CSUDH Tabs Randy Cline as Toros Volleyball Head Coach
Cline becomes 7th head coach in program’s history, inheriting post left vacant since December 2005
June 6, 2006

Carson, CA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills has named Randy Cline the new Toros volleyball head coach, CSUDH Athletics Director Patrick Guillen announced this morning. Cline, who had served on the CSUDH volleyball staff since January, begins his new position immediately.

“We had three great finalists, but ultimately it came down to Randy doing a tremendous job on the volleyball coaching staff over these past five months,” begins Guillen. “In addition to his exceptional coaching ability, Randy has expertise in physical conditioning and recruiting -- in fact, his current recruits are the best we’ve had in the past 10 years -- and is well-liked and well-received by our current student-athletes. With the passion and commitment he’s displayed as the interim head coach, I have no doubt Randy will turn our program around in a short period of time, and we look forward to his being an integral part of our Toros family.”

Cline brings nearly 10 years of coaching experience to the Toros program, including stints as the men’s volleyball assistant coach at alma mater Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Florida) and prep head coaching appointments at the Academy Prep Center for Education, Lawndale High School and Cardinal Mooney High School before serving as the owner and CEO of the Elite Volleyball Training Center and the co-owner and VP of Club X Volleyball club. As the head coach at Cardinal Mooney, Cline was selected the 3A Coach of the Year in 1997, and the 3A Co-Coach of the Year in 1998.

“I’m very thankful for the opportunity to lead the Toros to the top of the CCAA Conference, and although it’ll be a great challenge, I think we can eventually be a force to be reckoned with in Division II volleyball,” predicts Cline. “I’m also looking forward to working with the CSUDH administration, and with the best athletics department around.”

Cline competed as a setter at Eckerd and played professionally on Switzerland’s VBC Laufen squad in 2003.

The Gardena resident, who graduated from Eckerd in 2002, will be the 7th coach in the history of the sport and looks to reverse the fortunes of a Toros program that went 6-20 last season and tallied a 28-113 match record over the past five years.