Kera (Dukic) Coleman Reviews

Are we still required to return to campus on July 1, 2023? I have seen some positive changes out of this review website. This review website has been a tremendous help to us ATU athletes because the ATU Athletic Dept does not check on us or care enough about us to even reach out and ask if we are ok. This past year with this Coach Kera and the girls on this team has been the worst. The only way we can voice our concerns and see any type of changes is with this website. So what are we doing with the summer return to campus schedule? Football is different than volleyball and we should not be made to return to campus on July 1st. Is someone at ATU Administration going to do something about this? Is this an NCAA violation? Please help. Thank you

I find It very funny Kera “claims” she is in the loop with social media and knows all the ins and outs. But Is is not smart enough to know that we can see when she stalks our social media pages on her personal and burner accounts as well. My first question is who paying for her “SportsRecruits” account? I’m going to guess the school. Well in that case, why is she aloud to use the schools time and money to view players that are no longer with her program. She has not only viewed their accounts not once but numerous times. She has viewed mine and a few other of my former teammates profiles a handful of times in just the past few weeks. Kera how about you use your time to actually get some recruiting done instead of STALKING our pages like a creep. We don’t need another repeat like last season lol. My other issue is she has been attempting to stalk our other social media pages numerous times. We could give two shits about your program and what you are doing. Please do the same and move on. Or at-least get up to date on how social media works ;)

If you need a telling reason why to not be coached under Kera please watch the scrimmage from today

I hear that everyone at ATU is reading this website. Therefore, this is a message to the ATU athletic administration - are you going to force us to come back to campus right after July 4th? I think Coach Kera has adjusted the calendar to July 10th but why can't we report back by July 17th? I understand that ATU pays for our housing and for one 3 hour class for the summer session BUT I would prefer to work my summer job for an extra couple of weeks as I get paid $20 an hour as a CNA. I am a nursing major and I would appreciate the work experience along with the extra money from my summer time job. I am not a big fan of replacing Coach Kera at ATU as I understand she is an ATU alumni and ATU needs to give her some extra consideration. However, why is the Athletic Director not requiring Coach Kera to make changes to better the program? The Athletic Director needs to consider the summer session and come up with some guidance for Coach Kera. If this summer session is really an NCAA violation, why does the Athletic Director allow it to continue?

Regarding the review before this one (about the 3 hr meeting) sadly it is 100% true. There have been a lot of half truths riddled throughout this site & it is frustrating because us as players just want to get our message out that this woman should not have her job anymore!! After multiple offenses she still has her job & has had little to no repercussions for her choices and actions. This review page has been reported to people higher up than her and for all we know they just swept it under the rug like her DUI. Moving on from that… the saddest thing when it came to that 3 hour meeting is that she tried to use the fact that we have a relationship with God and the pressure of having a pastor in attendance to admit and scare us into claiming things that we didn’t do. This is such a malicious and manipulative thing to do to us and I doubt that she even cares. That alone should be major red flags and warning signs to NOT come here. That one meeting alone was emotionally tormenting and you can only imagine if she was so quick to act like that how is she when there aren’t other witnesses? This program is going down the shitter and Kera is the one flushing it down. How do you go from having a conference championship to having an 8-22 season the next year? When one losses and losses over and over it is common sense to know what you’re doing is NOT WORKING. That was not and will never be the case here. This coach picks her favorites and plays them even if they’re the reason we are losing points. The refusal to change the lineup, be a decent person and not talk shit about the players that she has on her team is unbelievable. Kera… I think you went to high school like 15-20 years ago, it’s time to move on from that type of behavior.

