Seton Hill University Women's Basketball

Nick Volchok will begin his first season as the head coach of the Griffins during the 2026-27 season.   Volchok has spent the past three season as an assistant at Marist.  In his three seasons with the Red Foxes, Volchok coached three All MAAC performers and two MAAC All Rookie team selection.  The 2024-25 team finished with 16 wins, 11 conference wins which doubled the win totals from the previous season.   Prior to Marist, Volchok spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Iona.   In his two seasons with the Gaels, Volchok helped lead them to 43 wins and 2022-23 MAAC Championship. He assisted with head coach Billi Chambers on offensive implementation and was in charge of player development which included Player of the Year Juana Camilion and All MAAC performers Kate Mager and Ketsia Athias. Volchok was also very successful at the AAU level, as the owner, director and head coach of the Empire State Basketball Club.  His program was nationally recognized as one of the premier youth basketball clubs in the Northeast.  Volchok was also the head coach at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, turning around the program during his five-year stint. He inherited a team that won just five games the year prior, eventually leading the program to three straight NYSAIS State Championship appearances and a NYSAIS Championship in 2018-19. Volchok was a finalist for the Lohud Coach of the Year that season. Volchok received his Associate's Degree in Communications from Rockland CC in 2002 and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism & Mass Media from Mercy College in 2004. He played one season at Rockland CC, setting a single-season program record for three-pointers made and was named Second Team All-Region and All-Conference. Volchok continued on to Mercy, where he was a 1,000-point scorer. He went on to play three seasons of professional basketball in Germany and Italy, before returning stateside and spending time with the Westchester Phantoms and Portland Chinooks. Volchok was inducted into the Rockland Community College Hall of Fame in 2018.