Gilad Doron - Women's Volleyball Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Gilad Doron

Title:
Head Coach
Alma Mater:
Temple ’00
Email:
gilad.doron@dartmouth.edu
Phone (603):
646-8211
At Dartmouth:
7th Year (2016-)

December 2022

Gilad Doron is entering his seventh year at the helm of the volleyball team in 2022 after being named head coach in April of 2016. He is the third head coach in program history.

2022

Dartmouth achieved its highest Ivy League win total under Doron with an 8-6 record to finish fourth in the conference and appear in the Ivy League Tournament.
Ellie Blain and Bomi Ogunlari were named Second Team All-Ivy and Amelia Gibbs received an All-Ivy honorable mention. Grace Wiczek landed Academic All-Ivy recognition.
Ranked 25th in the nation in aces per set with 1.80.
Ogunlari broke the program record for blocks in a season with 97.0 total blocks and tied for most blocks per set in a season with 1.18.
Won the Dartmouth Invitational, going 4-0 through the weekend with wins over Siena, Lehigh, Merrimack and Hartford.
Defeated Penn on the road for the first time since 1999.

2021

Started 6-0 in non-conference play and claimed a pair of tournament titles, including the Dartmouth Invitational, which the Big Green won for the first time since 2015.
In Ivy League play, Dartmouth embarked on a five-match winning streak, capped off by a thrilling five-set victory over Yale, whom the Big Green hadn't defeated in six years.
Ellie Blain and Emma Engstrom were named Second Team All-Ivy, while Emma Moffet was tabbed Academic All-Ivy.
Junior setter Makenzie Arent became the eighth player in program history to record 1,000 or more career assists.
Dartmouth also posted record-high academic success en route to another USMC/AVCA Team Award.

2020

???There was no season due to COVID-19. Emma Moffet was named Academic All-Ivy.

2019

The team started the year on a high note, winning the UNC Asheville Invitational after defeating the host, along with North Carolina A&T State.
Dartmouth defeated Harvard twice in one season for the first time, downing the Crimson by a score of 3-0 for the first time since 2009.
The Big Green ended 2019 with a bang, defeating Columbia and Cornell to wrap up the season on a three-match winning streak after beating Merrimack at home a few days before.
Carly Tower was named Academic All-Ivy at the conclusion of the season.

YEAR	OVERALL	IVY (FINISH)
2016	9-16	2-12 (8th)
2017	10-13	6-8 (6th)
2018	10-15	5-9 (5th)
2019	10-15	4-8 (5th)
2020	--	--
2021	15-8	7-7 (4th)
2022	16-9	8-6 (4th)
Total	70-76	32-40

2018:

The season was highlighted by the Big Green's first win over Harvard since 2015 and conference victories over Penn, Brown twice and Columbia.
Doron won his 200th career match on Sept. 15 following a 3-0 victory over St. Francis.
Dartmouth blanked seven opponents (Siena, Lafayette, Seton Hall, St. Francis, Penn, Columbia and Bryant).
Zoe Leonard was named both second team All-Ivy and Academic All-Ivy.

2017:

Dartmouth took down Penn (for the first time since 2006) and Princeton (for the first time since 2015).
At the conclusion of 2017, Sara Lindquist was named both CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-Ivy, while Tori Dozier was selected to the All-Ivy Honorable Mention team.

2016

During his first season as head coach of the Big Green, Dartmouth finished in eighth place with an overall record of 9-16 and 2-12 in Ivy League play.
At the conclusion of the season, Emily Astarita was named All-Ivy League Honorable Mention, First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-Ivy. She became just the sixth player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills.

Doron came to Hanover from the University of San Francisco, where he spent nine years as the Dons’ head coach and three as the co-head coach of the beach volleyball team. Compiling the winningest record in USF history, he boasted an overall record of 131-130 and a program-best 60 victories against West Coast Conference foes during his stint in the Golden Gate City. In 2008, he led the team to its best ever WCC finish (2nd) and an NCAA Tournament appearance. The Dons were also No. 22 in the country, their best national ranking.

Prior to his appointment at USF in March of 2007, Doron served as head coach at Villanova for three seasons (2004-06) and as an assistant coach at Temple (1996-99), where he helped lead the lead to three consecutive Atlantic 10 championship titles and NCAA appearances (1997-99). He also founded the Philadelphia Volleyball Academy, a nationally ranked club comprised of five teams of players between the ages of 14-18.

Doron began his coaching career in his native Israel as the head men’s volleyball coach for the Mate Asher Professional Club, where he mentored national team players from Israel, the Czech Republic, Romania and Croatia. He led his teams to the 1994 Israeli Championship and the finals of the 1995 Israel Cup.

An accomplished player himself, Doron competed for the Israeli national team for 10 years and was part of the squad that placed fourth in the World University Games in Japan in 1995. He played 12 seasons with aforementioned Mate Asher, helping lead the club to four Israeli League titles and a pair of Israeli Cup championships.

Doron graduated from Temple in 2000 with a degree in business administration.