The NCAA volleyball coaching carousel spins even in the summer. Here’s an update.
American University has a new women’s volleyball head coach.
Grand Canyon promoted from within to fill its vacancy in beach volleyball.
There’s been a firing, beach hirings and some sad news.
And South Florida now has a 7-foot-tall indoor assistant, an Olympian I’ve never met but am tied to in an interesting but still maddeningly frustrating way.
AMERICAN HIRES KIM: Former AU assistant Ahen Kim has returned to the Washington, D.C., school, this time as the head coach to replace the late Barry Goldberg. Goldberg died in March after a year-long battle with cancer. He was at American for 34 years.
Most recently Kim had success at Brown after serving as Goldberg’s assistant from 2012-17. He was at Brown for five seasons, which included taking the Bears to the NCAA Tournament in 2021, the program’s first NCAA trip since 1998. But after last season, to coach a professional team in South Korea.
American finished 15-15 last season, and 7-9 in the Patriot League. AU went to the NCAA Tournament 18 times from 1997 through 2019.
Click here for the American news release.
Kim is married to Amy Pauly, most recently an assistant at USC who earlier this month took the job…
