Pete Hoyer joined the UTSA volleyball coaching staff as the associate head coach in March 2017. He is responsible for recruiting and training while also working with the setters.
Hoyer brings a plethora of experience to the Roadrunners coaching staff with stops at NC State, Dayton and Ohio University.
Before heading to the Lone Star State, Hoyer served a year as head coach of the Triangle Volleyball Club 18 Blue Team where he was involved in all aspects of the organization.
In his last collegiate coaching stint, Hoyer was an assistant coach at NC State for six seasons (2010-15) where he helped guide the Wolfpack to a 108-83 record. Hoyer served as the recruiting coordinator and worked with the middle blockers where he mentored then-freshman Blayke Hranicka the team’s leading scorer with 409.5 points, the most by a freshman in Wolfpack program history.
During his time in Raleigh, he helped guide the Pack to six consecutive 16-plus win seasons, including three of 20-plus wins (2011-13). In 2012, NC State posted a 22-10 overall record, including a 12-8 mark in the ACC – the most league wins in school history. That same season, the Wolfpack posted its highest finish in the ACC, checking in at No. 4, and punched a ticket to the NCAA Tournament, which was its first postseason appearance since the 1987 campaign.
In his last season with the Wolfpack, he helped guide the team to single-season program marks in attack percentage, assist percentage, total service aces, block assists and points per set.
Hoyer took a seven-year hiatus from coaching at the collegiate level and spent that time as a high school special education teacher and coach from 2003-05.
His most successful stop was his nine seasons as the head coach at the University of Dayton from 1994 to 2002, where he was named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 2001 after leading the Flyers to a 21-6 overall record and 14-2 league mark. Hoyer amassed a 178-96 overall record and his storied career with the Flyers included a pair of Atlantic 10 regular season titles (1998, 2001) and numerous superlative Atlantic 10 awards.
He coached back-to-back Atlantic 10 Players of the Year in Zhaohui Ma (1997) and Carla Muntz (1998); three league Rookies of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999); 13 All-Atlantic 10 members, including 11 first-teamers; seven Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference honorees; six AVCA All-Northeast Region First Team selections; two Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team members; and two Atlantic 10 All-Championship Team selections.
Hoyer’s coaching career began as an assistant coach at Southwest Texas State from 1987-90. He then spent five seasons as an assistant at Ohio University from 1990-94.
Hoyer received his Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies and history from Wisconsin-Eau Clair in 1985 and later earned his master’s degree from Southwest Texas State in 1990 in physical education and educational administration.