Dan Pawlikowski - WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL Coach - DePaul University Athletics

Dan Pawlikowski

Title:
Assistant Coach

Dan Pawlikowski arrived at DePaul in January 2025, following a two-year stint as associate head coach at Michigan. In his two years at Michigan, the Wolverines improved from 7-22 to 18-13 overall, including a 12-5 mark at home in 2024. Prior to Michigan, he spent the 2022 season at UNLV as an assistant coach, helping the Rebels to a 26-5 overall and 17-1 conference record.

Before UNLV, Pawlikowski spent three years in Denmark coaching professional volleyball. During the 2021-22 season, he was the head coach of the Brøndby Volleyball Club, where he led the team to a Denmark Cup National Championship title. Prior to his time with Brøndby, Pawlikowski worked with Gentofte Volley in Copenhagen, Denmark as the men’s head coach and the women’s assistant coach. He led the men’s team to two Danish League Championships with back-to-back undefeated seasons, going 42-0 from 2019-21.

A product of Illinois, he served as the second-ever head men's volleyball coach in program history at Dominican University from 2017-19. He led the team to the inaugural Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Tournament title during his first season. In 2017, he aided Dominican to its second-ever NCAA Division III bid. Pawlikowski coached one AVCA All-American in Luke Spicer and an honorable mention for the All-America Team in Ethan Klosak.

No stranger to Chicago, he began his college coaching career at Loyola Chicago in 2004, spending three seasons as an assistant men's volleyball coach. His career has also included stops at North Park, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Stony Brook.

Pawlikowski graduated from the University of Illinois in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Cinema Studies. He currently resides in Chicago with his wife, Coley.