After breaking the school-record with 29 wins, an historic trip to the NCAA Tournament and the programs first Little East Conference Championship, what is next for head coach Bob Weiner and the volleyball team? "It was a magical run for us," he said. "We had a great experience in the NCAA Tournament, but we have to continue to get there so we feel like we are supposed to be there every year."

Resurrecting the Owl program, Weiner has already led the team into uncharted territory in his brief three-year tenure. Directing the Owls to a first-ever appearance in the 2005 LEC championship match, he then coached KSC to back-to-back, program-record 25-victory seasons and ECAC tournament ap­pearances as well as a first-ever LEC regular season in 2007.

Weiner, who has posted a 96-47 overall record (for a .671 winning percentage) and a 21-5 conference record at Keene State, is the only volleyball coach in Keene State history to have a winning percentage over .550. "This is a great place to coach," said Weiner. "Once we started to build the program and win, athletes wanted to come here and play."

Set to begin his 22nd season of collegiate coaching, Weiner came to Keene State after serving as the sports information director at Pine Manor College. He held the position of head women's volleyball coach at Iona (N.Y.) College, As­sumption College, Montana State-Northern University, Macalester (Minn.) Col­lege, and Franklin Pierce College. During his four-year stint at Iona, his teams compiled a 74-51 record. He was named the 2002 Metro Atlantic Coach of the Year after leading the Gaels to a first-place finish in the conference. At Macal­ester, Weiner turned around a team that went 3-72 two years before his arrival, to 33-31 in his last two seasons. His 1992 and 1993 teams at Franklin Pierce participated in the ECAC tournament.

Weiner, co-founder of the Hardrock Junior Olympic Volleyball Club in New Hampshire, holds a bachelor's degree in theatre from UCLA and a master's from the University of California-Irvine.

One of the top high school coaches in New Hampshire, Chuck Roberson enters his fifth season as an Owl assis­tant coach.

A three-time Class I coach of the year, Roberson coached Milford to back-to-back state titles in 2001 and 2002.

It's not the first time Roberson will be working with Coach Weiner. They both helped to form the first junior Olympic program in the state and have served as occasional advisor with each other's team. "Bob and I have a mutual trust that we've developed over the years," he said. "We both have the same defensive and passing philosophy."

Roberson, a Western Connecticut grad, is originally from Greenwich, N.Y.

After working with the program on a volunteer basis, Lloyd Sheehan moved into an assistant coaching position with the Keene State women's volleyball team for his third season.

Sheehan has coached at a variety of levels in addition to his work with the Owls. After leading the Mascenic (N.H.) High School to several volleyball and softball champion­ships, Sheehan resurrected the St. Anselm women's vol­leyball program, posting 20- and 19-win seasons in his final two years at the helm.

The Cranston, R.I., native returned to the N.H. high school ranks as an assistant at Souhegan High, where he helped lead the team to the finals in 2003 and the Class I championship in 2004. A former NHIAA Coach of the Year in both vol­leyball and softball, Sheehan founded the NHIAA boy's volleyball program and co-founded the N.H. Volleyball Coaches association. Since 1990, he has been the director of the HardRock Juniors, a highly recruited volleyball cub that has developed several scholarship collegiate players.

Bre Redding begins her second season as a student assistant coach with the Owls this fall.  Redding, a defensive specialist with the team in 2006 and 2007, will be a valuable asset on the bench and practice court, passing on her knowledge and love of the game to the players. She has also created and implemented the Owls summer workout program. 

Looking to coach at the college level, Redding has worked for two years with Coach Weiner and the Hard Rock Club team and last season with the Central Massachusetts Junior Olympic program.

Prior to joining the KSC program, Redding played at Medway (Mass.) High where she was twice named the team's top defender and earned league all-star honors as a senior.

Redding is working toward her degree in health science.