Camp Staff
Leanne Ulmer
Coach Ulmer is in her 10th year as Carthage College’s head women’s volleyball coach (260-73, 9 years). She has a .781 winning percentage through the 2009 season! She is also in her ninth year as senior woman administrator in the Carthage Athletic Department. This years team has continued an unprecedented conference win streak of 44 conference wins in a row under the direction of Coach Ulmer!! That’s 6 years in a row as Conference Champs!! Their overall record this season is 33-6 (‘09).
Ulmer was named College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) "Volleyball Coach of the Year" for the 5th time in2009! Also in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2008……as well as American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Midwest Regional “Coach of the Year” in 2006, and AGAIN in 2007!!! Last year, they were ranked as high as 6th in the country!!! They are currently ranked 8th in the Country!
A native of San Bernardino, CA, she served as head girl’s volleyball coach at Lincolnshire-Stevenson High School from 1993-2000 (227-75-2, 8 years) and the boy’s volleyball coach from 1997-2000 (99-13, 4 years). Ulmer had eight-consecutive 20-win seasons in girls’ volleyball and four 30-win campaigns, with three conference championships, five regional titles and two sectional championships. Her 2000 boy’s team finished second in the Illinois High School Association championship after winning league, regional and sectional titles. Ulmer has served for three years on the NCAA Division III Midwest Region Championship Committee and is currently serving a fourth year. Since 1995, she has been the co-director of the TNT Volleyball, Inc. in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Ulmer received her bachelor’s in social relations from California-Riverside in 1979, where she played volleyball, basketball and softball. Her 1979 volleyball team won the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championship, and Ulmer was inducted into that school’s athletic hall of fame in 1986.
Following a brief playing career in 1979 with the New York Stars of the Women’s Professional Basketball League, Ulmer returned to California-Riverside in 1981 as an assistant women’s basketball coach before becoming head coach for both girl’s volleyball and girl’s basketball at San Bernardino’s San Gorgonio High School from 1982-84. She also played on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) mini-tour from 1989-91.
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*Additional Staff comprised of Area coaches as well as current Carthage Lady Reds team members.