Doug Walters has been the head volleyball coach at Cedarville University since 2008. He is the sixth head coach in the program’s history.
The Lady Jackets have averaged 22.6 victories per season during Walters’ nine-year career. The list of honors includes the 2008 NCCAA Championship as well as Great Midwest Athletic Conference crowns in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016.
Walters’ teams have run off six consecutive winning campaigns including every year since joining NCAA Division II. Cedarville has played in all five G-MAC Tournament final matches ever contested.
The Lady Jackets finished with a 27-9 record in 2016 and earned their first-ever trip to the Division II Midwest Regional. CU won its first NCAA Championship match and advanced to the semifinals.
During the school’s first active season in Division II in 2012, Walters’ squad rolled to a 32-6 overall mark and was a perfect 8-0 in the G-MAC. Cedarville went on to win the inaugural G-MAC Tournament.
The Jackets finished 23-14 in 2013 and repeated the feat after sharing the league’s best regular season record at 12-2. They went on the road to claim their second straight G-MAC Tournament trophy.
Then, in 2014, CU made it a three-peat after rolling through the league schedule with a 10-1 regular season mark. The Jackets hosted the G-MAC Tournament as the #1 seed and locked down their third straight title to finish 20-13.
Walters’ first season with the Lady Jackets in 2008 was a memorable one as he guided the program to its third NCCAA title in four years. He was tabbed National Coach of the Year after the squad finished with a 27-12 record.
Walters came to Cedarville after assembling a 128-73 record in nine years of high school coaching in southern Ohio. He spent his last two seasons at the prep level at Milford High School, a Division I program near Cincinnati.
Walters previously spent seven years building Eastern High School in Sardinia into one of the top Division III programs in Ohio. The Warriors, who were ranked in the state’s Top 10 in three different seasons, won four conference titles, two sectional championships, and were the district runner-up once. He was a four-time conference Coach of the Year and saw eight players continue their careers at the collegiate level.
Walters was founder and former director of the Greater Miami Volleyball Club. The GMVC was started in 2003, was a Junior Olympic organization, and was recognized as one of the top regional clubs in the Cincinnati area.
Walters continues to be involved at the club level. He is a National Team Coach for the Cincinnati Volleyball Academy based out of Mason, Ohio.
Additionally, Walters is the volleyball chair for the G-MAC, the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Advisory Committee, and the Division II National Committee. He also serves on the Division II Head Coaches Committee and the All-Region Committee for the AVCA.
Walters is a 1997 graduate of Northern Kentucky University and he earned his master’s degree from the University of Dayton in 2003. Doug and his wife, Angela, reside in Morrow, Ohio with their daughter Caitlyn, 15.
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The Walters File:
- NCCAA National Champions: 2008
- NCCAA National Coach of the Year: 2008
- G-MAC Coach of the Year: 2012, 2016
- G-MAC Tournament Champions: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
- G-MAC Regular Season Champions: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
- G-MAC Regular Season Co-Champions: 2013
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- 1 AVCA Division II National Player of the Week
- 1 NAIA National Player of the Week
- 1 NCCAA Susan R. Hellings Award
- 11 NCCAA All-Americans
- 1 AVCA Division II Midwest Region Player
- 2 CCA Division II Midwest Region Players
- 1 NCCAA National Tournament MVP
- 2 NCCAA National All-Tournament players
- 7 NAIA Scholar-Athletes
- 19 NCCAA Scholar-Athletes
- 3 Conference Players of the Year
- 1 Conference Libero of the Year
- 4 Conference Freshmen of the Year
- 33 Conference players
- 25 All-NCCAA Midwest Region players
Career Record at Cedarville:
Overall Conference
W L Pct W L Pct Place
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2008 27 12 .692 10 4 .714 tie 4th of 15
2009 15 23 .395 8 4 .667 tie 3rd of 13
2010 18 20 .474 6 4 .600 5th of 11
2011 22 18 .550 0 0 .000
2012 32 6 .842 8 0 1.000 1st of 5 - Tournament Champion
2013 23 14 .622 12 2 .857 tie 1st of 8 - Tournament Champion
2014 20 13 .606 10 1 .909 1st of 8 - Tournament Champion
2015 19 15 .559 9 1 .900 1st of 8
2016 27 9 .750 9 1 .900 1st of 8 - Tournament Champion
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Totals 203 130 .610 72 17 .809
