Dominican University Athletics

Jay Krick returns for his fourth season as an assistant with the Dominican University men’s volleyball team after spending the 2010 season with the University of Florida Gators women’s volleyball team.

With the Gators, Krick was part of a program that spent eight weeks as the top ranked program in the country, going 29-2 on the year and 20-0 in SEC play to claim the 2010 SEC championship.  Krick primarily worked with the liberos and defensive specialists, focusing on defensive planning.  That season, the Gators led the SEC in team defense and ranked tenth nationally in blocks.

Prior to joining the staff at the University of Florida, Krick spent the eight years as a physical education teacher and the head coach of the boys’ volleyball and wrestling teams at Stratford Middle School. Since 2002, he also has worked at Glenbard North High School, where he spent two seasons as the varsity boys’ volleyball coach and was the girls varsity coach from 2002-04 and again for the 2009-10 season.

Krick has been involved with Florida’s volleyball camps since the summer of 2006, and works with the Naperville Volleyball Club in Naperville. Krick worked as the head coach of the Boys’ 16-1 team that qualified for nationals in the open division in 2006 and competed in the club division in 2008, 2009 and 2010.  He also served on the Board of Directors for Naperville Volleyball Club.

Krick, a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise, worked with SportsMed Center for Fitness from 1999-2002. The Wheaton, Ill. native was also was the founder and player/coach of the Valparaiso University Men’s Club Volleyball Team from 1996-1999.

Krick holds a Bachelor of Arts in exercise science from Valparaiso in 1999 and earned a Master of Arts in Teaching Administration from Concordia University of Chicago in 2004.