The only news that matters is that I was offered the professional job I talked about getting short-listed for previously. And I accepted the offer. The club is Svedala in Sweden. Once the details are finalized I will talk about things more specifically – probably next week.
In the meantime, for those who might be interested, below is a list of all the volleyball coaching jobs I applied for in the last six months. Some of them I knew I had no shot at, but put my resume in because it got my name out there for potential future consideration. Other positions no doubt were already filled before they were even posted. So while the list below is long – perhaps depressingly so from a job-seeker’s perspective – only part of it is jobs I was actually ever really in potential consideration for on some level. Those in red are ones I either got a rejection note from or otherwise found out the job was filled.
NCAA/NAIA Head Coach (NCAA Division I unless noted)
- Coker College (DII men & women)
- Western Illinois
- Chicago State
- Montana
- Montana State
- George Mason
- UT Rio Grande Valley
- Cal State Fullerton
- Nevada Reno
- Eastern Michigan
- Akron
- Mississippi State
- Hartford
- West Virginia
- UNC Charlotte
- Cornell
- Lake Erie (DII)
- Marist
- Eastern Illinois
- Holy Cross
- Coppin State
- Siena Heights (NAIA men & women)
- Rockford (DIII)
- Hampton
- LIU
- Daniel Webster (DIII Men & Women)
- Buffalo
- UT-Martin
- Northwestern State
- UC Irvine
- Knox College (DIII)
- Urbana (DII)
- Auburn University at Montgomery (NAIA/DII)
- Northwestern Oklahoma State (going DII)
- Newman (DII)
- Augustana (DII)
- Stonehill (DII)
- Robert Morris, Chicago (NAIA men & women)
- Lake Superior State (DII)
- Roger Williams (DIII)
- WVU Tech (NAIA)
- Smith (DIII)
NCAA Assistant Coach (Division I unless noted)
- UNC Charlotte
- LSU
- Indiana
- Minnesota
- Georgetown
- Bowling Green
- East Tennessee State
- Florida State
- North Carolina Central
- East Carolina
- Florida International
- Notre Dame
- Coastal Carolina
- San Francisco
- Northern Kentucky
- Miami
- Central Michigan
- Arkansas State
- DePaul
- Albany
- Bradley
- Towson
- Nebraska – Omaha
- Utah
- Eastern Michigan
- Milwaukee
- North Dakota State
- College of Charleston
- Clarion (DII)
- West Virginia
- Wake Forest
- Western Oregon (DII)
- Cornell
- Southeast Missouri State
- UCONN
- Clemson
- Stetson (indoor & sand)
- Illinois
- UNC Willmington
- SMU
- Robert Morris
- Buffalo
- Angelo State (DII)
- UAB
- Fordham
- Texas A&M Int’l (DII)
- Tennesee
- Idaho State
- Jacksonville State
- Santa Clara
Non-US head coach
- VBC Val-de-Travers (Swiss 2nd Division)
- Volley Köniz (Swiss 1st Division)
- USC Münster (German Bundesliga)
- NAWARO Straubing (German 2nd Division, moving up)
- Köpenicker SC (German Bundesliga)
- Svedala Volleyball Klubb (Sweden)
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4 Responses
Congrats! Hope you’ll have a great experience in Sweden.
And as I promised that I would come to a match if you got a job in Germany, well Svendala is closer for me than Straubing. 😉
Thanks. I’ll hold you to that. 🙂
Hi John,
First of all good luck with your Sweden VB Club, I hope transition to that tape of volleyball will be smooth for you.
Also how did you find out about potential coaching job openings in this European countries?
Coach Marko
Thanks Marko.
Mainly I heard about the European openings through my coaching contacts there. Unfortunately, there isn’t a central listing for them in the way there is in the States with college coaching jobs.