Dan Pawlikowski - Volleyball Coach - University of Michigan Athletics

Dan Pawlikowski

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
pawlikow@umich.edu

Pawlikowski joins the Wolverines after spending the 2022 season at UNLV as an assistant coach, helping the Rebels to a 26-5 overall and 17-1 conference record and serves the offensive coach.

In his first season with the program, Pawlikwoski helped the team to a 7-22 record and a 5-15 conference record. The Wolverines won four of their last nine matches including a win over Ohio State.

Before UNLV, Pawlikowski spent three years in Denmark coaching professional volleyball. During the 2021-22 season, he was the head coach of the Brøndby Volleyball Club, where he led the team to a Danish Senior League Championship title and the Denmark Cup National Championship title.

Prior to his time with Brøndby, Pawlikowski worked with Gentofte Volley in Copenhagen, Denmark as the men’s head coach and the women’s assistant coach. He led the men’s team to two Danish League Championships with back-to-back undefeated seasons, going 42-0 from 2019-21. He also assisted the women’s team to a silver medal, their highest-ever league finish in 2021.

Pawlikowski served as the second-ever head men's volleyball coach in program history at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, from 2017-19. He led the team to the inaugural Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Tournament title during his first season. In 2017, he aided Dominican to its second-ever NCAA Division III bid and a berth to the semifinals. Pawlikowski coached one AVCA All-American in Luke Spicer and an honorable mention for the All-America Team in Ethan Klosak.

Pawlikowski began his college coaching career at Loyola University in 2004, spending three seasons as an assistant men's volleyball coach. His career has also included stops at North Park, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Stony Brook.

Before coaching, Pawlikowski played at the high school and collegiate club levels with great success. In high school, he earned All-State first-team honors in 1996 and was inducted into the Loyola Academy Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. During college at Illinois, he helped the men’s club team to four top-10 finishes, two Big Ten and Two MIVA championships.

Pawlikowski graduated from the University of Illinois in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Cinema Studies.