Loyola University New Orleans Women's Volleyball

Robert Pitre joined the Wolf Pack womens volleyball staff in the spring of 2018, helping to guide Loyola to the quarterfinals of the SSAC Championship tournament in his first year. In his second year as assistant coach in 2019, the Pack went 9-4 in SSAC play, the best conference record since 2011, while finishing with 19 wins overall, the highest mark since 2012. Pitre came to Loyola after coaching the Mississippi Gulf Coast Volleyball Club to a 16-10 record. During the 2017 volleyball season as the assistant coach at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore., he helped guide the team to a historic year, garnering the most conference wins in school history. Earning their first playoff appearance for the program since 2014, their season was highlighted by an upset against the No. 15 team in the country, Corban University. Working with the 16U Webfoot Juniors Volleyball Club in Eugene, Ore. during the 2015-16 season, the team went 16-2 and placed eighth at the Pacific Northwest Qualifier in 2017. Pitres other coaching experiences include volunteering with NCU volleyball during the 2014-15 season and earning the 2010 Baseball Willamette Valley Championship as the 12U Willamette Valley Babe Ruth Volunteer Head Coach. He graduated with Cum Laude Honors from the University of Oregon in June of 2015 with a bachelors degree in economics. Pitre married his wife, Kelly Pitre, in 2015 and welcomed his first child in the winter of 2016, Elijah.