Our guest speaker at Salem Rotary was Madison Satterly, Head Coach for the Salem High School volleyball team. The Salem High School volleyball team will have one of the youngest head coaches in the state next season.
Madison Satterly, graduated from Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, in December of 2024 and is currently still a student-athlete there while competing on Lady Bearcats’ beach volleyball squad. Satterly has been named Lady Tiger volleyball head coach for the 2025-26 school year. Satterly was hired by the Salem R-80 Board of Education at the end of January.
Satterly replaces Deanna Atkinson, who was the Lady Tiger head coach for two seasons.
Satterly, age 21, is a graduate of Ozark High School, where she was the school’s Miss Volleyball as a senior. She was on the Southwest Baptist indoor volleyball team in 2021-22 and has been a member of the SBU beach volleyball squad in that program’s first three years of existence.
This season Satterly is a teammate of former Lady Tiger standout and Salem High 2024 graduate Fayth Kaminski on the Bearcat beach volleyball squad.
Satterly knows the Salem area, as her father, Dr. Tom Satterly, was a former resident of Rolla and her brother, Dr. Tom “Turk” Satterly III, was a standout football player for Rolla High School in the mid-1990s.
Madison Satterly graduated from SBU with a degree in physical education.
“As of now I’ll be a middle school PE teacher (at Salem) and coach middle school and high school volleyball,” she said.
She takes over a Lady Tiger high school volleyball squad that finished 8-24-2 last season. That team had four seniors on the roster.
Satterly said she met some of the Lady Tiger players when she first visited the school and plans to come to Salem 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 to meet with players, parents and school staff at the SHS gymnasium.
“My ultimate goal is to affect kids’ lives and be a role model for them,” Satterly said. “Of the players I have met there, you could tell their love for volleyball. They want to come in and get better, and that’s all I can ask for. I looked at their schedule and scores from last season, and they are very close.”
Thanks to Dr. Nate Wills for hosting our speaker.
