Eli Masud is in his second season as an assistant coach with the Lewis University men's volleyball program.
Masud brings over 10 years of volleyball experience both as a player and a coach. Masud is the head coach of Tiger's VBC, where he directs the 17s and 18s boys programs. While at Tigers he also helped develop the Tigers summer beach and indoor volleyball camps. Prior to Tigers, Masud was head a coach at Sports Performance in Chicago, Ill.
While graduating from Purdue University with a B.S. in management and a minor in marketing, Masud served as a volunteer student assistant for the Boilermakers' women's volleyball program for 3 years. In this position he assisted in the coordination of drills and participated during practice. In 2004 he helped the team make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 14 years and earning their first national ranking since 1990. In 2005, the team advanced into the "Sweet 16" while spending 13 weeks among the nation's top 25 teams and finishing the season with a 25-9 mark.
While at Purdue, he was also coach and captain of the men's club volleyball team for two years. He handled all of the administrative duties, including travel, tournament registration and recruitment. During the 2004 season he helped lead the team to a D1-AA fifth place finish. During this season the club held a top 10 national ranking for the first time in its history. In 2005 the Boilermakers went undefeated while going on to become the Big Ten Regular Season Champions. Individually he was named to the Division II All-America Second team in 2004 while earning Big Ten First Team honors in 2004 and 2005.
He graduated from Downers Grove South where he was a two-year all-conference player and All-Area Selection. He currently competes on the AVP and EVP Tour where he finished 10th in points for the 2008 season.
