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Denise Sheldon

  • Title
    Head Women's Volleyball Coach
  • Phone
    650-543-3802
  • Email
    denise.sheldon@menlo.edu
  • Alma Mater
    University of Nevada - Reno

Denise Sheldon is the 11th head coach in program history.   She is coming off of winning GSAC Coach of the Year Honors in 2019, and enters year number six in 2022. In her first five years at Menlo:

  • Led the Oaks to their first GSAC Regular Season Title in Program History in 2019
  • Led the Oaks to their first trip to the NAIA National Tournament since 2014
  • The Oaks have 63 wins, including 22 in 2017, the most since 1991 in a single season
  • The team's first three playoff wins the GSAC
  • Six All-GSAC selections, the first since joining the GSAC in 2015.
  • Two NAIA All-Americans
  • NAIA Player of the Year Moea Kekauoha
  • Four GSAC and Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes
  • Two AVCA All-Region First Team members
  • Two AVCA All-Region Honorable Mention team members

She is a Bay Area native and Sacred Heart alum that has spent the past five years working in various roles with the USA Volleyball National team in Colorado Springs, Colo. Most recently, Sheldon was the U.S. Women's National Team Manger and spent the 2016 summer with the team at the Olympics in Rio. She also has worked as the Director of Girls' High Performance – National Team Pipeline. In this role she was in charge of scouting and recruiting high performing athletes to get them into the performance and training pipelines of the National Team.

On the coaching front she has more than 20 year of experience on the national and international level and serves on the Board of Directors for Team Colorado Volleyball Club. She was the head coach at St. Francis Central Coast Catholic High School for five years and has been the head coach of various club teams including:

  • USA Volleyball High Performance Volleyball Teams
  • Skyora Enterprises
  • Peninsula Juniors
  • Team Colorado
  • Bring it Promotions.

She is USA Volleyball CAP Level IV Certified and a Coaching Education Instructor.


Coach Sheldon played collegiately at University of Nevada-Reno where she was an Academic All-WAC team member. Prior to playing at UNR, she was a First Team Junior College All-American. 

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