Paul Koncir 2024-25 Volleyball Staff
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator
Paul Koncir joins the Notre Dame Volleyball family after spending the past two seasons with the Michigan State Spartans as an associate head coach. He joins the Irish staff as the video and data analytics technical coordinator.
A seasoned coach and veteran tactician, Koncir brings a wealth of experience to his position in South Bend. After finishing up the last two seasons in East Lansing, Koncir had spent eight previous seasons with Indiana.
Koncir joined the Spartans from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he was the Associate Head Coach for the Roadrunners for two seasons. UTSA earned its first-ever bid to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) in 2019 after finishing with a 19-8 with a second-place finish in Conference USA in 2018.
Koncir spent from 2010-17 on the staff at Indiana as an Assistant and Associate Head Coach. During his time on staff in Bloomington, he helped the Hoosiers to an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in 2010, its finest season in program history. Over his eight seasons he not only developed the all-time leaders in digs, blocks, and hitting percentage and the rally scoring leaders in assists and service aces at Indiana, but also mentored 49 Academic All-Big Ten selections.
Gaining head coaching experience, Koncir guided Towson University as its head coach before joining the Hoosier staff. In his four seasons guiding the Tigers, Koncir gathered two trips to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championships, a top-100 recruiting class (2009), seven All-CAA selections, and a CAA Rookie of the Year.
Before taking over at Towson, Koncir spent four years as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s teams at George Mason University (2004-06) and three years at Georgetown as an assistant women’s coach (2001-03).
Additionally, Koncir has had extensive coaching experience in men’s volleyball, serving as an assistant at George Mason and as the head coach of the Georgetown men’s team.
Koncir’s coaching experience also extends to the youth level. In 2005, he coached at both the boys and girls USA Youth Development Camp and worked in the USA High Performance Tryouts in 2006. From 2000-02, he was the head coach for the Girls 19U Northern Virginia Juniors, guiding the team to a Chesapeake Region Championship.
A 1999 graduate and volleyball letterwinner at George Mason, Koncir started every match his senior season and was second on the team in kills. Upon graduation, Koncir was a member of the USA Volleyball Chesapeake Region Championship team in 1998 and 1999.
Koncir and his wife, Kelsey, have two children, a daughter Remi and son Rex .