David Brooks enters his third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Delaware State University in 2025-26. He was officially hired to lead the program in July 2023.
In 2024, the Hornets won the MEAC Championship on their home court. They took down Howard in five sets, a team that went 16-0 in conference play prior to the match vs. DSU (14-0 in the regular season, 2-0 in the playoffs). Delaware State earned an automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament, where they fell to top-seeded Penn State.
During the 2024 campaign, the Hornets placed three players on the All-MEAC list: Gerren Tomlin (First Team), Hannah Sanders (Second Team), and Paige Ahakuelo (All-Rookie).
A two-time Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Coach-of-the-Year, Brooks joined the Hornets after a highly successful two-year stint as the head volleyball coach at Division II Elizabeth City (N.C.) State University, where he led the Vikings to their first CIAA championship and NCAA Tournament appearance since 2008. ECSU was 26-9 overall and posted a 16-1 regular season record in route to the championship run. The Vikings suffered a competitive loss to No. 1 seed Gannon University in the 2022 NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Tournament.
The 2022 Vikings also posted a school-record-tying 12-match win streak, along with featuring the CIAA Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, four All-CIAA First Team honorees, two Second Team selections, two All-Rookie players, and three members of the CIAA All-Tournament Team.
In his first season at Elizabeth City State, Brooks led the Vikings to a 27-6 overall mark and school-record .818 winning percentage during the 2021 campaign, giving him a two-year record of 53-15 (.779) at the school. The team was 9-17 prior to his first season and 25-119 in the six years before his arrival.
In addition to the conference championship and Coach of the Year awards in 2021 and '22, Brooks' tenure at Elizabeth City State included six All-CIAA First Team members, four Second Team honorees, four All-Rookie team selections, and four All-Tournament selections. A total of 29 Elizabeth City players garnered CIAA weekly awards, and the Vikings earned American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic honors for the first time in team history in his two seasons at the school.
Prior to his tenure at Elizabeth City State, Brooks served two seasons as an assistant volleyball coach at Catawba College in North Carolina. During his tenure at Catawba, he was appointed as interim volleyball head coach from Jan.-March 2019.
Brooks also has six years of coaching experience at the club level as the head coach of the Carolina Juniors Elite team for the past five years. In 2018, he took the Carolina Junior Elite team to the USA Volleyball Nationals, finishing 21st in the nation. He was also a national coach with the Lake Norman Volleyball Club from 2014-15.
He received USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program certifications in 2016 and 2017.
Brooks graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 2006 and earned his MBA from East Carolina University.
