Kera Coleman (Dukic) Reviews

ATU Volleyball is awful. It's one thing to have a loosing record but still grow and learn and develop or have fun with your teammates. HOWEVER, we had NONE of those things this season. The team culture is toxic because that's the culture that Kera developed. She sometimes pretends to revamp the culture and make it more positive but she fails at that because deep down to her core, Kera thrives on adversity. She is not happy unless there is some kind of drama so that she can point to that drama and make that her excuse as to why she is failing at her JOB.

Instead of focusing on getting better players on that team are constantly stalking and talking about past players. What is sad is this stems from the head coach directly.

Super embarrassing when opposing teams are making post like this one https://x.com/barstoolreddies/status/1719402055301828797?s=46 of her mugshot every time we play someone. last season someone waved her mugshot up and she threatened to assault them. ATU & Abby Davis never did anything to hold her actions accountable. Kera can’t own up to her DUI. She sweeps it under the rug and acts like it doesn’t exist. Anytime someone brings it up she gets belligerent. Thank god these girls only have a few weeks left of this embarrassment.

Kera is absolutely the worst coach. Lose bad for set, start the same lineup. Lose again 2nd set, same lineup. Lose again same lineup. Doesn't have any idea what she is doing. 19 matches of doing the same thing is obviously not working. 2-21 is embarrassing. Not only should this verbally and mentally abusive coach should be fired, the AD should be fired. She knows everything that is going on, but encourages it. Please would somebody please help us.

She's no good not one bit

I've waited a long time to post a review on here... mostly because the trauma I experienced being in this program has taken me years now to recover from and as I move into my adult life I still struggle from triggers and things that happened to me while under the "care" of Kera Dukic-Coleman. I wish I would've read past the lies and deception when she sat there and looked me and my family in the eyes at my visit and said id be safe there because my whole life was ruined... my confidence ruined... my body ruined... my love for the game is gone I do not wish to ever play or touch a ball for my own self desires ever again. I tried to self harm while in this program and am so grateful to be alive today. She attacked me and my character and I spent a whole season protecting others from her egotistical retaliatory toxic god complex personality. Sometimes the girls who never understood why the lot of us who disliked Coach Kera so much will one day when they are out from under her control that maybe she was as bad as we made her out to be. some of us just weren't as willing to play her games just to get court time or be treated like a human being versus abusing us.I mean go back and look at prior rosters she's had she's lost almost more than half of her players every year... even after a championship season she loses her whole roster to the portal. and some quit. they are 1-9 now... for tech's sake I pray they can turn it around for the better but a second single digit wins season you'd think the school would reevaluate her position at that point. what's truly best for tech here? the president just got fired lets hope some one comes in who's unwavering in their desire for this school academically and athletically to be staffed by people who genuinely want to curate a place where young girls can grow into great woman. and not that the girls who've lived and been through the trauma havent ended up being some of the most strong and amazing woman and leaders and can share their experiences to help others but man it wouldve been nice to not have all this pain and hurt for years on after... I just want Kera to self reflect... just think... maybe maybe I did something wrong too. thats all I ever wanted from here. self reflect.

Recruits it’s coming that time to make a tough decision. I was In your shoes once. When I took my visit to Tech & came to the camp it seemed like butterflies & rainbows. Coach Coleman tells your exactly what you want to hear, she will be overly positive with you & to anyone she interacts with. Please please please do not fall for it like I did. It was the worst semester of my life. There were points I even contemplated just ending it all. I know that seems a bit extreme but I felt like I was literally in asylum. She has such a good way of isolating your from friends and family. I am behind thankful I got out while I could. I’m sure she treads even more carefully because, if this review page. But she cannot help herself. She will always resort back to some type of narcissistic behavior at some point. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not come here. This is coming from a player that got out while they were a freshman. If you don’t don’t believe any of the reviews please just take mine inconsideration. If I could help save one innocent player from this troublesome program then I would feel so much better.

