E-mail: davepex@aol.com
Current Coaching Level:
- Coastal Volleyball Club Inc – Founder, Director
- New England Region Commissioner/Executive Director (2011-Present)
- USA Volleyball Board of Directors – RVA Rep (2018-Present)
- Volleyball Hall of Fame Board of Directors (2016-2019)
- Professional Volleyball League Team Midnight Riders – head coach 2016
- New England Region Juniors – Juniors Commissioner (Term 2007-2011)
- New England Region Juniors – Former Girls Coordinator, Scheduler and Treasurer
- Boston Volleyball Festival, Boston – Founder and Co-Director
- Winterfest, Hartford – Founder and Co-Director
- Rhode Island Rumble Volleyball Tournament, Providence – Founder and Co-Director
- Wicked Good Challenge, RI – Founder and Co-Director
- VolleyFest, RI – Founder and Co-Director
- Springfield Invitational, Springfield – Founder and Co-Director
- North Atlantic Championships, Hartford – Founder and Co-Director
- Liberty Challenge of Boston – Founder and Co-Director
Coaching Certifications:
- USA Volleyball Certifications – IMPACT, Beach IMPACT, VCAP, CAP I, CAP II, CAP III
- Certified USAV MASTER IMPACT Instructor
- SafeSport Certified
- AVCA Conventions 2009, 2010,2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023
- Art of Coaching Volleyball 2014, 2018
- Gold Medal Squared
Bill Hamiter USA Siting Volleyball 2016 GOLD MEDAL Coach, Roxann Link NERVA Juniors Commissioner, Doug Beal former USA Olympic Coach and Coach Dave
Year began Coaching: 1981
Year Started At Coastal: 1991
Year began playing Volleyball: 1981
Current Coaching Jobs: Coastal Volleyball Program Director
Other Coaching Jobs:
Former: Fairhaven High School JV Volleyball Coach, Bishop Stang Freshman Coach, Stonehill College Assistant Coach, UMASS Dartmouth Head Coach, USAV Womens Open Teams, BayState Games
Schooling: Accounting Degree from U-Mass Dartmouth 1981
Your Real Job: Commissioner/Executive Director of NERVA
At the Olympic Training Center with Coach Brad (left) and USA Olympic Coach Jenny Lang Ping (January 2006)
Other Interests:
- Former Member of the City of New Bedford Parks Commission
- Former Member of the City of New Bedford Traffic Commission
- Member of the Club SS Sacramento (Feast President 1998, Secretary 2006, Served 2012, 2018)
- Former Board Member of the Acushnet Cemetery Corp.
Favorite Food: Fish and chips, Pizza, Portuguese Steak
Favorite TV Show: Any Volleyball matches
Your Role Model: Karch Kiraly
Best thing to ever happen to you in Volleyball:
- Coaching my daughters
- Road trips with Coach Tara and Coach Nicole(s)
- Watching my Daughter win a MA Div 1 State Championship
- Watching my former players come back to coach
- Starting the Convention Center events in New England (Hartford, Boston, Providence, Springfield)
- Facilitating the Art of Coaching Volleyball clinic in Boston and the NERVA partnership
- Being able to help lead the New England Region and make it grow.
- My involvement with the USA Volleyball Board of Directors
- Working the Sitting Volleyball Clinics for wounded Veterans in Newport RI and Brockton
- Our 2009 Sharks season and Baltimore trip.
- Practicing with the USA Mens National Sitting Team in Colorado Springs.
- Running the CAP Clinic at Stonehill in Jan 06 with the Skyhawk team and USA Volleyball Cadre
- Meeting Olympic Coaches Karch Kiraly, Bill Hamiter, John Speraw, Jenny Lang Ping and Hugh McCutcheon
- High Performance Coaches Camp at the Olympic Training Center Jan 2006
- IMPACT Master course at Colorado Springs in Aug 2005
- Attending CAP III and learning from National Team Coach Toshi Yoshida, Bill Neville and Carl McGowen
- Spending a weekend at the Olympic Training Center (2003) in Colorado with Coach Yoshida the National A2 Team.
- Helping to run the AVP tour stop on the Cape and hanging out with Karch
- Winning the 1988 National Wallyball Championship in Reno Nevada
- Playing and Coaching in the Azores 1987