SALT LAKE CITY — Susan Dulaney officially retired last week following a coaching career that spanned more than four decades across high school, junior college, and collegiate volleyball.

A native of Wisconsin, Dulaney was a three-time Wisconsin Class B state volleyball champion and one-time runner-up while also playing four years of varsity basketball. During the 1977–78 season, she led the Scenic Moraine Conference in scoring and rebounding and earned high school volleyball All-American honors. She later walked on at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earned a scholarship, and gave up her final year of eligibility to join the Badger football team's athletic training staff before graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Dulaney began her coaching career in 1984 in Gillette, Wyoming, coaching junior high volleyball and basketball while teaching health and physical education. In 1989, she became the head volleyball coach at Battle Mountain High School in Vail, Colorado, where she founded the Vail Valley Volleyball Club (V3), which still exists today under a new name. While in Colorado, she earned her USA Coaching Accreditation Level 2 credentials.

In 1991, Dulaney returned to Wyoming, settling in Rock Springs, where she coached at Rock Springs High School, Rock Springs Junior High, and Green River High School for 10 years. During that time, she married her husband, Stew, and the couple welcomed two children, Dane and Shea.

Dulaney began teaching at Western Wyoming Community College in 1994 and earned her Master's degree in Sport Administration in 2000. That same year, she restarted the WWCC volleyball program, which had been inactive since 1980. From 2000 to 2007, she led WWCC to two Region 9 championships, two runner-up finishes, and NJCAA National Tournament appearances in 2004 and 2006, including a No. 13 seed upset of the No. 4 seed in 2004. In 2006, WWCC went undefeated in conference play and produced her first NJCAA All-American.

She joined Salt Lake Community College in 2008 and coached for 14 seasons, including the COVID-19 year. During her tenure, SLCC consistently ranked in the national top 10 and produced numerous National Players of the Week, Region 18 Players of the Year, Liberos of the Year, and All-Americans. Her teams maintained a graduation rate above 95 percent each year, with academics as a priority, and nearly every team she coached during her 25-year collegiate career earned the AVCA All-Academic Team Award. Her players went on to compete at institutions including the University of Utah, BYU, Dixie State, Colorado State, Weber State, West Texas A&M, the University of Nevada Reno, Hofstra, Manhattan, MidAmerica Nazarene, and others.

At Westminster, Dulaney led the Griffins for four seasons, guiding the program to the RMAC Tournament three times, including three consecutive appearances. She finished her tenure with a 46–60 overall record and helped elevate Westminster from a third-to-last conference finish prior to her arrival to a consistent middle-of-the-pack RMAC team.

"What drew me to WU was that professionally it made sense to make a jump to the next level. I had coached 21 years in the junior college ranks, and a four-year program was appealing," Dulaney said. "I knew it would be a challenge to figure out how to get a team that placed 15 out of 15 out of the gutter. Setting standards, putting systems in place and getting them to buy in was the first step… Finishing 6th in the RMAC this year and heading to the tourney 3 out of the 4 years is progress and I feel the program is respectable, which was a major goal of mine."

Reflecting on her career, Dulaney emphasized the importance of family throughout her 41 years in coaching.

"Forty-one years of coaching teaches you a lot of things. The biggest thing I learned is that my family was invested in my career," Dulaney said. "They made sacrifices and adjustments so I could be successful… I've learned how to balance my life. The season was a high priority for the team and the rest of the year my family took priority."

Dulaney retires leaving behind a legacy defined by competitive growth, academic excellence, and long-standing service to the sport of volleyball.

The Head Coach, Women's Volleyball position is posted: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=8b104a38-45ac-4682-9e01-117585322eb0&selectedMenuKey=CareerCenter&jobId=570691

Where it is posted: The position is posted in the Westminster University Job Board, on Indeed and in HigherEdJobs