Coach Mark

Coach Mark is SVC's strength and conditioning coach and serves as the head football coach at Riverview High School, bringing high-performance athletic training to the club.

Coach Cristiani — known affectionately as Coach C — has worked on the Riverview staff for the past 8 years, earning a reputation as a favorite among student-athletes throughout the school. After a thorough selection process that drew nearly 50 candidates, he was chosen as the perfect fit to lead the mighty Rams, bringing a wealth of knowledge in football, weightlifting, and mentoring young men.

A former collegiate football player at Eastern Kentucky University where he was a two-time First Team Ohio Valley Conference defensive tackle, and a former Army Ranger, Mark builds programming around discipline, work capacity, and durability — preparing volleyball athletes to jump higher, move faster, and stay healthy through long tournament weekends. A Venice High School graduate, he knows what it takes to build champions on the Suncoast.

His leadership goes well beyond reps and sets. Mark teaches the SVC athletes what it means to show up, do the work, and represent something bigger than themselves — and as his players say, nobody is above the law.