Nick Bowling
Head Coach
Coach Nick has been with RPM Sand since 2013 when it started. He played both beach and indoor volleyball and has been coaching for 18 years.
Coach Nick is a former Spanish teacher and is passionate about helping kids to grow. His coaching experience has taken him from being a volunteer assistant coach for indoor at high schools in Flagstaff to winning national championships and coaching on the professional tour with some of the top teams in the sport.
Coach Nick has been in the coaches box for 3 juniors national championship wins and has been coaching on the AVP tour since 2018. You may have heard the names of some of the players that Coach Nick has worked with on the tour. In 2019 Coach Nick got his first head coaching job on tour with Kristen Nuss and Claire Coppola as, now AVP Champion, Kristen Nuss got her feet wet in the main draw. In 2021 coach Nick worked with AVP Champions Hailey Harward and Julia Scoles along with NCAA standouts Macy Gordon and Charlie Ekstrom. In 2022 Coach Nick worked with 2021 Olympian Sarah Sponcil and AVP Champion Terese Cannon.
Coach Nick brings a wealth of knowledge at every level of the game to the park each night with RPM Sand and loves that his role with the pros can inform the way he coaches juniors as he values the insight that coaching each level gives him.