Coppin State University Women's Volleyball

Entering his tenth season as the Coppin State volleyball head coach in 2026, Tim Walsh is the winningest coach in Eagles’ history. In his nine years at Coppin, Walsh, a four-time MEAC Coach of the Year (Spring 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025), has amassed 145 total victories while winning nearly 88 percent of his matches in conference play the last four years.     Additionally, Walsh has guided 40 All-Conference selections, the program’s first-ever All-American and All-Region honorees and 13 MEAC Major Award winners. Eleven Eagles have earned MEAC All-Rookie Team accolades, with at least one from each of his recruiting classes. Walsh continued Coppin’s historic rise in 2025, leading the Eagles to one of the most successful seasons in program history with a 23-12 overall record and a dominant 13-1 mark in MEAC play to capture the MEAC Regular Season Championship. Coppin went on to win its second MEAC Tournament title in the last three years, advancing to just the second NCAA Tournament appearance in program history where it faced No. 2 seed Arizona State. Individually, TaKenya Stafford put together a historic campaign, earning AVCA All-America and All-Region honors while being named the MEAC Player of the Year, First Team All-MEAC and the MEAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Coco Figueroa was named the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-MEAC, while Kayden Cupid also earned First Team All-MEAC honors. Cherisse Atilano was named the MEAC Rookie of the Year in addition to earning Second Team All-MEAC recognition.  Walsh arrived on campus just before the start of the 2017 season and guided the Eagles to four victories in conference play. Despite the quick turnaround, Walsh tutored five players to Academic All-MEAC accolades and graduating senior Glorines Rosado set school and personal-best marks in digs and service aces. The Eagles made a big turnaround in 2018 with 12 victories and their first trip to the MEAC Tournament since 2015 as Walsh guided the youngest team in the Nation with 11 freshmen. Miajavon Coleman was named the MEAC Rookie of the Year while earning All-Conference accolades while her classmate Brianna Lang set a school-record with 62 assists against NC Central. Lang joined Coleman on the MEAC All-Rookie Team with one of the team’s highlights was a road victory at UMES. CSU continued to improve in 2019 and finished the year at 13-18 overall along with a school-record eight victories in MEAC play. Advancing to the MEAC Semifinals with an opening round victory over North Carolina Central, the Eagles placed a league-high five players on All-MEAC teams as Coleman and Ashley Roman received First Team honors. Lang earned Second Team accolades at setter while Roman and Paola Caten were also placed on the All-Rookie Team. In her first collegiate season, Roman broke the school’s single season record for digs and Coppin’s victories included a sweep of Maryland Eastern Shore and UMBC. The juggernaut, which was Coppin’s offensive attack in 2019, led the conference in kills, hitting percentage, assists and service aces. Following the season, Walsh was named to VolleyballMag.com’s Top 40 Coaches Under 40. During the 2020 season, which was moved to the 2021 Spring Semester due to CoVID-19, Walsh led the Eagles to their first-ever winning season and Northern Division Championship due to a program-record ten-match winning streak and nine conference victories. Before falling in just their second trip to the MEAC Championship match, the Eagles placed a league-high five players on All-Conference Teams with Roman, an AVCA All-Region selection and the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year, as well as Coleman earning First Team recognition. Caten, along with Kareemah Hopkins and Chudear Tut, who earned MEAC Setter of the Year and Rookie of the Year, respectively, were all named to the Second Team. Following the historic 2020-21 campaign, Walsh’s Eagles swept the school’s major Departmental awards as Salma Gonzalez highlighted the ceremony by being named the President’s Eagle Award recipient and later earned the MEAC Woman of the Year award. Roman was named the CSU Athlete of the Year, Tut the school’s Newcomer of the Year, and Rebekka Hauri, the Department’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In 2021, the Eagles recorded its second-straight winning season with a school-record 16 victories and nine-conference wins. Coppin advanced to the MEAC Semifinals