Leanne Ulmer, Head Coach

Leanne Ulmer begins her ninth year as Carthage’s head women’s volleyball coach in 2009 (227-67, .772 winning percentage, 8 years, 12th among active NCAA Division III coaches thru 2008).  She also begins her eighth year as senior woman administrator in the Carthage athletic department in 2009.  Ulmer was named American Volleyball Coaches Association Midwest Regional “Coach of the Year” in both 2006 and 2007, and she is a four-time CCIW “Women’s Volleyball Coach of the Year (2002, 2006, 2007 and 2008).

Her .7397 winning percentage over six season ranks 13th among active NCAA Division III coaches entering the 2007-08 season.  Ulmer is ranked first all-time at Carthage in career wins (227) and first in winning percentage (.772).  She passed coach Diane Mizerka (190 wins, 1975-82)  with a victory over North Park University on Oct. 30 in the play-in match for the CCIW Women’s Volleyball Tournament.

A native of  San Bernardino, Cal., she served as head girls volleyball coach at Lincolnshire Stevenson High School from 1993-2000 (227-75-2, 8 years) and the boys 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 boys team finished second in the Illinois High School Association championship after winning league, regional and sectional titles.  Ulmer has served as the co-director of the TNT Volleyball Club in Buffalo Grove, Ill., since 1995.

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 an 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 girls volleyball and girls basketball at San Bernardino’s San Gorgonio High School from 1982-84.  She also played on the Women’s Professional Golf Association mini-tour from 1989-91.

Telephone: 262-551-6681

E-Mail: lulmer@carthage.edu

Sarah Carlino, Part-Time Assistant Coach

Sarah Carlino begins her first year as a part-time assistant coach in 2009 after a four-year playing career with the Lady Reds from 2005 to 2008.  A native of Kildeer, Ill., Carlino graduated from Carthage in 2009 with a bachelor’s in elementary education.

Barb Clarke, Part-Time Assistant Coach

Barb Clark begins her first year as a part-time assistant coach in 2009. A native of Waukegan, Ill., Clark attended Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where she was a setter for the Salukis and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s in marketing. Clark has served as the co-director, along with Leanne Ulmer, of the TNT Volleyball Club in Buffalo Grove, Ill., since 1995. She also served as an assistant girls coach at Lincolnshire Stevenson High School in from 1993 to 1994, the girls coach at Lake Zurich High School from 1995 to 1996, the boys freshman coach at Glenbrook South High School from 1991 to 1996, head coach for both the boys and girls teams at Deerfield High School from 2001 to 2003 and the freshman girls coach at Libertyville High School from 2004 to 2007.