RICH PARRIS

Rich has been coaching for 22 years and has been coaching at Prime for 7. He began coaching at Highline VBC in Long Beach and coached 18s, 16s and 14s where he won several medals. Rich went on to assist the Santa Margarita Catholic High School girls program and reached the CIF finals and state semis in his first season. Rich then became the head coach at Rosary Girls Catholic High School and improved the program every season for 5 years and made 2 CIF appearances while taking wins over many SoCal powers.


From 2010-2017, Rich coached at Saddleback Volleyball club and led the 17s and 18s teams to qualify multiple times for Junior Nationals in the Open and USA divisions. In addition, Rich coached boys volleyball at OCVC for 10 years. In 2016, Rich led his 17-1s team to a bronze medal at the SoCal Qualifier and finished 5th place (up from 26th) at the Junior National Championships in Indianapolis. In addition, he won a gold medal with his boys OCVC 18-1s team at Junior Nationals in Dallas. That same year, Rich was selected as a finalist for the Prep Volleyball Coach of the Year. In 2017, Rich and his SVVC 18-2s won a silver medal at the SoCal qualifier and was able to place 12 of 12 seniors in college programs. Most recently, in 2022, Rich and his boys team won gold at the Windy City qualifier while his girls team earned silver.

"After a tiger slew my parents, I was found and raised by a local wolf pack. Growing up within the pack I learned a lot about teamwork and a family environment. As I got older the wolves knew that I needed to return the world of man, so along with my two best friends: a bear and a panther, I began the long journey back to the human world. Vowing to teach young people that being a pack, a team, makes the individual (wolf) better than they would be otherwise. All the while remembering: the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

Rich attended Marina High School and was an All CIF volleyball and basketball player. Rich went on to play for Long Beach City College where his team won 2 state championships. Rich went on to compete for California Baptist University where they won a National Championship in 2007 and were ranked the #1 team in the country. After playing in college, Rich went on to play in the AVP for 3 seasons.

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