Maggie Catherina - Assistant Coach & Director of Operations - Staff Directory

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Maggie Catherina

Title:
Assistant Coach & Director of Operations
Email:
Phone:
919-813-9250

Maggie Catherina joined the Blue Devil volleyball program in February 2026 and serves as the Assistant Coach and Director of Operations.

She joins Duke after spending the 2025 campaign as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at American University, where she helped guide the Eagles to the Patriot League Championship and was part of the program's 2025 Patriot League Coaching Staff of the Year.

During her year at American, Catherina played a key role in the development of multiple Patriot League award winners, including the player of the year, rookie of the year, setter of the year and libero of the year. She helped six players land on the All-League team and mentored an AVCA Region Setter of the Year and an All-America honoree.

Catherina served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Lafayette College during the 2024 season, following a three-year stint as head coach at Goucher College. While at Goucher, she totaled 13 wins and helped the program earn AVCA Team Academic Awards in 2021 and 2022. She began her collegiate coaching career at Rowan University (2016-20), where she helped develop the 2018 NJCAA Defensive Player of the Year, the program's first All-America honoree in 2019 and guided the team to four consecutive AVCA Team Academic Awards.

A former student-athlete at Rowan, Catherina competed for the Profs from 2012-16 and earned her bachelor's degree in general studies in 2017.