Good Sports: Couple returns to Valley, adjusts to coaching separate volleyball teams

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For decades, Mark and Leisa Rosen person been coaching unneurotic for the aforesaid programs.

Now, they've each got their own.

"I had been an subordinate caput manager for a truly agelong time, and I wanted the accidental to beryllium successful charge," Leisa said.

The brace spent implicit 20 years coaching astatine the University of Michigan earlier returning to wherever portion of their communicative began: the Central Valley.

"Lisa started looking astatine jobs and interviewing for jobs, and 1 of the jobs was Fresno State, which is ironic due to the fact that we got joined successful the Valley," Mark said. "Now, 30-some years later, we're backmost successful the Valley."

Leisa has been Fresno State's caput volleyball manager since 2023.

Mark has been retired of the crippled since moving back, until this past season.

Back successful 2025, Clovis Community College was starting a brand-new program. The Crush was looking for their archetypal leader.

"For me, to bash thing caller and caller that I've ne'er done before, it was benignant of a chill challenge," Mark said. "We were trying to enlistee players with virtually thing and get them to bargain into the vision."

It's the archetypal clip the Rosen's aren't sharing the aforesaid bench.

While determination are a ton of differences betwixt DI and the inferior assemblage ranks, Leisa and Mark inactive person the aforesaid goals.

"I deliberation we ever commencement with location first," Lisa said. "Some of our champion players close present are section kids. If we tin get immoderate of those section kids to enactment home, it helps america successful each avenue."

"Obviously, if they advancement and beforehand good enough, 1 of our eventual goals would beryllium to person a subordinate travel from our programme to Leisa's program," Mark said. "We tin person this progression wrong our family. Even that's going to assistance Central Valley volleyball beryllium better."

Mark inactive stays adjacent to Leisa's programme -- conscionable not with a whistle. He is portion of the broadcast squad for Bulldog volleyball.

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