Former Lady Jacket soccer defender Hannah (Velloney) Shay was named assistant coach at Cedarville University beginning with the 2021-22 academic year.

She returned to her alma mater with coaching experience at the collegiate, high school, middle school, and club levels.

Shay’s resume includes serving as assistant coach at NCAA Division I St. Bonaventure in Olean, N.Y. during the 2019-20 academic year.  She helped the Bonnies to an improvement of five victories over the preceding season.

The Chesapeake, Va. native was a coach for the Chesapeake United Soccer Club. She previously was an assistant coach at Hudson (Ohio) Middle School and later was an assistant coach at Oscar Smith High School in her hometown.

Shay was a two-time team captain during her injury-shortened career from 2013-16. She started all 41 games in the back during her freshman and sophomore campaigns.

She appeared in just one more game her junior and senior seasons. However, she served as a team captain both years including the 2015 G-MAC Tournament title squad that earned the league’s first-ever automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Championship.

Shay started all 42 games in which she played as a Lady Jacket with four goals and two assists for ten points. She was a two-time selection to the G-MAC Academic Team.

Shay is a 2017 Dean’s Honor List graduate of Cedarville University with a degree in biology. She earned a master’s in theological studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2019.

Hannah and her husband, Ryan, reside in Cedarville with their twin daughters, who were born January 4, 2021.