Cole Murray serves as Assistant Coach for California Volleyball. Murray enters his third year as an assistant coach at Cal in 2026, working mainly with the pin hitters and defensive specialists.
Under Murray’s coaching in 2025, junior (and first-year libero) Sophia Johnson was named the first ACC Defensive Player of the Week in conference play, becoming the first Cal player since 2012 to earn weekly defensive recognition by any conference after posting a 5.29 digs-per-set average in Cal’s ACC-opening weekend. Murray graduated from Loyola Chicago in 2017 with a degree in communications studies, later earning his master’s degree in coaching and exercise science from Concordia University Irvine.
