Maureen “Moe” Melhart rejoins the Otter volleyball staff, this time as associate head coach for the 2014 season.
SEASIDE, Calif. — The Cal State Monterey Bay volleyball team is welcoming home an old friend as Maureen "Moe" Melhart returns to the Otter bench as associate head coach for the 2014 season. Melhart (nee Perez) got her first collegiate coaching experience as
Jody Garry's (
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"I struck gold in first meeting Moe (and her family) when I coached her at Washington State," says Garry. "As a player, she was incredibly hard working, intrinsically driven and possessed natural leadership skills that helped her lead the WSU team throughout a grueling Pac–10 schedule. As a coach, she possesses these very same qualities and more. Moe is an amazing person, coach and motivator. She has grown tremendously in her coaching career and I look forward to working with her passion and energy for the profession."
Melhart, a 2–time Academic All–Pac–10 selection as a student–athlete, played for then assistant coach Garry at Washington State. She coached the top 15s team for the Pullman (Wash.) Volleyball Club in 2008–09 before heading to the Central Coast to join Garry's staff in The Kelp Bed for one season.
Moe Melhart (then Perez) coaching
at CSUMB in 2009. "I am thankful for the opportunity to be part of a growing tradition of excellence at Cal State Monterey Bay, both within the athletic department and the volleyball program," says Melhart. "Both my husband and I feel passionately about the direction in which Otter Athletics and the volleyball program are headed and I am thankful to Head Coach Jody Garry and Athletic Director Kirby Garry for giving me this wonderful opportunity."
Melhart has been the head coach at Colombia River High School—home of Otter men's basketball forward Isaiah Smith— since 2010. She led the Chieftains to an undefeated season in the Greater St. Helens League as the circuit's Coach of the Year as well a fourth place finish in the 2013 Washington 3A State Championship Tournament.
A resident of Vancouver, Wash., Melhart earned degrees in English and in secondary education with an emphasis in English from Washington State.
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