Career Highlights
- Entering 13th Season (247-139 Record)
- 2 NAIA Tournament Appearance (2023 & 2024)
- MSC Coach of the Year (2023)
- MSC Tournament Champions (2023)
Coach Kathryn Park (Hart) is entering her 13th season as the head coach of the Patriots Volleyball program. In her time as Coach, she has led Cumberlands to a 247-139 record, including a 95-85 mark in the Mid-South Conference. Park is the program's all-time winningest coach after earning her 105
th win on 9/1/2018. UC has posted four straight 20+ wins seasons, including qualifying for the NAIA National Tournament in each of the past two years.
Park's success at Cumberlands has led to numerous player and team recognitions both on and off the court. 21 players have earned first team all-conference honors, while 23 have garnered second team all-conference accolades. In 2016, Jennifer Philpot became just the third player in program history to earn NAIA All-American Honorable Mention honors. In 2018, Tara Routliffe was named the MSC Libero of the Year. Juliet Banks was named the MSC Libero/ Defender of the Year three straight years (2022, 2023, & 2024). Additionally, Allyson Grava (2023) and Sara Zampedri (2024) were named the MSC Players of the Year in back-to-back season. Grava became UC's first two-time NAIA All-American (2022 & 2023), while Zampredri earned NAIA Third Team All-American honors in 2024. The Patriots success has extended to the classroom where UC has had 148 MSC Academic All-Conference selections and 57 NAIA Academic All-Americans. Cumberlands has earned AVCA Team Academic Award in each of Park's first 12 seasons and earned NAIA Scholar Team Honors nine times. In 2019 Leah Crist earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, becoming the first player under Coach Park to earn this distinction.
Park has coached four straight Mid-South Conference Champion of Character winners and assisted in the Patriots being named the 2017 NAIA Buffalo Team Champion of Character.
Park hails from Huntsville, TX and earned a B.S. from Belhaven University (BU) in 2008 in Sports Administration. Park then moved to Springfield College where she earned a Master’s in Education in Sports Management. Park continued her education earning her Doctorate in Leadership from the University of the Cumberlands.
While attending Belhaven University, Coach Hart was a four year member of the volleyball team where she was a middle hitter for the Blazers. Park garnered numerous awards while at BU, being named a team captain from 2005-2007, Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) All-Conference selection from 2005-2007, and also being selected All-Region in 2007.
Prior to joining Cumberlands Park was an assistant coach at Springfield College in Springfield, MA. While there Park helped guide the Pride to two very successful seasons that included a conference championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Park's first head coaching job came in 2010 at Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) where she was also the Senior Women’s Administrator. She showed her ability to turn teams around after a 3-28 record her first season she nearly tripled it in her second season going 11-17, and then lead ENC to its second best record in the last decade at 13-16. Park also coached two All-Conference players in her three seasons.
Park currently resides in Williamsburg, KY with her husband Jung.
| Year |
Record |
MSC Record |
Honors |
| 2013 |
17-12 |
8-10 (6th) |
3 MSC All-Conference, 4 Academic All-Conference |
| 2014 |
22-14 |
6-9 (5th) |
4 MSC All-Conference, 5 Academic All-Conference, 1 NAIA Academic All-American |
| 2015 |
27-10 |
9-7 (4th) |
5 MSC All-Conference, 6 Academic All-Conference, 2 NAIA Academic All-American |
| 2016 |
21-9 |
9-5 (4th) |
4 MSC All-Conference, 13 Academic All-Conference, 3 NAIA Academic All-American; 1 All-American Honorable Mention |
| 2017 |
14-17 |
6-8 (4th) |
5 MSC All-Conference, 7 Academic All-Conference, 5 NAIA Academic All-American; NAIA Team Champion of Character |
| 2018 |
22-13 |
7-7 (4th) |
4 MSC All-Conference, 14 Academic All-Conference, 6 NAIA Academic All-American; 1 MSC Libero of the Year |
| 2019 |
17-13 |
7-9 (6th) |
1 MSC All-Conference, 11 Academic All-Conference, 1 CoSIDA All-America |
| 2020 |
9-14 |
6-10 (10th) |
3 MSC All-Conference, 15 Academic All-Conference |
| 2021 |
20-11 |
9-7 (6th) |
2 MSC All-Conference, 18 Academic All-Conference |
| 2022 |
22-9 |
9-5 (5th) |
4 MSC All-Conference, 15 Academic All-Conference; 1 MSC Libero/ Defender of the Year |
| 2023 |
24-11 |
9-3 (2nd) |
NAIA National Qualifier, MSC Tournament Champions, 1 NAIA All-American, MSC Player of the Year, MSC Defender of the Year, 6 MSC All-Conference |
| 2024 |
32-6 |
9-3 (2nd) |
NAIA National Qualifier, 1 NAIA All-American, MSC Player of the Year, MSC Defender of the Year, 6 MSC All-Conference |
| Overall |
247-139 |
95-85 |
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