Wittenberg athletics announced the hiring of Ryan Thompson as the second men's volleyball coach in program history in June 2017.

Wittenberg Highlights

• Thompson holds a 42-34 overall record as head coach with an 18-10 mark in conference action.
• Led Wittenberg to their first conference regular-season title in program history, taking the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference crown with an 11-3 conference record.
• Dominic Melchiorre earned 2020 AMCC Newcomer of the Year honors. Fellow Tigers joined Melchiorre on the All-AMCC list including, Jackson Tyler on the First Team, along with Noah Wissel and Fred Halper earning Second Team honors.
• Thompson led a trio of All-AMCC award winners in 2019 which included Isaiah Brock, Ashton Sellers, and Deion Woodson.
• Multiple All-Academic awards winners.

Prior Coaching Experience

• As an assistant coach at Carthage College the team won four regular-season conference championship, two conference tournaments and was selected to go to the NCAA Men's Div. III Championships twice.
• In 2014, the team reached the Final Four, and in 2016, the team made it to the Elite Eight.
• In addition to coaching at Carthage, Thompson spent the last three years building the Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Club's boys program from the ground up.
• In 2016, he coached the Milwaukee Sting 18-Gold team to a fifth-place finish in the Open Division at the Boys Junior National Championships in Dallas, Texas. The previous year, he led the Milwaukee Sting 17-Gold team to a fifth-place finish in the Open Division at nationals in Columbus, Ohio.
• Thompson spent eight years at West Allis Lightning as a boys coach for teams of various age levels, all of which qualified for the Open Division of Boys Junior Nationals.
• In 2007, his team finished fifth in 15 Open, in 2013, his team finished third in 15 Open and in 2014, his team finished ninth in 16 Open.
• Thompson has had five athletes named to the USAV All-Tournament team, three athletes named Fab 50 by Volleyball Magazine, three athletes named to the U.S. Men's Junior National Team, and two athletes named to the U.S. Boys Youth National Team.
• During the 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Volleyball Season, he was a volunteer assistant coach at Marquette University, a team that qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the fifth year in a row under head coach Ryan Theis.

Personal

• A native of Elk Grove, Ill.
• Thompson is a Carthage College alum who played for the men's team from 2004-2007. In both 2005 and 2007, his team finished runner-up at the Molten Division III National Championships (as it was known before 2012).
• While at Carthage, Thompson's team won the 2004 NIRSA Div. II championship for college club teams in Charlotte, N.C.

Ryan Thompson Year-by-Year
Season	Overall	Conference
2018	14-11	4-5 (MCVL)
2019	21-11	11-3 (AMCC)
2020*	7-12	3-2 (AMCC)
Overall	42-34	18-10