Monica Wright

Head Coach Monica Wright, recently finishing her 17th season at the helm, arrived to Westerville in 2007 and has since become one of the most successful volleyball coaches in Ohio Athletic Conference history. She reached the 300-win milestone in October of 2021 and her career record now stands at 354-177.

Wright has NINE OAC championships on her resume, winning five tournament crowns (2012, 2017, 2020-21, 2022, 2023) and four regular-season titles (2017, 2018, 2022, 2023) in the process. She has taken the program to the NCAA's a total of nine times, including a run to the Sweet 16 in the 2021 bracket before falling to eventual national runner-up Calvin in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Last fall, her 2023 group became the first in program history to sweep through the OAC regular-season undefeated at a perfect 9-0.

Her Otterbein program has captured ffive of the last seven OAC Player of the Year awards, coming by way of Morgan Lowenkamp (2017), Hadley Sterett (2018), Tate Eppard (2019), Carlie Craycraft (2021) and Morgan Hartman (2023). They are the only Cardinals to ever receive the honor, with Lowenkamp signing a contract to play in England following graduation.

That 2021 group delivered a pair of school-record winning streaks in the form of 19-straight matches and 48 consecutive sets, the latter marking the seventh-longest streak in NCAA Division III history. The (more recent) 2022 team became the first squad to sweep OAC regular-season and tournament titles outright... spending the entire year in the AVCA national poll.

Otterbein's 2017 squad went 30-4 overall, and was eventually selected as one of eight regional hosts for the NCAA Championships.