Cecile Reynaud
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Dr. Cecile Reynaud is a well-known volleyball
educator and a retired coach of the Florida State
Lady Seminoles volleyball team. She is currently an associate professor with the sport management program at Florida State University. She also served as an interim assistant athletic director and senior women's administrator at Florida State University from 1994-95. She has served as a television color analyst for collegiate volleyball matches on Fox Sports Net
South, Sunshine Network and ESPN
.
Reynaud compiled an impressive 635-325-1 (.660) record at Florida State, which places her in an elite group of only eight active coaches with 600 wins. She was also a past elected president of the American Volleyball Coaches Association
. Reynaud ranks 11th nationally in career victories among active Division I coaches.
A 1975 graduate of Southwest Missouri State University, Reynaud enjoyed an outstanding athletic career on the volleyball team and was twice named among the Outstanding College Athletes in America. In 1983, she was inducted into the school's Women's Athletics Hall of Fame. Reynaud added "Dr." to her name in the spring of 1998 after completing her doctorate degree in athletic administration at Florida State
.
, placing her among an elite list of coaches in the 500 win club. She reached win number 550 in a three-set win at Florida Atlantic University
in 1997 as she led the Lady Seminoles to the program's best ever start at 12-0.
Post season play has become familiar to the Lady Seminoles over 23 seasons of volleyball. Florida State(FSU) has made 10 NCAA post-season appearances, eight of which have been in the last 12 years. At the conference level, FSU has made three appearances in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship game in eight years of ACC competition, earning FSU its first ACC crown in 1998. Prior to joining the Atlantic Coast Conference
(ACC) in 1992, Reynaud and the Lady Seminoles claimed six regular-season titles and five tournament titles in Metro Conference
play from 1976 to 1991. Reynaud's teams have competed in 10 NCAA Tournaments, including eight post-season trips during her last 14 years in the position.
During her 26 years at Florida State, the volleyball program has also boasted one of the highest graduation rates within the athletic department. Among four-year letter winners, all but two student-athletes have earned their college degrees while playing for Reynaud. This accounts for nearly 98 percent of all volleyball student-athletes over the past 26 years. Reynaud’s Seminoles also earned the prestigious Director’s Cup for Service, given annually to the athletic team that performs the most community service hours. The Lady Seminoles donated 636 hours of service to the community in 2000-01.
and in 1985 was head coach for the USAV Junior National Team which toured Japan and China.
She served as a coordinator at the Olympic Festival for several years and participated in the Goodwill Games
. Highly respected among her peers, Reynaud’s involvement in international competition was taken to an even higher level when she was chosen to serve at the Deputy Competition Manager for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games
in Atlanta, Georgia
. As an expert of the game, Reynaud was co-editor of The Volleyball Coaching Bible, which has been heralded as one of the best volleyball coaching books to ever be written. She has been a technical consultant for two Power Volleyball films and has co-authored numerous articles pertaining to women’s athletics.
Reynaud is also a certified USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) instructor and conducts coaching clinics all over the United States. She also served as an FIVB Coach Clinician.
All-America Committee and was the Zone Coordinator for 1986 and 1987 Olympic Festivals. She continued to serve as the commissioner for the Olympic Festival for several years. Reynaud is a current member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame
selection committee and spent 12 years on the USVBA
Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
Dr. Reynaud served as president of the AVCA
in 1989 and 1990 after serving a two-year term as the awards chair in 1986 and 1987. She has again been appointed to the AVCA
Board of Directors overseeing Education and Publications for the association. She has remained an active member of the AVCA, even after retirement from coaching. She presents annually at the convention as well as serving as emcee of the Tachikara
/AVCA Coach of the Year and Victory Club Award Banquet and AVCA All-America/Players of the Year Banquet. Dr. Reynaud also served as president of the Refuge House Board of Directors, a local domestic and sexual abuse shelter for 4 years.
Volleyball
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educator and a retired coach of the Florida State
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
Lady Seminoles volleyball team. She is currently an associate professor with the sport management program at Florida State University. She also served as an interim assistant athletic director and senior women's administrator at Florida State University from 1994-95. She has served as a television color analyst for collegiate volleyball matches on Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports Net
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South, Sunshine Network and ESPN
ESPN
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.
Reynaud compiled an impressive 635-325-1 (.660) record at Florida State, which places her in an elite group of only eight active coaches with 600 wins. She was also a past elected president of the American Volleyball Coaches Association
American Volleyball Coaches Association
The American Volleyball Coaches Association is an organization of nearly 5,000 members, incorporated as a private non-profit educational corporation in 1981, as the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association....
. Reynaud ranks 11th nationally in career victories among active Division I coaches.
A 1975 graduate of Southwest Missouri State University, Reynaud enjoyed an outstanding athletic career on the volleyball team and was twice named among the Outstanding College Athletes in America. In 1983, she was inducted into the school's Women's Athletics Hall of Fame. Reynaud added "Dr." to her name in the spring of 1998 after completing her doctorate degree in athletic administration at Florida State
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
.
Florida State University
As a coach, Reynaud has surpassed many milestones in her 26 year tenure at Florida State. Coach Reynaud notched her 500th career victory in the first match of the 1994 season against Southern Illinois UniversitySouthern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
, placing her among an elite list of coaches in the 500 win club. She reached win number 550 in a three-set win at Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...
in 1997 as she led the Lady Seminoles to the program's best ever start at 12-0.
