Women's Volleyball
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- David.Fleming@unt.edu
- Alma Mater:
- Denison University, 1992
Last updated December 2024
Fleming's Record (through 2024 season):
Career (20 years):Â 390-184
Dave Fleming Year-by-Year RecordÂ
Dave Fleming was named the 11th head coach of UNT volleyball on Dec. 24, 2024 and enters his first season in 2025. Prior to joining the Mean Green, Fleming spent 20 years as head coach at Colorado Mesa in Grand Junction, Colo.
Fleming posted a record of 390-184 (.679) with the Mavericks and holds the program record for career winning percentage. During the 2024 season, he became the active wins leader among all Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference coaches.
In total, Fleming tallied 258 conference victories and won four league championships during his time in Grand Junction. The Mavs have held a position inside the AVCA Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll for the final 41 consecutive weeks of his tenure, a streak that dates to Aug. 29, 2022.
Fleming won four RMAC Coach of the Year awards and added AVCA South Central Region Coach of the Year honors in 2014. He coached 21 All-Americans and 80 all-conference players, including three RMAC Player of the Year winners, three Setter of the Year honorees and three Freshman of the Year selections.
Before he took the head job at CMU, Fleming served as an assistant coach at UCLA for four seasons. During his time in Los Angeles, the Bruins compiled a record of 86-43 and earned four bids to the NCAA Tournament with Elite Eight appearances in 2001, 2003 and 2004. Fleming worked under head coach Andy Banachowski, who ended his 43-year career with six national championships and 1,106 wins, all at UCLA. In 1997, Banachowski was the first coach inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.
From 1994-96, Fleming held an assistant coaching role for USA Volleyball with the Women’s National Team. The team helped host the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta after it won the nation’s first gold medal in a major competition at the 1995 FIVB World Grand Prix. Fleming worked under head coach Terry Liskevych and alongside assistant coaches Aldis Berzins and Jeanne Beauprey Reeves while with the national team.
He began his coaching career as a student assistant with the women’s team at Denison University before he earned a bachelor’s degree in geology with a minor in physical education in 1992. Fleming played and coached the men’s club volleyball team while also starting for the varsity tennis team.
In 1994, Fleming graduated from the University of Michigan with a master’s degree in kinesiology. During his time in Ann Arbor, he worked as a volunteer assistant coach for the women’s team and played for the men’s club volleyball team.
After his stint with USA Volleyball, he became head coach at Valhalla High School in El Cajon, Calif., where he won coach of the year and a conference championship over two seasons. While in California, Fleming also worked as a club coach for San Diego Volleyball Club (1994-2001) and Sports Shack Volleyball Club (2001-04). In 2012, he was a founding member of Mesa Juniors Volleyball Company in Palisade, Colo., and served as President of the Board of Directors.
COACHING HISTORY
1990-91: Denison University (Granville, Ohio), Student Assistant Coach
1992-93: University of Michigan, Volunteer Assistant Coach
1994-96: USA Volleyball Women's National Team, Technical Assistant
1997-98: Valhalla High School (El Cajon, Calif.), Head Coach
1994-2001: San Diego Volleyball Club (San Diego, Calif.)
2001-04: Sports Shack Volleyball Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
2001-04: UCLA, Assistant Coach
2012-18: Mesa Juniors Volleyball Co. (Palisade, Colo.), Founder & President of the Board of Directors
2005-24: Colorado Mesa, Head Coach
2024-present: UNT, Head Coach
