Cory Cahill enters his sixth season at the helm of the Bulldog volleyball program. In his time in McPherson, he has guided MC to a 90-54 overall record and a 51-21 mark in KCAC play. 

Plagued with injuries in 2023, the Bulldogs were still able to finish in fourth place in the KCAC standings.

Cahill has led the Bulldogs to back-to-back national tournaments in 2020 and 2021 and competed for the regular season and conference tournaments championships in 2021, narrowly falling to the eventual champion in both contests. 

In his first season with the Bulldogs, Cahill led the team to a 17-12 record, but the team turned it on late, winning four of their last five matches en route to the KCAC Tournament semifinals.

Coach Cahill’s teams have also achieved excellence in the classroom, boasting the longest AVCA Academic Award Streak in McPherson College volleyball history, as well as his 2019 and 2021 squads achieving the only two AVCA Honor Roll Awards in program history.

Coach Cahill, a native of O’Fallon, Missouri, played volleyball collegiately at Hannibal-LaGrange University, where he graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. Upon graduation, he moved to southern California, where he planned to get into law enforcement. While working to get into the police academy, Cahill began coaching a local high school team and a club program.

He was bit by the coaching bug and, after two years in California, decided to give coaching a try on a full-time basis. He was hired by Lourdes University in Toledo, Ohio, in 2015 as an assistant for both the men's and women's programs. He spent five seasons with the Gray Wolves’ men’s program and four with the women’s program. During his tenure at Lourdes, the two programs had a combined record of 218-69, and the programs were 89-12 in conference play.

While an assistant at Lourdes, he was named WHAC Assistant Coach of the Year and Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He was recognized by AVCA as the National Assistant Coach of the Year on the men’s side.

Coach Cahill and his wife Erika have two children, Jaxon, Aurora, and Jace. They currently reside in Lindsborg, Kan.
 

Year	Overall	KCAC	Postseason
2019	17-12	7-5	KCAC Semifinalist
2020	23-10	19-4	KCAC Tournament / NAIA Tournament Appearance
2021	16-9	10-2	KCAC Tournament Runner Up / NAIA Tournament Appearance
2022	15-15	6-6	KCAC Tournament
2023	19-8	9-4	KCAC Quarterfinalist
Totals (5 years)	90-54	51-21