The Chicago State volleyball program has hired Dylan Riley as assistant coach.
Riley joins Chicago State from Rockhurst University (Division II) in Kansas City, Missouri, where he had served as an assistant volleyball coach since October 2020. Last season, Riley helped power Rockhurst to a 20-12 record in a season that ended with an appearance in the NCAA Midwest Regional.
While at Rockhurst, Riley coached three GLVC All-Conference players and 20 Academic All-GLVC Student-Athletes.
Previously, Riley was a graduate assistant with the men's volleyball program at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he coached three all-conference players, an AVCA All-American and 10 Academic All-Conference Student-Athletes.
Riley attended Park University in Parkville, Missouri, where he won a 2017 NAIA National Championship on the men's volleyball team. At Park, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management. Riley also attended Ottawa University and MCC-Longview Community College, where he played baseball for two seasons.
Riley joins Tony Trifonov's Chicago State team that is fresh off the best season in program history, winning 17 Division I matches last season.
The Cougars open the 2022 season on Friday at 4:00 p.m. against Jacksonville State.
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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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