The Arkansas Tech Volleyball Team winning the GAC in 2021 was because of the recruiting and coaching efforts of Chris Nook - the Asst Coach at ATU in 2021. Coach Nook handled 90% of the recruiting and he was a very technical coach. His scouting reports were top notch. He put together the ATU team that won 2021 GAC and some of his recruits are still on the roster today (2023) but the majority of them graduated out of the program or transfered out of the program. Chris Nook left ATU in 2021 and now Coach Kera is 100% in charge of everything from recruiting and the technical advising, scouting, etc. She does not have the volleyball IQ for this and as the years pass without a good solid coaching foundation (that Chris Nook originally brought), this program will continue to decline. Coach Kera is not qualified to be a head coach for an NCAA D2 program. She lacks the training and knowledge to run a successful program. This program will continue to decline under the direction of Kera Dukic Coleman.

Most rated coach on here. My personal experience of being the worst coach I’ve ever played for. I’d say these stories and ratings are true.

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

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.

Tonight we have to work a “college tryout”. Basically it is a tryout where college athletes can come that are either JUCO prospects or wanting to transfer from the current team they were at. But for Kera it is a money grab. Last season we ran this and she was so dismissive to the girls trying out. She had no plan and it was completely disorganized. She makes us run it and gives no sense of direction until about 5 minutes before we start. Last season, we were in desperate need of a middle. We had some girls that came and she didn’t take any of them. Down the road she took an outside hitter but she didn’t take any middles. She instead takes a player from another sport that hasn’t touched a volleyball since high school and is a junior in college. I find It completely disrespectful. Not only did these girls drive hours and dedicate their time and money to this not knowing Kera wasn’t planning on taking anything from them but $$. She takes someone that already plays a sport at tech instead of girls who have dreamed all their life at playing at the next level. It’s ridiculous and a money grab. Don’t fall for it. She has to have these money fundraisers because she can’t manage her money and has 23 + girls on the team. Please go to a program where you are actually wanted.

unfortunately, i played at this university and wasted a year of eligibility. Granted, I did carry the team into a GAC championship but once we got to the first round of NCAA, we shit the bed and got sent home. That night my room was broken into at Nutt and she didn’t give one singular shit about it. “It’s not my problem” she said. Well listen here Kera Dookie, your reputation is bullshit. Not only are you inconsiderate and fake, but you are a liar with nothing to your name. The only reason you are still at this university is because you have Abby Davis on speed dial if anything were to go wrong. I also don’t blame Abby because any coach she reaches out to to fill your spot is going to give her a FUCK NO. You think anyone wants to live in this godforsaken town? There’s nothing to do !!!! I truly hope all of your commits de-commit after seeing ANY of these posts. This is real stuff people. If you are a parent or guardian i highly suggest you do some digging. I’m so glad I left this place with 3 years left. Good riddance.

Coach Kera has asked us to unfriend and unfollow ATU Volleyball players that have transferred out of ATU in the last 2 seasons (2021 and 2022). She gets on our social media accounts daily and keeps a spreadsheet of which players are still following transfer players. We have some good friends that are in the 2022 NCAA D2 tournament and we can't show them love or support becausee Kera will get so upset. She has a little spy on the team that tells her if some of us have streaks going with old players and/or if we are on someone's private story. Coach Kera has created such a negative culture on this team that you can't tell which player is a Pretender. Players that are pretending to be your friend but they secretly go behind your back and report things about you to Coach Kera. Something simple as wishing an old friend good luck in a volleyball tournament is considered a betrayal to Coach Kera and ATU Volleyball. It's depressing and sad.

I cannot recommend this program as it is very disfunctional and all Coach Kera does is play mind games with both her staff and her players. This past season she stopped at a Subway for our team meal after we lost and she held back 3 players on the bus and LOCKED the doors. Those 3 players were asked to vote on each specific player if they could be trusted or not - options were yes, no or maybe. Coach Kera gave her vote on each player as well. This meeting lasted so long that players had ordered and were trying to get back on the bus but she wouldn't let them with the door locked. The assistant coach and athletic trainer were also locked out of the bus and had to go back inside with the players to wait for her to unlock the bus. So UNPROFESSIONAL.

