After a successful tenure as the head coach at Frostburg State, Peter Letourneau enters his first season as the head coach at Cal U in 2011.
Letourneau, who was hired in March, inherits a program that has won three of the last four PSAC Championships and reached the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last five years.
He served as head coach at Frostburg State, a NCAA Division III program in Frostburg, Md., for six years. He also was an assistant volleyball coach at Rutgers in 2004.
While at Frostburg State, Letourneau posted a 145-60 record (.707) with 93 wins over the last three seasons. He led the Bobcats to four-straight conference tournament titles as a member of both the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) and Capital Athletic Conference (CAC). Frostburg State also made the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four years and advanced to the regional championship for the first time in school history in 2010.
After leading the program to its first 30-win season since 2004, he was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year in 2009. The following year, Letourneau received CAC Coach of the Year honors after Frostburg State went 34-4 behind the play of CAC Player of the Year and Academic All-American Sarah Stephens.
Letourneau served as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Rutgers in 2004 and helped the Scarlet Knights post a 16-10 overall record, which featured a nine-match road winning streak and an upset of eventual conference runner-up Pittsburgh.
Prior to his stint at Rutgers, he served as the head coach of both the men’s and women’s volleyball programs at Stevenson, a Division III program in Owings Mills, Md., from 2001-03.
Before Stevenson, Letourneau coached the Time Out Junior Olympic Volleyball Club. He has also coached at numerous camps over his career, including the Gold Medal Squared Volleyball Camp and UNC Volleyball Camp. In 2002, he received a Program Level I coaching accrediation from the USA Volleyball.
Letourneau gained valuable experience during his playing career. Over his six-year stint with the United States Air Force (1992-98), he was selected to the All-Services Volleyball Team and the All-Air Force Team (1994-95). He also played on the Florida Pro-Beach Volleyball Tour (1990-92) and began his playing career at East Stroudsburg University in 1989.
Letourneau, who graduated from Towson (Md.) in 2003, and his wife Barbara have a son, Nathaniel.
