2010 SACRAMENTO STATE VOLLEYBALL
RUBEN VOLTA
Head Coach • Third Season • Sacramento State, '93
COACHING EXPERIENCE Sacramento State Head Coach (2008-pres.) Sacramento State Associate Head Coach (2007) Sacramento State Assistant Coach (2002-06) Sacramento State Volunteer Assistant (2000-01) Gold Cal Club Assistant Coach (2008) Gold Cal Club Head Coach (2006-07) High Voltage Club Head Coach (1995-02) Davis Club Head Coach (2001) Rio Americano High School Assistant Coach (1999) Country Day High School Head Coach (1998-99) Grant High School Assistant Coach (1992-93)
PLAYING EXPERIENCE Sacramento State Setter, 1991-93, 1995 National Club Champ (1995) All-American (1995) All-Big 10 Tournament (1995)
MISCELLANEOUS Bachelor’s Degree Sacramento State Physical Education (1993) Hometown Sacramento, Calif.
Ruben Volta enters his third season as head coach at Sacramento State in 2010. He took over the head coaching duties in 2008 after longtime coach Debby Colberg announced her retirement. The upcoming season will mark the 11th year Volta has been a member of the Sacramento State coaching staff, including one year as the associate head coach (2007), five years as an assistant (2002-06), and two seasons as a volunteer assistant (2000-01). During Volta’s 10-year tenure with the program, Sacramento State has combined for a 224-102 overall record (.687 winning percentage), a 113-37 mark in the Big Sky Conference, seven Big Sky Tournament championships, five regular season conference titles and seven NCAA Tournament appearances. Also during that 10-year span, Sacramento State players have combined for 45 all-academic selections, 37 all-conference awards (including 15 first team selections), three MVPs and three all-Pacific Region selections. In Volta’s first season as head coach in 2008, he led the program to its 33rd consecutive season with double figures in wins and an 8-8 mark in conference despite losing both starting outside hitters, both starting middle hitters and the starting libero from the previous year. The 2008 squad featured two allconference performers, and set the program record for most Big Sky all-academic selections in a season with eight. In 2009, the Hornets improved on their overall win total by six, finishing with a 16-16 record. This came despite the team playing with a roster of 10 underclassmen, including four freshmen and six sophomores. The team routinely started three of those underclassmen as well as a sophomore libero. Sacramento State beat local rivals Pacific, UC Davis and San Jose State, and had two players selected to the all-conference team (Desiree Hoyum and Maddison Thivierge). In addition, eleven of the team’s 14 players had overall grade point averages above a 3.0. At the conclusion of the 2009-10 academic year, the volleyball squad's overall grade point average of 3.30 was the highest among the 20 sports at Sacramento State. A graduate of Sacramento State in 1993 with a degree in physical education, Volta played four years for the Hornet men's club team (1991-93, 1995). He starred for the 1995 squad that went undefeated and won the National Club Championship. That season, Volta earned All-America honors as a setter and was named all-tourney at the Big 10 Tournament. In 1995, he opened the High Voltage volleyball facility in Sacramento, and began running a juniors club. During one point in 1997, the club operated 18 juniors teams of different age groups. In the seven years of High Voltage’s existence, the team qualified for the junior nationals (18-open division) five times, including an 11th-place finish in 1996. The junior nationals include the top 32 teams in the country. Some of his former club players with High Voltage include past Hornets Sandra Bandimere, Tasman Dwyer, Kazmiera Imrie, Michelle Franz, Jackie Coudert, Brenda Moorlag, Korri Kuelper, Sharon Stutts and Holly Olmsted. In 2006, he coached the Gold Cal (18-under) Juniors club volleyball team to an 11th-place finish at the junior nationals. That team featured current Hornet juniors Anna Schoener and Cayti Crowton. In the summer of 2008, he was the assistant coach for the 18-under Gold Cal Junior Club team that placed fifth in the American division at the Junior Olympics. That team featured current Hornet junior middle hitter Kelsey Elston. He also spent the 2001 season coaching the 18-under Davis club team and spent time as an assistant coach at Rio Americano High School for one season (1999) where he helped guide the Raiders to the Sac-Joaquin Section championship. Prior to that, Volta spent two seasons as the varsity head coach at Country Day High School (1998-99) where the team finished third in the section championships. He started his coaching career at Grant High School in 1992, spending two years as the varsity head coach for the boys and girls teams. Volta, who resides in Sacramento, also taught physical education at Sacramento’s St. Philomenes School from 1999-2002.
10 HORNET VOLLEYBALL | BIG SKY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1997, ‘98, ‘99, ‘00, ‘01, ‘02, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07