Chris Campbell enters his second season on the Auburn volleyball staff after joining the program in February 2008. Following the 2008 season, where he served as assistant coach, Campbell was promoted to Associate Head Coach. Campbell assumes the role as Benson's top assistant and holds the position of recruiting coordinator. In addition to directing Auburn's recruiting, Campbell also focuses on the middle blockers. In their first full recruiting class, Campbell and Benson pulled in the nation's No. 26 recruiting class, according to PrepVolleyball.com. The nine-member class also ranked third in the Southeastern Conference. A native of Harvey Station, New Brunswick, Canada, Campbell brings ten seasons of coaching experience to the staff, eight as a head coach and two as an assistant coach. Most recently, Campbell was at Northern Arizona from 2004-07. "Chris is someone that has international experience, playing experience and head coaching experience from Northern Arizona and Louisiana-Lafayette," said Benson. "With his experience in the southeast, I feel that he will be a great recruiter while also serving as an excellent helper with on-court duties." Benson and Campbell actually competed against each other in the Big Sky Conference while Benson was head coach at Eastern Washington. The experience coaching at the mid-major level is something that Benson believes will help in Auburn's re-building process. "Coming from a mid-major, you learn that you have to manufacture success without a lot of resources," said Benson. "Being at Auburn, with more resources, it gives us two strong, experienced leaders to balance out Auburn's great push toward success." While at NAU, Campbell had 20 student-athletes earn 36 NAU Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete awards and 11 student-athletes earn 20 academic All-Big Sky Conference honors. The 2007 season saw Campbell's Lumberjacks finish sixth in the conference, earning their first Big Sky Tournament berth since the 2004 season. During the 2007 season, Campbell had the opportunity to mentor Kim Babcock, who led the nation in kills per game. Campbell spent the 2003 season as an assistant at Northern Arizona before taking over the head coach position. Before his arrival in Flagstaff, Ariz., Campbell spent one season as the head coach at Division II Mississippi University for Women and three seasons at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. In three seasons Louisiana-Lafayette, Campbell directed the program to two second-place finishes in the Sun Belt Conference West Division. During the 2001 season, he led the Cajuns to a No. 9 ranking in the NCAA South Region. Campbell holds two bachelor's degrees, the first in physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1995, followed by a bachelor's in secondary education from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1997. |
  
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