position Associate Head Coach & Recruiting Coordinator
Instagram @hudsonb3
• Named Ohio State associate head coach in June 2019
• Also serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator
• Came to Columbus with eight seasons of collegiate coaching experience
• Assistant coach for Virginia women’s volleyball for two seasons (2017-18)
• Started a men’s volleyball program at Marymount University (Arlington, Va.) in 2013
• Lifted Marymount from its inaugural season to a conference championship and top-10 (D-III) national ranking in just four years (2017)
• Long history of USA Volleyball coaching (involved since 2007), including his continuation as the Boys High Performance Coach
• Spent nearly a decade playing professionally both indoors and on the beach after a four-year college career at George Mason University (2005-08)
• Retired from the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour in 2016 after a nine-year stretch in the sand
• Member of the 2010 U.S. National Beach Team and donned the Stars & Stripes representing Team USA in multiple international FIVB tournaments over the years
• Indoors, Bates trained with the U.S. National Team from 2008-10 and competed professionally in the Puerto Rico Superior League and Qatar National League from 2008-12
• Served as George Mason volunteer coach during the 2009 season
• Two-time First Team EIVA All-East honoree