Houghton College Men's Volleyball

Mark Corbin was named head coach for the men's volleyball program in September 2025. Corbin brings more than 20 years of coaching and program leadership experience across NCAA Division I, II, NAIA, and NCCAA levels, as well as extensive work in club volleyball. Most recently, he served as head men's volleyball coach at Emmanuel University in Georgia, where his teams earned multiple conference honors, including a Conference Defensive Player of the Year and two First-Team All-Conference selections. Prior to Emmanuel, Corbin was Director of Volleyball and Head Coach at Truett McConnell University (NAIA), where he launched both the men's indoor and women's beach volleyball programs. Under his leadership, his teams set school records for wins, produced numerous all-conference performers, and achieved strong academic recognition with 25 NAIA All-Academic Players and eight NAIA All-Academic Teams. He also served a season as an assistant at Bob Jones University, under legendary coach Vicki Denny, helping the Bruins to their first NCCAA National Championship. In addition to his collegiate coaching career, Corbin has directed and coached at the club level, including most recently at 575 Volleyball Club in Georgia, and previously spent more than a decade as a high school coach, athletic director, and physical education teacher. Corbin holds a bachelor's degree in Physical Education Teaching and Coaching from Northland International University.

David Bourne joined Coach Lindsay Seddon for the inaugural season of Houghton men’s volleyball in August of 2023 before a one-year stint as head coach in 2024-25.  Upon the hire of Coach Mark Corbin in the Summer of 2025, Coach Bourne elected to return to his assistant role. Coach Bourne brings years of experience as a player, coach and official to the court.   After captaining Spencerport High School to the 1976 Section V Championship, Bourne was named MVP of the tournament.  He went on to play collegiately for the University of Rochester men’s club team, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and served as a three-year starter.   Bourne has continued to play to the present, racking up numerous team and individual accolades, including an Empire State Games, Masters 45+ Division Championship and five runner-up accolades. His teams have won the NYS Senior Games 50+ Championship 13 times and earned runner up honors the other three times they entered the tournament. His teams have also won championships in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland in the senior division.   In 2011 Bourne’s team won the Canadian Senior Games, following up that accomplishment with a runner-up trophy in 2012. Since 2009 his team has finished in the top four at the National Senior Games (held every other year) eight times, culminating in a National Championship in 2023 and a second-place finish in 2025. They also finished second in the Huntsman World Senior Games in 2025 and third in 2010.  His team finished third in the USAV 60+ National Championship in 2025.   Bourne has over a dozen years of coaching experience, including most recently in Houghton, serving as an assistant coach at Houghton Academy and the Merge 16U girls volleyball club. He has also served as a certified boys and girls high school varsity official for the past 20 years.   After spending more than 20 years in the corporate technology sector, Bourne founded his own company and now boasts clients across the United States.  He and his wife, Sara Massey, Associate Professor of Music Education in the Greatbach School of Music, currently reside in Houghton.