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Flip Piontek

Assistant Coach

In his 22nd year at Central Missouri, Phil "Flip" Piontek assists Coach Martin in teaching the Jennies many of the technical aspects of the game of volleyball. He also handles most of the duties involving the team's statistics.

Piontek joined the Jennies program in time for the 1986 season. He spent three years prior to that (from 1982-1984) as an assistant at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he helped the Falcons win two league titles and finish third at the 1983 NCAA Division II Tournament.

In the summer of 2001, Piontek coached the Missouri/Kansas High Performance Team to a third-place finish at the inaugural USA Volleyball High Performance colorado Cup. He was assisted by Mindy Sullivan.

In 1998, Piontek served as co-coach of Kansas City's first professional women's volleyball team. He helped the Lightning to a 7-1 record and a regular-season league title before they fell in the semifinals of the playoffs to the eventual champion Nebraska Tornados.

An Air Force veteran who played volleyball while in the service, Piontek is active in the sport as he helped several teams qualify for the USAV Nationals as a player and is nationally certified referee and scorekeeper. He also served as a line judge during the beach volleyball competition at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Piontek earned his bachelor's degree in history in 1975 from the Academy. He also recieved master's degree in history from Indiana University later that same year and a second master's degree in business administration from Central Missouri in 1988.

Piontek, who is the program coordinator for the equipment room at the Multipurpose Building and his wife, Stacy, have three sons, Joe (17), Matt (16) and Nick (11) and two daughters, Hally (9), and Shilpa (8). Stacy, a member of Central Missouri's Athletic Hall of Fame, was a two-time first-team All-American for the Jennies after transferring from the Air Force Academy and capped her two-year career by helping UCM to a runner-up national finish in 1987. She also played for the Kansas City Ligtning in 1998.