Indiana University Athletics
What They're Saying About Sherry Dunbar
12/20/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Dec. 20, 2006
When Sherry Dunbar was hired as Indiana's volleyball coach on Dec. 17, she became the fifth head coach in IU program history. Here's what people both in the IU and coaching communities have to say about Dunbar:
"Indiana University is committed to building one of the nation's premiere women's volleyball programs. Sherry Dunbar has certainly proven herself exceptionally well qualified to build such a program. The Indiana University family is especially delighted to welcome her back to Bloomington. We are very fortunate that such a talented and accomplished coach will assume the leadership of our volleyball team. She is destined to become one of the very best volleyball coaches in the Big Ten. I am very confident that she will make all Hoosiers proud."
~ Indiana University President Adam Herbert
"Sherry's success as a head coach is impressive and we are confident that she will accomplish great things at Indiana, while representing IU well both on and off the floor. We are happy to bring a Hoosier back home."
~ Indiana Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan
"She certainly helped us build our program to where it is, and she did a fantastic job at College of Charleston. I think Indiana is getting somebody who is going to bring a lot of successful ways to the program. She's learned from a couple of different coaches and then applied those things with her own twist to it, and she's been very successful with that. I think with her being from Indiana and being a good recruiter, she's really going to make things happen at Indiana. She's a great person, a great coach and she's going to do a great job at Indiana."
~ Tennessee head volleyball coach Rob Patrick
"We're disappointed for our program but very happy for Sherry, because she's a wonderful, wonderful person and great coach. We're thrilled for her, and hopefully we can find somebody who fits the same profile that she does as a coach and a person."
~ College of Charleston Director of Athletics Jerry Baker
"Sherry is one of the up-and-coming top coaches in the country. She did a great job at College of Charleston. She took that program to the NCAAs the last few years and I know a lot of coaches in the country have a lot of respect for her as a coach."
~ Stanford associate head coach Denise Corlett
