DME ACADEMY


VOLLEYBALL

Craig started his indoor coaching career as a Student Assistant at Guilford college where he later became the assistant coach. While at Guilford, Craig also coached with the Juniors program first as a floating coach, then an assistant and finally a head coach. After graduating college, Craig took on a unique role with the Nike Volleyball Van where he traveled over 90,000 miles teaching 50,000+ kids and 20,000+ coaches the game of volleyball. After his time with Nike & USAV, he headed to California where he coached at St. Bonaventure High School while also coaching for Chanel Islands Volleyball Club and also with LA Athletic Club. After a few years in California, Craig returned back to Guilford College as the assistant coach again and took over as the Master Coach for the club program. While there, Craig started the Carolina Region High Performance Program which grew to be one of the premier HP Programs in the country turning out Olympians and numerous Div I, II & III athletes. This also is where Craig entered the USA Volleyball Olympic Pipeline and was a CADRE for USA Volleyball’s education program and a head coach for USA Volleyball’s Development Programs and teams each summer.

Craig then moved to Virginia Beach where he took over and Master Coach for the Tidewater Volleyball Association Program and grew their juniors program from 4 teams when he arrived to 18 teams his final season with the program. He also created the Hampton Roads Invitational which was the first indoor tournament to be held exclusively in one convention center in Virginia at the time with teams coming from 18 different states!

Craig also has an extensive background in coaching with numerous summer camps from being the Master Coach at UNC Chapel Hill Nike High Performance, NC State and Davidson Summer Programs to being a lead court coach at Duke, Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Ventura, Notre Dame, Grambling, NC A&T, East Carolina, UNC Charlotte and many more across the US.