Amable Martinez joined the LIU women’s volleyball team as head coach in March 2023.
In Martinez’s first season in the fall of 2023, the Sharks earned a Northeast Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament. The program has received several honors over the past two seasons, including two NEC Defensive Player of the Year awards, an NEC Rookie of the Year award, five First-Team All-NEC awards, two Second-Team All-NEC honors, an NEC Fall Scholar-Athlete award, and 32 selections to the NEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Martinez arrived from St. Francis College Brooklyn, where he has spent four seasons (2019-23) in the NEC as a head coach. His Terrier teams twice reached the 14-win plateau — the most victories in a season in the program's history. With SFC, Martinez helped oversee the start of the Terrier men’s volleyball team and playing in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, and its later transition into the NEC. Martinez left SFC as the women’s volleyball program’s all-time winningest coach.
Martinez joined SFC after previously serving as the women’s volleyball head coach at Saint Peter’s University for two seasons (2017-19). While at the helm of Saint Peter’s, Martinez guided the Peacocks to an appearance in the 2018 MAAC Tournament where the Peacocks earned a first-round victory over Marist, which marked their first MAAC Tournament win in a dozen years. Saint Peter’s had its most successful season in a decade under Martinez that year, winning its most games since 2008.
While serving as the head coach at SPU, Martinez was also the lead assistant coach for the Stevens Institute of Technology’s men’s volleyball team in Hoboken, N.J. from 2017-19. Over that span the Ducks posted a record of 58-11, twice qualifying for the Division III national semifinals with one appearance in the championship game.
Martinez previously coached at Division II Bloomfield for five seasons (2012-17). The Bears won 20-plus games in the 2015 and 2016 seasons under Martinez, becoming co-conference champions in 2015. Martinez led the Bears to three Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tournaments, reaching the finals in 2015. Bloomfield had six All-CACC selections under Martinez’s leadership
Before entering the collegiate ranks, Martinez was the head girls volleyball coach at Science Park High School in Newark, N.J., from 2005 through 2012.
A 2002 graduate of Kean University with a degree in psychology, Martinez starred as a member of the Cougars baseball team from 1996-98. He continued his education at Saint Peter’s, earning an alternate route teaching certificate in 2006 and a master’s in education, administration and supervision in 2012.
Martinez, a certified personal trainer, is also coaching fundamentals certified by the American Sport Education Program. He also holds IMPACT and CAP I certifications by USA Volleyball.
