Fred Lin was hired as an assistant coach on the women's volleyball team in September 2019. Lin has served in many capacities prior to Dominican, starting his coaching career at the age of 19. His most recent coaching experience came at UC Santa Cruz where he was a women’s volleyball assistant and interim head coach from 2017-2018. Lin also served as an assistant coach at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, for a year after completing his term as a women’s volleyball graduate assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky University in 1996. Prior to Eastern Kentucky, Lin gained coaching experience at Hillside College as the women’s volleyball head coach, preceded by roles as the women’s volleyball assistant coach, club women’s volleyball head coach and men’s club volleyball head coach at the University of Michigan from 1984-1992.
Lin has also gained a plethora of experience outside of coaching, most recently in his current role as club volleyball instructor and mentor for City Beach Volleyball Club (CBVC). Prior to CBVC, Lin worked as a technical trainer for college and professional volleyball athletes with the FITS program in Palo Alto from 2011-2017, preceded by his role as the program consultant and head coach at Eclipse Volleyball Club in San Jose from 1999-2003. Lin also worked as the operations and technical director while coaching at Thunder Volleyball Club from 1993-1999 in Reseda, California, after completing his first coaching stint where he was the head girls club volleyball coach from 1992-1993 with Wolverine Volleyball Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lin and his friends built their first volleyball club in Southern California in 1993 before his departure in 1998. His departure ultimately meant that he'd step aside from coaching for the next decade, embarking on managerial roles with IBM and other start-up tech companies. Following these roles, Lin and his friends built their second volleyball club — Encore Volleyball Club — located in Redwood City.
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Lin’s playing career came as a member of the men’s club volleyball team at the University of Michigan from 1984-1987. Academically, Lin earned a Business Management degree from Cleary University in 1996.
Lin now resides in Palo Alto and has a daughter nearby in San Jose.
