Northland International University

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.

• 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