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Record: 132-23 (2003-present)
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Paco Labrador was selected as Wittenberg University's head women's volleyball coach in April 2003. He picked up right where Connie Surowicz, the winningest coach in program history, left off before moving on to Ashland University.
Labrador inherited a veteran team and guided it to North Coast Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championships in 2003 and 2004. After graduating four All-Americans, all Labrador did was lead his team to back-to-back NCAA Division III Tournament Final Fours - the best runs in the national tournament in school history. He has coached several highly decorated players, including Sarah Yuskewich, Wittenberg's first three-time All-American, first-team All-Great Lakes Region honoree and NCAC Player of the Year. Yuskewich and Emilie Schmid, winner of the NCAC's Libero of the Year in 2003 and 2004, are national record-holders in assists and digs, respectively, under Labrador's tutelage.
In just four years, Labrador already ranks first in school history in coaches winning percentage and second in total victories. He has led his team to three NCAC regular season titles and three NCAC Tournament crowns, and his teams have reached the NCAA Division III Tournament four straight seasons. His national tournament record is a sparkling 9-4, and his teams have captured three Great Lakes Regional titles in his four years.
In addition, Wittenberg has posted 35 wins twice in the last four years to establish a new benchmark for wins in a season, and the 2004 team that posted a 35-3 overall record set an NCAC mark for total wins and winning percentage as well. Labrador was named Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year in 2004 and NCAC Coach of the Year in 2006.
Labrador graduated from Hiram College, a member of the NCAC along with Wittenberg, in 1995 with degrees in psychology and exercise and sport science, and he also holds a master of science from Miami University in sport studies, which he earned in 1997. He came to Wittenberg after four years as an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) University, where he was active in all phases of the program, including scouting and game preparation, recruiting, skill development and summer camps.
Labrador's coaching experience is extensive, including three years as a student assistant coach at Hiram. He worked with USA Junior Olympic Volleyball from 1995-2000 while serving as an assistant coach at Miami for two years, the University of Maryland for a year and Miami again for four years.
In addition to his responsibilities at Wittenberg, Labrador, who resides in Columbus with his wife, Jill, was selected as a keynote speaker for the 2006 Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association preseason clinic. More than 400 coaches from all four High School divisions attended Labrador’s sessions on drills, libero development, scouting and match management. He also coached the Ohio Valley Region Girls High Performance Camp Team in 2003. This program was designed as a talent identification method and feeder system for the USA Women's National Team.
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Brittany Baume, a 2003 graduate of Wittenberg University, was named assistant volleyball coach prior to the 2005 season.
Baume enjoyed four standout seasons as an outside hitter for the Tigers between 1999 and 2002. In 1999, she was named North Coast Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year, the only player in the history of the conference to be honored with both titles in the same season. She added first-team All-NCAC honors and All-Great Lakes Region honors in 1999 and 2000.
A three-year captain, Baume ranks seventh in school history with 1,234 career kills, and her 602 kills in 2000 also puts her seventh in school history. She garnered third-team Verizon Academic All-District IV honors in 2001 and second-team in 2002.
Last year Baume served as a volleyball graduate assistant coach at Urbana University and helped the Blue Knights to a school record 29 wins on the season. She also serves as a Junior Olympic volleyball official for the Ohio Valley Region.
Baume, who will also work with the Tiger women's basketball program as an assistant coach, earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Wittenberg. Immediately after graduation, Baume was a supervisor for the Science Resource Center at The American School in Tokyo, Japan.
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