Completed Event: Women's Volleyball versus Merrimack on September 13, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 0
Women's Volleyball
vs Merrimack
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Providence College Athletics
Women's Volleyball
Gomes, Richard
Richard Gomes
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- rgomes3@providence.edu
- Phone:
- (401) 865-2030
Gomes joined the Providence College volleyball staff as an assistant coach in 2019 and will embark on his seventh season with the Friars in 2025. He was elevated to associate head coach on July 21, 2023.
Gomes has been instrumental in improving the Providence College volleyball team's success over the past six years including a 7-3 conference record during the 2020 season. That year, the Friars qualified for the BIG EAST Tournament for the first time since 1999 and the staff was recognized as BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year.
In February of 2022 Gomes was awarded the institution's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Vision Award. The selection committee for this award considers nominees whose scholarship, community engagement, leadership, or service to others has advanced one or more of the principles which Rev. King embodied: social justice, advocacy, equality, human rights, the promotion of faith and freedom of all people.
Gomes was also one of fourteen recipients to receive the American Volleyball Coaches' Association (AVCA) Diversity Award in 2019. The AVCA Diversity Development Team developed the award to continue the AVCA's vision for creating opportunities and advancing the volleyball coaching profession.
Prior to joining the PC staff, Gomes spent one season as the head coach of the women's volleyball program at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Mass. In addition to his responsibilities as the head coach of the women's volleyball team at Bridgewater State, Gomes also worked closely with the Assistant Athletic Director to help ensure players' academics remained at or above the standard. Prior to Gomes' season at Bridgewater State, he served five seasons as an assistant coach at Brown University in Providence, R.I. During his time at Brown, Gomes helped lead the Bears to consecutive finishes in the top half of the Ivy League in 2013 and 2014. Gomes assisted the team in recording an 8-6 league mark in 2013 and a 7-7 conference record in 2014. Gomes coached six All-Ivy players during his time with the Bears.
Gomes, who received a Bachelor of Science degree in digital recording arts from New England Institute of Technology in 2014, coached the top 18U team at Blast Volleyball Club from 2012 to 2015 and has served as the head coach for the Coastal Boys team at the Bay State Games from 2011-2018. In addition to his coaching responsibilities at Providence, Gomes has been the head boys' volleyball coach at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School since 2011.
A native of New Bedford, Mass. Gomes is a 2002 graduate of Greater New Bedford, where he earned Boston Globe Player of the Year honors in 2002, after helping lead the Bears to a South Sectional Title.
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