Staff Directory
Michele Benoit
Head Volleyball Coach
Phone: (262) 595-2127
Email: benoitm@uwp.edu
Michele Benoit is the ninth head coach in the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s women’s volleyball history. She is in her second season at the helm, after leading the Rangers to a 21-12 record last season…the best the program has posted in 12 years.
“Michele is a proven coach who understands the commitment to academics and athletics,” said UW-Parkside interim athletic director Tamie Falk-Day. “Her enthusiasm and passion for the game have been felt by the players and fans.”
The Ranger head coach has a career record of 421-149, with all but last season at Mount St. Joseph’s, an NCAA Division III school, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her run at the Cincinnati school was from 1995-2008 and produced 10 regular season conference titles and 10 conference tournament championships. She compiled a lofty .744 winning percentage in her tenure with the Lions.
“The Great Lakes Valley Conference is an excellent volleyball conference,” noted Benoit. “The challenge to move into the ranks of Division II in such a competitive conference is an opportunity that does not occur too often in one’s professional career.”
Benoit’s coaching success has garnered a myriad of individual awards, including five Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year awards. She was named an NCAA Regional Coach of the Year twice.
In her lone year at Parkside, she produced two all-conference players, which is only one of three times the Rangers have had multiple players in one year earn such an award. It was the first time UWP had more than one player in a season recognized by the league since 2003.
At Mount St. Joseph’s, Benoit’s teams were ranked in the nation’s Top Ten in each season from 1999-2004 and in the Top 25 in 2005 and 2008. She was also an assistant Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator at the school.
Benoit earned an undergraduate degree in Education/Physical Education, Health Education, from Ashland University (Ashland, Ohio). She went on to earn a Master’s degree in Education/Exercise Physiology from the University of Akron (Akron, Ohio).
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