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Volleyball coach resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a volleyball coach resume

Craft a resume summary statement

A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in volleyball coach-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some volleyball coach interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some volleyball coach interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a volleyball coach resume:

  • CPR
  • Student Athletes
  • Grade Girls
  • Role Model
  • Varsity Volleyball
  • Volleyball Program
  • Girls Volleyball
  • Game Strategies
  • Constructive Criticism
  • Skill Development
  • Practice Schedules
  • Leadership
  • Academic Eligibility
  • Player Development
  • Training Direction
  • Safety Rules
  • Competitive Events
  • Game Play
  • Championship
  • Game Situations
  • Training Sessions
  • Private Lessons
  • Travel Arrangements
  • Nutritional Advice
  • Game Schedules
  • Physical Fitness
  • Sports Rules
  • Summer Camps
  • JR
  • Individual Players

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How to structure your work experience

Your work experience should be structured:

  1. With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
  2. Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
  3. Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
  4. Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.

How to write volleyball coach experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are great bullet points from volleyball coach resumes:

Work history example #1

Volleyball Coach

Deer Park High School

  • Developed age appropriate volleyball drills, teamwork, and sportsmanship as well as assisted in summer camp planning and organization.
  • Trained four MVC All-Conference players.
  • Ensured adherence to all NAIA, Conference, and College rules by athletes, self, and other staff members.
  • Finished the season ranked 14th in the nation for NCAA III.
  • Assisted the head Women's soccer coach and organized the team's strength and conditioning program during season and off-season.

Work history example #2

Assistant Baseball Coach

Shadow Mountain Publishing

  • worked directly with head coach to start NCAA division III men's lacrosse program.
  • Guided the program to 6 NCAA Championship appearances.
  • Helped the head coach during volleyball tournaments to ensure the safety and well-being of the athletes and their families.
  • Co-facilitated psycho-educational lectures on stress management, assertive communication, effective discipline techniques for children, and other parenting topics.
  • Stimulated conversation regarding recruitment and playing softball in college.

Work history example #3

Gymnasium Coach

Amazon

  • Coached elementary-aged students during instructional soccer league.
  • Red Cross certified life guard and CPR certified.
  • Certified Risk & Connections, CPR, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Seven Challenges.
  • Attended the American Red Cross training course to fulfill the requirement of becoming certified in CPR and AED.
  • Generated 10,000+ unique email addresses for digital communication across various vertical markets.

Work history example #4

Basketball Coach

YMCA

  • Arranged practices for children emphasizing the importance of life principles, including teamwork and healthy activity.
  • Certified Life Guard, Swim Instructor, Coach Basic Life Support, CPR.
  • Red Cross certified lifeguard, including CPR, blood borne pathogen safety and oxygen certified.
  • Led the Francis Family YMCA to multiple sectional and regional championships, while promoting Christian values upheld by the YMCA.
  • Certified in CPR if needed and remained calm in stressful situations.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from volleyball coach resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in elementary education

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

2009 - 2012

Master's Degree in elementary education

Illinois State University, Normal, IL

2014 - 2015

Highlight your volleyball coach certifications on your resume

Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your volleyball coach resume:

  1. First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
  2. Certified Personal Trainer
  3. Master Certified Coach (MCC)
  4. Dental Assistant (RDA)

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