Robert Wolter joins the Aurora University athletic department and will lead the inaugural AU men's volleyball program.
Wolter comes to AU after spending the previous five seasons as the head coach at Vassar College. In his time at Vassar, he amassed a 91-65 record and led the team to a pair of 20-win seasons in 2013 and 2016.
Prior to becoming a head coach for the first time at Vassar, Wolter assisted at Carthage College, coaching the 2011 team that finished with a 23-11 record and finished third in the Molten Invitational National Championships for a second straight year. He was part of a coaching staff that had two American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Second-Team All-Americans and the national Freshman of the Year. As an assistant with the Carthage women’s team during the 2010 season, Wolter helped earn a CCIW Tournament Championship, a third-place finish in the Central Region and a second-place finish in the AVCA top-10.
From 2003 to 2007, Wolter was an assistant coach at University of Wisconsin-Parkside before being elevated to interim head coach for the 2008-09 season. In 2002, he served as an assistant women’s volleyball coach at NCAA Division II South Dakota State University and has extensive experience coaching volleyball at both the high school, club and junior levels. He was the Junior Olympic head volleyball coach in Milwaukee from 2008 to 2009. From 2003 to 2007 he directed the Southwest Elite Volleyball Club, and from 1997 to 2007 he held various high school coaching positions in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Born in Bangkok, Thailand, and part of a military family, Wolter attended high school in Ogden, Utah. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-Mankato in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. While there, Wolter was a decathlete on the track and field team and a member of the club volleyball squad. Wolter received his master’s in education from Carthage in 2010.
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