In her seventh full season as the Titans' head volleyball coach, Carolyn Zimmerman continues to make strides in building a viable contender in the historically tough Big West Conference.

As the Titan head coach, Zimmerman has steered the Titans from just five total wins in 2002 to the most prosperous four years in the program's history with at least 14 victories each year since 2004. She has directed the Titans to 60 wins over the past four seasons, guided the 2007 team to a school record seven conference wins, and coached the `06 Titans to become just the second Fullerton team to record 17 wins in a season. The 2006 Titans also gave the school its first winning season in nine years.

In six seasons, Zimmerman has produced 14 All-Big West Conference selections and four of Fullerton's eight Big West Players of the Week. Brittany Moore (2007) became Zimmerman's third first-team All-Big West player and the first Titan player to earn the honor more than once. Alex Wolnisty (honorable mention) and Erin Saddler (all-freshman) also received all-league recognition in 2007.

In 2006, Zimmerman's Titans produced yet another school record - four all-conference players - in Moore, honorable mentions Vanessa Vella and Amanda Pfielschiefter and all-freshman Deven Bukoski. Vella was her initial first-team selection in 2005, joining Kim Levey (2002), Tiffany Dolven (2004), and Lauren Goins (three-time winner from 2002-04) as honorable mentions, and Moore (all-league freshman, 2005) with post-season honors under Zimmerman's tutelage.

Goins, a four-year Titan hitter, went on to play professionally in Germany in 2005.

In six seasons, Coach Zimmerman's teams have posted seven pre-season tournament championships, (two in 2004, one in 2005, a school-record three in 2006 and one in 2007) and four second-place finishes (two in 2003, one in 2005 and one in 2007) en route to a 42-24 non-conference record since 2003.

Zimmerman was no stranger to the Titan program prior to inheriting the team, having served as the top assistant to former Head Coach Mary Ellen Murchison for seven seasons (1995-2001). When Murchison retired prior to the 2002 season, Zimmerman was named interim head coach for that season and was then hired on a permanent basis in 2003.

Prior to joining the staff at Fullerton, Zimmerman was an assistant at Cal State Northridge in 1994, when the Matadors posted a 23-8 record and captured the NIVC title in post-season play. In 1995, she guided her South Bay 17-U volleyball club team to a fourth-place finish at the prestigious Nike Volleyball Festival. She was also a varsity assistant and junior varsity head coach at perennial prep powerhouse Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach.

Zimmerman is a 1992 graduate of Pepperdine, where she was the setter/right-side hitter for four West Coast Conference championship squads. A four-year letter-winner and the Waves' captain for a season, Zimmerman earned first-team All-WCC honors three times and was named the conference's Player of the Year and a Volleyball Monthly honorable mention All-American in 1991. She was also a member of the gold-medal winning south team at the Olympic Festival in Los Angeles in 1990.

Zimmerman wrapped up her Pepperdine career as the Waves' all-time leader in digs with 1,371 and stood third in block assists, fourth in total blocks and service aces, and eighth in kills and total attacks. She also set a Pepperdine single-season record with 383 digs in 1990. Zimmerman is a 1988 graduate of West Torrance High School, where she was a three-sport star. In addition to earning Bay League volleyball MVP honors as a senior, she was an All-American in soccer and CIF champion, and state qualifier in track and field. She was named West Torrance's Athlete of the Year in 1987 and 1988.

Zimmerman resides in Redondo Beach with her husband, Joe, sons Jimmy, Danny and Robert, and daughter Kira.