CAROLYN ZIMMERMAN Head Coach 3rd Season Pepperdine ‘92

Cal State Fullerton Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman enters her third full season heading up the Titans’ program, continuing to rebuild Fullerton into a contender in the always-tough Big West Conference. Zimmerman is no stranger to the Titan program, serving as the top assistant to former head coach Mary Ellen Murchison for seven seasons (1995-2001) until Murchison’s retirement prior to the 2002 season. Zimmerman was named interim head coach for that season and was hired on a permanent basis in 2003.

Zimmerman’s first two seasons at the helm have been difficult, but have seen improvement. The Titans won just five matches in her rookie season, but jumped to eight victories in 2004, including a 5-1 start and a pair of second-place finishes at non-conference tournaments.

Prior to joining the staff at Fullerton, Zimmerman was an assistant at Cal State Northridge in 1994, when the Matadors posted a 23-8 record and captured the NIVC title in postseason play. In 1995, she guided her South Bay 17-U Volleyball club team to a fourth-place finish at the prestigious Nike Volleyball Festival. She was also a varsity assistant and junior varsity head coach at perennial prep powerhouse Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach.

Zimmerman is a 1992 graduate of Pepperdine, where she was the setter/right-side hitter for four West Coast Conference championship squads. A four-year letterwinner and three-year captain for the Waves, Zimmerman earned first-team All-WCC honors three times and was named the conference’s Player of the Year and a Volleyball Monthly honorable-mention All-American in 1991. She was also a member of the gold-medal winning south team at the Olympic Festival in Los Angeles in 1990.

She wrapped up her Pepperdine career as the Waves’ all-time leader in digs with 1,371 and stood third in block assists, fourth in total blocks and service aces, and eighth in kills and total attacks. She also set a Pepperdine single-season record with 383 digs in 1990.

Zimmerman is a 1988 graduate of West Torrance High, where she was a three-sport star. In addition to earning Bay League volleyball MVP honors as a senior, she was an All-American in soccer and CIF champion and state qualifier in track and field. She was named West Torrance’s Athlete of the Year in 1987 and 1988.

Zimmerman resides in Redondo Beach with her husband, Joe, sons Jimmy and Danny, and daughter Kira.

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