 | Chris McGown - Women's Volleyball Assistant Coach |
Coaching Career: McGown comes to BYU from Gold Medal Squared volleyball camps, where he has been involved since its inception in 1998, working as both an administrator and a coach/clinician. During the course of his career with GMS he has worked with hundreds of schools and clubs and thousands of volleyball players.
He took a break from coaching and playing immediately after college to work as a manufacturing engineer, working closely with companies such as IBM, Boeing, General Electric, General Motors, Merck and the Department of Defense. His experience as an engineer served him well as background for implementing the science behind the GMS systems. McGown left engineering full time in 2003 to work exclusively with Gold Medal Squared.
At GMS, he most recently served as the principal clinician for Club Coaching events and spent countless hours with his father, Carl McGown, at the organizations summer clinics. He also had a significant part in the administration of GMS, managing finances, the GMS website, clinic scheduling and staffing and marketing/advertising.
Responsibilities:
Chris McGown enters his first season as a volunteer assistant coach at BYU in 2009. He will primarily help with on-court training.
Playing Career:
As a player, McGown was a three-year letterman at BYU from 1990-94. He experienced the ups and downs of playing for his father and lived with the team through its early growing pains to becoming one of the more dominant programs in men's collegiate volleyball. He has maintained close ties to the BYU men's and women's programs, doing play-by-play commentary for their TV broadcasts on the BYU Sports Network. When not involved in volleyball, he can be found skiing, golfing, mountain biking, and chasing after his two beautiful daughters.
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