Fourteen league crowns, seven Section VI titles, six regional victories and three state championships at Randolph CS later, the longtime Cardinals head coach is hanging up her whistle for the final time.

Maycock coached her final match last Tuesday night when Randolph, the Section VI Class D1 champion, lost to Class D2 champion Panama in the crossover at Jamestown Community College’s Physical Education Complex.

It capped a career that has spanned the birth of four children, including a state champion volleyball player, and more than 500 victories.

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Robin Maycock won over 500 games, 14 league crowns, seven Section VI titles, six regionals and three state championships at Randolph. P-J photo by Lisa Monacelli

Mikey, her and husband Michael’s first son, was born a week before a sectional final in 1991, while Mckenna — their youngest — was born Oct. 18, 1997, also in the middle of volleyball season.

“Mikey was a week old and I remember my mom watching him while I left for a playoff game,” Robin recalled Wednesday evening. “I didn’t have to ride the bus. Driving back, I was so nervous to get home.”

Despite having two of their four children during volleyball season, and being pregnant during two other seasons, Robin never remembers missing a game.

“We just kept right on going,” she said. “Michael would always bring the kids to the games. Former players always remember my kids running around at practice.”

Marah Micek, the couple’s older daughter and now the varsity head coach at Falconer Central School remembers it the same way.

“I remember being a little kid. I’d always be at practices playing on the side or riding the bus with her to all of their games,” Micek said Monday evening. “I went to all the tournaments. I always remember just tagging along. I felt like I was a part of her teams from just a young age.”

Maycock must’ve been doing something right.

The Randolph native and SUNY Fredonia product, who graduated with a certificate in coaching, started coaching the Cardinals in the fall of 1988 and almost immediately found success.

League championships in 1991, ’93, ’94, ’95 and ’97 were followed by her first sectional title in 2000.

Ashley (Livermore) Lund, now the head coach of a very successful program at Jamestown Community College was a junior on Maycock’s 2000 team.

“Robin has always had such a passion for sports. She always pushed that on us,” Lund said Saturday evening after the Jayhawks wrapped up their third straight NJCAA Division III seventh-place finish at nationals. “At Randolph … we always had that mentality that we were born to win there. She did a good job of trying to get us where we needed to be.”

Lund has since been the beneficiary of some successful collegiate players from Maycock’s Randolph program.

“The kids that come in from Randolph are kids that want to win,” she said. “They have that passion, love the sport and love to play. They just want to learn. I’ve always had good athletes from Randolph.”

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In the mid-2000s, Randolph and Section VIII-Haldane began a nine-year rivalry that included each school winning three state championships against the other.

The Cardinals beat the Blue Devils in 2005, 2006 and 2010 while Haldane got the better of the matchup in 2007, 2011 and 2013.

Micek, now a speech pathologist who played varsity starting in eighth grade, was a junior on the 2010 title team.

“I think she’s always been the same person at home and at practice. I feel like she was the head of practice and took care of things there, and also took care of things at home,” Micek said of her mother. “She was the leader at home. … Our home life was sports. Mckenna and I played travel volleyball during basketball and softball seasons. We would drive to Buffalo … Mckenna would practice 5-7 p.m., I would practice 7-9 p.m. and we would drive home. Our lives revolved around sports.

“People said my parents were crazy,” Micek added. ” … But they were always super dedicated to their kids, students and athletes. She’s all in at home, all in at school and all in with her teams.”

While Maycock will not be on the sidelines next fall, Micek, Lund and Bayley (Morrison) Johnson – all Maycock proteges – will be.

“It means a lot,” Robin said about seeing former players coaching at local schools. “They were all really good players. They all paid attention to detail, were smart and worked hard.

Johnson, who played four years of varsity at Randolph in the early 2000s, is now the head coach at Maple Grove.

“What I take away from Robin is her dedication. She really always put in the time and was committed to her team,” Johnson said Monday evening. “She taught us a lot about building relationships. As a player, I played hard and wanted to win because she wanted to win and be successful. As a coach you always strive to be better.”

“I didn’t like it that Bayley beat me for a couple of years,” Maycock joked. “I wanted to play Bayley, but I hated it that she kept beating me.”

This past season was the first for Micek on the sidelines and, sure enough, Falconer and Randolph met twice in nonleague action. Mom’s Cardinals bested daughter’s Golden Falcons both times.

“It was so much fun seeing Marah,” Robin said, “and seeing her start her own little program like that.”

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While she will coach one last year of jayvee girls basketball this winter, Robin knows she will miss certain aspects of coaching next fall.

“I love the competitiveness of the matches, but overall I’ll mostly miss the girls,” she said. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the best. The Morrisons, Beavers, a lot of really good athletes.

“We end up being lifelong friends,” she added.

Maycock, who will retire from teaching at the end of the school year, says she will spend some of her time watching the family’s first grandchild, Mikey’s son Dawson.

“I’ll really miss the coaches,” she said. “They were a really nice group through the years. … We never stopped coaching.”

While fellow coaches won’t see Robin on the sidelines anymore, she’ll likely be in the stands at most of Falconer’s matches with Micek down on the floor.

“I see a lot of her in me. I think she’s easy going and I see that in me as well, but we have really high expectations at the same time,” Micek said. “When I told her the Falconer job was open and I was applying, she said ‘It’s every day. You have to show up and be there for the girls.’ I told her that I want to do it because I love going to practice and I love game days. I get excited and nervous for the girls.

“I idolized my mom because of all the things she could handle and do,” Micek added. “If she can do that kind of stuff, I want to do it, too. I want to be like her going forward, showing the same amount of dedication and passion for volleyball.”