and produced several firsts which included a win over George Washington and its first-ever All-American in Miajavon Coleman. Coleman led the MEAC in kills for the third time, broke the school-record in the category and was named the league’s Player of the Year. Roman was named the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year for the second-straight season and she joined Coleman and Paola Caten on the MEAC First Team. Tsvetanova received Second Team recognition while Ahzhi Coleman was named to the Rookie Team. The 2022 campaign was Coppin’s best in school-history, at least for a season, as it won a then school-record 23 overall matches, including a program-best 12-2 mark in the MEAC en route to a Regular Season Championship. Also setting records in kills, aces and digs, the Eagles advanced to the MEAC Championship Game and earned their first-ever postseason bid, falling to ACC member Wake Forest in five sets. Tsvetanova set school, MEAC and NCAA records while leading the Nation in aces while being named the league’s Co-Setter of the year and a VolleyballMag.com All-American. Roman earned MEAC Defensive Player of the Year for the third-straight season while breaking the school’s record for digs. The duo were both named First Team All-Conference, as were Miajavon Coleman, the school’s all-time leader in kills, and Ammaarah Williams. Following the season, Coleman took home the CSU President’s Eagle Award for the second-straight year. She became just the second player in the school’s history to win the award twice and was later named the MEAC Woman of the Year. Walsh led Coppin to unprecedented heights in 2023 which included the team’s first-ever MEAC Tournament Championship and trip to the NCAA Tournament. Setting school-records for wins (27), conference wins (13), kills/set (12.63) and hitting percentage (.222), Coppin had a ten-match winning streak midseason which matched the longest in school history. The winning streak saw a sweep of CSU’s opponents at the Marshall and Penn Invitational and a sweep of local rival Loyola Maryland. Just prior to the streak, Coppin took matches against McNeese and Jacksonville State while taking a set from nationally ranked Auburn at the War Eagle Invitational.  The Eagles did not lose a set in their three victories at the MEAC Tournament and met top-seeded Pittsburgh in the NCAA Tournament. After the conclusion of the regular season, Ashley Roman won her fourth MEAC Defensive Player of the Year award while Andrea Tsvetanova took home her second-straight Setter of the Year award after sharing the honor the year prior.  The duo joined Stafford, The Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, and Geraldyn Palacios on the All-MEAC First Team while Laila Ibrahim, who recorded a school-record for blocks, was a Second Team recipient.  Figueroa was placed on the All-Rookie Team. In 2024, Coppin advanced to the MEAC Semifinal before falling to the evenutal Tournament champion.  It was the sixt-straight season that the Eagles reached the Semifinals after doing so just twice before he arrived in West Baltimore. Setting school-records in kills per set (12.84) and total assists, Coppin saw three players earn First Team All-MEAC honors in Stafford, Figueroa and Sophia Bertotti Metoyer. Freshmen McKenzie Parks and Payton Swinton also earned All-Rookie Team honors. Walsh came to Coppin State after spending the 2015 and 2016 seasons at Marywood University as its head coach. He guided the Pacers to a 25-36 combined record and a 15-7 conference record in two years, including the program’s 400th all-time victory in 2015. Both of his teams reached the CSAC Playoffs and were named an American Volleyball Coaches’ Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award recipient. The 2016 squad, which saw two players earn All-Conference recognition, collected 17 wins which were the most for Marywood’s program since the 2013 season. Prior to Marywood, Walsh served as the Head Coach at Francis Scott Key High School in Union Bridge, MD for six seasons. He led the Eagles to the 2A Maryland State Championship in 2009. Walsh led Key to a 66-18 overall record and a .727 winning percentage. The Carroll County Times named him Volleyball Coach of the Year in 2013. He coached two county players of the year in 2009 and 2014. Eight of his players went on to play collegiately and his 2012 team reached the Class 2A West Regional Finals. Additionally, Walsh was a court director and coach at the Volleyball Factory, Inc. in Columbia, MD. He worked, traveled