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Joe Morales, head coach at Texas A&M-Commerce entering his second season. Morales' Lion tenure began in emphatic fashion as it did not take him long to pick up first career head coaching win, beating Texas Southern on August 25 in San Antonio. The Lions also picked up a non-conference thrilling five-set win at Abilene Christian, but the biggest moment of the season came on September 8 in Birmingham, Alabama, as the Lions stunned Alabama in five sets. The win over the Crimson Tide, marked the first win over a Power-Five conference opponent and a SEC opponent in school history, the Lions followed it up with a four-set win over UAB the next day to go 2-1 at the Blazer Classic, the first time they had a winning record at a tournament in the Division I era. 
In conference play, the Lions recorded back-to-back five-set wins over Lamar and Northwestern State as well as a road win at New Orleans and clinched the program's berth into the postseason for the 12th season in a row, which is the longest active streak among any sport at A&M-Commerce. 
Morales comes to A&M-Commerce with 14 years of collegiate coaching experience at the Division I and Division II and junior college levels.
Prior to his arrival at A&M-Commerce, Joe was an assistant at McNeese where the team went 13-5 in the Southland Conference and 18-16 overall.
Morales, spent the 2021 season as an assistant at UTSA. He spent the 2012-21 seasons at Texas A&M-Kingsville, where he primarily worked with the setters and served as the recruiting coordinator.
During his time in Kingsville, the program had a school-record seven consecutive winning seasons in the Lone Star Conference.
Prior to Texas A&M-Kingsville, Morales served as a volunteer assistant coach at Texas State during the 2011 season. With the Bobcats, Morales helped the team to a 15-1 conference record, capturing both the Southland Conference regular season and tournament titles and advancing to the NCAA Tournament.
Morales started his collegiate career at Iowa Central Community College as the assistant coach in 2009.
A graduated from Texas State where he was a member of the men's volleyball club and received a master's in from Gonzaga University.