Hi from the new Head Coach of UNCW Beach Volleyball (Fall of 2024)

 Dear Seahawk family, future, past, and present,

Hi, I’m Coach Fischer, the new Head Coach for Beach Volleyball at UNCW. Proud to be of service, and happy that UNCW now dedicates a full-time person to an amazing sport and our deserving athletes.

With a few weeks of practice under our belts, our little program is growing. We’ve found 2 amazing new volunteer coaches (alumna Kristy Mundy and beach veteran Dane Hansen). They will walk in the illustrious sandy footsteps of Brittany Fennel Lucas, Gina Kirstein, and Daniel Magnusson.

We also just identified and promoted just 3 athletic NARPs (nevermind the contradiction) to our roster as D1 teammates. Yay Hannah Forbes, Marissa Vann, and Alivia Hamel! With our re-tooled roster, we aim to be more like reloading than rebuilding. Mind you, we had 7 seniors on last year’s squad. And, ahem, the Sun Belt Pair of the Year and 4 All-Conference players. And the top GPA of all 19 UNCW teams. But no pressure.

We will still welcome somewhere between a few and a handful of crossover athletes from the indoor program like we always have.

For the first time ever, we didn’t begin the season on the 2 very serviceable courts behind Wag. I miss the pool there, but progress is rarely a straight line. We are now spoiled with 4 on-campus courts between the new freshmen dorms (Pelican) and The Shore, a culinary competitor to Wagoner Dining Hall. While both have automatic Port City Java espresso machines, The Shore sometimes staffs a real life  ice cream server at both lunch and dinner. Advantage The Shore.

While there is always work to be done with recruiting, scheduling, video review, compliance, facilities, practice planning and the like, my priority is to give our current team members and staff a challenging, fair, safe, and fun experience throughout their careers as a Seahawk. 

Speaking of Seahawk careers, I’ve been a little behind in releasing the End of Season Banquets via Email. My July wasn’t much different than normal, what with my beach camps and helping out USA Beach Volleyball in LA for a week. But I did have a little time to catch up and work on becoming the best I am capable of becoming. Since I don’t really have an email list for alumni, most of the missing / late Banquets are posted here: https://volleytrolley.blogspot.com/  Any errors or omissions are clearly not mine.

For the alums, you’re always welcome to come by a practice and join in or watch, and we’ll have a navy/teal scrimmage in both the fall and spring which can double as alumni days.

Excited to work with and meet all the alumni, parents, and to continue what we’ve started here at UNC Wonderful.

All the best,

--David

Cell: 310.266.5887
fischerd@uncw.edu