and trained with former All-Americans and USA National Team Members Cheryl Weaver and Kristee Porter to help student-athletes excel in volleyball. He also was a head volleyball club coach at Carroll Viper Volleyball Club and Maryland Elite Volleyball Academy. Walsh has also helped the 2014 and 2015 Big South champions and 2016 Sun Belt champions, Coastal Carolina’s head volleyball coach Jozsef Forman with his summer volleyball camps. Walsh taught Special Education and American Sign Language at Francis Scott Key HS from 2007-14. Walsh is a member of the AVCA. He was a two-year captain and starter in the Empire State Games, Hudson Valley Region Men’s Volleyball Team and played in various clubs and leagues during and after his stent at Towson University. He was a four-year  Division I, cross country and track and field letter winner and captain for the Tigers. Walsh received his Bachelor of Science in Deaf Studies with Cum Laude distinction from Towson. He earned his Master of Science Degree in Deaf Education and his Education Administrator I Certificate from McDaniel College. He currently resides in Carroll County, Md., with his wife, Shannon, daughter, Ayla, and sons, Jaxton, Ty and Weston. 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Alex is a graduate of Salisbury University where he served as President and Captain on the Men's Volleyball Team. He helped lead Salisbury to its first National tournament in history, where they ranked in the Top-20 at the Division III level. I also served as assistant coach for the Division III Women's Volleyball team at Salisbury competing in the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC). He also helped coach at various youth beach volleyball camps in Berlin and Ocean City including the Salisbury University Summer Program. Alex has served as an Assistant Coach and Head Coach with AVC's  boys national program. Additionally, he is a Lead Clinician in the recently established  Annapolis Volleyball Club Beach program. In 2022 he was the Head Coach of the St. Mary's High School of Annapolis JV Volleyball team.   In 2023, Alex started his official role as an assistant coach at Coppin State University with the womens varsity program.

Alex Digirolamo is in his second season on staff with the Coppin State volleyball team, his first as a full-time assistant in 2024.   Digirolamo joined the Eagles in 2023, specializing in the offensive aspect of the game and played a key role in assisting Coppin to its first-ever MEAC Championship and NCAA Tournament bid. That season, Coppin also set program-records for victories, hitting percentage and kills per set.   A graduate of Salisbury University, Digirolamo served as President and Captain for the Men’s Collegiate Club Volleyball Team from 2018-21 where the Sea Gulls ranked in the top 20 and made their first-ever National Tournament in 2019.  He also served as a student assistant for the NCAA Division III women’s volleyball team.   Upon graduation with a degree in Finance in 2021, Digirolamo served as head coach with the Annapolis Volleyball Club boys youth national program, taking his passion and knowledge for the game back to where it all started from him. The following year, he was the head junior varsity coach at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, leading the girls to a 12-4 record.  

Victoria Johnson was hired as an assistant coach with the Coppin State volleyball team in July 2025 and is in her first season with the Eagles.   A local product, Johnson has coached with the Maryland Juniors Volleyball Club for the last 12 years, starting her coaching career following her playing days at Howard CC.  Johnson later assisted with the Dragons for three seasons, highlighted by a 2017 Region XX Championship, and St. Vincent Pallotti High School.   With Maryland Juniors, Johnson has also served as the club’s social media manager and recruiting coordinator.  Over the last two years, she led her 17-year old teams to a 35th place finish at the AAU Volleyball Nationals, 16th at the 2024 Northeast Qualifier and a Silver Bracket Championship at the 2024 East Coast Championships.   Johnson’s 15-year old squads took first at the 2023 AAU Pennsylvania State Championships and West Virginia Grand Prix, and second at the 2023 National Harbor Showdown.   One of the top players in HCC history, Johnson was a two-time All-MDJUCO and Region XX All-Tournament Team selection. Johnson led the league in blocks during her freshman season and was named to the NJCAA All-National Tournament Team.