Caitlin Schweihofer

Biography

Caitlin Schweihofer was named the Rutgers head women’s volleyball coach on January 15, 2020 and will enter her seventh season at Rutgers in 2026. In Schweihofer’s first season “On The Banks” in the spring of 2021, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights established themselves as a program on the rise with numerous program and Big Ten firsts. Among the Scarlet Knights’ spring 2021 accomplishments were the first-ever All-Big Ten honoree, first-ever home-opening Big Ten victory, first-ever Big Ten series sweep, set victories over more than one Top 10 program along with the team’s first-ever wins over Indiana and Michigan State. RU established new team, season and match records for aces and reset program Big Ten game bests in kills, attempts, attack percentage and assists and individual conference superlatives in attack percentage, assists and digs. The second season of the Schweihofer era saw the Scarlet Knights move a majority of its home games to Jersey Mike’s Arena (formerly known as The RAC) playing members of the nation’s top conference in the 8,000-seat arena. Rutgers captured set wins over #8 Purdue and #15 Penn State and took Illinois to five sets in front of a national audience on BTN. The fall of 2022 saw RU 3-0 for the first time since 1998 with four Scarlet Knights named to All-Tournament squads. By the season’s end, Rutgers had 11 entries on the rally-era season leaders list including Megan Vernon who wrapped up her career ranked second in the rally era in solo blocks in only t