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Wolter Named New Brewers Men's Volleyball Coach
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (May 31, 2011) – Robert Wolter, who has
been an assistant men’s and women’s volleyball coach at
Carthage (WI) College the last three seasons, has been named head
men’s volleyball coach at Vassar College. The announcement
was made by Kim Culligan, the Acting Director of Athletics during
Sharon Beverly’s spring semester sabbatical.
Wolter is the 11th head coach in program history. He takes over
for Jonathan Penn, who will now solely coach the Vassar College
women’s volleyball team.
This past season, Wolter assisted with the Carthage men’s team that finished with a 23-11 record and finished third in the Molten Invitational National Championships for a second straight year. He was part of a coaching staff that had two American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Second-Team All-Americans and the national Freshman of the Year. In the 2010 season as an assistant with the women’s team, Wolter helped Carthage earn a Midwest-III Conference Tournament Championship, earn a third place finish in the Central Region and finish the second ranked in the AVCA top-ten.
From 2003 to 2007, Wolter was an assistant coach at
Wisconsin-Parkside before being elevated to interim head coach for
the 2008-09 season. In 2002, he served as an assistant
women’s volleyball coach at Division II South Dakota State
University and has extensive experience coaching volleyball at both
the high school, club and junior levels. He was the Junior Olympic
Head Volleyball Coach in Milwaukee (2008-09), from 2003-07 directed
the Southwest Elite Volleyball Club and from 1997-2007 he held
various high school coaching positions in Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
Born in Bangkok, Thailand, and part of a military family, Wolter
attended high school in Ogden, Utah. He graduated from the
University of Minnesota-Mankato in 2000 with a bachelor’s
degree in physical education. While at Minnesota-Mankato, Wolter
was a decathlete on the track and field team and a member of the
club volleyball squad.
Wolter received his master’s in education from Carthage in
2010.
