Coach Barb Herron
- Sixteen years
of coaching experience
- Ten years of coaching high school
volleyball
- First assistant coach for men's and women's
volleyball teams at Northland
- 2009 USVBA National Assistant
Coach of the Year
Coach Dave Herron
Coach Dave Herron graduated
from Biola University with a teaching degree in Physical Education and
Biology. He taught for 19 years in public/private/Christian Schools in
California filling roles as classroom teacher/Athletic Director/Boys
Counselor and has coached Soccer/baseball and basketball. In 1985 he
focused his energies on coaching volleyball. He began coaching in the
United States Volleyball association taking teams to the Junior Olympics
in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 2008. His HS boys volleyball team at Whittier
Christian High School took consecutive CIF championships in 1991, 1992
and 1993. Coach Herron holds a current Level II - USVBA Coaching
Certification. In 1994 Coach Herron left the HS coaching ranks to join
the staff at Northland International University where he has been the
head Mens and Womens coach since that time, as well as a Physical
Education department instructor.
Coach Herron was inducted into
the USVBA ‘Victory Club’ with 300 wins (all at NIU for WVB) in 2009. His
coaching experiences over the years have taken him through about 2000
matches. He coaches with his wife Barbara who has been his first
assistant for 25 plus years. The Herron’s have 3 former players coaching
at the college level and 15 former players coaching at the HS level;
including their 3 grown children; Tyler (MI), Trent (IN) and Tiffany
(NC). The Herron’s summer ministry involves conducting VB Camps that
have taken them to 21 different states (several multiple times). They
have also been to Hawaii / Guam and conducted VB Team Mission trips to
Costa Rica and Brazil.
Their desire is to train young men and
women to go into the coaching ranks and train other players to take
their God given talent to Honor Him.
- Conference
Coach of the Year, 1999
- Wisconsin Volleyball Conference (WVC)
State Champions, Division II Men's Volleyball, 2000
- WVC Coach of
the Year, 2000
- WVC Division II All-Star Coach, 2000
- NCCAA
Midwest Regional Champions WVB, 2000 and 2002
- Midwest Region
Division II Coach of the Year, 2003
- NCCAA National Chair
Division II Women's Volleyball, 2007–2008