Garden City Community College Volleyball Camps

Head Coach Nikola Petrovic

Second year Head Coach Nikola Petrovic comes to Garden City Community College from University of Alabama-Birmingham where he served as co-interim head coach in the 2005 season.

Prior to working at UAB, he was an assistant coach at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., from 2001-04. While at Northwood, he handled recruiting duties, prepared weight-training and conditioning
programs and acted as camp director.

Petrovic began his coaching career in 1993 with the prestigious Red Star volleyball club team in Serbia and Montenegro. Petrovic remained with the Red Star club team through the 2000 season. During that time, he was also the director of the Banjica Volleyball Club.

Petrovic also served as head coach of AAU volleyball clubs in the Bay City, Mich., area from 2001-02 following a stint in Chicago on the coaching staff of the Dragons Volleyball Club from 2000-01.

Petrovic was born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and completed his undergraduate degree in physical education at the University of Belgrade in 1997.