Post season play has become familiar to the Lady Seminoles over 23 seasons of volleyball. Florida State(FSU) has made 10 NCAA post-season appearances, eight of which have been in the last 12 years. At the conference level, FSU has made three appearances in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship game in eight years of ACC competition, earning FSU its first ACC crown in 1998. Prior to joining the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
(ACC) in 1992, Reynaud and the Lady Seminoles claimed six regular-season titles and five tournament titles in Metro Conference
Metro Conference
The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States...
play from 1976 to 1991. Reynaud's teams have competed in 10 NCAA Tournaments, including eight post-season trips during her last 14 years in the position.
During her 26 years at Florida State, the volleyball program has also boasted one of the highest graduation rates within the athletic department. Among four-year letter winners, all but two student-athletes have earned their college degrees while playing for Reynaud. This accounts for nearly 98 percent of all volleyball student-athletes over the past 26 years. Reynaud’s Seminoles also earned the prestigious Director’s Cup for Service, given annually to the athletic team that performs the most community service hours. The Lady Seminoles donated 636 hours of service to the community in 2000-01.
USA Volleyball
In 1983, Reynaud went to the international level and served as the assistant coach at the World University Games in CanadaCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and in 1985 was head coach for the USAV Junior National Team which toured Japan and China.
She served as a coordinator at the Olympic Festival for several years and participated in the Goodwill Games
Goodwill Games
The Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...
. Highly respected among her peers, Reynaud’s involvement in international competition was taken to an even higher level when she was chosen to serve at the Deputy Competition Manager for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. As an expert of the game, Reynaud was co-editor of The Volleyball Coaching Bible, which has been heralded as one of the best volleyball coaching books to ever be written. She has been a technical consultant for two Power Volleyball films and has co-authored numerous articles pertaining to women’s athletics.
Reynaud is also a certified USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) instructor and conducts coaching clinics all over the United States. She also served as an FIVB Coach Clinician.
Memberships
She has been on the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)American Volleyball Coaches Association
The American Volleyball Coaches Association is an organization of nearly 5,000 members, incorporated as a private non-profit educational corporation in 1981, as the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association....
All-America Committee and was the Zone Coordinator for 1986 and 1987 Olympic Festivals. She continued to serve as the commissioner for the Olympic Festival for several years. Reynaud is a current member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame
Volleyball Hall of Fame
The Volleyball Hall of Fame was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The hall is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G...
selection committee and spent 12 years on the USVBA
USA Volleyball
USA Volleyball is a non-profit organization which serves as the national governing body of volleyball in the United States of America ....
Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
Dr. Reynaud served as president of the AVCA
American Volleyball Coaches Association
The American Volleyball Coaches Association is an organization of nearly 5,000 members, incorporated as a private non-profit educational corporation in 1981, as the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association....
in 1989 and 1990 after serving a two-year term as the awards chair in 1986 and 1987. She has again been appointed to the AVCA
American Volleyball Coaches Association
The American Volleyball Coaches Association is an organization of nearly 5,000 members, incorporated as a private non-profit educational corporation in 1981, as the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association....
Board of Directors overseeing Education and Publications for the association. She has remained an active member of the AVCA, even after retirement from coaching. She presents annually at the convention as well as serving as emcee of the Tachikara
Tachikara
Tachikara is a Japanese company, founded in 1915, that makes balls and other sports equipment. They are best known for their volleyballs. They make the official ball of NAIA women's volleyball, and of Volleyball Canada, China, Europe, Oceania, and Africa....
/AVCA Coach of the Year and Victory Club Award Banquet and AVCA All-America/Players of the Year Banquet. Dr. Reynaud also served as president of the Refuge House Board of Directors, a local domestic and sexual abuse shelter for 4 years.
As a Player
- Outstanding College Athletes in America - 1973, 1975
- Southwest Missouri State University Women's Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee - 1983
As a Coach
- Nominated as an Outstanding Woman in America - 1982
- Volleyball Coach of the Year by the Florida Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women - 1981
- Metro ConferenceMetro ConferenceThe Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States...
Coach of the Year 1988, 1989 - American Volleyball Coaches Association South Region Coach of the Year - 1989
- ACCAtlantic Coast ConferenceThe Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
Coach of the Year - 1992, 2000 - George J. FisherGeorge J. FisherGeorge J. Fisher M.D. was a physician and leader in the fields of youth development and physical fitness in the United States during the early twentieth century. He was a noted advocate for advancing the sport of volleyball....
Leader in Volleyball by USA Volleyball - 1996 - St. Leo University Women in Sports Achievement Award - 2005
- Webster Groves High School Athletic Hall of Fame - 2006
- Florida State University Athletic Hall of Fame - 2009
- USA Volleyball Florida Region Hall of Fame - 2011
Books
- Coaching Volleyball: Technical and Tactical Skills Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc. (2011) ISBN# 0736053840
- 101 Winning Volleyball Drills Publisher: Coaches Choice (2008) ISBN# 9781585180837
- She Can Coach! Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc. (2005) ISBN# 0736052321
- The Volleyball Coaching Bible Publisher: Human Kinetics , Inc. (2002) ISBN# 0736039678