Tricia Carver completed her 11th season at the helm of the Mariners women's volleyball team in 2023, when she retired from coaching at the Maine Maritime Academy to focus full-time on her duties as the associate athletics director for compliance and the athletic department's Senior Woman Administrator.

She also has added recruiting coordinator duties for the Mariners women's volleyball program.

Carver is a proud member of Women Leaders in College Sports and was selected to attend their 2015 Women's Leadership Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland as well as their Institute for Administrative Advancement in 2021. Under her direction, Maine Maritime Athletics launched the inCommand Leadership initiative in the fall of 2015, a program that includes a One Team, One Voice Women's Retreat for all Maine Maritime female student-athletes, as well as team-bonding and leadership programming for all athletes, first-year through graduation.

During her illustrious career at MMA, she finishes with an overall school and career record of 201-88 overall record for .696 winning percentage, including an eye-popping 67-3 mark (.957) in North Atlantic Conference play. Carver's teams finished above .500 for the last 10 years, including seven consecutive 20-win campaigns.

In her final season, MMA went 21-6 overall, 10-0 in conference matches, captured the 2023 NAC East Division regular-season title, landed seven all-conference performers, produced a trio of College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honorees and mentored four academic all-conference standouts.

In 2021, Carver's Mariners posted a 21-4 overall record and an unblemished 8-0 record in conference play. Carver led Maine Maritime to their sixth consecutive NAC Championship and sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. 

Carver is currently CAP II certified and participated in a trip to Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Facility for USAV's 2016 High Performance Coaches' Clinic. Carver started volleyball summer camps in the summer of 2016. She is working in several communities to run camps and clinics to improve skills. She enjoys to foster a love of the game and an appreciation for the learning process as well as empower young women mentally and physically.

During the 2020-21 academic year, Carver provided key leadership in the development of MMA's newly forming Black Student-Athlete Alliance. She is also currently serving on the Core Leadership Team as MMA moves through NASPA's Culture of Respect Collaborative -- an ambitious two-year program that brings together institutions of higher education who are dedicated to ending campus sexual violence and guides them through a rigorous process of self-assessment and targeted organizational change.

Before coming to Maine Maritime Academy, Carver coached basketball and softball at the high school and middle school level. Carver also taught Spanish for three years and was a Children and Youth Ministry Coordinator from 2008 to 2013.

Carver played volleyball at the University of Maine, where she majored in secondary education and Spanish. She received her master's degree at the Bangor Theological Seminary.

Coach Carver at a Glance

• 2016, 2017, 2022 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Coach of the Year
• 2016 ECAC Division III New England Coach of the Year
• 2015 North Atlantic Conference Co-Coach of the Year
• All-time winningest women's volleyball coach at MMA
• Six NAC Championships; 2023 East Division title
• Six NCAA Tournament Appearances
• Clinched her 100th career win in 2018
• Coached 31 All-NAC selections, including seven Players of the Year and three Defensive Players of the Year
• Developed seven NAC Rookies of the Year
• Produced four NAC Senior Scholar Athletes of the Year

Coach Carver Year-by-Year: