians in history and get to see all his medals. I’m sure he lives a super cool life”.
This young Cobra, who has been a starter since the ninth grade, has earned her way to the top tier of her sport through hard work and dedication. She is an example for others to follow and defines the saying of her school – “Central Can!”
