"The Arkansas Tech Volleyball Team winning the GAC in 2021 was because of the recruiting and coaching efforts of Chris Nook - the Asst Coach at ATU in 2021. Coach Nook handled 90% of the recruiting and he was a very technical coach. His scouting reports were top notch. He put together the ATU team that won 2021 GAC and some of his recruits are still on the roster today (2023) but the majority of them graduated out of the program or transfered out of the program. Chris Nook left ATU in 2021 and now Coach Kera is 100% in charge of everything from recruiting and the technical advising, scouting, etc. She does not have the volleyball IQ for this and as the years pass without a good solid coaching foundation (that Chris Nook originally brought), this program will continue to decline. Coach Kera is not qualified to be a head coach for an NCAA D2 program. She lacks the training and knowledge to run a successful program. This program will continue to decline under the direction of Kera Dukic Coleman. "
"My experience with coach kera was nothing but amazing. She was very big on how we were doing in our personal lives. She would text us asking how our personal lives were going, she liked to know who we were dating or talking to, and how we were just doing. Some of the girls didn’t really care to share a lot of their personal lives but she always was able to get information. I remember one time in particular she somehow was able to find out where we had went and what are plans were during our weekend off! Although she did not have that strong of an IQ volleyball wise. I will say she always seemed like she was eager to listen and know about us players on a personal level. "
"I am a pretty strong headed player that can put up with a lot but one thing that stuck with me that Coach Kera did that was completely uncalled for was keeping players in the bus after a game. We had lost to Harding and went to subway after. She preceded to make everyone get off the bus except for three players. She even made the assistant get off. She asked these girls who she should keep on the team and who she should kick off. She also asked who she could trust or not. How inappropriate right? The players she said she was kicking off or couldn’t trust are all players that thankfully are not with her cultish program anymore but one player is still on that team currently. She said one player was a mean girl, a bully, how she was uncoachable, and she was kicking her off. Thankfully the one girl talked coach into not doing that. The rest of the players, the assistant coach, and the trainer all waited in subway for over 45 minutes. The subway workers were upset because they were closed and we had to stay in there because she wouldn’t let anyone listen to her convo on the bus. Don’t believe this review? There was a recording of the whole convo. Thankfully one of the girls recorded the whole conversation and a handful of us players heard everything. I wanted to keep this to myself but after seeing review after review and seeing poor players that are still with her program even after she dogged them to other teammates I had to speak up. It’s such a sad situation.
Kera is gonna tell you none of this happened. Ur reach out. A lot of us players that are not with the program have a lot of things documented such as voice recordings and videos. A group of us are currently gathering all info to send to the GAC committee since, Abby Davis does not want to hold this individual accountable for their poor actions. "
"I am not sure why nobody is checking into the volleyball situation at ATU. The Spring 2023 Roster has people dropping off it like crazy. Why? Coach Kera would like to tell you it's because of injuries, etc. BUT the truth is way different. One player is an education major and Coach Kera won't work with her class schedule so she can play. Can you imagine? Teachers are in short supply accross the US and Coach Kera will not accomodate her schedule and it's not like she is student teaching. She has regular class schedule and Coach Kera will not work with the times. WHY does the administration allow this? The student facility advisors are so frustrated with Coach Kera because she is so difficult to work with and is not cooperative at all. Coach Kera is not a morning person so she wants practices in the afternoon. Which is fine if that would be 5PM or 6PM but NO.... that's Happy Hour for ole' Coach. So practices are like 3PM in the afternoon which is so messed up when trying to schedule classes. I don't understand WHY she is still allowed to continue with her drama and nonsense. "
"Reviews are more than true. Recruits please look up rosters over the years a contact any player that is not within that program anymore. They can vouch most of the things said on here are true. One just posted about some of her experience and talked about how depressed she was from Kera. Reach out!"
