Ben Kaszeta was named Minot State University's eighth head volleyball coach in school history.
| Season |
W |
L |
Conference |
| 2015 |
3 |
24 |
16th - NSIC |
| TOTAL |
3 |
24 |
|
During the 2015 season Kaszeta coached four senior athletes inlcuding Mallory Sall and Tara Dabovich who are listed in the Minot State all-time career statistics leaderboard in several areas. He also coached Kelsey Dewulf in her first season where she ranked in the top 10 in the NSIC in assists per game with 8.96.
Kaszeta has been involved in coaching at the collegiate level since 2007 and at all levels since 1998.
Kaszeta worked under Jacksonville State's Terry Gamble in 2014, helping the Gamecocks to an 18-16 overall record and a 9-7 conference mark. He coached one season at NCAA Division I McNeese State University, also under head coach Gamble, in 2013. He served as the team's recruiting coordinator at both schools.
Prior to his two seasons in NCAA DI volleyball, he was the head coach at NCAA Division II Lake Superior State from 2010-12. He had three All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference players and eight GLIAC All-Academic players in two seasons.
He started his collegiate coaching career at Mott Community College in 2007 and spent two seasons as the head coach. He moved to on to his Alma Mater Eastern Michigan University as a volunteer assistant coach in 2009.
Along with his collegiate coaching experience, he has been involved with both club and USA volleyball since 1998. He spent 2013 as the Cowgirl Volleyball Club's lead trainer and was an assistant and head coach at USA Volleyball Lakeshore Region High Performance from 2009-2012. He was the Youth Team's head coach in 2012. He also spent time coaching at Huron Valley Volleyball (2008-11), Michigan Elite Volleyball Club (2004-08) and Oxford AAU Volleyball.
Kaszeta served as the head coach of the Huron Valley 17 National Team for four years and assisted with Lakeshore Region Youth Select Team, which qualified for the USA Volleyball High Performance Championship in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He served as the program's head coach in 2012 and led the team to a seventh place finish at the USAV HPC in Des Moines, Iowa.
Prior to his collegiate coaching, Kaszeta served as the junior varsity coach at Adams High School from 2000-02 as well as the head coach and camp director from 2002-07. He has coached both track & field and cross country at the high school level.
Kaszeta, a native of Rochester, Mich., graduated from Eastern Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2010.
