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Pavlin Hired as PSU Assistant Volleyball Coach
Story Links PITTSBURG – Pittsburg State University head volleyball coach Megan Besecker announced today (May 1) that Erin Pavlin has been hired as the Gorillas assistant coach. Pavlin replaces former assistant coach Kennedy Shelstead who was introduced as the new Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator at Division I North Texas earlier this spring. […]
PITTSBURG – Pittsburg State University head volleyball coach Megan Besecker announced today (May 1) that Erin Pavlin has been hired as the Gorillas assistant coach. Pavlin replaces former assistant coach Kennedy Shelstead who was introduced as the new Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator at Division I North Texas earlier this spring.
“I am excited to have Erin join us here at Pitt State,” Besecker said. “She has a lot of coaching experiences at many different levels, and I look forward to all of her knowledge she will bring to the program.”
Pavlin comes to Pitt State after spending the past two seasons at the University of Akron, a Division I program that competes in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). She joins the Gorillas after 11 years of coaching experience, including six years as a head coach at the club level.
Prior to Akron, Pavlin served at Trinity Valley Community College in Texas where she spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the Lady Cardinals. Pavlin helped turn the program from an 8-8 conference record in her first season to an undefeated 16-0 conference showing in year two. In 2022, she helped coach TVCC to a conference title and a Region 14 championship before finishing eighth in the country at the NJCAA National Tournament.
Pavlin has nine seasons of club coaching experience, coaching for H2 out of St. Louis, Mo., and Norco in Colorado. Her 2016 H2 team finished 16-1 and qualified for the Asics Junior National Championship. Over her six years at Norco, Pavlin led teams to medals at multiple USAV national qualified and learned under former Ohio State head coach Jim Stone.
During her time as a student-athlete at Columbia College, Pavlin competed in two NAIA D1 national championship games, finishing on runner-up teams in 2010 and 2012. In her sophomore season (2011), the team finished third in the NAIA; and Columbia was a top-10 program in the NAIA during her senior campaign in 2013. Pavlin earned All-Conference and All-Academic honors during her time at Columbia, winning the Champions of Character Award in 2013.
Pavlin earned a bachelor’s in business administration degree from Columbia College in 2014. She is completing a master’s degree in sports science from Akron.