Minot State University Women's Volleyball

Coach Josh Wastvedt was named the head coach for the Minot State volleyball program in January of 2026. Coach Wastvedt joins the Beaver athletic department after spending the past 7 seasons as the head girls and boys coach at Burnsville High School in Minnesota, and as head coach for the Mizuno Northern Lights Volleyball club. During his time at Burnsville, he was named Section 6AAAA Coach of the Year in 2021, 2022, and 2024 and guided Burnsville to the state tournament in 2022, the program's first state berth since 2009. He also guided the Mizuno Northern Lights club team to a 5th-place finish at the 2025 AAU National Volleyball Tournament. Prior to his time at Burnsville, Coach Wastvedt was head coach for Garrison-Max High School from 2017-19 where he was a Class B State Coach of the Year Finalist, was head coach at Williston High School from 2012-15, and head coach at Central Valley School from 2009-11, where he was an AVCA National High School Coach of the Year nominee. Coach Wastvedt also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Bismarck State (2015-16), and a 2012 graduate of Mayville State, he started his coaching career as a student assistant with the Comets. Coach Wastvedt earns his bachelor's degree in Physical Education & Elementary Education from Mayville State, and currently is finishing his master's in Physical Education: Coaching of Sport at Southwest Minnesota State.

Coach Zarr joined the Minot State volleyball program in the summer of 2025 as an assistant volleyball coach. After graduating college, Coach Zarr continued with volleyball in many facets including playing, coaching, helping run various tournaments, officiating North Dakota high school volleyball, running camps, and doing individual lessons. Coach Zarr helped start the Empire Volleyball Club in Minot in 2022 where she was co-head of coaches, assistant 18-1 coach, as well as club secretary. She helped develop and grow Minot area volleyball into a competitive travel organization where our top teams went to Nationals to compete in Florida. The Empire Volleyball Club has produced several athletes who have gone to Junior College, NAIA, NCAA D-II, and NCAA D-I schools.  Coach Zarr (Getchell) attended North Dakota State where she played 4 seasons as an outside hitter from 1996-2000 for the Bison, who advanced to the NCAA Tournament all 4 years and the Elite Eight her junior and senior years, and were the national runners-up in 1998. Coach Zarr received multiple awards and accolades while at NDSU, including being in the Top 10 in the conference in kills, kills/set, digs, digs/set, as well as All-Tournament Team, All-Conference, Academic All-Conference, Player of the Week, and the North Central Conference's Player of the Year in 1999. A native of Dayton, Minnesota, Coach Zarr attended Champlin Park High School from 1992-96 and played softball and volleyball. She earned All-Conference honors, was a team captain, and the Athena Award Winner. She also played travel ball for Northern Lights Volleyball for 3 years. Coach Zarr is married to Steve and they have 5 kids: Jack, Owen, Jaeger, Zoe and Autumn. The Zarrs have lived in Minot since 2006. 

Coach Wondrasek joined the Beaver volleyball staff as an assistant coach in the summer of 2024. Wondrasek is a graduate of Minot State who played 4 years as a middle blocker for the Beavers (2016-2019), recording 184 kills in 75 matches with 49 blocks and 58 digs. She also was named to the NSIC All-Acacdemic Team multiple times during her career. Nicole is originally from Russell, Manitoba.