Danielle Lopez

Danielle Lopez is the Head Volleyball Coach at Des Moines Area Community College.

Danielle Lopez has completed her third year as the Head Coach of the Des Moines Area Community College Volleyball Program. During her third season, she led the Bears to a 29-12 record, a conference championship, a Region XI final, a 9th place finish at the NJCAA DII National Championships and a National Ranking in the NJCAA Division II Top 20 for 7 weeks. Additionally Lopez earned ICCAC Coach of the Year honors. She helped produce one All-American, two NJCAA Athletes of the Week, five ICCAC Athletes of the Week, one NJCAA National Championship All-Tournament Team player, two All-Tournament Team Region XI players, three First Team All-Region players, one Second Team All-Region player and one Third Team All-Region player.

During her second season, she led the team to a 22-15 record, a Region XI-B final as well as a National Ranking in the NJCAA Division II Top 20 for five weeks. She helped produce four ICCAC Athletes of the Week, three All-Tournament Team Region XI-B players, one First Team All-Conference player, two Second Team All-Conference players, and one Third Team All-Conference player.

During her first season, she led the team to a 19-15 record, a Region XI-A final as well as a National ranking in the NJCAA Division II Top 20 for seven weeks. She helped produce three ICCAC Athletes of the Week, two All-Tournament Team Region XI-A players, two First Team All-Conference players, one Second Team All-Conference player, and two Honorable Mention All-Conference players.

Before taking the Head Coach position, Danielle was the assistant coach for the DMACC women’s volleyball program for two years. During the 2020-21 season she helped lead The DMACC Bears to a 17-5 record, including 15 three-match sweeps, a Region XI-B final as well as a National ranking in the NJCAA Division II Top 20 for eight consecutive weeks, including a No. 3 ranking late in the season. Lopez helped produce one First Team All-Conference player, one Second Team All-Conference player, two Honorable Mention All-Conference players, and two All-Tournament Region XI-B players.

During her first season at DMACC as an Assistant Coach, she helped lead The Bears to an 18-18 record and helped produce one All-American, one First Team All-Conference player, one Second Team All-Conference player, one Honorable Mention All-Conference player, two ICCAC Athletes of the Week, and one All-Tournament Region XI-A player.

During her time at DMACC, Lopez has helped transfer numerous athletes out of DMACC to play on at four year institutions/universities at all levels- D1, D2, D3 and NAIA.

Before coming to DMACC, Danielle worked with the NCAA D1 University of Northern Colorado volleyball program where she gained experience in all of the day-to-day aspects of the program. She had been a club volleyball coach in the Colorado scene for over 9 years as well as a coach at a 5A high school for 2 years. Danielle has also worked as a satellite coach for summer volleyball camps at NCAA D1 colleges throughout the nation.

Danielle graduated from The University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Science in Sports and Exercise Science with an emphasis in Sports Coaching. She is a native of Longmont, Colorado and a former player at 4A Longmont High School. While at LHS, Danielle helped her team win District and Regional championship titles her junior and senior year, as well as appearances at the State Tournament both years.