The Dakota Wesleyan University athletic department announced Wednesday that volleyball coach Eric Viney will not be back with the Tigers next season.
“We just decided to go in a different direction with the program,” said DWU Athletic Director Curt Hart, who declined to comment whether Viney was fired or his contract ran out. “Eric is a hard worker, he knows the fundamentals of volleyball and I want to thank him for his services.”
The Tigers finished the 2013 season with an overall record of 7-28 and 0-16 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. DWU finished 11th in the conference. The winless conference record came on the heels of a 2-14 GPAC performance in 2012.
Viney took over the volleyball program in 2008. In six years at the helm of the program, he compiled a record of 58-150.
The head coach’s two best seasons with DWU came in 2008 and 2009. The team won 13 games in both of those seasons.
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Under Viney, the Tigers last appearance in the GPAC tournament was 2010.
Hart said the search for a new volleyball coach will start at the end of the week.
