Saint Michael's College

Saint Michael's women's volleyball alumna Beth Syverson '23 returns to the program for her second fall as an assistant coach in 2025. She initially assumed a coaching role during the non-traditional 2024 spring season.
 
A Huntington, Vt., native, Syverson gained previous coaching experience at her alma mater, Mount Mansfield Union High School. She was a volleyball camp counselor for seven years for fifth to 10th graders while assisting the varsity girls' volleyball program in fall 2020.
 
After collecting 128 kills and 39 blocks as a first-year at Emmanuel College in Boston, Syverson totaled 276 kills and 110 blocks in 56 matches from the middle during three years as a Purple Knight. In addition to earning the 2023 Roger F. Keleher '15 Award as one of the top scholar-athletes in her graduating class, Syverson was named Northeast-10 Conference Academic All-Conference in 2022, landed an NE10 Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence the following spring, and twice qualified for College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades. She claimed NE10 Academic Honor Roll nods every semester at Saint Michael's and was lauded with three Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA) Academic Achievement Awards.
 
Syverson graduated with a 4.0 grade-point average, completing degrees in English and Spanish in December 2023 while minoring in American studies. Syverson, who earned departmental honors in English and Spanish, holds membership in the Chi Alpha Sigma (college athlete) and Phi Beta Kappa (liberal arts & sciences) honor societies and was a Spanish tutor and a student journalist in the Office of Marketing and Communications.