2012 COACHES

Eric Bulmahn

15-Purple Head Coach

Eric Bulmahn

Eric brings an impressive coaching and playing resume to Circle City. Eric's volleyball career at Ball State began as an outside hitter, but found himself starting as a Middle Blocker by his Senior season when the Cardinals climbed to 9th in the National rankings.


Eric’s playing career includes:

  • Captain in 1986
  • All Conference in 1986
  • NCAA Final Four in 1985
  • Starting OH and MB for Ball State
  • All-American in 1991 - Open division at US Nationals
  • 5 years on the Midwest Professional Volleyball Association Beach Circuit (94-99)

Coach Bulmahn began his coaching career as an assistant to Don Shondell for the Ball State Men's team in 1987.  Players under Eric's tutelage earned All-American status, and have gone on to have successful coaching careers of their own.


This will be Eric's 14th year coaching at Circle City with age groups ranging from the 15-1 to 18-1. Prior teams have won 5 qualifier championships and finished in the top 4 of qualifiers 10 times. The 2006 17's team, and 2007 18's team, finished ranked 5th and 10th in the United States respectively. More than 70 of Eric’s former players have earned scholarships to schools in the PAC 10, Big 10, Southern Belt, OVC, SEC, Big East and many others.


Eric has worked many college camps including Purdue’s Elite outside attacking lead instructor and Purdue team camp where his Elkhart Memorial teams have won 4 of the last 5 camp championships.

Referee Bulmahn also has been a Men's and Women's collegiate referee for 23 years with 4 NCAA Final Four Selections.


His personal life focuses around his wife of 17 years, Monica, and their 3 daughters: Jaclyn(13), Victoria(10), and Cecilia(8) and professionally works for a Business Intelligence consulting company.