In support of youth / junior volleyball and specifically for Capital City Volleyball Club, Head Volleyball Coach Rita Stubbs, with the North Carolina State Wolfpack will offer her services to help our coaches and players raise their volleyball education to a higher level.
This past season and continuing into this season, Coach Rita will attend random and various Development and Travel Team practices alike. She will offer her assistance in the development, use and execution of drills, special teaching aides, coaching strategy, and offer numerous support opportunities in service of all of those CCVC coaches than wish to take advantage of her invaluable support.
Additionally, as schedules permit Assistant Coach Keisha Demps will serve in a similar role to support our coaches and players in their volleyball education.
Please welcome with open arms this fantastic service and opportunity.
Coach Rita Stubbs
came to the NC State Wolfpack in February 2006 and to Capital City Volleyball Club in October 2006. We welcome her support again this season. Coach spent nine seasons as an assistant coach and associate head coach at the University of Arizona. Helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA Tournament all nine years and finish in the top-25 in all but one of those seasons, Stubbs becomes the seventh head coach in the Wolfpack’s 31st year of volleyball and the first African-American female to be named a head coach at NC State. Involved in all coaching aspects at Arizona, Stubbs coached at least one middle blocker to all-conference honors every year in her last eight seasons in Tucson. Promoted from assistant coach to associate head coach in 2000, Stubbs helped bring in the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class in 2002.
Highly involved in youth club volleyball, Stubbs served as head coach for the Zona Volleyball Club for four years and worked as an assistant volleyball coach at the renowned High Performance Camp in Salt Lake City two summers. Stubbs also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Junior National team that qualified for the 2001 World Championships in Mexico.
The first player in Arizona history to record 300 kills, 300 digs and 100 blocks in one season, the former Charita Johnson led the Wildcats to back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances at the 1993 and 1994 NCAA Tournaments. A four-year starting middle blocker from 1990-94, she earned All-Pac-10 and All-West Region honors as a senior and still holds school records for career (117) and single-match (8) solo blocks. A member of the 1993 and 1994 United States Olympic Festival volleyball teams, Stubbs played professionally in France in 1995. Currently working towards her Ph.D. in education administration, Stubbs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Arizona in 1994 and received her master’s in language, reading and culture from Arizona in 1995. She is fluent in French and is a certified teacher. A lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Stubbs is also very involved with the Baptist Church.
She hails from Cleveland, Ohio, and is married to Melvin Stubbs.
Stubbs’ Coaching Career
2006 - present - Head Coach - NC State
2000 - 06 - Associate HC - Arizona
1996 - 2000 - Assistant Coach – Arizona
Coach Keisha Demps
Coach Keisha returns to Capital City Volleyball Club this season to assist Coach Rita in offering the services that will help our CCVC coaches and players raise their volleyball education to a higher level.
With her love for the sport and coaching, she will also attend random and various Development and Travel Team practices alike. She will offer her assistance in the development, use and execution of drills, special teaching aides, coaching strategy, and offer numerous support opportunities in service of all of those CCVC coaches than wish to take advantage of her invaluable support.
Keisha J. Demps joined the Wolfpack as assistant volleyball coach and recruiting coordinator in February 2006, the same day as head coach Charita J. Stubbs, marking the beginning of a new era in NC State volleyball.Demps arrived in Raleigh after three seasons as assistant coach at Boise State.
A 1998 graduate of Arizona, Demps played both volleyball and basketball for the Wildcats, earning All-Pac-10 honors in volleyball before playing professional volleyball for two years.In her three years with the Broncos, Demps coached two all-conference selections.
Prior to her stint in Boise, Demps served as an assistant coach with the St. Louis Quest in the United States Professional Volleyball League from 2001-02. Beginning her coaching career at the University of Nevada, where she was an assistant coach from 2000-01, Demps helped the WolfPack reach the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
Demps played in the United States Professional Volleyball League from 1999 through 2000, while at the same time serving as promotions assistant for the league. Named to the league’s Dream Team, she helped the U.S. win the 2000 Millennium Cup in the international competition.
Earning a degree in communication from Arizona, the former Keisha Johnson also served on the Wildcats’ Student Athlete Advisory Board from 1996 through 1998. A native of Antioch, CA, Demps is married to Thomas Demps III and the couple has a four-year-old daughter, Jade.
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