University of Californi (Santa Cruz)
NCAA DIII • CAC
Date: August 29, 2024
Would Recommend
Yelena is no longer the coach for UCSC. The coach now is Gabriel Houston for the past few years. This coach is very dishonest and manipulative. She has her favorites and totally lie and be dishonest with her players. She does whatever she wants no matter your skill set. She plays her team like its 'club volleyball'. She is very unfair and exclusionary. She says one thing in a meeting then announces something else when it's game time. She states that her team is young and she's trying to recruit experience players. Then she'll recruit from either walk-on or from a club team she knows and the players have played on lower team and ignore more experience players. Treat them like they don't exist, right after she tells them that they will be playing. She is very unfair and I think a little racially bias. The assistant coach, Sam, is on the same wavelength as Gabriel Houston. This coach does what she wants and seem that either the athletic directors might not know what she's doing or why, She plays mind games and a liar. This coach is well liked at the university because of her father's standing but, she is a terrible, dishonest person and horrible coach. Please be careful in accepting a recruiting position at this school from the volleyball coach. It is not going to be like what she says. Other coaches at the school are known to be fantastic. I don't know how she got this position but I do hope someone from the athletic departments sees this and investigate. Maybe meet with the players one on one without the coach because they are walking on egg shells and report on other players for her. She doesn't get to know her players, she gets her information from other players and uses it against them to not let them play or travel. acaShe creates a terrible culture and does not seem to really care about the girls. She's definitely unfair and biased. She will be very vague when you ask her questions and then pretend that the conversation never happened.