OUR COACHES

DOUG BABINGTON
dbabington@yahoo.com

Doug Babington is finishing up his 3rd year as the Head Volleyball Coach for the Valhalla Norsemen. They finished last season 28-6 and also finished the season as Grossmont League South Champions. For the past ten years he has been a college coach.

His last coaching position was at Texas Tech University where he was the recruiting coordinator and first assistant coach. Prior to a two-year stint as assistant coach at Rice University, Babington spent two seasons as the head coach at Galveston College where he led the Whitecaps to a 59-29 record. After graduating from Tri-State University in Angola, Ind., with a B.S. in physical education (1995), he served as an assistant coach at Houston Baptist University (1996-98).
JOHN ROSS, JR.

A four-time letterwinner from 1989 to 1993 and the most valuable player of the 1991 Aztec men's volleyball team, John Ross returned to Montezuma Mesa in 1996 as San Diego State's assistant volleyball coach and was promoted to the position of associate head coach prior to the 2004 season.
Currently in his 11th season, Ross is heavily involved in all phases of coaching but works specifically with the middle blockers. In addition, he is responsible for recruiting and helping administer drills in practice. He also runs the summer Aztec Volleyball Camp and is co-director of Club Pacific.


JOHN SHIRK
jshirk@mail.sdsu.edu

John Shirk enters his tenth season with the Aztec volleyball coaching staff. His coaching resume' spans all levels from club volleyball with Club Pacific girls' volleyball and Seaside boys' volleyball to a brief time with Fred Sturm as a volunteer with USA Volleyball in 1995. Shirk also runs the Aztec Summer Volleyball Camps and is co-director of Club Pacific.

Prior to joining the Aztecs, Shirk spent the 1996 and 1997 seasons as associate head coach for the Lady Griffins of Grossmont (Community) College. He also served as the first assistant at Grossmont from 1992 to 1995, serving in a similar capacity with the school's men's team in 1992 and 1993. During that span, he helped the women's team to three consecutive Pacific Coast Conference championships. Since 1994, Shirk has coached club teams which have competed in both the USA Junior Olympics and the prestigious Volleyball Festival.

A native San Diegan, Shirk earned all-state honors as a middle blocker at Grossmont College during the 1991 and 1992 seasons. He has competed in open tournaments all over California in doubles, four-person, and six-player formats, both indoors and on the grass. Shirk graduated from San Diego State University in 1998 with a teaching degree in kinesiology. He completed a master's degree in kinesiology in August 2005.

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