Nike Volleyball Camp at Duquesne University

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  Steve Opperman

  Camp Director

  Steve Opperman is the Head Volleyball Coach at Duquesne University.

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  Steve Opperman

  Camp Director

  • Is Duquesne's all-time winningest coach with 375 career victories
  • Four-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (co-2001, co-2004, co-2010 and 2013)
  • Has coached the first two AVCA All-Americans in program history
  • Has coached 18 First or Second Team A-10 All-Conference players (a total of 23 times)
  • Has coached just the second A-10 Rookie of the Year in Duquesne history
  • Has coached 27 A-10 All-Rookie Team members

  With over 300 victories on the Bluff, head coach Steve Opperman has elevated Duquesne volleyball to a top-tier program in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He enters his 28th season at Duquesne and his 35th season overall as a head coach with 494 career wins.
  Opperman, whose teams have appeared in nine of the past 14 Atlantic 10 Championships, guided the Dukes to the school's first A-10 regular season and tournament championship in 2013. The 2013 Dukes went on to make the first NCAA Championship appearance in school history.
  In his 27 years at Duquesne, Opperman has seen nearly every team and individual record broken highlighted by program records for wins (23 in 2010) and conference wins (12 in 2013). Over the past 12 full seasons, the Dukes have averaged over 15 wins and just under eight A-10 victories per year.
  
  A developer of talent, Opperman has coached a pair of AVCA All-Americans in Liz Homan (2010) and Arielle Love (2014) and seen 17 players earn first or second team All-Atlantic 10 honors a total of 23 times. Adding to his resume, he has coached just the second A-10 Rookie of the Year in DU history, in Chloe Wilmot (2023) while twenty-seven of his recruits have been named to the A-10 All-Rookie Team.
  Opperman's DU teams have also excelled in the classroom. In addition to consistently ranking as one of the top performing academic teams on campus, Duquesne has been recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) numerous times for academic excellence. Opperman has seen 15 players named A-10 Academic All-Conference. 10 of his student-athletes have earned College Sport Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-District honors, with Sarah Morrow (2002) being named A-10 Student-Athlete of the Year.
  Prior to his arrival in Pittsburgh, Opperman served as head coach at Wright State for seven seasons where he led the Raiders to 119 victories and a pair of berths in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.
  Opperman started his collegiate coaching career in 1989 as an assistant coach at the University of Dayton. The following season he took the assistant coach position at Wright State before assuming the role of head coach in 1991.
  Opperman graduated from Ohio State in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. On the court, he was an outside hitter with the Buckeyes for the 1983-84 season leading them to a 28-11 overall record and a second place finish in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.
  The New Bremen, Ohio native holds memberships in the American Volleyball Coaches and United States Volleyball Associations. He was a voting member of the CSTV/AVCA Top 25 poll from 1999 until 2006 and served as the Atlantic 10 representative to the AVCA Head Coaches Committee from 2000-2005. In 1996, he was a panel speaker at the Final Four Volleyball Convention.
  OPPERMAN YEAR-BY-YEAR

  Season	Team	Overall	Conf.	Standing	Postseason
  1991	Wright State	22-17	4-2	2nd	North Star Runner-up, National Invitational Volleyball Championship
  1992	Wright State	15-17	8-8	5th
  1993	Wright State	23-15	14-4	2nd	Mid-Continent Runner-up, National Invitational Volleyball Championship
  1994	Wright State	16-13	5-5	6th	Midwestern Collegiate Quarterfinals
  1995	Wright State	23-10	9-5	4th	Midwestern Collegiate Semifinals
  1996	Wright State	10-23	6-8	6th	Midwestern Collegiate Quarterfinals
  1997	Wright State	10-21	2-10	T-6th	Midwestern Collegiate Quarterfinals
  Total	Wright State (7 seasons)	119-116 (.506)	48-42 (.533)
  1998	Duquesne	8-20	3-17	10th
  1999	Duquesne	10-22	4-14	8th
  2000	Duquesne	15-16	4-12	7th
  2001	Duquesne	16-10	8-8	T-5th
  2002	Duquesne	18-12	7-7	T-4th
  2003	Duquesne	13-17	6-8	6th
  2004	Duquesne	15-16	7-7	4th	Atlantic 10 Semifinals
  2005	Duquesne	15-13	5-8	4th West
  2006	Duquesne	11-21	4-9	4th West
  2007	Duquesne	10-19	2-11	5th West
  2008	Duquesne	15-14	3-10	5th West
  2009	Duquesne	16-14	6-9	T-6th
  2010	Duquesne	23-10	10-5	4th	Atlantic 10 Semifinals
  2011	Duquesne	19-13	8-7	5th	Atlantic 10 Semifinals
  2012	Duquesne	22-11	9-5	4th	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2013	Duquesne	20-10	12-2	1st	Atlantic 10 Champions, NCAA First Round
  2014	Duquesne	16-12	9-5	T-3rd	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2015	Duquesne	14-15	8-6	T-5th	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2016	Duquesne	18-12	8-6	T-4th	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2017	Duquesne	13-16	8-6	4th	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2018	Duquesne	12-16	6-8	T-5th	Atlantic 10 First Round
  2019	Duquesne	10-17	4-10	8th
  2020	Duquesne*	1-8	1-8	T-4th West
  2021	Duquesne	13-16	7-9	5th	Atlantic 10 Second Round
  2022	Duquesne	8-22	5-13	8th
  2023	Duquesne	11-15	6-12	7th
  2024	Duquesne	13-17	4-14	8th
  Totals	Duquesne (27 seasons)	375-404 (.482)	164-236 (.410)
  Total	Career (34 seasons)	494-520 (.488)

  
  * - The Atlantic 10 played an abbreviated divisional season and four-team Championship in the spring of 2021 due to a national pandemic (Duquesne competed in the West Division); DU did not play a non-conference schedule in 2020
  

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