Tori Grafeman joined the CSUB
coaching staff during the summer of 2012. Grafeman spent the previous two years
playing professional volleyball overseas. During the 2011-12 season, Grafeman
played in Barcelona, Spain where she competed in the Superliga under the volei
division of the Barça Futbol Club. Grafeman was voted MVP of the league on two
occasions. In 2010-11, Grafeman led the Vordingborg Volleyball Klub to its
first ever playoff run in the Elite Division in Vordingborg, Denmark.
Considering her succesful sand
volleyball background, Grafeman was named as the assistant coach of the CSUB
sand volleyball team, under head coach Aaron Shepardson, when the CSUB Athletic
Department announced the addition of the sport to the school in August of 2012.
The sand volleyball team will begin its inaugural season in March of 2013.
In 2011, Grafeman
played on the FCVB (Federacio Catalana de Voleibol) Tour based in Barcelona,
Spain. Representing Barcelona Beach Volleyball Club, Grafeman, with partner
Susana Vega, was ranked in the top 10 in their first summer together. In 2012,
she played the same tour, winning the opening FCVB tournament with Martona
Garcia and then finished the season in the top 10 again with partner Susana
Vega. While in Spain, Grafeman also competed against people from around the
world in the Beach Volleyball Around the World Tour, placing seventh with Vega.
Prior to heading overseas, Grafeman,
an Albuquerque, N.M. native, trained and played on the AVP (Association of
Volleyball Professionals) Qualifying Tour. From 2008-10 Grafeman traveled the
country qualifying for the Main Draw of the domestic beach volleyball tour. She
trained and competed out of Manhattan Beach, Calif. In 2009, she took second
place in the annual Young Guns Tournament. In 2010, she continued to play with
some of the best athletes on the beach until the tour went out of business.
Grafeman brings not only experience on the court, but on the sideline as well.
During the 2008-2009 season she served as a coach for the Beach Cities
Volleyball Club based in Manhattan Beach, Calif. In 2010 prior to playing
professionally she was the assistant coach at Whittier College in Whittier,
Calif.
Grafeman spent her collegiate playing days at Winthrop University in Rock Hill,
SC, where she graduated with a BA in Business Administration. There she was a
two-time All-Big South Conference selections as well as the 2004 Conference
MVP. As a high school volleyball player at La Cueva High School in
Albuquerque, Grafeman was a four-year letterwinner in volleyball and also won
the title of state champion high jumper in 2003.
