Marist Names New Volleyball Coach

The Redhawks are getting a new coach. 

Marist High School Principal Larry Tucker and Athletic Director Bob Lim announced on Wednesday that Julie Popp Hopkins will take over as the  new Marist women’s varsity volleyball coach.

Hopkins will also become a physical education instructor at the school. Hopkins will suceed longtime coach Natalie Holder who resigned at the end of last season. 

Hopkins already has a few titles on her resume. She taught and coached at The Latin School in Chicago where her teams won back to back league titles in 2011 and 2012. She was named conference coach of the year in 2012, the school said in a press release.

Outside of school, Hopkins works as a club volleyball coach for the Michio Volleyball Club. Hopkins is a 2002 graduate of Queen of Peace High School and graduated from the University of Illinois – Chicago  in 2007. In 2008 she went on to earn a  Masters Degree in Education from UIC.

Hopkins’s brother John is a 2000 graduate of Marist High School.