San Diego State alum Kyp Harasymowycz (HAIR-uh-sim-MOE-vich)
returns for his second year at Circle City. He is also in his third
straight season as the girls volleyball assistant at the University
of Indianapolis. Prior to helping UIndy to 62 wins over the past two
seasons ('07 & '08), Harasymowycz was Butera’s top assistant in 2004
before moving on to the assistant position at Missouri Western
State.
Last season, Harasymowycz helped guide the Greyhounds to a win at
the NCAA Midwest Regional for the second straight year. UIndy's 2008
schedule included 17 matches versus NCAA-tournament teams, as the
Hounds still managed to equal the program's second-highest win total
ever (29).
In 2007, Harasymowycz helped Indianapolis to a record-breaking 33
victories, a nine-win jump from 2006. The '07 slate including a
program-best 18 GLVC wins, a 25-match win streak and the club's
first ever NCAA victory.
In between his two spells at
Indianapolis, Harasymowycz had a pair of productive seasons
at MWSU. In 2005, he helped direct the Griffons to a
17-15 record and a quarterfinal appearance in the Mid-American
Intercollegiate Altheitcs Association tournament.
After a sudden retirement by the MWSU head coach prior to the 2006
season, Harasymowycz accepted the Acting Head Coach position.
The Griffons would compile a winning record by posting a 16-15 mark
and would again lose in the conference quarterfinals.
Under the first-time head coach’s guidance, the Griffons attained
multiple highlights during the 2006 season. In the season’s opening
match, MWSU set a school record by pounding 20 service aces in a
sweep versus
Christian Brothers. Missouri Western won at
Emporia State
for the first time in six seasons and swept rival Northwest Missouri
State at home for the first time in five years. Individually, one
of Harasymowycz’s ‘06 recruits set a school mark with 40 digs in a
single match and went on the tally the second-highest single-season
dig total in school history.
Harasymowycz also coached at the Bowling Green State
University volleyball camp in the summer of 2008 and served as the Head
Camp Coach for the All-American Team Volleyball Camps in
various locations in Illinois the three summers prior.
Before that, he coached girls' varsity volleyball in Brocton, N.Y.
(2002 and ‘03) and the boys varsity squad at
East Aurora,
N.Y. in 2001.
He was an assistant coach for the Eden Mizuno boys' club team from
2001-04, helping the team to a No. 5 national ranking and a
fifth-place finish at the 2004 17-and-under Nationals.
A member of the
American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), Harasymowycz
graduated from San Diego State in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in
music and a concentration in piano, voice, and choral conducting.
He has performed in 20 musicals, three operas and conducted in five
countries. Harasymowycz was also a staff accompanist at SUNY
College at Fredonia.
He was an all-star in baseball, basketball and volleyball at
Williamsville North
High School in Buffalo, N.Y.
Harasymowycz and his wife Courtney reside in New Whiteland, Ind.
with their dog, Lucy. The couple is expecting its first child in April of 2010.
