Kera Coleman (Dukic) Reviews

ATU Volleyball continues to decline under the direction of Kera Dukic Coleman. No graduate assistance and NOW we have NO Assistant Coach. The assistant coach left to be an Assistant Coach for another NCAA Division 2 program. She needed to get away from the crazy culture at ATU Volleyball that Kera has developed. Not sure who will become the next Assistant Coach for ATU Volleyball if Kera is in charge of hiring that person. PLEASE ATU Athletics, take the initiative to be involved in the hiring process and bring a professional into the program. Please don't let Kera hire someone that she can manipulate and bully into going along with her "culture" which is toxic. Please use this opportunity to give the ATU Volleyball program a chance to improve with someone who is qualified and professional. Thank you

11 wins in 2 years is embarrassing. ATU it's time for a coaching change. We deserve better.

Kera, the best thing you did was tell me face-to-face that you gave up on me as a player because I am thriving here. No "petty drama," just hard work in the gym. Mentally and physically pushed, yet not torn down - that's the difference between my new environment and ATU's program. A year ago today, I gave up on myself, even contemplated not wanting to be alive. Grateful to be here, loving the sport again. Decided to finally respond because it's ignorant and disrespectful to tear down EVERYONE. Thank you Kera for giving up on me, telling me i'm not good enough to play for some shitty team that is in one of the worst conferences in D2 volleyball, talking to other players in meetings and appointments about me saying i'm not good enough to be on the court. Look at me and so many others with a similar story.

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.

LOL I would hope she is coaching… I mean they do have a game scheduled and that is here job. Lets also be reminded this is the last game of the season because they didn’t make it into the tournament.

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

players on the team are already talking about entering the portal. this season has been a lot of empty promises from coach kera. It’s so bad that players are already creating highlight reels to have on hand as soon as the season is over. Even though it is miserable for us to continue to lose games we have looked on the brighter side as a chance to be able to enter the portal earlier, so we have more time to get picked up somewhere else.

Kera has completely just given up on this team. she pulls the wrong players. maybe if the pins set up the block correctly your backdown players would be able to read the ball better. but no she pulls middles. this is just one of many examples as to why this coach lacks any volleyball IQ. the pins don’t set up the block correctly at all. and god forbid one of the ds/liberos has to do their job and fill a seam or actually dig a ball.

My daughter played for this awful program and was abused by Kera in 2021. She is one of the players Kera surely still negatively talks about. But that girl is thriving!!! It gives me GREAT satisfaction to see her get roasted for the crap job she does. She was a terrible female role model and dangerously manipulative. The troubling issue is that the AD doesn't have a backbone to do anything about it!! ATU has been aware of the abuse by Kera, yet the turn the other way because she is cheap! You know dollar-store kind of coach. GAC 2021 Championship was due to the recruting efforts of Coach Nook and a few good players who came from great programs! I wonder if ATU sees it now? Probably not....maybe the whole institution is dollar store quality. Advice to future recruites.... take all the scholarship money you can! They do full rides all the time!! You just have to push back, look at her options. ATU has the funds to pay for your education, housing and meals but dont expect to have a positive or WINNING (LOL) experience. HA!

Lets goo!!!! Officially 1-10, exciting stuff! Make sure to pack the stand on Thursday to watch ATU get completely slaughtered by HSU.

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.

1-9 for this season so far... Ouch. Now that I no longer play for kera I enjoy sitting back, eating my bag of popcorn, and enjoy watching her scramble. She made me feel so small as a person, a player, and a teammate. Nothing is ever enough for her. She still stalks past players too on social media, yet acts like she’s so much better than you and is above all. She’s manipulative, controlling, and a liar. She still try’s to control players by emailing future or current coaches because she can’t handle that the reason why people leave this program is because of HER! I’ll tell you ATU is a great school, has great teachers, and a great Colosseum to play in. One thing the school is missing is a great volleyball coach. Will this be another year where she sits the team down and tells them she’s gonna get fired because they aren’t winning and it’s the teams fault? Or will kera take responsibility for once and realize she’s the problem? I’m gonna assume she’s gonna blame it on the team because that’s the type of coach she is:) anyways can’t wait to tune in for this weeks matches! Best of luck to the girls truly but I will never wish Kera any luck.

She plays her favorites end of story. And then when her favorites aren’t doing good she will throw you in third set and expects you to be huge game changer. Cycle repeats. If you aren’t her favorite don’t expect to to gain any time on the court. She will continuously play her favorites even if they don’t perform. You may be on the court one season then riding the bench next. Even when she tells you in meetings you will be playing next season and gives you more money. Don’t fall for it.

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.

