E-mail Coach Segal at segalala@mail.armstrong.edu.

Alan Segal begins his seventh season as head coach of the Armstrong Atlantic State University volleyball squad after leading the Pirates to their fifth straight NCAA Championships berth in 2004. The five straight years of NCAA postseason play represent the third-longest postseason streak at AASU, behind only the men's and women's tennis teams.

The 1999 and 2000 Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year, Segal and the Pirates compiled a 29-8 record in 2004 and finished the season ranked No. 21 in the final AVCA/Division II national rankings, the highest ranking ever received by the AASU volleyball program.

In six seasons, Segal has compiled a 175-57 overall record at AASU and has a 215-89 overall head coaching record in seven seasons.

In his first season as the Pirates' head coach, Segal directed the Pirates to 29 consecutive victories to start the season and finished the year with a school-record 36 wins. Segal also directed a 23 and a half-game turnaround from a team that finished 8-24 the year before, the best single-season turnaround in the NCAA that season.

Segal's second season at AASU saw the Pirates achieve their first AVCA Division II national ranking (No. 24) and advance to their first NCAA Division II National Championship appearance. AASU won its first post-season match, 3-1 over USC Spartanburg, and also had one of its players earn AVCA All-Region honors for the first time in school history in middle hitter Sarah Haynes.

The Pirates matched their 29-10 record in Segal's third season and made their second-straight trip to the NCAAs, while the 2002 season saw AASU capture its first Peach Belt Conference tournament championship and automatic berth to the NCAAs. In 2003, AASU overcame a 1-5 start to finish the 2003 season witha 22-14 record, the fifth straight year of 20 or more wins for AASU - witha team that included no seniors.

Prior to joining the AASU coaching ranks, Segal coached for two years at Michigan Tech, where he led the Huskies to a 40-32 record over two seasons and a No. 23 national ranking at the end of the 1997 season. Before his inaugural collegiate head coaching position, Segal was an assistant coach at Florida Southern College from 1994-96, where the Mocs advanced to NCAA Tournament play two of three seasons.

Segal has also accumulated coaching experience as head girls' volleyball coach at Agoura High School (1989-92), where he led the team to the Division 3A finals in the California Interscholastic Federation in 1989; assistant men's coach for Pierce Junior College in Woodland Hills, Calif. (1989-91); assistant women's coach at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill. (1988-89); assistant women's coach at Delta Junior College in Stockton, Calif. (1983-84); assistant women's coach at Cosummes River College in Sacramento, Calif. (1982); and assistant girls' coach at Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (1980).

Segal is a 1982 graduate of California State University at Sacramento, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in recreation administration. An active member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, Segal is on the 40-member coaches panel that determines the AVCA Division II Top 25 each week.

Segal is also a veteran volleyball official. He officiated the National Junior College Championships in both 1994 and 1995 and for the past ten years has been one of the top-rated officials on the AVP Professional Beach Tour.

Born March 16, 1959, Segal is single and resides in Savannah, Ga.