Coaches' Bios

Tammy Swearingen

Head Coach

When Tammy Swearingen won her 400th career match as the head coach of the Westminster College volleyball team in 2010 she became one of only 32 active NCAA Division III volleyball coaches to reach the milestone. Swearingen enters her 19th season as head coach in 2011 including her 12th season serving as Westminster’s assistant director of athletics.

Swearingen boasts an 18-year career record of 410-231 (.639) including 12 seasons with 20 or more wins and a pair of 30-win seasons.

Swearingen was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Coach of the Year for three straight years from 2006-08 while guiding Westminster to back-to-back PAC titles and the school’s first two automatic bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2007 and 2008. The Titans won three PAC titles under Swearingen since becoming eligible for the league crown in 2002.

Prior to joining NCAA Division III and the PAC, Swearingen led the Titans to the ECAC Division II Championship in 2001 and the NAIA’s Keystone-Empire Collegiate Conference (KECC) title in 1997 and 1994. The 1997 team also won the NAIA Northeast Region tournament title and went to the NAIA national tournament for the first time.

Prior to coming to Westminster in 1992, she was head volleyball coach at Mineral Ridge (1988-90) and Columbiana (1986-88) High Schools in her native Ohio. She was head women’s swimming coach at her alma mater, Youngstown State University, from 1984-87 (producing five All-Americans) after graduating from YSU in 1983.

Swearingen’s Career Record at Westminster:

2010	18-14
2009	13-23
2008	24-11	PAC Champion / NCAA Division III Tournament
2007	23-12	PAC Champion / NCAA Division III Tournament
2006	24-12	ECAC Division III South Region Tournament
2005	19-16
2004	20-13	PAC Runner-Up
2003	12-21	PAC Runner-Up
2002	26-10	PAC Champion / ECAC Division III South Region Tournament
2001	27-8	ECAC Division II Champion
2000	27-7
1999	15-20
1998	11-15
1997	31-8	KECC Champion / NAIA Northeast Regional Champion / NAIA National Tournament
1996	28-14	KECC Runner-Up
1995	28-13	KECC Runner-Up
1994	36-7	KECC Champion
1993	28-7	KECC Runner-Up
Career Record (18 years)	410-231 (.639)

Brandon Lewis

Assistant Coach

Brandon Lewis enters his 15th season as an assistant coach in 2011. Lewis, who played scholastically at Farrell High and collegiately at Ohio State University, has coached at Hubbard (Ohio) High School as well as at several summer camps in the region.

Lewis and his wife, Katie, and daughter, Rogen, reside in Farrell. He is a teacher in the Farrell School District.

Shannon Liposky

Assistant Coach

Shannon Liposky begins her fifth year as an assistant coach in 2011.

Liposky, formerly Shannon Simmons, played at Westminster before graduating in 2002 with a degree in elementary education. She then stayed on with the program for an additional year as a graduate assistant coach before finishing her master’s degree in education in 2005.

A three-year starter at right side hitter for the Titans from 1998-2001, Liposky was team MVP as a senior while leading the Titans to a 27-8 record.

She and her husband, Rob, and daughter, Claire, reside in her hometown of East Palestine, Ohio.