COACHING STAFF

DAN PAWLIKOWSKI

Title: Associate Head Coach

Pawlikowski joins the Wolverines after spending 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 Danish Senior League Championship title and the 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. He also assisted the women’s team to a silver medal, their highest-ever league finish in 2021.

Pawlikowski served as the second-ever head men's volleyball coach in program history at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, 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 and a berth to the semifinals. Pawlikowski coached one AVCA All-American in Luke Spicer and an honorable mention for the All-America Team in Ethan Klosak.

Pawlikowski began his college coaching career at Loyola University 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.

Before coaching, Pawlikowski played at the high school and collegiate club levels with great success. In high school, he earned All-State first-team honors in 1996 and was inducted into the Loyola Academy Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. During college at Illinois, he helped the men’s club team to four top-10 finishes, two Big Ten and Two MIVA championships.

Pawlikowski graduated from the University of Illinois in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Cinema Studies.

BENAVIA JENKINS

Title: Associate Head Coach

Jenkins comes to Ann Arbor after four seasons as the head coach at East Tennessee State University where she led the Bucs to an overall 43-32 record during her tenure. Prior to ETSU, Jenkins spent three years as the assistant coach at the University of South Florida and saw time at Coastal Carolina and Santa Fe College. As an assistant coach over the years, Jenkins has help compile an overall record of 111-55.

During her inaugural season at ETSU, Jenkins rallied her team to a 25-6 overall record and went 14-2 in conference play to finish second, falling in the championship game. Jenkins produced the SoCon Freshman of the Year in Olivia Cunningham, two first-team All-Conference selections (Kaela Massey and Marija Popovic), two second-team All-Conference selections (Emily Arnold and Olivia Cunningham) and three SoCon All-Freshman selections (Olivia Cunningham, Emily Arnold and Lauren Hatch).

At the end of her third season, Jenkins produced four SoCon preseason selections, nine all-tournament selections, 15 Player of the Week awards, three first-team all-conference selections, four second-team all-conference selections, five all-freshman selections and a SoCon Freshman of the Year.

Jenkins started her coaching career at Lincoln Park Academy in 2010 and was the founder of the A-Vaneb Volleyball Academy in Fort Pierce, Fla. Following her three-year stint as head coach at Lincoln Park Academy, Jenkins took over as an assistant coach at Santa Fe College. In 2014, the Saints' first year of competition, they went 31-7 and won a share of the Mid-Florida Conference title.

A Fort Pierce, Fla., native, Jenkins was an All-American middle blocker at the University of Florida, recording more than 1,000 kills and 600 blocks. She became the first Gator to finish with more than 600 career blocks and was a three-time AVCA All-American and four-time all-SEC performer. She was part of a Florida team that won four straight SEC championships and advanced to back-to-back Final Four appearances while reaching the championship game in her senior season. In 2017, Jenkins was inducted into the Florida Hall of fame.

Following her collegiate career, Jenkins played professionally in Spain, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, and Florida between 2005-14. She won the Austria Cup with Vienna in 2006 and was a Swiss Cup Finalist for Koniz in 2007. Jenkins also finished in the top 10 in Spain for blocking and attacking in the 2009-10 season.

NICK CLARK

Title: Assistant Coach

Clark comes to Ann Arbor after two seasons as the assistant coach at Harvard where he coached the Women's and Men's teams. Clark has also served as an Assistant Coaach with the National Team Development Program since May of 2022. Prior to Harvard, Clark spent two years as the volunteer assistant coach at the University of California, Santa Barbara with previous stops at Clarke University, the University of West Alabama, Pfeiffer University and Siena Height University. As a coach over the years, Clark has compiled an overall record of 205-222.

During his time with the Crimson, Clark coached both the men's and women's team for two seasons. Both teams won the Academic Team award across all four seasons with four women earning All-Ivy Honorable Mentions. Clark coached both sides of the ball over his time with the Crimson working on attack with the women and defense with the men mainly. Clark entered Division 1 Volleyball in May of 2019 when he joined the University of California, Santa Barbara. Clark helped the Gauchos to a 23-6 record and a third place finish in the Big West.