I am a pretty strong headed player that can put up with a lot but one thing that stuck with me that Coach Kera did that was completely uncalled for was keeping players in the bus after a game. We had lost to Harding and went to subway after. She preceded to make everyone get off the bus except for three players. She even made the assistant get off. She asked these girls who she should keep on the team and who she should kick off. She also asked who she could trust or not. How inappropriate right? The players she said she was kicking off or couldn’t trust are all players that thankfully are not with her cultish program anymore but one player is still on that team currently. She said one player was a mean girl, a bully, how she was uncoachable, and she was kicking her off. Thankfully the one girl talked coach into not doing that. The rest of the players, the assistant coach, and the trainer all waited in subway for over 45 minutes. The subway workers were upset because they were closed and we had to stay in there because she wouldn’t let anyone listen to her convo on the bus. Don’t believe this review? There was a recording of the whole convo. Thankfully one of the girls recorded the whole conversation and a handful of us players heard everything. I wanted to keep this to myself but after seeing review after review and seeing poor players that are still with her program even after she dogged them to other teammates I had to speak up. It’s such a sad situation. Kera is gonna tell you none of this happened. Ur reach out. A lot of us players that are not with the program have a lot of things documented such as voice recordings and videos. A group of us are currently gathering all info to send to the GAC committee since, Abby Davis does not want to hold this individual accountable for their poor actions.

Reviews are more than true. Recruits please look up rosters over the years a contact any player that is not within that program anymore. They can vouch most of the things said on here are true. One just posted about some of her experience and talked about how depressed she was from Kera. Reach out!

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?

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.

“Work hard in silence and let success make the noise” Is the newest tweet from Arkansas tech volleyball. This coach continues to put up this facade that she is the bigger person. When in reality she brings up the negative constantly to us girls to make it seem like everyone is out to get ATUVB. No one is out to get your team. people are finally tired of you bullying and manipulating young woman and leading parents to believe their daughters are going into good hands. It is honestly just a waiting game at this point. Waiting for you all to go into next season and lose every single game.

Kera needs an update on how to coach. She likes to belittle you in games and practices. I remember a game against harding she pulled a player out and screamed at her for jumping with the setter and we had lost the point. Kera then called a time out and yelled/cussed her out in front of the whole team. That player then went back in the game crying. It’s okay to be corrected as player however to cuss them out and tell them how stupid they were is not appropriate or acceptable in any way. Not only that but she would also threaten to kick players out of practice or games multiple times as if that’s going to motivate us. I believe kera needs to go to a coaching camp and take some notes on how to keep players instead of being a bully and running girls off. It’s a sad, miserable, toxic environment all because of the head coach who needs help herself. Don’t listen to her media post of how wonderful and grateful she is because its all just a sham, just like how it would be if you came on a visit and she promises you all this money and playing time. It’s just another way to manipulate people for playing there.

I am a player that was at the prospect account that was held this past Saturday and I would like to share my experience with the Arkansas Tech Volleyball program. Coming into the camp I had very high hopes and expectations. Walking in the Tucker Collisium gym catches your eye very well. It is so big and bright that it really does make it a pro about this University. Everything else felt off though. It was very disorganized. The girls that were running the camp seemed very groupie and cliquish not only with the girls trying out but it seemed like there was an inner circle just within the team. Not all of the girls were like that there were a few that were very nice and helpful throughout the camp session. But it seemed like the ones within the group were very distant and not very willing to engage with us or even their own teammates unless they were within their group. During the camp, I felt very disoriented. It looked like the coach did not prepare very well for the session and the girls running it had little to know idea what was going on. I felt very out of place and felt like there were other prospect tryouts I would rather put my time and money towards before this one. After sitting down with my family and finding this review page I wish I could have found it sooner. After reading the last review about the tryout I felt that a lot of it was true. I would not have attended if I had known what it was going to be like.

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.

After exit meetings this season Coach Kera had a meeting with all of the current team members about spring. In this meeting she talked about the girls that entered the transfer portal or that she “released”. She lied to the girls that she kicked one girl off but in reality the player left on her own terms. The others she said she had to let go of. She said it wasn’t an easy decision. She then goes to say she has never kicked girls off at all throughout her whole coaching career. After, she makes a reference, “The future is so bright for us golden suns”. My response to that is, you’re absolutely right kera. Your 8-22 record really reflects that right? Like they always say “ it’s only up from here when you’re literally at absolute rock bottom.” You’re ridiculous and pathetic. I just laugh at you and how to approach coaching. You are the absolute WORST coach I have ever seen. And your 24% approval rate on here reflects it pretty accurately. Time is ticking coach, it is only a matter of a few more seasons of 8-22 records until you are kicked to the curb. And the day that comes will be the absolute best day of my life. :)