Player Bio: Mike Schwob - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Mike Schwob

	Last College: George Mason '88
	Position: Head Coach
	Experience: 13th Season

Phone/E-mail:
410-293-5546/schwob@usna.edu

Mike Schwob enters his 13th season as the head coach of the Navy women's volleyball team this fall, but his association with the Academy goes back over two decades.

Navy is coming off of a 2007 season that saw the Mids post a 21-12 overall record and place fourth in the Patriot League with an 8-6 mark. Those marks allowed the senior class to compile a school-record 74 victories and tally a program-best three 20-win campaigns during their careers. The Mids also advanced to the Patriot League Tournament three times during this four-year span.

In all, Schwob's teams have posted eight winning Patriot League seasons, a 73-67 league record and finished among the top-four teams in the league eight times during his 12-year tenure. Additionally, the Mids have tallied a 189-181 overall record under Schwob.

Originally hired as an assistant coach with the men's program during the 1988-89 season, he was elevated to the position of head coach two years later. Schwob guided the men's team to a 54-41 record during its remaining three seasons as a varsity sport before leading the squad to a pair of national top-10 rankings among club teams over the next two years.

Following the 1995 spring season, Schwob transitioned to the women's program and began serving as an assistant coach for the team. After just one season he became the program's fifth head coach.

After tying for second place during his initial three seasons as head coach, Navy tied for first place in 1999 and earned the right to play host to the annual Patriot League Tournament. The Mids advanced to the title match of the championship that season for the second time under Schwob.

With many of the pieces to the puzzle gone after the season due to graduation, Schwob guided a 2000 team that included two returning starters, a sophomore setter, two starters who had never played on the collegiate level and one who had not played the sport in several years to double digit wins on the entire season.

The Mids were tabbed to place seventh in the Patriot League the following year, but Navy instead finished in fifth place and missed advancing to the postseason by just one victory.

Navy climbed even closer to the playoffs in both 2002 (tied for fourth place) and 2003 (fifth place) before tying for third place in 2004 to return to the postseason.

The 2005 squad put together Navy's most successful season since sharing the league crown six years earlier when the Mids set a school record for overall winning percentage (72.4%), won a Navy-best 10 league matches and tied for second place in the Patriot League.

Navy ended its run of back-to-back postseason appearances in 2006, but returned to the league tournament last year with another 21-win season and a fourth-place finish in the standings after having been tabbed to place sixth in the preseason poll.

With the success of the Navy team, laurels for individuals have come to the Mids on a yearly basis. Last season, Rachel Dougherty became the fourth different Mid to garner First-Team All-Patriot League honors over the last four seasons.

In all, Navy players have received 19 all-league accolades during the 12-year Schwob era. Additionally, his players have received multiple individual major awards from both the Patriot League -- including offensive, defensive and freshman of the year -- and from the Naval Academy -- Adm. Lawrence Sword presented to the USNA's graduating female with for the most outstanding athletic career.

Schwob himself was tabbed as the Patriot League Coach of the Year in 1997 and as the USNA Fall Coach of the Year in 2005. He has served as a coach for the U.S. Navy volleyball team, both men's and women's teams, multiple times over the last decade. Most recently he led the women's team to a gold medal at the 2008 Armed Forces Tournament.

A native of Buffalo, Schwob was a four-year member of the volleyball team at George Mason and competed on the school's 1985 and `88 NCAA Final Four teams. He earned All-East honors in each of his last two seasons at the school.

A tenured physical education professor at Navy, Schwob holds a Bachelor's Degree from George Mason and a Master's Degree from Loyola (Md.). Prior to becoming an instructor at the Naval Academy, Schwob taught in the Anne Arundel County school system for eight years.

He and his wife, Susan, a former All-ACC volleyball player at Maryland, are the parents of four boys -- Williams (11), Robert (9), Brian (8) and Michael (3).