Chelsea White - Director of Volleyball Operations - Staff Directory

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Chelsea White

Title:
Director of Volleyball Operations
Email:
Phone:
(919) 668-2545

Chelsea White joined the Duke Volleyball program as the Director of Volleyball Operations on July 1, 2009.

“It gives us great joy to welcome Chelsea White to Duke University and our volleyball program,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Chelsea joins us following two seasons of experience at the University of California, Berkeley. She will be an integral part of daily operations along with team travel and on-campus recruiting. Her volleyball knowledge, along with organizational skills, will enable us be to train and recruit efficiently as coaches.”

As the Director of Volleyball Operations, White will take on a range of responsibilities including daily office administration, organizing official and unofficial visits for recruits, handling travel arrangements for recruiting trips and team road matches, serving as the Tournament Director for the fall and spring home tournaments and marketing the team’s home matches. She will also play an important role in coordinating the team’s community service projects, the annual awards banquet in the spring and a variety of other duties.

White spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons as the Director of Volleyball Operations at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was in charge of the program’s administrative duties, travel arrangements and assisting with special events. Her stint with the Golden Bears followed a year in which she served as an assistant to Dean Judy Olian at the UCLA School of Management and a stretch as a Client Service Associate at Smith Barney in Sacramento, Calif.

White also spent time interning with the non-profit organization Sports4Kids, which coordinates physical activity programs in public elementary schools with student populations of 50 percent or more free/reduced-lunch eligible children. White spent time as a research intern with Sports4Kids, which aims to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

A 2006 graduate of Iona College, White was one of the Metro Atlantic Conference’s top liberos during her career with the Gaels. During her senior season, White was named the MAAC’s Defensive Player of the Year after leading the conference and ranking sixth nationally with an average of 6.12 digs per game. White also spent time playing at American River College in Sacramento, Calif., where she was named the California All-State and All-Northern California Volleyball teams in addition to being named American River College’s 2004 Female Athlete of the Year.

At Iona, White was also a member of the Delta Epsilon Sigma National Honor Society with a 3.92 GPA. White holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, which she was awarded in 2006 at Iona, and a master’s in Education, which she recently earned from Cal-Berkeley in 2008.