Caroline Mack enters her eighth season coaching at UC Merced. With Mack on the sidelines, the Bobcats have combined for 92 wins, 73 California Pacific Conference wins, two Cal Pac Tournament Championships and six conference tournament appearances.
In the 2020 championship winning season, Mack was named the Cal Pac Assistant Coach of the Year and the AVCA Southwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
She has coached 15 All-Cal Pac selections, two NAIA Honorable Mention All-Americans, and a NAIA Third Team All-American.
Mack provides a great compliment to Prachumsri as she was a setter for the Bobcats from 2011-14 and has prior coaching experience. Mack has combined her experiences to key in on player development and in her second season coaching, Madison Mitchell went on to break the program’s single-season assists record in 2019. Also, setters Serena Choi and Bianca Malaluan have surpassed 1000 career assists and have combined for six Cal Pac Setter of the Week awards. The success of the setters also led to the most kills in program history as the Bobcats pounded out 1,528 total kills in the 2023 campaign.
Mack joined the Bobcats coaching staff after serving as the girl’s (2015-17) and boy’s (2017-18) head varsity volleyball coach at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, Calif. In the fall of 2017, Mack guided Marshall’s girls’ team to a 24-8 record and was named the 2017 LA City Division II Coach of the Year.
Mack’s playing career still stands as one of the best to date as she ranks sixth in program history with 1,007 assists and top 15 with 512 digs. In 2014, Mack played in 103 sets which stood as the program record for nine years. She is also second on the program’s single-game assists chart as she registered 54 assists against Pacific Union College on November 10, 2013.
A native of Los Angeles, Calif., Mack currently resides in Merced.
