Brian Bartczak

Assistant Coach, Volleyball
E-mail: bbartcza@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-2378
At NMU Since 2009

Brian Bartczak enters his first season as an assistant coach with the Northern Michigan University volleyball program. Bartczak worked with Yoder at Michigan Tech and Cameron University. During the 2006 season, he helped lead the Aggies to a 25-4 record and the Lone Star Conference North Division title.

He served as the interim head coach during the spring of 2007 at Cameron after Yoder accepted the head coaching position with the Wildcats. At Cameron, he assisted with all aspects of the volleyball program including planning daily practice sessions, scouting opponents and coordinating the off-season training. Bartczak was the student-assistant coach with the Huskies during the 2004 season. At MTU, Bartczak assisted with drills at practices and in coordinating high school volleyball tournaments.   

From 2005-06, Bartczak was an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University. In 2005, that squad went 31-4, won the Lone Star Conference title and finished second in the Southwest region.

Bartczak was recently the head coach and assistant club director for the Main Beach Laguna 17-1 Volleyball Club in California.   He has been an assistant coach with the San Bernardino Valley College women’s team and the Irvine Valley College men’s team. Irvine Valley won the 2008 California Community College Athletic Association men's volleyball championship.

Bartczak has coached on the high school level at Valencia High School and at Fairmont Prep Academy in California. While at MTU, he helped found the Keweenaw Select Volleyball Club. 

During his prep career at Valencia High School, Bartczak was named the Orange League most valuable player as a senior. He still holds nine hitting and passing records at his high school. Bartczak played football and was on the men’s club volleyball team for the Huskies. With the men’s volleyball team, Bartczak was a player-coach and a two-time first-team NIVC selection. 

He has worked volleyball camps at the University of Michigan, Pepperdine and at UCLA.

A 2005 graduate of MTU with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, he also received a coaching certificate endorsed by Michigan State University the same year. Bartczak is currently working on a master’s of liberal studies with an emphasis in health and human performance from Ft. Hays State University.