By John RittenhouseHills-Beaver Creek High School officials found an in-county resident to take over the head coaching position of the Patriots’ volleyball program this season.Mandy (Iveland) Kor, a 2000 Luverne High School graduate, will serve as a teacher and coach at H-BC this year.Kor replaces Kala Menning, who coached the Patriots for the last 12 matches of the 2005 season after Greg Leenderts resigned as the head coach eight matches into the campaign."I’m very excited about this," Kor said last Thursday."I was a little bit nervous at first because this is a head coaching position. Then I started working with the (H-BC) girls this summer, and now I couldn’t be more excited."Although this will be Kor’s first job as a head coach, she does have prior volleyball and coaching experienced.She entered Luverne’s volleyball program as a seventh-grader and remained involved through her junior year in high school.After graduating from LHS, Kor attended the University of Minnesota-Morris, graduating from the college in 2004.Kor coached junior high basketball in Hancock during her first two years at college, then served as a varsity assistant coach at the same school as a junior and senior in college.Kor’s first teaching job came during the first quarter of the 2004-05 school year at Wadena-Deer Creek before her duties called as a member of the Army National Guard’s 434th Main Support Battalion.She was deployed to Kuwait from November 2005 to August of 2006 and returned to Luverne when her stint was complete.Kor served as a substitute teacher in Luverne, Edgerton and Adrian from September through December of last year. She then worked as a part-time employee in the Luverne Elementary School office the rest of the school year.She coached basketball at the elementary school level for the Luverne Community Education last winter, and helped coach Luverne’s Junior Olympics volleyball team last spring.Along with accepting the head volleyball coaching position at H-BC, Kor will serve as the school’s freshman-senior English teacher.Mandy and her husband, Shawn, an Army National Guard recruiter, are the parents of an 11-week-old daughter, Abigail.