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HEAD COACH KRISTINA HERNANDEZ
KRISTINA
HERNANDEZ
HEAD COACH
Kristina Hernandez is in her fifth season as the head coach of
the Hofstra Volleyball program. She was named to the post on
March 27, 2008, following a four-year stint at Loyola (MD).
In her four seasons with the Pride, Hernandez has recorded a record of
55-74.
Hofstra continued its improvement in 2011 under the leadership of
Hernandez as the Pride won 14 matches. Hofstra got off to a great start
in 2011 as the Pride started off 7-0, which ranks as the third-best start
in the illustrious history of the Hofstra Volleyball program. Following
the season, the Pride had a pair of players honored by the CAA as Kylee
Maneja was named to the All-CAA Third Team, while Kelsie Wills
earned CAA All-Rookie honors.
In 2010 Hernandez guided an injury-riddled Pride squad to 10 victories
as Hofstra played without the services of Anissa Whitney for the entire
season and saw Taylor Moore miss the majority of the season as well.
Hernandez saw her 2009 team win 13 matches and battle for a spot in
the CAA Championship until the final weekend before falling just short.
Senior Monica Knight led the league in kills and was a second team All-
CAA selection, while Whitney was a third team all-league pick.
Following a successful first campaign with the Pride, in which the
team posted and 18-14 mark and earned a spot in the Colonial Athletic
Association Championship semifinals, Hernandez was recognized on a
pair of occasions for her work in the volleyball community. In February
2009 Hernandez
was named
an inaugural
American
Volleyball
Coaches
Association
(AVCA) “Thirty
Under 30”
award recipient.
The AVCA
created this
award to honor
thirty of the
up-and-coming
volleyball
coaches under
30 years of age
in the sport
at all levels
of the game.
Hernandez
would follow
that up in May
2009 when she
was named an
assistant coach
with the USA
Volleyball
Women’s Junior
A2 squad that competed in an international-style competition in July in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Hernandez completed a remarkable turnaround of the Loyola Greyhound
volleyball program as she took over a squad in 2004 that had won just
five matches the previous season and immediately doubled their win total
in her first campaign and by her fourth season the team won 22 matches.
That win total was the most for the Loyola program since the 1992 squad
set a school record with 25 victories and was the second-most in the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC)
last season.
A strong recruiter whose 2007 team featured 14
players from seven different states, Hernandez
guided the Greyhounds to 13 conference
wins in 2007. It marked the most-ever for the
program, which had never won more than seven
conference matches in a previous season in the
MAAC. In fact, the 20 combined conference
wins over her last two seasons for the
Greyhounds were more than the program had
won in the previous six seasons combined.
During the 2007 campaign Loyola finished in
the top three in the MAAC for the first time
since 1997 and had three different players earn
postseason accolades from the conference.
With the conference’s rookie and setter of
the year, as well as an All-MAAC first team
member and two All-MAAC second team
honorees, it was the first time since 2002 that
Loyola had players named to the All-MAAC
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