Katy Peterson returned to the Minnesota State University Moorhead volleyball coaching staff in 2010 and is her ninth season overall as a Dragon assistant coach.
Since 2010, Peterson has coached nine players who have earned All-NSIC honors, including three first-team selections, including middle hitter Kaitlin VanWinkle in 2014.
During the past five years, Peterson has helped the Dragons to a 72-68 overall record and three winning seasons. She has helped coach an All-American (Katy Ness in 2012), the NSIC Libero of the Year (Ness in 2012). The Dragons were also ranked in the AVCA Division II Top 25 in 2012.
This is Peterson's second stint as Dragon assistant coach. She served as the top assistant coach for the Dragons (2003-05) and helped guide the Dragons to a 65-27 (.706) record during that time, including an NCAA postseason berth in 2005. The Dragons were ranked in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Top 25 poll in two of those three seasons.
During her first stint at MSUM, Peterson helped coach five All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference selections, one NSIC Freshman Player of the Year, one All-North Central Region selection and the program's first-ever AVCA honorable mention All-American. She also served as MSUM interim head coach during the 2003 spring season as well as during the first five weeks of the 2004 regular season.
A four-year starter, all conference and all-region player at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., Peterson was part of three North Central Conference championship and NCAA Division II Regional playoff teams (1997, 1999, 2000) and captained the Vikings to a NCAA Division II runner-up finish as a senior in 2000. She was selected for the All-Tournament team at the 2000 NCAA National tournament. Â
Peterson, who played in 425 games in an Augustana uniform, sits on several of the Vikings all-time career lists, including fourth on the all-time digs list with 1,450; fifth in attack attempts with 3,233; and ninth on the all-time kills list with 1,154. She also finished her collegiate career with 209 total blocks, 115 service aces while also registering an impressive .227 career attack percentage (1,154 kills - 419 attack errors - 3,233 attack attempts).
An All-North Central Region and All-North Central Conference player in 2000, Peterson was also named to the Augustana Dean’s List in each of her four years of school. Upon graduating from Augustana, she was the recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
The 2000 team was inducted into the Augustana Hall of Fame in October 2010
A native of Moorhead, Minn., Peterson graduated from Moorhead High School in 1997 before moving on to receive her bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Augustana in 2001. She received her master’s degree in education leadership from the University of North Dakota in August of 2005.
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