Winona State University Women's Volleyball

Getzin is entering his third season as the head volleyball coach at Winona State. In his second year the Warriors continued to show improvement, reaching the NSIC Championship game. The team won 20 games and were ranked 22nd in the final AVCA Poll. During the season the Warriors had four wins over top-ten ranked opponents on the year. Upon completing his first season, Getzin helped lead the Warriors to one of their most successful years in program history. The Warriors finished 2014 with a 19-8 record and a 14-6 record in NSIC play, finishing fifth in the conference. Getzin's .703 win percentage in his first season at WSU marks the second-best single season win percentage in program history since LaVonne Fiereck led WSU to a 28-10 (.737) record in 1990. Getzin also helped mold outside hitter Danielle Rampart into a great player in her first year in the program, helping her earn all-NSIC First Team accolades as well as earn AVCA Central Region Freshman of the Year honors. The Warriors performed just as remarkably in the classroom away from the court under Getzin, earning the AVCA Team Academic Award for the ninth straight year. Before coming to WSU, Getzin spent 12 seasons as the head coach at Ole Miss, taking a program stuck at the bottom of the SEC and leading it to three appearances in the NCAA Tournament. An outstanding recruiter and in-game coach, Getzin was named the SEC Coach of the Year in both 2006 and 2007. Getzin also oversaw a team that was extremely successful in the classroom. During his 12 seasons on the Ole Miss bench, 59 volleyball players were named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll and 15 were Freshman Academic Honor Roll selections. His team captured the 2006 Chancellors Cup, given each year to the Ole Miss athletic program with the highest grade point average. Prior to earning the top job at Ole Miss, Getzin spent two seasons as the top assistant at South Carolina. Getzin helped the Gamecocks go 42-12 during the 2000-01 seasons, with the program advancing to the NCAA Tournament both years. Getzin spent the 2000 season as the head coach at the University of Portland after serving for three years as the head coach at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. Starting the program at Embry-Riddle from scratch, Getzin led the team into the NAIA national rankings in just the teams second year. He was also the director of the Yavapai Junior Volleyball Club from 1995-99, overseeing more than 100 players age 10-18. He spent the 1995-98 seasons as an assistant at South Carolina and was also an assistant at the University of Arizona from 1988-91, helping lead the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament in 1989 and 1990. Prior to coaching at Arizona, Getzin was the coach of the Southern Arizona junior team. Getzin began his coaching career at Saint Francis High School in Wheaton, Ill. from 1986-87 while also coaching the Chicago Breeze, a womens Major League Volleyball team. He also served as the Western Zonal Coordinator for the 1989 U.S. Olympic Festival. Getzin earned his bachelors degree in Physical Education from George Williams College in Downers Grove, Ill. in 1986. Getzin and his wife Andrea have two children, Sara Rose and Erin Elizabeth.  

Tricia Melfy was named the head volleyball coach in December 2025. Melfy brings over 25 years of volleyball coaching experience with over 400 career victories after most recently serving as the head volleyball coach at East Stroudsburg University.   During the 2025 season, Melfy was named the 2025 AVCA Atlantic Region Coach of the year after leading the ESU Warriors to a PSAC East Regular Season Championship, the PSAC Tournament Championship, and the program's first ever NCAA Division II National Tournament victory while coaching the AVCA Atlantic Region Player of the Year and a pair of AVCA All-Americans. At East Stroudsburg, Melfy led ESU to a pair of NCAA DII National Tournaments, four straight PSAC semifinal appearances, three PSAC East first-place finishes, and was named the PSAC East Coach of the Year in 2021 and most recently the AVCA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 2025.   In total, Melfy held a 102-46 (.689) record at East Stroudsburg with three consecutive 20-win seasons. Melfy tutored two All-Americans, one AVCA Atlantic Region Player of the Year, four PSAC East Player of the Year honorees and a PSAC East Defensive Player of the Year to go along with four Atlantic All-Region recipients, and 15 All-PSAC award winners.   Prior to ESU, served as the head women's volleyball coach for two seasons at Fort Lewis College. She spent two seasons as the head women's coach at Phoenix College after guiding the women's program at the University of Minnesota-Morris in 2015. During the 2014 season, Melfy was the first assistant coach at Minot State University (N.D.).   As a student-athlete, she was a two-time All-American at Arizona State University in the heptathlon (1992, 94) and twice qualified for the United States Olympic Trials (1992, 96). She was also an All-American in the heptathlon at Mesa Community College (1990). Melfy found her passion for volleyball competing on Mesa's Regional Runner-up Mesa volleyball team during the 1989-90 season.   Melfy received her bachelor of science degree in exercise science/physical education from Arizona State University in 1994. She earned her Physical Education Teacher Certification from Ottawa University in 1995, and her master of education in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University in 2002.