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The 2020-21 Sun Devil Volleyball season was unlike any that has been played before with competition starting in January rather than in the fall. In her second season, Emily Witsaman and the Sun Devils went 6-14 and finished in ninth place in the conference with a roster made up of primarily underclassmen (82 percent). Arizona State earned two wins over ranked opponents, opening the season with a win at No. 8 Washington and beating No. 16 Oregon in Tempe towards the end of the season.
In 2019, Witsaman helped the Sun Devils secure an eighth place finish in the conference, the teams highest since 2015. The team registered a 17-14 overall record, 9-11 in the Pac-12. ASU managed sweeps over Arizona, Oregon, and Oregon State.
Witsaman joined the staff in April 2019 with three years of prior coaching experience. In the 2018 season, she was with Grand Canyon where she coached a WAC All-Freshman player and the team to an 11-17 overall record. Before GCU, she coached at Upper Iowa, where the Peacocks had a historic 21-9 year. She also spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Heidelberg University where the Berg reached the NCAA tournament in both seasons.
In addition to coaching experience, Witsaman has a lot of playing experience. She was a four-year player at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. In her senior season, she was named to the America East All-Conference First Team as a middle blocker after finishing the year with the second-best hitting percentage in the league (.295). That same year, she led her team to a second-place finish at the American East Tournament. She finished her career ranked sixth in program history in block assists and tenth in total blocks.
Witsaman is from Medina, Ohio and graduated from Medina High School before attending UMBC. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Heidelberg and is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class 43. She and her husband Nick have two dogs.
The 2020-21 Sun Devil Volleyball season was unlike any that has been played before with competition starting in January rather than in the fall. In her second season, Emily Witsaman and the Sun Devils went 6-14 and finished in ninth place in the conference with a roster made up of primarily underclassmen (82 percent). Arizona State earned two wins over ranked opponents, opening the season with a win at No. 8 Washington and beating No. 16 Oregon in Tempe towards the end of the season.
In 2019, Witsaman helped the Sun Devils secure an eighth place finish in the conference, the teams highest since 2015. The team registered a 17-14 overall record, 9-11 in the Pac-12. ASU managed sweeps over Arizona, Oregon, and Oregon State.
Witsaman joined the staff in April 2019 with three years of prior coaching experience. In the 2018 season, she was with Grand Canyon where she coached a WAC All-Freshman player and the team to an 11-17 overall record. Before GCU, she coached at Upper Iowa, where the Peacocks had a historic 21-9 year. She also spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Heidelberg University where the Berg reached the NCAA tournament in both seasons.
In addition to coaching experience, Witsaman has a lot of playing experience. She was a four-year player at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. In her senior season, she was named to the America East All-Conference First Team as a middle blocker after finishing the year with the second-best hitting percentage in the league (.295). That same year, she led her team to a second-place finish at the American East Tournament. She finished her career ranked sixth in program history in block assists and tenth in total blocks.
Witsaman is from Medina, Ohio and graduated from Medina High School before attending UMBC. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Heidelberg and is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class 43. She and her husband Nick have two dogs.