"I am a former player and I was GAC Setter of the Year back in my time. Then Coach Kera took over the program in 2018. She was a setter herself at ATU back during her time on campus. Coach Kera was so threatened by me that she wanted to run me off so that I couldn't beat her school records. She was jealous and manipulative. She would bench me for some crazy excuss but it was all because she didn't want me on the floor playing and taking away her spot for school records. If you are setter in volleyball, be careful when looking to play at ATU under the direction of Coach Kera. "
"Are we still required to return to campus on July 1, 2023? I have seen some positive changes out of this review website. This review website has been a tremendous help to us ATU athletes because the ATU Athletic Dept does not check on us or care enough about us to even reach out and ask if we are ok. This past year with this Coach Kera and the girls on this team has been the worst. The only way we can voice our concerns and see any type of changes is with this website. So what are we doing with the summer return to campus schedule? Football is different than volleyball and we should not be made to return to campus on July 1st. Is someone at ATU Administration going to do something about this? Is this an NCAA violation? Please help. Thank you "
"I find It very funny Kera “claims” she is in the loop with social media and knows all the ins and outs. But Is is not smart enough to know that we can see when she stalks our social media pages on her personal and burner accounts as well. My first question is who paying for her “SportsRecruits” account? I’m going to guess the school. Well in that case, why is she aloud to use the schools time and money to view players that are no longer with her program. She has not only viewed their accounts not once but numerous times. She has viewed mine and a few other of my former teammates profiles a handful of times in just the past few weeks. Kera how about you use your time to actually get some recruiting done instead of STALKING our pages like a creep. We don’t need another repeat like last season lol. My other issue is she has been attempting to stalk our other social media pages numerous times. We could give two shits about your program and what you are doing. Please do the same and move on. Or at-least get up to date on how social media works ;) "
"I hear that everyone at ATU is reading this website. Therefore, this is a message to the ATU athletic administration - are you going to force us to come back to campus right after July 4th? I think Coach Kera has adjusted the calendar to July 10th but why can't we report back by July 17th? I understand that ATU pays for our housing and for one 3 hour class for the summer session BUT I would prefer to work my summer job for an extra couple of weeks as I get paid $20 an hour as a CNA. I am a nursing major and I would appreciate the work experience along with the extra money from my summer time job. I am not a big fan of replacing Coach Kera at ATU as I understand she is an ATU alumni and ATU needs to give her some extra consideration. However, why is the Athletic Director not requiring Coach Kera to make changes to better the program? The Athletic Director needs to consider the summer session and come up with some guidance for Coach Kera. If this summer session is really an NCAA violation, why does the Athletic Director allow it to continue? "
"Regarding the review before this one (about the 3 hr meeting) sadly it is 100% true. There have been a lot of half truths riddled throughout this site & it is frustrating because us as players just want to get our message out that this woman should not have her job anymore!! After multiple offenses she still has her job & has had little to no repercussions for her choices and actions. This review page has been reported to people higher up than her and for all we know they just swept it under the rug like her DUI. Moving on from that… the saddest thing when it came to that 3 hour meeting is that she tried to use the fact that we have a relationship with God and the pressure of having a pastor in attendance to admit and scare us into claiming things that we didn’t do. This is such a malicious and manipulative thing to do to us and I doubt that she even cares. That alone should be major red flags and warning signs to NOT come here. That one meeting alone was emotionally tormenting and you can only imagine if she was so quick to act like that how is she when there aren’t other witnesses? This program is going down the shitter and Kera is the one flushing it down. How do you go from having a conference championship to having an 8-22 season the next year? When one losses and losses over and over it is common sense to know what you’re doing is NOT WORKING. That was not and will never be the case here. This coach picks her favorites and plays them even if they’re the reason we are losing points. The refusal to change the lineup, be a decent person and not talk shit about the players that she has on her team is unbelievable. Kera… I think you went to high school like 15-20 years ago, it’s time to move on from that type of behavior. "
