Christina Cornelius '19 joins the Harvard women's volleyball coaching staff for the 2023 season as an assistant coach.
Cornelius will join the Crimson in her first assistant coach role in collegiate athletics after service as an assistant coach at the Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball Club in Long Beach, California since June of 2021. She coached alongside the club director, working with volleyball players up to 18 years of age to teach them volleyball techniques and skills.
A 2019 graduate with a concentration in sociology and a secondary in African American studies, Cornelius captained the Harvard volleyball team her junior and senior years. She won the Mary G. Paget Prize in 2019, an award established to honor the senior student who has contributed the most to women’s athletics at Harvard. She also served on the Harvard faculty standing committee on athletics and was a part of the Association of Black Women.
On the court, Cornelius was named the 2015 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and went on to be named First Team All-Ivy all four years of her time with the Crimson (2015-18). A middle blocker, she is the Harvard record holder for single season block assists with 112 and ranks second in program history in total blocks (133). In her first year at Harvard, the team tied for first in the Ivy League.
