KC Johnsen
Coley Johnsen

KC Johnsen – KC has been coaching at the club level for 11 years and is the Varsity Coach of the Geneva Volleyball program for the past 7 seasons. KC is the 17’s representative for the Great Lakes Region. He currently coaches the 12 Gold team this year!
 

Coley Johnsen – Former Huskie standout Coley Pawlikowski returned to her alma mater in 2009, bringing well-rounded experience to the program. From 1999-2001, Coley (Johnsen) was a three-year starter as a defensive specialist. In 2001, she helped NIU win the Mid-American Conference tournament and earn a spot in the NCAA tournament, which is the last time that the Huskies achieved both feats.

Prior to her return to NIU, Pawlikowski served as head coach of the North Park Vikings from 2006-08 and left her mark on the program by taking a 5-28 team in 2006 to a 19-12 record in 2008. During that span, she led the Vikings to 37 wins. Additionally, she led North Park to a pair of tournament championships and produced the best outside hitter in the last 12 years of the program in Yaifeh Chafeh.

As a reward for her accomplishments in 2008, Pawlikowski was one of just four Division III women's volleyball coaches to earn the Thirty Under 30 Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association for being an up-and-coming coach under the age of 30.

Before her time with North Park, the Batavia, Ill. native was a part of the Geneva High School coaching staff from 2003-2005. She assisted with every level of the program from freshman to varsity under her father, K.C. Johnsen, who is the women's head coach.

In 2004, Pawlikowski was selected as one of 12 Great Lakes Region High Performance Coaches, who evaluate and train top junior club players in the region with techniques used by the U.S. National Team.

Since 1999, Pawlikowski has worked with the Kane County Juniors Volleyball Club team, serving as both an administrator and coach for the men's and women's programs. For the past five years, she has been the head coach of the 18s division. The 18s have won the Asics Championships in each of the last three years and her 18-Gold team has been a regular top 20 team in the Great Lakes Region, finishing 13th in the national division of the 2008 USAV Junior National Championships in Dallas.

Pawlikowski earned her bachelor's degree in communication from Northern Illinois University in 2004.

She is married to Dan Pawlikowski, who is also a member of the NIU volleyball coaching staff.

Michelle Cook

He was previously named Associate Head Coach at DIII North Park University after 3 seasons as an assistant there for his wife, Coley.  That team saw a marked improvement from a 6-26 record in 2005 under the previous staff to a 19-12 mark in their last season.

Prior to his time with the Vikings, Pawlikowski served on the men's coaching staff as the assistant from 2004-2006 at Loyola University Chicago, helping the Ramblers to their best season in program history in 2005 with a 26-3 record. During his three seasons at Loyola, the team went 72-13, won two MIVA conference regular season championships and had nine different players honored on the all-conference squad. While working mostly with the outside hitters and liberos, he helped three different players win Libero of the Year in the conference and saw four players earn AVCA All-America honors.

After his graduation from the University of Illinois where he earned his B.A. degree in English literature in 2001, Pawlikowski held assistant coaching positions with the girl's team at Glenbrook North High School, boy's team at Evanston Township High School and was head coach for both the boy's and girl's teams in the Adversity Volleyball club.

He has seen his former players accomplish many feats in the sport, including win an NCAA DI Men’s Championship and become professional players in Europe.

He received a scholarship to play at Dominican University, where he played his freshman year. He then transferred to play on the Northern Illinois University club team, where he is currently the captain and president of his team. He is also the NIU women’s volleyball team manager. He is studying accounting at NIU.

His first year of coaching was last year, 2009 season, when he coached 16 pink.