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Alan Segal joined the UAB volleyball staff in March of 2008 and brings 11 years of head coaching experience and more than 270 career victories to the UAB bench. Prior to his appointment at UAB, Segal spent nine seasons as the head coach at Armstrong Atlantic where he led the Pirates to back-to-back Peach Belt Conference regular season titles, the first two league volleyball titles in school history. A three-time Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year, Segal and the Pirates finished the 2006 season with a 20-15 record, captured the regular season league title and advanced to the PBC Tournament championship match for the eighth straight year. AASU also had its first CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree in Traci Knuth, the two-time Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year, and the squad earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the first time in program history as the Pirates compiled a 3.43 team GPA. In nine seasons, Segal compiled a 233-104 (.691) overall record at Armstrong Atlantic and owns a 273-136 (.667) overall head coaching record in 11 seasons. In his first season as the Pirates' head coach, Segal directed the program to 29 consecutive victories to start the season and finished the year with a school record 36 wins. Segal also directed a 23 1/2-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 Championship. AASU won its first postseason match, 3-1, over USC Spartangberg and also had one of its players earn AVCA All-Region honors for the first time in school history. 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 season with a 22-14 record, the fifth straight year of 20 or more wins for the program. The Pirates made another NCAA appearance in 2004 and won the school's first-ever regular season Peach Belt title in 2005. 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 from 1994-96, where the Mocs twice advanced to NCAA Tournament play. 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 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. Segal is also a veteran volleyball official. He officiated the National Junior College Championships in both 1994 and 1995 and for the past 13 years has been one of the top-rated officials on the AVP Professional Beach Tour. Born March 16, 1959, Segal resides in Vestavia Hills, Ala. |
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