Chad Koenegstein

Chad Koenegstein is the assistant coach at Colorado College

Chad Koenegstein joined the Colorado College volleyball staff in 2018 and has filled important roles on and off the court during what has been the program’s most successful era.

During Koenegstein’s tenure, the Tigers have amassed a 132-23 overall record, good for a .876 winning percentage, won a pair of Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships and earned a berth in the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship each season.

He was recently named a recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association's Thirty Under 30 Award. First presented in 2009, the AVCA Thirty Under 30 Award honors up-and-coming volleyball coaching talent at all levels of the sport.

During the 2021 spring season, the Tigers earned the No. 1 ranking in the America Volleyball Coaches Associations Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll when they posted a 17-0 record, the first undefeated season in program history.

Koenegstein has coached three CC players who earned All-America Honors – Lizzy Counts (2018-19), Marguerite Spaethling (2018), and Georgia Mullins (2021-22), while Jenny Jenks (2021-22, 22-23), Mullins (2019), and Isabella Lipacis (2022-23) earned honorable mention status.

At the same time, Tigers earned three of the four SCAC major awards, including multiple recipients of Player of the Year (Spaethling, Mullins), Setter of the Year (Isabelle Aragon-Menzel, Jenks), and Freshman of the Year (Meaghan Hohman, Isabella Lipacis) awards.

Colorado College also excelled in the classroom, earning the AVCA’s Team Academic Award each season and having more than 80 percent of its players earn a spot on the SCAC Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to his arrival at Colorado College, Koenegstein worked at USA Volleyball for two years in coaching education.

He began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs during the 2017 season.

Koenegstein earned his bachelor’s in elementary education from Murray State University in 2013 and currently is pursuing a master’s in sport coaching at the University of Denver.