Clark served as Head Men's Volleyball at Clarke University for four years where he also earned his master's degree in leadership. With Clarke University, Clark compiled a 62-51 record overall and 22-16 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference in the NAIA. Clark's teams were ranked as high as #3 and consistently ranked in the Top 15 nationally in statistical categories.

Prior to Clarke University, Clark spent five years as an assistant coach with three different schools. He started with Siena Heights and served as an assistant for the men's and women's programs for a year and a half. He also served at Pfeiffer University coaching both genders. At the Division II level, Clark coached for two years (2013-15) at West Alabama and was responsible for offensive schemes and setter training.

Clark graduated from Eastern Michigan in 2010 with a dual major in Secondary Education and Social Studies with a minor in History. While at Eastern, Clark founded the Men's Club Program and served as president, coach and was an outside hitter with the team.

A native of Carleton, Mich., Nick lives with his husband, Rob, and their dog, Astrid.

COLEY PAWLIKOWSKI

Title: Director of Volleyball Operations

Most recently after moving back to the United States after a three-year stint abroad, Pawlikowski joined the U.S. Women’s National Team staff as the Team Manager. She was with the team through the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League and the 2022 FIVB World Championships. Her responsibilities included event scheduling for the staff and athletes, community outreach and engagement at domestic and international events, team travel budget and expense management assistance.

Before her time with USA Volleyball, Pawlikowski launched and solely managed the first Barry’s Studio in Denmark: Barry’s Copenhagen.  She opened and managed the studio under the Nordic Franchise from August 2020 through mid-May 2022. At Barry’s, she was in charge of all day-to-day operations, client services and experience, hiring, training, onboarding employees, payroll, managing all corporate accounts, fuel bar, and facilities team management.

Prior to joining the world of operations, Pawlikowski started her coaching career at North Park University as the head coach from 2006-09. She then made her way to her alma mater, Northern Illinois University, from 2009-12, then on to Wisconsin for one year as an assistant coach under the long-standing former head coach, Pete Waite, before heading the Stony Brook Volleyball program from 2013-16.  Most recently, she coached professionally in Denmark on both the men’s and women’s sides with Gentofte and Brøndby Volleyball Clubs.  Brøndby VK won the 2022 Danish league and was named Danish Cup Champions.

Pawlikowski is a Batavia, Ill. native and graduated with a degree from Northern Illinois University in Communications Studies with a media studies emphasis.

MATT ADAMS

Title: Performance Analyst

Adams hails from Fairport, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University where he double majored in Sport Analytics and Economics while also carrying two minors in Information Management & Technology and Sport Management.  Matt largely attributes the Sport Analytics program for his skill sets and preparation for his role here at Michigan.

Adams’ specific areas of study have included sport competitive balance and competition structures, training optimization, team rating systems, athlete workload management, and social media analytics.  Through these areas of focus, Adams contributed to research projects involving volleyball, basketball, baseball, football, and soccer, Australian Football, and golf.  In addition, he also worked as an analytics intern with RSPCT Basketball Technologies from 2021 – 2023.

His strong analytical background, vast knowledge of computer languages, and visual analytics will significantly transcend across his role as Performance Analyst where he will be the primary analyst for performance and load management data for the Michigan Volleyball program.

During his time at Syracuse, Matt served as a practice player for the women’s volleyball team and competed on the men’s club volleyball team, holding the role as President during his last season.  As a setter, Adams led the team to two ECVA DI – North Championships for Syracuse.  He co-founded the Orange Roudnet Syracuse Spikeball club team and organized a local soccer league in the summers.

Prior to Syracuse, Adams was a two-sport athlete playing volleyball and baseball and played club volleyball for Pace Bootlegger VBC.  Adams also has spent time as a volunteer for the Special Olympics Unified Basketball team in his hometown of Fairport, in addition to volunteering his time as a statistician for the Fairport basketball team and earning his Eagle Scout in 2018.

In his spare time, Adams enjoys graphic design, and playing volleyball, basketball, golf, roundnet, and skiing.