#1 coming at the girls saying mommy and daddy spoon feed the girls who were mentally and emotionally abused by this woman. It’s sad because your daddy was all up on this trying to get involved as well, so guess you must be spoon fed as well. Along crying for a Lib jersey because it’s ur senior year. What a joke. Maybe you should play better instead of crying for a spot. My experience playing for kera was a wreck and these reviews prove how this coach treats people. Kera’s goal is not to succeed, it’s to control and manipulate as many girls as she can. Once she realizes she can’t control that player she “ releases“ them and says she wishes them nothing but the best but yet gossips about them in her meetings, at team dinners and at practices. This is a depressing sad program especially when we are forced to lie about community service hours so kera looks perfect to the community. This school has so much potential and it’s sad to see it be wasted, these girls have so much potential and all they need is a leader who inspire players to be a good person on and off the court. Clearly that’s not happening.

This ATU Volleyball Program is EMBARRASSING --- WTH? Why would anybody want to go to ATU and play Volleyball for this Kera Dukic? MENTAL issues HEY ATU - why don't you get a professional - someone with an MD behind their name to evaluate Kera Dukic? Please get some HELP!

Where to start. Coach Kera only cares about herself and her needs. I hated playing for this program because I was abused by this women mentally and emotionally everyday being called a loser and stupid. Being kicked off the court when she wouldn’t explain what I was doing or even COACH me on what I was doing wrong. This women should not be around young women. She makes promise she can’t keep and then can’t take responsibility or apologize or lying. 99% of girls in the program have hated it because kera is toxic.

If you are a recruit don’t bother coming to tech, she has shared with multiple players that she WILL NOT recruit out of the state of AR since they always get homesick and she is just sick of it. This is what she tells Abby Davis the AD when she has players constantly leaving. (They didn’t leave from being homesick, it’s a toxic environment) please be careful.

The OBU game was a loss for Tech - and Coach Kera wants to blame the players from the bench for not cheering loud enough. Coach said she wants to pull film to see how loud some of the Tech volleyball girls are cheering during a game from the sidelines. Yet this same Coach won't bother to watch game film on OBU until 2 hours before warm up to play OBU. The FOCUS of this COACH is on the WRONG thing(s). After every game, she comes into the locker room and threatens to kick players off the team and to pull scholarship money. Coach Kera does more threatening than she does Coaching.

During the game last night it was really embarrassing for the program when someone in the audience was showing our coaches mug shot. I didn’t know she had a DWI until then.

She truly doesn’t care for you unless you do something for her

I played here for a couple of years and at first it seemed like the perfect fit! I was so excited for this new chapter in my life, new friends, new atmosphere, new coach, just new everything! After a couple of months I had recognized a couple of red flags, like being in the office thinking that we are going to talk about volleyball, instead talking about other players. Kera makes you feel like her office is safe and that your conversations stay with her… that was not the case. Not only would she talk about just players, she also would speak negatively about her coaching staff while also disrespecting them at practice. Players behind the scenes would talk about how we could run a better practice than her because we do the same drills nearly everyday along without knowing which mood of Kera’s you were going to get that day. Last year is girls all went out for Halloween and yes we all drank, should we have? No because it was a dry season and knew we shouldn’t of. Well we lost a game a couple of days later and one player who had a very inappropriate relationship with kera walked up to the front of the bus and told kera we all went out. So kera stood up and asked who all drank that weekend to raise their hands, after that we never really had a true day off because she would make us wake up early every weekend to do film, team activities, or mostly community service. So we were all so mentally and physically exhausted. Not to mention we were watching film specifically against HSU and Kera thought it was appropriate to say about the player number 12 that she is “ratchet and ghetto but that’s okay for me to say because I married a black man so I’m not racist.” To the people on this review page attacking those who had terrible experiences at ATU, that’s not fair and one day you realize the situations you are going through aren’t normal or healthy. You are still loved by those who left just know people have different experiences when they aren’t a favorite of Kera’s.

in the middle of our game were ask what punishment we wanted if we lose. we lost and we told we wouldn't get dinner. practices are unorganized. we have to let her see ALL of our social media. we fear retaliation if we say something. ENOUGH SAID!! Do better Coach!!

Horrible experience. Terrible environment. Bad for my mental health.