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Sam Shweisky enters his second season as an assistant coach with the Rebels.
Shweisky helped guide the Rebels to a 20-10 overall record in his first season as an assistant coach at UNLV.
After completing the 2006 season with UNLV, he was invited to coach the USA High Performance Select A2 Team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
He continues to serve as a court coach for USA Volleyball's Youth and National High Performance Tryouts at various sites around the country throughout the club season.
Prior to UNLV, Shweisky was a graduate assistant coach at Miami University for longtime head coach Carolyn Condit. The RedHawks owned a 27-31 record in his two seasons in Oxford, Ohio.
In 2005, the RedHawks posted a 18-13 overall mark and finished Mid-American Conference play at 9-7.
"We are excited about having Sam be part of the UNLV volleyball program," said Keeley. "He has great experience and is a great court player. He brings a new dimension to our program with his emphasis on sports psychology. He has an enormous passion for the game and a desire to help UNLV improve upon its past success on the court."
While in Oxford, he was the head coach from 2004-06 for the Borderline VBC 18-under open girls' club team. He has also been the USA's 18-under girls' team head coach at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, in which his squad won the silver medal. From 2003-04, he held the head coaching position for the NYC Juniors 17-under girls' club team and at Friends Seminary High School for the varsity and junior varsity girls' teams.
He has served as an assistant for the Hudson Valley boys' scholastic team in the Empire State Games (N.Y.) during the summers of 1997-2005. From 2001-02, he was an assistant coach at the University of New Haven.
Prior to and during his coaching, he played for Miami's men's club team (2004-06) and for Vassar College (1998-2001). He has played internationally, as well, with Hajraa Volleyball Club in Holland (2002-03) and for the USA in the Maccabiah Games in 2001 and 2005.
Shweisky was a four-year letterwinner at Vassar College, where he helped his team to the Division III National Championship as a senior. He finished his collegiate career ranked fourth in single-season digs at Vassar, fifth in single-season digs per game and seventh in all-time digs.
Shweisky is from New York City, N.Y., and earned his bachelor's degree in Hispanic studies and psychology from Vassar in 2001. At Miami, he gained a master's of science degree in sports psychology in 2006.
