Colorado Mesa University Athletics

Dave Fleming took over the helm of the women's volleyball program in 2005. He is just the fourth head coach in the program’s history and is entering his 20th year as the Mavs' head coach, equal to the longest tenure in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Fleming also leads all active RMAC coaches with 367 career wins (367-178, .673) and became just the fifth of now six coaches in RMAC history to reach 300 career wins while coaching in the league.  He has also won 246 RMAC matches and has an impressive .729 winning percentage within the conference.

He has been named as the RMAC Coach of the Year four times, most recently in the spring of 2021, when the Mavs went 15-1 and won the RMAC's Regular Season title with a perfect 12-0 record while finishing third in the final edition of the AVCA Division II Coaches’ Poll after reaching as high as No. 2, both of which were program bests.
 
The success continued in the fall of 2021 as the Mavericks went 21-7 overall while qualifying for the NCAA Division II Tournament before finishing 22-7 and reaching the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament.  The Mavs then enjoyed their best season in nearly a decade in 2023, going 24-5 while reaching the NCAA Tournament for the tenth time under Fleming.
 
The success is nothing new for Fleming, who in his 19 seasons, has also led the Mavericks to three Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament titles (2014, 2018, 2021-Spring), a 2014 RMAC Regular Season and Tournament titles and three RMAC West Division crowns (2005, 2009, 2010).

The Mavericks have had winning campaigns in all but one of his seasons and his teams have reached the 20-win mark eight times, including in each of the last three.

in 2018, the Mavs when they went 24-7 while winning the RMAC Tournament title and advancing to the semifinals of the NCAA South Central Regional.  Fleming was also named as the RMAC Co-Coach of the Year that year after earlier earning that honor outright in 2009 and 2014.

The 2014 team went 29-4, won the RMAC Regular Season and Tournament titles and hosted the South Central Regional portion of the NCAA Division II Tournament while advancing to the regional final.

Fleming came to CMU after serving as an assistant coach at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins for four years.  In that time, the Bruins compiled a record of 86-43, three trips to the Elite 8 and four NCAA Tournament berths. He coached under the legendary, Andy Banachowski, who ended his career with 1,106 wins, more than any other coach in the history of Division I collegiate women's volleyball at the time.

Prior to arriving at UCLA, Fleming was a member of the coaching staff for the Women's National Team, which played in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 1995 the team competed in the World Grand Prix and won the gold medal, the first gold won by the USA women's team in a major international competition. 

A graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Fleming served as an assistant coach (1990-1992) for the women's volleyball team as a under graduate student. Upon graduation he was a volunteer assistant at the University of Michigan from 1992-1994 while completing his master's degree.

Upon his arrival in California to work with USA Volleyball he also was a coach with the San Diego Volleyball Club for eight years (1994-2001). Fleming earned Coach of the Year honors and a conference title at Valhalla High School where he served as head coach in 1997 and 1998. From 2001-2003 he was a coach with the Sports Shack Volleyball Club, while an assistant with UCLA. 

Fleming holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology and a minor in physical education from Denison University (1992). He was a starter for the men's tennis team and an outside hitter for the club volleyball team. He received his master's degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan (1994). During his time at Michigan he was a member of the men's volleyball club team. 

In his free time,  he enjoys hiking, skiing and all the outdoor activities that Western Colorado provides.  His daughter Sarah is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she played tennis for the Tigers, earning College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades.  She is pursuing a career in the film industry and is working on her first screen play.