"The reviews before this give little to no context of a review. I can share my personal experience as to why this coach is anything but ELITE. Firstly, she shows up 30 minutes late to practice. But expects the girls to be there 30 minutes before. I remember vividly a few times it has been from having meetings with her “captains” to talk mess poorly about others on the team. One in particular she had a meeting with a player last year to discuss this review page because she thought the player was involved in writing the reviews. So, the player and her had to meet so this particular player could plead her case that is wasn’t her because she was afraid this coach was going to retaliate against her. We also had practices where we never even touched a ball. Look, I am all for having some team bonding or mental health days but this was beyond that. One practice she used the time to have a meeting with us and called in an outside paster to help her run this meeting. She grouped us in “cliques” she thought we were apart of and started to read off drama that girls had confided to her about and dropped everyone’s names. She made the pastor try to get us to come forward about being involved in this particular review page and if we were telling our parents or former teammates what had been going on. Since negative reviews were being written about her. She told us that what was going on was between the team and it was no one else’s business to know what goes on. Seriously? Looking back she didn’t want us going to anyone about this because it was verbal and emotional abuse. She made us stand for 3 hours. During those 3 hours players were getting yelled at by her, the pastor and other teammates, and players were crying. My question what about this is “elite” ? This was a true scenario that really did happen last year. Don’t believe me ? Ask any girl that was apart of this team last year. This coach is a terrible person and does not care about players. One of the reviews said “she helped them through their darkest times”. This coach did the exact opposite to a lot of us. She was reason why we were in our lowest/darkest times. I don’t every describe someone this negatively but for her I will. She is one of worst people I have ever encountered in my life. I often think how much hate someone has to have in their heart to behave this horribly. Parents, players, anyone reading this. Please do not come here. The emotional and verbal abuse I endured here is not anything I wish upon anyone. She has so many people conditioned to think she is a great person but she is not. Please read the reviews, please read the stories that have happened to us on this team. Please reach out to everyone. I lost myself and my love for volleyball playing under this woman. "
"I don’t have a single negative thing to say about Kera! She’s a tremendous leader on and off the court, and has made me a better person. Kera has a deep knowledge of the game and gives her everything to players that buy into her culture. I would love to play for kera again. Any recruit reading this….If you want an elite coach and high quality person that will support you for life, play for Kera. "
"Coach Kera was undoubtedly the BEST coach I have ever had in my career. Her knowledge of the game, her compassion, and her faith in me made her stand out as not only an amazing coach but an amazing human. I am now a coach myself and model my coaching style after hers. Not only did she push me and believe in me to make me a great athlete, she listened to me in one of my darkest times and provided feedback that got me through some of my toughest days. Beyond THANKFUL for Coach Kera. "
"So typical volleyball programs do not have to report back campus until the last week of July or first week of August. Coach Kera makes us report to campus in the beginning of July. She claims it is "optional" but it isn't. She threatens your playing time and says that everyone else comes so you have to in order to be apart of the team. She forces us to go to workouts and to her "open gyms" that she sits in on. I emailed a representative at the NCAA and they informed me that these are MULTIPLE NCAA violations. She doesn't let you leave early to spend some time with your family before the season starts. So girls only have maybe a week at most to fly or drive home to see there family until Thanksgiving/Christmas. This is very hard on girls that are out of state. She claims that this helps the team get a foot ahead against all of the other programs but look at the record for yourself. It doesn't. This past week Kera took a vacation in the middle of our spring season. I found this to be completely disrespectful because, She only gives us a small window in the summer to schedule vacations with our family and just being able to go home in general. Why couldn't she take her vacation during the small window that she gives us? If any of us were to just simply ask if we could go home a few days earlier her answer would be no. Its ridiculous. I do not understand how this coach expects people to take this program seriously when she doesn't even abide by her own rules. Why does ATU allow this? Who allowed her to schedule a vacation in the middle of the spring semester to party it up with her girlfriends? It is just flat out embarrassing and trashy for not only Tech volleyball but Arkansas Tech in general. The reason she gets away with this behavior is because she is comfortable with her job. She does not care, She whatever and, gets away with whatever. And the week staff allows this because, the school in general is in Arkansas and a poor division 2 conference. One of the worst conferences nationally for division 2. Don't believe me? look on the athletic pages. They have to beg people to come to their basketball games. The coliseum maybe gets 50 people at the most for games. Years ago it was not like this. Changes need to be made . Donors and people that give their time and money to this school in general need to start making some hard decisions. The first being, why are we allowing trips to Cancun in the middle of club season for recruits, the middle of the spring semester, and the middle of this volleyball teams spring season. This is her JOB. It is time we start not allowing this ATU. "
"2aDays. Can you please change the last name or add Coleman to this. It is hard for us recruits to be able to use this platform and do our research when her name has changed. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you :) "
