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Creating Coaches: How Mark Hulse got the “Coaching Bug”

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Loyola men’s volleyball coach Mark Hulse was going to be a lawyer. That all changed after a summer internship where some attorneys told him not to become a lawyer.

“I think in my heart of hearts I always wanted to teach,” Hulse said. “I probably majored in volleyball as much as I majored in political science. So this is what better way, right? Coaches are, I think first and foremost, teachers.”

Hulse, now 33, graduated college in 2009, just a year following the 2008 financial crisis — one of the biggest economic downturns in the United States since the Great Depression.