Brittany Schmidt joins the Pirate volleyball coaching staff as an assistant for the 2009 season.

Schmidt has spent the past four seasons as the assistant coach at Wittenberg University, where she helped the Tigers to three straight NCAA Division III Final Four appearances and a cumulative 142-17 record over those four years.

She was also recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches’ Association (AVCA) as one of the top young volleyball coaches in America with a Thirty Under 30 Award in 2009.

A former North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year for Wittenberg, Schmidt played for the Tigers from 1999-2002 and earned two-time All-Great Lakes Region honors.

Schmidt earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Wittenberg in 2003 and her master’s degree from the University of Dayton. She and AASU head women’s basketball coach Matt Schmidt were recently married this summer and the couple live in Savannah.