Chris Rushing Named New Head Volleyball Coach At ECU
February 25, 2005 | Volleyball
GREENVILLE, N.C. --Chris Rushing has been named the new head volleyball coach at East Carolina University announced Thursday. Rushing, who has been the head women's volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin since 1998, replaces Colleen Munson who left ECU to take the same position at Western Michigan.
In seven seasons at UT Martin, Rushing guided the Skyhawks to two Ohio Valley Conference regular season championships, one OVC tournament championship and the school's first NCAA tournament appearance. He leaves UT Martin with a 110-99 won-loss record.
He earned OVC Coach of the Year honors twice in the past seven years and he has coached 13 All-OVC players and one Academic All-American. His teams have earned above a 3.5 grade point average the past three years and his 2003 team sported a 3.57 GPA and was ranked fourth among NCAA Division I volleyball teams by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
Prior to Tennessee at Martin, Rushing was an assistant women's volleyball coach at Arkansas State from 1996-97. Arkansas State held a record of 45-21 in two seasons under head coach Craig Cummings.
From 1994-95, he served as the head coach of the women's volleyball team at Dixie College in St. George, Utah. In his two seasons as a head coach at Dixie College, Rushing led the team to a 47-27 record and to school's first winning season in over six years.
His lone stint coaching men's volleyball was when Rushing was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Brigham Young University from 1992-94. The Cougars were ranked No. 8, No. 6 and No. 2 nationally in Rushing's three seasons on the staff.
His first collegiate coaching experience came at Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. He served as an assistant on the women's volleyball team in 1991.
Rushing played volleyball four seasons at BYU in 1986 and 1989-91. He played outside hitter on a team that won the national championship. He earned a B.S. degree from BYU in Exercise Science-Education Certification in 1993. Rushing and his wife Jeannine have three children (Josh - 14, Aubrey - 12, Brooke - 9).
