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Jonathan Bates | Associate Editor
A new men’s volleyball season brings new coaches. Forty-five coaching changes were by 21 NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball programs during the offseason.
The biggest change was the retirement of the Ohio State’s Pete Hanson, the National Coach of the Decade. Besides the promotion of assistant coach Kevin Burch to Ohio State’s new head coach, five other coaches were promoted. Check out all of the offseason coaching changes below.
Big West
CSUN
Theo Edwards – Promoted to Associate Head Coach from Assistant Coach
Long Beach State
McKay Smith – Promoted to Assistant Coach from Volunteer Assistant Coach
Andrew Whitt – Promoted to Volunteer Assistant Coach from Director of Operations
UC Santa Barbara
Out: Cullen Irons (Associate Head Coach), Vincent Devaney (Assistant Coach)
In: Jonah Seif (Assistant Coach), Blaine Nielsen (Assistant Coach)
ConfCarolinas
Emmanuel
In: Andrew McAllister (Assistant Coach)
King
Out: Morgan Kirby (Assistant Coach)
In: Claire Duda (Assistant Coach), Abigail King (Assistant Coach)
Independents
Daemen
Out: Bill Schultz (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
Lincoln Memorial
In: Carlos Zunino (Graduate Assistant)
St. Francis – Brooklyn
Out: Andy Mueller (Head Coach)
In: Niko Lambert (Interim Head Coach)
EIVA
NJIT
Out: Jack Wilson (Assistant Coach)
In: Oren Zyndorf (Assistant Coach)
Princeton
Out: Pawel Kadlubowski (Assistant Coach)
In: Christian Rupert (Assistant Coach)
Sacred Heart
In: Daniel Fishman (Assistant Coach)
MIVA
Lewis
In: Keith Iverson (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
Loyola
Out: Frank Hanes (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
McKendree
Out: Sam Adams (Graduate Assistant)
In: David Siebum (Graduate Assistant)
Ohio State
Out: Pete Hanson (Head Coach), Tim Embaugh (Assistant Coach)
In: Hudson Bates (Associate Head Coach)
Kevin Burch – Promoted to Head Coach from Assistant Coach
Luke Maloney – Promoted to Assistant Coach from Volunteer Assistant Coach
Purdue Fort Wayne
Out: JW Kieckhefer (Assistant Coach)
Lindsay Brown – Promoted to Assistant Coach from Graduate Assistant
MPSF
Concordia-Irvine
Out: David Connor Olbright (Graduate Assistant)
In: Sinan Tanik (Graduate Assistant), Kaleigh Biedron (Graduate Assistant), Isaiah Kaaa (Graduate Assistant)
Grand Canyon
In: Andrew McCall (Graduate Assistant)
Pepperdine
Out: Brad Rostratter (Assistant Coach), Kevin Endsley (Assistant Coach)
In: Paul Carroll (Associate Coach), Matthew Pollock (Assistant Coach)
UCLA
Out: Eric Vallely (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
In: Nate Ngo (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
USC
Out: Greg Walker (Assistant Coach), Matt Lasance (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
In: Rory Prager (Assistant Coach)