The reviews before this give little to no context of a review. I can share my personal experience as to why this coach is anything but ELITE. Firstly, she shows up 30 minutes late to practice. But expects the girls to be there 30 minutes before. I remember vividly a few times it has been from having meetings with her “captains” to talk mess poorly about others on the team. One in particular she had a meeting with a player last year to discuss this review page because she thought the player was involved in writing the reviews. So, the player and her had to meet so this particular player could plead her case that is wasn’t her because she was afraid this coach was going to retaliate against her. We also had practices where we never even touched a ball. Look, I am all for having some team bonding or mental health days but this was beyond that. One practice she used the time to have a meeting with us and called in an outside paster to help her run this meeting. She grouped us in “cliques” she thought we were apart of and started to read off drama that girls had confided to her about and dropped everyone’s names. She made the pastor try to get us to come forward about being involved in this particular review page and if we were telling our parents or former teammates what had been going on. Since negative reviews were being written about her. She told us that what was going on was between the team and it was no one else’s business to know what goes on. Seriously? Looking back she didn’t want us going to anyone about this because it was verbal and emotional abuse. She made us stand for 3 hours. During those 3 hours players were getting yelled at by her, the pastor and other teammates, and players were crying. My question what about this is “elite” ? This was a true scenario that really did happen last year. Don’t believe me ? Ask any girl that was apart of this team last year. This coach is a terrible person and does not care about players. One of the reviews said “she helped them through their darkest times”. This coach did the exact opposite to a lot of us. She was reason why we were in our lowest/darkest times. I don’t every describe someone this negatively but for her I will. She is one of worst people I have ever encountered in my life. I often think how much hate someone has to have in their heart to behave this horribly. Parents, players, anyone reading this. Please do not come here. The emotional and verbal abuse I endured here is not anything I wish upon anyone. She has so many people conditioned to think she is a great person but she is not. Please read the reviews, please read the stories that have happened to us on this team. Please reach out to everyone. I lost myself and my love for volleyball playing under this woman.

I don’t have a single negative thing to say about Kera! She’s a tremendous leader on and off the court, and has made me a better person. Kera has a deep knowledge of the game and gives her everything to players that buy into her culture. I would love to play for kera again. Any recruit reading this….If you want an elite coach and high quality person that will support you for life, play for Kera.

Coach Kera was undoubtedly the BEST coach I have ever had in my career. Her knowledge of the game, her compassion, and her faith in me made her stand out as not only an amazing coach but an amazing human. I am now a coach myself and model my coaching style after hers. Not only did she push me and believe in me to make me a great athlete, she listened to me in one of my darkest times and provided feedback that got me through some of my toughest days. Beyond THANKFUL for Coach Kera.

So typical volleyball programs do not have to report back campus until the last week of July or first week of August. Coach Kera makes us report to campus in the beginning of July. She claims it is "optional" but it isn't. She threatens your playing time and says that everyone else comes so you have to in order to be apart of the team. She forces us to go to workouts and to her "open gyms" that she sits in on. I emailed a representative at the NCAA and they informed me that these are MULTIPLE NCAA violations. She doesn't let you leave early to spend some time with your family before the season starts. So girls only have maybe a week at most to fly or drive home to see there family until Thanksgiving/Christmas. This is very hard on girls that are out of state. She claims that this helps the team get a foot ahead against all of the other programs but look at the record for yourself. It doesn't. This past week Kera took a vacation in the middle of our spring season. I found this to be completely disrespectful because, She only gives us a small window in the summer to schedule vacations with our family and just being able to go home in general. Why couldn't she take her vacation during the small window that she gives us? If any of us were to just simply ask if we could go home a few days earlier her answer would be no. Its ridiculous. I do not understand how this coach expects people to take this program seriously when she doesn't even abide by her own rules. Why does ATU allow this? Who allowed her to schedule a vacation in the middle of the spring semester to party it up with her girlfriends? It is just flat out embarrassing and trashy for not only Tech volleyball but Arkansas Tech in general. The reason she gets away with this behavior is because she is comfortable with her job. She does not care, She whatever and, gets away with whatever. And the week staff allows this because, the school in general is in Arkansas and a poor division 2 conference. One of the worst conferences nationally for division 2. Don't believe me? look on the athletic pages. They have to beg people to come to their basketball games. The coliseum maybe gets 50 people at the most for games. Years ago it was not like this. Changes need to be made . Donors and people that give their time and money to this school in general need to start making some hard decisions. The first being, why are we allowing trips to Cancun in the middle of club season for recruits, the middle of the spring semester, and the middle of this volleyball teams spring season. This is her JOB. It is time we start not allowing this ATU.

2aDays. Can you please change the last name or add Coleman to this. It is hard for us recruits to be able to use this platform and do our research when her name has changed. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you :)