This season (2023-2024) Tom Langdon is the assistant coach for Roots Volleyball’s third 14s team – 14-3 Maple.

Last season (2022-2023) Tom was the assistant coach for Roots Volleyball’s third 14s team – 14 Maple. They finished the season with the highest winning record in the club and earned Team of The Year honors. The two previous seasons (2021-2022, 2020-2021) Tom served as the assistant coach for 15 Maple. In 2019-2020, Tom Langdon served as the assistant coach for Roots Volleyball’s fourth 15s team – 15 Grey. Previously Tom Langdon served as the assistant coach for Roots Volleyball’s second 14s team – 14 Black (2018-2019). For the previous two seasons, Tom was coaching club volleyball (11U and 13U) in the Austin-area. He also has several seasons of coaching volleyball at the recreational level and working with players 8U-14U years old.

Tom was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Garner Senior High (1989) and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in History with Phi Alpha Theta honors from the University of North Carolina – Wilmington (1994). The sand volleyball courts were where you could find Tom if he wasn’t in class. Following graduation, he left North Carolina and moved to Houston, Texas to attend graduate school at the University of Houston.

Tom and his wife, Cynthia have two daughters, Olivia (21) and Charlotte (18).  Both girls played volleyball from grade school through high school.  It was his daughters’ passion for the sport that led Tom into coaching.

Outside of Roots Volleyball, Tom works in Pflugerville for Environs Architectural Millwork as a drafting engineer, detailing both cabinets and complex interior designs for commercial construction projects.  He and his family reside in Leander, Texas. This will be Tom’s 6th season coaching with the Roots Volleyball family.