HEAD COACH SUSAN ROBERTS

Susan Roberts is in her 23rd season as the head volleyball coach at Grove City College.

During her coaching career at Grove City, Roberts has constructed one of the region’s premier programs.

Since taking over as head coach in 1985, Roberts has directed Grove City to nine Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) championships along with three Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Southern Championships.

She has guided Grove City to a dozen 20-win seasons and seven total postseason appearances. Roberts owns a 489-298 (.621) record as Grove City head coach.

In 2006, Grove City went 20-11, including an 8-4 mark in PAC play. Grove City completed a regular-season sweep of defending league champion Washington & Jefferson and also earned its first-ever win over Thomas More.

On Sept. 30, 2004, Roberts became the 14th active Division III women’s volleyball coach to reach the 500-win mark as Grove City swept Thiel, 3-0. Overall, Roberts has a 541-322 career record in 24 years as a head volleyball coach.

Roberts made an immediate impact on the Grove City program, leading Grove City to a 41-1 record in 1985, including the program’s first PAC title and a berth in the NCAA Championship Tournament.

Roberts earned the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association’s Division III Coach of the Year award following the 1985 season. Grove City finished the regular season ranked No. 1 nationally in the AVCA poll that year.

Grove City closed the 1980s as the PAC’s dominant program, winning conference titles in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989.

That dominance continued into the 1990s as the Wolverines won PAC crowns in 1992, 1993 and 1995.

The 1994 team became the first College team to earn an ECAC title as the Wolverines swept Washington and Jefferson and Rutgers-Newark for the ECAC Southern Championship crown. Grove City repeated as ECAC champion in 1995.

Grove City returned to the top of the PAC in 2000, capturing the program’s eighth conference title under Roberts’ guidance. Grove City advanced to the ECAC Southern Championship Tournament semifinals before falling to top-seeded Carnegie Mellon.

The following year, the Wolverines stormed to their ninth PAC title and returned to the ECAC Tournament. Entering as the sixth seed in the six-team tournament, the Wolverines upset Johns Hopkins, Franklin and Marshall and host Moravian to clinch their third ECAC title in seven years.

From 1985-93, Roberts coached Grove City’s women’s basketball team and then coached the softball program from 1994-98. She is the only active coach in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference to win conference titles in three different sports.

A native of Ontario, Ohio, Roberts added the role of Associate Director of Athletics in 1998.
She earned her undergraduate degree in physical education from Ohio University in 1975 and then earned her master’s degree in biomechanics from the University of Arizona.

Roberts lives on Lake Latonka, near Mercer.

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