Honors
• Recipient of 23 coach-of-the-year honors
• 2022 and 2021 Red River Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
• 2019 and 2018 AVCA NAIA Southeast Region Coach of the Year
• 2020 (shared), 2018 and 2017 Louisiana Coach of the Year
• 2019 and 2018 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
• 8-time Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year
• 6-time Virginia Coach of the Year
Briefly
• 2025 was her ninth season as XULA head coach and her 39th as a collegiate head coach
• XULA record through nine seasons (2017-25) is 189-72 (.724) . . . 75-25 home, 66-23 away, 48-24 neutral
• Career record entering 2026 is 637-511 (.555) in 39 seasons
• Her first six XULA teams lost only three times against conference opponents — 76-3 regular season, 13-0 tournament
• Earned her 600th career victory Nov. 12, 2022, when XULA won 22-25, 25-17, 16-25, 25-19, 16-14 at home against Our Lady of the Lake in the championship match of the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament
• Earned her 500th career victory Sept. 15, 2018, when XULA won 25-12, 24-26, 25-18, 25-14 at home against GCAC and city rival Dillard
• Earned her 100th XULA victory Sept. 18, 2021, when the Gold Nuggets won 20-25, 25-14, 25-16, 25-18 at RRAC opponent Louisiana Christian at Pineville, La.
• Coached XULA to conference regular-season and tournament championships and automatic bids to the NAIA National Championship tournament in each of her first six seasons, then added a sixth tournament title and another automatic bid to nationals in 2023
• 467-439 (.515) in 30 seasons (1985-2014) as head coach at her alma mater, NCAA Division I member George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.)
• Between her stints at George Mason and XULA, she was Virginia Tech's director of volleyball operations in 2015 and 2016
• 1982 graduate of George Mason
At XULA
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Announced Jan. 21, 2023, as interim executive director of athltics and recreation
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Announced Feb. 23, 2017, as XULA's fifth head coach and joined the staff March 1, 2017
• XULA team season records set during Kendrick's tenure:
— Winning percentage: .885 in 2017
— Victories: 31 in 2019
— Hitting percentage: .262 in 2018
— Kills per set: 13.33 in 2017
— Assists per set: 12.50 in 2017
— Aces per set: 2.38 in 2020
— Blocks per set: 2.12 in 2020
• Her 2019 team became XULA's first to reach the NAIA National Championship Final Site
• Her 2017 XULA team became the first from Louisiana to not lose a set against conference opponents . . . It also produced Louisiana's highest winning percentage (.885) since 1991 and the third highest in state history
• That .885 winning percentage in 2017 also was the second-highest by a first-year XULA coach and the best since Giles Wright's .920 (23-2) with men's basketball in 1938-39
• From 2022-25, she served as a rater/voter on the NAIA top 25 coaches poll, which represented her sixth through ninth seasons of service in that capacity. During the 2023-24 academic year, she served on the NAIA Executive Committee
• She served on the NAIA Exdcutive Committee in 2023 and 2024, and was president of that body during the 2024 season.
At George Mason
• Was a standout hurdler on George Mason's track team and was inducted to the school's hall of fame for that sport in 1991
• Was a volleyball assistant coach at George Mason for two seasons with the women and one season with the men before ascending to the top women's position
• Coached six George Mason student-athletes to a total of 10 CAA Player of the Year awards, including three-time winner Aline Pereira
• Has coached six CAA Rookie of the Year honorees and two CAA Setters of the Year
• Five times under Kendrick, student-athletes were named CoSIDA Academic All-America
• Kendrick-coached teams defeated these opponents from current P5 conferences: Arkansas, Baylor, Boston College, Florida State, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, NC State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Washington and West Virginia
• Served four years on the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Rules Committee and as a voter on the American Volleyball Coaches Association's top 25 poll
USA Volleyball
• Has served since 1994 as a USA Volleyball Cadre (instructor) for the coaches accreditation program
• Coached numerous USA Volleyball High Performance, Olympic Festival and Junior National teams
• Coached the East to a silver medal at the 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival in San Antonio
• Coached in USA Volleyball High Performance National Training Program in 2017 and 2018 . . . Worked with the Girls Select A2 team, consisting of athletes born in 2004 and 2005
Favorites
Food: Mexican
Candy: Peanut M&M's
Pizza toppings: Chicken and spinach
Ice cream flavor: Chocolate
Cake: Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Color: Blue
Vacation destination: Australia (one day)
Pat Kendrick Milestone Victories as a Head Coach
At XULA
No. 1 — XULA 3, Trinity International 0 (25-23, 25-16, 25-16 . . . Aug. 25, 2017, at Dearborn, Mich.)
No. 100 — XULA 3, Louisiana Christian 1 (20-25, 25-14, 25-16, 25-18 . . . Sept. 18, 2021, at Pineville, La.)
At 4-Year Colleges
No. 1 — George Mason 3, James Madison 2 (9-15, 15-11, 15-13, 13-15, 17-15 . . . Sept. 10, 1985, at Harrisonburg, Va.)
No. 100 — George Mason 3, Wisconsin-Green Bay 1 (15-7, 6-15, 15-9, 15-6 . . . Nov. 11, 1990, at Chicago)
No. 200 — George Mason 3, Northern Illinois 2 (15-13, 4-15, 12-15, 17-15, 15-11 . . . Sept. 1, 1995, at Fort Collins, Colo.)
No. 300 — George Mason 3, James Madison 1 (15-4, 15-11, 9-15, 15-12 . . . Nov. 10, 2000, at Harrisonburg, Va.)
No. 400 — George Mason 3, Davidson 1 (25-18, 25-14, 15-25, 25-23 . . . Sept. 13, 2008, at Davidson, N.C.)
No. 500 — XULA 3, Dillard 1 (25-12, 24-26, 25-18, 25-14 . . . Sept. 15, 2018, at New Orleans/XULA Convocation Center)
No. 600 — XULA 3, Our Lady of the Lake 2 (22-25, 25-17, 16-25, 25-19, 16-14 . . . Nov. 12, 2022, at New Orleans/XULA Convocation Center)
