Graystone Adds Niatha Cullen to Volleyball Coaching Staff

LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech volleyball head coach Tony Graystone has introduced the hiring of Niatha Cullen as the most recent Purple Raider assistant coach forward of the 2021 spring volleyball season.
 
“I am very joyful to introduce Niatha Cullen as our latest assistant coach and welcome her to Texas Tech,” stated Graystone. “Niatha has a powerful background and has made a optimistic affect in all places she’s been, with a repute as an important trainer and communicator. She can also be very sturdy in sports activities psychology and psychological well being, which supplies her a really distinctive ability set that ought to enormously profit our workforce. Niatha goes to be an ideal match with the tradition and persona of our program and I do know our gamers are going to like working together with her.”
 
Cullen joins the Purple Raider employees after stops at Stetson, the College of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Bradley. She has hung out as each an indoor and seaside volleyball coach in her profession. 
 
Cullen most just lately served as an assistant coach at Bradley for the 2019 season after 4 years as a seaside volleyball assistant at UAB. Whereas in Birmingham, Cullen served as a freshman management mentor to student-athletes from varied sports activities and acted as an instructional liaison the place she helped the Blazers to a 2019 AVCA Crew Tutorial Award. 
 
Previous to her time at UAB, Cullen was a graduate assistant for the indoor and seaside volleyball applications at Stetson, whereas incomes her grasp’s diploma in scientific psychological well being counseling. Throughout her time in central Florida, she helped the Hatters to 3 ASUN seaside convention championships and NCAA seaside nationwide championship match appearances in 2015 and 2017.
 
Cullen graduated from Jacksonville College in 2014 with a grasp’s diploma in kinesiology and a minor in teaching and was a member of each the indoor (2010-12) and seaside (2011-14) groups.
 
“I’m excited and honored to be becoming a member of the Texas Tech volleyball employees,” stated Cullen. “I might wish to thank Tony Graystone for this chance and the administration for his or her continued assist. Texas Tech has a wealthy custom as a college and as a volleyball program that I’m thrilled to be part of. I am trying ahead to contributing to this system and offering the very best student-athlete expertise for our gamers.”
 
The Purple Raiders are set to renew play within the spring with a handful of nonconference matches. Keep tuned to TexasTech.com for upcoming opponents, dates and instances.