Dawn Sullivan

Dawn Sullivan
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamMissouri
ConferenceSEC
Record40–22 (.645)
Biographical details
Alma materKansas State
Playing career
1996–1999Kansas State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2004Illinois State (assistant)
2005–2017Iowa State (assistant)
2018–2022UNLV
2023–presentMissouri
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
  • AVCA Central Region Coach of the Year (2024)
  • SEC Coach of the Year (co) (2023)
  • 2x Mountain West Coach of the Year (2020, 2022)
  • Kansas State Wildcats Athletics Hall of Fame (2016)
  • State of Kansas NCAA Woman of the Year (2000)

Dawn Sullivan (née Cady; born c. 1978/79) is an American volleyball coach, and former player. She was named the eighth head coach of Missouri women's volleyball team in December 2022.

Personal life

Sullivan graduated from Marshall High School in Marshall, Minnesota in 1996, where she was a two-sport athlete in volleyball and basketball and received the 1996 Kaiser Award recognizing the female athlete of the year.[1]

Career

Playing career

Sullivan played as an outside hitter at Kansas State. She was an AVCA All-American and All-Big 12 as a senior as she helped the team make the school's fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. She earned Kansas College Female-Athlete-of-the-Year honors in 2000.[2]

In her career, she notched 1,611 kills and 1,258 digs, which rank as the third and fourth-most, respectively, in program history. She is one of only five players at Kansas State to eclipse 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs.[2]

Following college, Sullivan played professionally for the Grand Rapids Force of the United States Professional Volleyball League.[2]

Coaching career

Sullivan began her collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Illinois State University in 2002. She joined Iowa State University as an assistant coach in 2005, where she remained until being named the head coach at UNLV in 2018. At UNLV, she led the program to two Mountain West Conference championships, two NCAA Tournament berths, and won the 2021 National Invitational Volleyball Championship.[3]

On December 18, 2022, Sullivan was named the eighth head coach for Missouri.[4] In her inaugural season as head coach, the program doubled its wins from the previous two seasons combined under the prior head coach. Missouri finished 7th in conference and earned an at-large bid into the 2023 NCAA Tournament, its first postseason appearance since 2020. Missouri defeated Delaware in the first round before falling to top-seeded Nebraska in the second round.[5] She was named the 2023 SEC co-coach of the year for her efforts.[6]

In 2024, Sullivan led Missouri to continued improvements, finishing 3rd in conference play and earning a trip to the NCAA regionals for the first time since 2017. She was named AVCA Central Coach of the Year for her performance.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
UNLV Rebels (Mountain West) (2018–2022)
2018 UNLV 22–12 10–8 5th NIVC semifinals
2019 UNLV 20–11 15–3 3rd NIVC second round
2020 UNLV 13–1 12–0 1st NCAA second round
2021 UNLV 28–9 12–6 4th NIVC Champions
2022 UNLV 26–5 17–1 1st NCAA first round
UNLV: 109–38 (.741) 66–18 (.786)
Missouri Tigers (SEC) (2023–present)
2023 Missouri 18–13 9–9 7th NCAA second round
2024 Missouri 22–9 11–5 T–3rd NCAA regional semifinal
Missouri: 40–22 (.645) 20–14 (.588)
Total: 149–60 (.713)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ^ "Area Athletics: Four more into the hall". Marshall Independent. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "UNLV Bio". Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  3. ^ "Mountain West Volleyball 2022 All-Conference Awards Announced" (PDF). Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  4. ^ "Dawn Sullivan Named Volleyball Head Coach". Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  5. ^ "Volleyball Falls in 2023 NCAA Tournament Second Round to #1 Nebraska". Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  6. ^ "Mizzou's Dawn Sullivan 'Blessed' to Win SEC Coaching Honor". Retrieved December 8, 2022.

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