Christina Darras

Christina Darras enters her fifth season as a member of the SWOSU Volleyball coaching staff in 2017 following a two-year playing career for the Bulldogs.
 
Darras has been a part of the SWOSU Volleyball program since 2012, playing for the Bulldogs from 2012-13 before joining the coaching staff. Her second season on the SWOSU coaching staff proved to be a breakthrough season for the program as the Bulldogs finished the 2015 season with a school-record 22 wins and finished fourth in the Great American Conference with a mark of 10-6. SWOSU then entered the GAC Tournament as the No. 3-seed and defeated Northwestern Oklahoma State, Southern Nazarene and Southern Arkansas to claim the program’s first-ever GAC Championship. The win also earned the Bulldogs their first-ever trip to the NCAA Division II Tournament, where they met the top-ranked team in the country, Concordia-St. Paul.
 
In her first year on the coaching staff, Darras assisted with a Bulldog squad that finished eighth in the Great American Conference standings and advanced to the conference tournament for a third straight season. Statistically, SWOSU ranked among the league leaders in both digs and blocks, becoming the first team in program history to average better than 2.0 blocks per set.
 
Darras appeared in 59 matches for the Bulldogs from 2012-13 after beginning her career at Scottsdale Community College in her native Arizona. While playing primarily as a rightside hitter, Darras put down 316 kills in 194 sets of action and she ranks in the top ten in both career assist and total blocks at SWOSU.
 
Prior to transferring to SWOSU, Darras was a two-time All-Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) and All-Region selection at Scottsdale CC. She was named the ACCAC Player of the Week during her sophomore season and she earned the “Excellence Under the Stars Achievement Award” at the conclusion of her career. As a prep, Darras was a two-time all-region selection at Gilbert HS.
 
A native of Gilbert, Ariz., Darras completed her bachelor’s degree in Marketing at SWOSU in 2015 before earning a master's degree in Sports Management in 2017.