Mike Schwob enters his 12th season as head coach of the Navy women's volleyball team, his 13th year with the program and his 20th season at the Naval Academy. During his 11 years as the program's mentor, Navy has posted at least 20 victories in three seasons, tallied a 168-169 overall record and a 65-61 Patriot League record. Individually, his players have totaled 18 all-league certificates.

Schwob coached the Mids to their second-straight 21-win season in 2005, as well as to a Division I-best winning percentage of .724 (21-8). Navy also posted a school-high 10-4 record during the Patriot League season to earn the No. 2 seed in the league tournament, the highest postseason seeding by the program in six years.

For the team's efforts, Schwob was selected as Navy's 2005 Fall Coach of the Year.

Schwob originally joined the Navy women's staff in 1995 as an assistant coach after working with the men's program for seven seasons. He was elevated to head coach the following year and led the Mids to a winning Patriot League season during his inaugural campaign. Over the next two years he would garner league coach-of-the-year honors in 1997 and lead the Mids to their first overall winning season in five years in '98.

Schwob's fourth season of '99 would prove to be one of the program's best. Navy recorded 21 wins that years and, with a school-record nine league victories, entered the postseason as the top-seeded team in the Patriot League for the first time. The Mids would close the season by reaching the title match of the league tournament for the second time in Schwob's initial four years.

With many of the standouts from the '99 season gone, Schwob guided a 2000 squad with a lineup featuring two returning starters, a sophomore setter, two starters who had never played on the collegiate level and one who did not play the previous year to double-digit victories.

Only one starter returned from that 2000 team the following year as the Mids were tabbed to place seventh in the '01 league preseason poll. Despite that initial ranking, Navy would end the season in fifth place in the league and miss returning to the postseason by one victory.

Navy would climb even closer to the playoffs in '02, a year that saw the Mids tally eight league victories and 17 wins on the entire season. Navy ended the year tied for fourth place in the Patriot League, but missed the playoffs due to the league tiebreaker system.

After again placing fifth and narrowly missing the postseason during the '03 campaign, Navy broke through in '04 by tying for third place in the Patriot League with an 8-6 league record and totaling a 21-9 overall mark.

While team success is most important to Schwob, his players have consistently been recognized for their individual achievements, as well, totaling 18 all-league certificates during his tenure. Among the standouts he has coached are Rachel Shropa, who was honored as both the league's rookie ('96) and offensive player of the year ('97), and Jen Williams, who became the first player in league history to earn both offensive ('98) and defensive ('99) player-of-the-year accolades during her career. Both players were named to the league's all-decade team in the fall of 2000.

Schwob first arrived at the Naval Academy as an assistant for the men's team in '89, then became the team's head coach two years later. He guided the Mids to a 54-41 record in three varsity seasons before leading the team to a top-10 national ranking on the club level over his next two campaigns.

He returned to the men's game during the summer of '01 when he coached the All-Navy Team to victory at the United States Armed Forces Championship in Honolulu, Hawai'i, in December '03 when he served as an assistant coach for the All-Armed Forces Teams at the World Military Games in Italy, and as the head coach of the All-Navy team in '05 and '06.

A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Schwob received his bachelor's degree in education from George Mason in '88. A standout volleyball player himself, Schwob was a four-year letterwinner and played on NCAA Final Four teams in '85 and '88. He captained George Mason's '88 squad as a senior and earned All-East honors during his last two seasons. He also competed at the 1985 Olympic Sports Festival.

Schwob earned his master's degree in administration from Loyola (Md.) in '95 and taught elementary school in Anne Arundel County for eight years. His wife, Susan, was an All-ACC volleyball standout at Maryland. Mike and Susan are the parents of four boys: William (10), Robert (8), Brian (7) and Michael (3).