Jon Newman-Gonchar begins his third season as an assistant coach at UCSD. He will be involved with individual and team training and focus specifically on on-court coaching, practice planning, video set up and analysis, and management of the competitive cauldron. Newman-Gonchar also serves as the team's recruiting coordinator and is responsible for managing correspondence, evaluations, and visits with prospective student-athletes. In addition, he operates the DataVolley video-statistical program, serves as the camp coordinator and is responsible for all administrative duties involving the overnight UCSD Women's Volleyball Summer Camp.
An assistant for both the UCSD men's and women's volleyball programs, Newman-Gonchar helped the women's volleyball team knock off the second-ranked team in the country and advance to the NCAA Pacific Regional Semifinals in 2007. In 2008, the Tritons handed No.1 Cal State San Bernardino its first loss of the year and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, winning over 20 games for the 25th time in school history. His work with the men's program helped the Tritons to a school record 13 wins and a top-10 ranking in 2009, with the team challenging for its first-ever MPSF playoff spot.
Newman-Gonchar spent the 2006-07 season as an assistant at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, where he helped plan practices and trained the Cajuns' setters. He also compiled team statistics, arranged travel, reviewed opponent match field, and presented scouting reports to players and staff.
Prior to his stint at ULL, Newman-Gonchar spent three seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at Northern Arizona. While at NAU, his responsibilities included preparing and running the practices for the non-travel party members. In addition, Newman-Gonchar was the voice of the "Almost Live with John and Jon" radio show which was a live audio/video webcast of the team during match play.
While working at NAU, Newman-Gonchar also coached the setters on the High Altitude Volleyball Club as an assistant coach and was later promoted to head coach. He also spent time working with the Flagstaff High School's girls volleyball team.
More recently, Newman-Gonchar has worked with both USA Volleyball and Gold Medal Squared. His involvement with USA Volleyball began in the summer of 2007 as a coach at the HP A-1 Select Camp at the University of San Francisco. He has worked as a training coach with the USA Junior National Team since 2008 and as a staff member for USA High Performance Tryouts since 2007. He spent the summer of 2009 at the University of Minnesota as the training/technical coach for the USA A2 Team and has worked numerous clinics for Gold Medal Squared since the spring of 2007.
A native of Claremont, Calif., Newman-Gonchar played prep volleyball at Claremont High School before attending Northern Arizona. While at NAU, he was a member of the men's club volleyball program.
Newman-Gonchar received his bachelor's degree in Health Sciences from Northern Arizona in December 2005 and did graduate coursework in Sports Psychology at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the fall of 2006.
