Tammi Fries enters her fifth season as a volunteer assistant coach on the Campbell volleyball staff. A 2004 graduate of Campbell University and former volleyball student-athlete, Fries returned to her alma mater in 2015 and began assisting with the volleyball program while also working with Institutional Advancement for the university.
Prior to her return to Campbell, Fries spent three years as the associate head volleyball coach for Queens University of Charlotte. In 2013, Fries helped lead the Royals to a 17-11 record in their first season in the South Atlantic Conference. The program made history with its first NCAA Tournament appearance, earning an at-large bid. In her first season with Queens, Fries helped guide the Royals to a 22-12 overall record and a 2012 Conference Carolinas regular season championship, another first in school history.
Fries’ primary responsibilities at Queens included training all hitters, coordinating team defense, scouting and recruiting. During the spring of 2013, Fries received national recognition when she was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s “Thirty Under 30” award, which recognizes up-and-coming coaching talent at all levels of the sport.
Before her three-year stint at Queens, Fries was as an assistant coach for Southern Illinois University during the 2011 season. Prior to SIU, Fries spent five years at East Tennessee State University where she served as an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator, working mainly with the middles and right side hitters. In 2006, the Buccaneers won an Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship. In 2010, her final season at ETSU, Fries was a part of the team’s 26-9 season, the most wins in the modern era at the time, and their first trip to an A-Sun Conference Tournament Championship match. The 2010 recruiting class was named honorable mention by PrepVolleyball.com.
Fries completed her master's degree in sport management at the University of Florida in 2006 and served as an operations intern for the Florida Gators volleyball program during spring of 2006.
A native of Winnabow, N.C., Fries graduated Magna Cum Laude from Campbell University in 2004 with her bachelor's degree in athletic training, where she was a four-year letter winner for the Fighting Camels volleyball team. She was voted Campbell's Most Valuable player in 2002 and served as a team captain in 2003. Fries earned academic all-conference honors all four years.
Tammi and her husband, Jared, reside in Coats with their daughters, Layla and Abigail.
