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Head Coach Todd Dagenais

Todd Dagenais enters his second season as the Knights' head coach in 2009.

In his sophomore campiagn with the Black and Gold, Dagenais' helped guide outside hitter Erin Campbell to the team's second-consecutive All-Conference USA selection when she was honored with a spot on the league's second team at the conclusion of the 2009 season.

In his first campaign at UCF, Dagenais made his presence known and proved quickly that he has what it takes to put UCF volleyball on the national map.

Under Dagenais, the Knights posted a 15-17 overall record, its best mark since 2003, and matched its best Conference USA record, going 6-10 in the fifth-toughest volleyball conference in the nation.

UCF jumped from 244 to 113 on the NCAA Women's Volleyball RPI with Dagenais at the helm, an improvement of 131 spots and defeated five teams in C-USA that it had never previously beaten: East Carolina, Marshall, SMU, Tulsa and UTEP.

Additional firsts for the UCF volleyball program were acheived under the guidance of Dagenais in 2008, as Jenny Heppert became the first UCF volleyball player to be named an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American® after being named to the second team in 2008, while Stephanie Serna became the first Knight to be voted onto an All-C-USA Volleyball Team, earning second team honors at the conclusion of the season. Serna would then go on to earn AVCA All-Midwest Regional Honorable Mention honors. Lauren Rosenthal added to the firsts when she became the first UCF volleyball player to be named a C-USA Player of the Week, earning Setter of the Week honors on two occasions.

Dagenais also managed to bring in one of the most dominant volleyball teams in NCAA history when Stanford helped the Knights open the newly completed Venue at UCF on Sept. 2. A record 1,568 fans came to the opening match in which Dagenias and the Knights also honored the 1978 UCF volleyball squad that claimed the AIAW National Championship.

In the summer of 2009, Daganais served as a member of the staff at the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryout at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dagenais was a court coach and evaluator at the event, putting the players through physical testing, drills and match play.

The skipper was also selected by Championship Productions, one of the countries leading sports instructional video companies, to make an instructional video on how to train a libero.

Before assuming the post at UCF, Dagenais spent three seasons as the assistant head coach at the University of Southern California where he helped guide the Trojans to a 29-5 record in 2007 and a trip to the 2007 NCAA Final Four for the fourth time in six seasons. USC closed out a successful 2007 campaign by ranking third in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) poll.

Coach Dagenais was also part of the USA Volleyball National Team Coaching Delegation to the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He spent prior time as a volunteer assistant coach with the USA National Team and joined the team on domestic and foreign tours. Since his involvement in the 2004 Olympics, Dagenais has continued his work with USA volleyball as a lead court coach and director of USA High Performance tryouts.

Adding to his coaching accomplishments in 2007, Dagenais was the head coach for the USA White Select National Team that won the silver medal at the USA Volleyball High Performance National Championships.

Prior to his appointment at USC, Dagenais spent one season with USA Volleyball working to identify and develop future National Team players. From 1998-2003 he served as the Associate Head Volleyball Coach at Michigan State University where they competed in the NCAA Tournament all five seasons during Dagenais' tenure. Dagenais was also an assistant coach at Northern Michigan in 1998, serving as the recruiting and travel coordinator for the Wildcats which competed in the NCAA Division II Tournament.

Dagenais received his bachelor's degree in sports medicine (with an emphasis in exercise physiology) from Central Michigan in 1995. He played on the Chippewas' men's club team for four years and was also a certified athletic trainer.

His coaching philosophy has been a fusion of several different styles learned while working under Former National Team and Michigan State Head Coach Chuck Erbe, 2000 Olympic Team Head Coach Toshi Yoshida, and 2004 Olympic Head Coach and current University of Southern California Head Coach Mick Haley.

"Chuck taught me that the discipline of the game is paramount to a student-athlete over-achieving on off the court," Dagenais said. "Toshi taught me to see the game at the International Level, and showed me how a small matter of a few degrees of excellence means the difference of being in position to be successful or not. Mick is probably the most amazing people manager I have ever worked with. He is such a creative volleyball thinker, always finding a way to maximize individual members of a team toward a collective goal. I learned so much from his ability to manage a match in the most critical situations."