"Caoch Kera body shames her girls at ATU volleyball. Coach Kera scrutinizes her player's social media accounts and will ask you to take down posts that she believes are unacceptable. Not a big deal except she has engaged in situations where 2 different girls could have bathing suit pics of themselves from vacation or whatever posted on their social media. Coach Kera will ask one to take it down because she is curvery (which that girl will translates to I am fat) and the other girl will be allowed to leave her bathing suit picture up because she has little to no curves (which that girls translates to I have no figure, undeveloped or flat chested). Shouldn't it be that no volleyball player at ATU should be allowed to post bathing suit pictures on their social media? Keep the rule the same for all players? I don't understand why ATU allows her to speak to young women in this manner. Her words hurt. Multiple girls are referring to eating disorders and mental health issues. Who is looking out for the well being of these young women? "
"Kera was one of my college coaches at STU in Miami, FL. She is an INCREDIBLE woman, coach, and mentor. I can't thank her enough for being such a supportive figure in my life. I am in awe that anyone would have anything negative to say about her. I can speak on behalf of my entire STU volleyball team in 2017, that Kera helped create one of the healthiest team cultures I have ever been apart of. "
"It’s sad that the cycle is being repeated again over and over. What I mean by that is past player’s continuously being spoken on by ATUVB players. This is exactly what happened last year & started a lot of drama between both sides. And here it is beginning again. Me and others that are not with the program anymore are fed up with it and I’m calling the bs out. One girl currently on the team has been in contact with multiple players that have either been kicked off or have left the program. She has told them how a group of the girls on the team currently have been talking about them. Anytime and anywhere. It is completely sad and disheartening to hear this is going on. And she even said better yet the coach allows this type of behavior to continue. I was biting my tongue for long enough until I heard that this same player we thought was an alley is being two faced and also playing around with the gossiping. So I am calling this program out directly. If this does not stop legal action will be taken. We have text message proof, and voice recordings of this BLATANT DEFAMATION going on. The next step is serving this coach formally by a lawyer. PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT THERE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. "
"This is a little bit about my story...
Kera is be emotionally abusive in a variety of ways in volleyball. She use belittling or demeaning language, make unreasonable demands, and berates or humiliate players in front of others. She also uses fear, intimidation, and manipulation to control and dominate her players. Emotionally abusive coaches can create a negative and toxic environment, causing players to lose confidence and develop negative self-esteem. It's important for us players, parents, and other team members to be aware of these behaviors and to speak up if they witness or experience emotional abuse from a coach. It's also important for organizations and governing bodies to have policies and procedures in place to address and prevent emotional abuse from coaches.
Playing here at Tech I developed an image issue and even an eating disorder. She would make comments to me in my meeting privately how frail and weak I looked. I was told I needed to eat more and put on weight in the weight room. Instead of really asking me what was going on with me as a person. She would compare me to other girls and tell me who I needed to mirror in regards to body image. She would talk to me about other players and talk about how they were overweight or slow. I was really scared to say anything to anyone about these meetings because I know what the consequences would be. I would cry every night about the thought of having to be apart of that team. On days off I spent most of my time in bed sleeping to try and get away from the abuse. I am so glad I am finally away from this toxic program. I feel immense sadness for the girls currently on that team. I know lots of them are struggling and some have been conditioned to think she is an amazing person when reality she really isn't. I hope no one has to go through what me and so many others dealt with."
"“Work hard in silence and let success make the noise”
Is the newest tweet from Arkansas tech volleyball. This coach continues to put up this facade that she is the bigger person. When in reality she brings up the negative constantly to us girls to make it seem like everyone is out to get ATUVB. No one is out to get your team. people are finally tired of you bullying and manipulating young woman and leading parents to believe their daughters are going into good hands. It is honestly just a waiting game at this point. Waiting for you all to go into next season and lose every single game. "
"Kera needs an update on how to coach. She likes to belittle you in games and practices. I remember a game against harding she pulled a player out and screamed at her for jumping with the setter and we had lost the point. Kera then called a time out and yelled/cussed her out in front of the whole team. That player then went back in the game crying. It’s okay to be corrected as player however to cuss them out and tell them how stupid they were is not appropriate or acceptable in any way. Not only that but she would also threaten to kick players out of practice or games multiple times as if that’s going to motivate us. I believe kera needs to go to a coaching camp and take some notes on how to keep players instead of being a bully and running girls off. It’s a sad, miserable, toxic environment all because of the head coach who needs help herself. Don’t listen to her media post of how wonderful and grateful she is because its all just a sham, just like how it would be if you came on a visit and she promises you all this money and playing time. It’s just another way to manipulate people for playing there."
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