California University of Pennsylvania

Peter Letourneau enters his third year as the head coach at Cal U.

In 2012, Letourneau guided the program to its seventh 30-win season in the last eight years and a seventh-consecutive appearance in the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championship. The Vulcans finished with a 30-8 overall record and featured a trio of seniors on the All-PSAC West First-Team.

Letourneau was named the PSAC West Coach of the Year in 2011 after leading the program to a 33-5 overall record and its seventh PSAC Championship. He coached four All-PSAC West selections and helped guided the Vulcans to the top seed in the NCAA Atlantic Regional Tournament.

In addition to success on the court, Letourneau has mentored a premier program in the classroom. The Vulcans have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award in each of the past two seasons and received the league’s inaugural Team GPA Award during the 2011-12 academic year. During Letourneau’s tenure, Meghan Franz became the program’s first two-time Academic All-American and Abbey Freund received the PSAC Champion Scholar Award in back-to-back years.

He previously 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 his 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 his 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 in 1989.

Letourneau, who graduated from Towson (Md.) in 2003, and his wife Barbara have a son, Nathaniel.


LETOURNEAU YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD

updated as of Aug. 13, 2013