Queens University of Charlotte

"I couldn’t find 5tag words to describe the coach. Never knew a coach that within a couple weeks time will alienate you from being apart of the team and destroys your love of the game. "

"I’ve never been apart of a team were the coach creates some much distrust and lack of loyalty. It seems the athletic department doesn’t listen and is happy with mediocrity. Lacks loyalty to his players he rights them off never coaches up but only coaches out"

"I would not recommend playing for this coach. She has knowledge and passion for the game but never directed it in an effective way. In no way did she have a connection with our team. It was very much coach vs. the rest of the program. She did not know how to connect with us. We knew nothing about her personally, and she thought knowing one of our hobbies was equal to knowing us outside of volleyball. No one on our team really respected her, because she continuously gave us reasons not to. People on campus didn't like her either. She was not good at the whole people thing. Was she the worst person ever? No. But there were numerous times where our team could have benefited and gone the extra mile if we had someone who we wanted to play for. But no one did. She was the most organized yet disorganized person I have met. She just tried really hard to focus and fix the wrong things. It was never efficient. Her corrections changed by the day, which was very confusing for our team. One day she yells because your feet are too wide; the next day they're too narrow. One day she yells becuase she thinks you're not engaged, the next it's "you're too much". Everyone was walking on eggshells, and it was hard to naturally be yourself. Questioning what you were doing all the time was a common way of thinking my team adapted due to her unstable coaching methods. She just was not the leader we needed, and we suffered because of it. "

"Coach Long was an excellent coach for me. I am realizing now, a few years out, that she wasn't just pushing us to be our best selves on the court; she was also preparing us for real life after college. She is a coach who always expects more of you and is very direct with what she wants and doesn't want. In the recruiting process, she was very honest about how her coaching style was, so I knew what to expect. She has many years of experience to back up her wealth of knowledge about the game, but you could see each of the 4 years she was tweaking things and trying new things to reach the team we had that year and create the culture needed. This includes mentally and physically. Her athletes mean a lot to her, and she puts the effort into to athletes to excel not only on the court but also in the classroom. She also held meetings often to go over performance on and off the court, and that is where I feel like she really prepared us for real life, as I got used to critically evaluating my performance and getting better at what to expect come performance review time in the workplace. I couldn't recommend her more to student-athletes who want to grow on and off the court."

"Its hard to score him when you don't believe he rates even a 1. Not a players coach you go to the school (which he school is good by the way) but you go there to enjoy and play the game you love and find yourself treated unfairly and turning on the game. for the student athlete you've run up a tremendous amount of debt. you know going in the cost of an education there but at least enjoy the game you can't get that promise under the current coach. They will always be a sub 500 team with him and you the school will lack that student athlete that will give back to the university because very rarely will a full class of incoming players stay. I am shocked the administration hasn't seen this by now. "