Ram Volleyball Camps
Coaching Staff

Katie Green
Assistant Coach

Green is in her fourth season as an assistant on Cornell's volleyball staff. This is also her second year as institutional research associate on the Hilltop.

Green is a 1996 graduate of DeWitt Central High School, where she participated in volleyball, basketball and track.Green received a bachelor's degree in psychology and English from Luther in 2000. With Green as a four-year starter in basketball, the Norse won the 1998 Iowa Conference championship and twice advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

After graduating, she remained at Luther as an assistant volleyball and basketball coach from 2000-03, helping coach the basketball Norse to another IIAC title in 2001-02. Green, who resides in Coralville, received a master's degree in sports psychology from the University of Iowa in 2005.

Dana Serafini
Assistant Coach

Serafini, a standout defensive specialist for the Rams from 2001-04, returns to her alma mater as an assistant coach on Cornell's volleyball staff.

Serafini was a four-year volleyball letterwinner at Cornell and team co-captain in 2004. She is the school-record holder for digs in a season (739 in 2004) and ranks second in career digs (1,677).

Serafini graduated from Cornell in 2005 with a degree in business and economics. She received her master's in business administration from the University of Dubuque in 2011.

Serafini is a native of Calumet City, Ill., and attended Seton Academy, where she lettered in volleyball, basketball and softball.

After graduating from Cornell, Serafini spent four seasons (2005-08) as head sophomore and assistant varsity coach at Linn-Mar High School. The past two seasons she was an assistant at the University of Dubuque, where she completed her MBA.

Serafini resides in Mount Vernon and works at Pearson in Iowa City.

Heather Roberts
Assistant Coach

Roberts, a 2009 Cornell graduate and former two-sport athlete with the Rams, is in her first season as an assistant on the volleyball coaching staff.

Roberts played both volleyball and basketball three years at Cornell. The Chicago, Ill., native earned a B.S.S. degree in Performance Arts.

Roberts is serving her second year as Assistant Director of Intercultural Life at Cornell. In the summer of 2008, she worked as an intern in the student services office at Ashford University in Clinton. Roberts also worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the Davenport Civil Rights Commission in Davenport from 2009-10.

Marc Neef
Student Assistant Coach

Neef, a 2008 graduate of Spokane (Mo.) High School, is in his fourth season as a student assistant on the Rams' volleyball staff.

Neef, a Cornell senior, was a two-time letterwinner on the men's basketball team which qualified for the Iowa Conference Tournament both seasons. He was a freshman on the 2008-09 squad that won the IIAC Tournament title and earned an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Neef was a student assistant volleyball coach for four years at Spokane and also has experience coaching club volleyball. He earned first team all-state basketball honors and ranks sixth in Missouri high school history with 345 career 3-point field goals made. Also an academic all-state performer, Neef helped lead his high school team to a third-place finish at the state basketball tournament during his junior season.