Name:  Robin Pietryk
Office Phone:  252.985.5216
E-mail:  rmpietryk@ncwc.edu

Dr. Robin Pietryk enters her ninth year at the helm of the North Carolina Wesleyan volleyball program. During her tenure with the Battling Bishops, she has already turned in the most successful season in the program’s history, a 2004 slate in which the Bishops earned a 22-11 overall record and fourth-place finish in the USA South. The 2007 season saw Pietryk record her 100th career win at NCWC and lead the Bishops to a 21-14 mark, the fourth 20-win season in program history.

Coach Pietryk has made a reputation of building programs. She has taken over struggling teams at her previous two collegiate stops, making vast improvements with each in both the win column and in conference play.

After coaching stops at East Liverpool and Wellsville High Schools, she started her collegiate coaching career at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL. Her teams constantly improved while at MacMurray, and she was named the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1995. From East Liverpool, Pietryk moved on to Defiance College in Defiance, OH. Once again, her teams continued to improve in the win column, setting the stage for her move to North Carolina Wesleyan.

As a player, Pietryk was a three-time PAC All-Conference volleyball player at Bethany College. She was also a two-time All-Conference performer in softball. She received her bachelor’s degree from Bethany in 1990 and recently completed her Ph.D. in the spring of 2008 at Walden University, specializing in higher education.

Pietryk and her husband, John, have two sons: Christopher and Jeremy.