PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full Name: Dan Gwitt
Alma Mater: Penn St., '07
Wife: Sydney
COACHING EXPERIENCE:
2008-09: Centenary (LA), Head Coach
2018-21: Indiana, Assistant Coach
2022-23: Penn St., Assistant Coach
2024-PR: Miami, Head Coach
POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE:
CAREER COACHING RECORD:
| Year |
Record |
Pct. |
Conf. |
Pct. |
Finish |
| 2008 |
4-26 |
.133 |
0-16 |
.000 |
9th |
| 2009 |
4-26 |
.133 |
0-18 |
.000 |
10th |
| 2024 |
8-21 |
.276 |
2-16 |
.111 |
10th |
| Career |
16-73 |
.180 |
2-50 |
.038 |
|
|
Dan Gwitt enters his second season as the leader of the Miami Volleyball team in 2025. Gwitt was named the fifth head coach in the program's history on Feb. 5, 2024.
Gwitt came to Oxford after serving two years as an assistant coach at Penn State, his alma mater.
Gwitt was part of back-to-back trips to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2022 and 2023 and helped sign a top-10 recruiting class in each of his two years on Penn State's staff. The Nittany Lions produced a total of seven All-Big Ten players and two AVCA All-Americans during Gwitt's tenure, finishing with a win-loss record of 49-17 over that span.
Gwitt spent the previous four seasons as an assistant coach at Indiana. In his first season with the Hoosiers, the team's defense improved in total blocks from 277th in the nation to 15th and improved its conference record by six wins from the previous campaign. Gwitt coached two All-Big Ten players and also helped ink the top recruiting class in program history, including IU's first-ever Under Armour All-Americans.
Gwitt began his coaching career at Centenary College, which was then a Division I program in the Summit League. Gwitt became Centenary's interim head coach in 2007, making him the youngest Division I head coach in the country at the time. He spent three seasons with the Pride, coaching more than 70 matches by the age of 24.
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Gwitt served as the director of operations and master coach for two of the largest and most successful clubs in Southern California between 2009 and 2018. He took multiple teams to the Open Division for the Girls Junior National Championships. All of those teams finished in the Division 1 SCVA rankings, including a 17s team that finished as the top ranked team in the SCVA.
Originally hailing from Eden, New York, Gwitt graduated from Penn State in 2007 with a degree in communication arts and sciences. During his time as a member of the men's volleyball team under the guidance of current head coach Mark Pavlik, he helped the Nittany Lions clinch the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Championship and make a memorable trip to the NCAA Final Four.
