High Point University Volleyball

Ryan Meek finished his eighth season as the head coach of the High Point University volleyball team in 2025 after being announced as the 12th head coach in program history by HPU Athletic Director Dan Hauser on Jan. 29, 2018. During the 2025 season, High Point three-peated as the Big South Regular Season and Tournament Champions to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and played the University of Kansas in the First Round. The Panthers finished with an 18-10 overall record and a 12-12 record in league play after finishing the regular season on a six game win streak. Meek came to the Triad after two seasons at Creighton University where he served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator under three-time National Coach of the Year Kirsten Bernthal Booth. Prior to Creighton, he spent five seasons as head coach at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., where he helped the Warriors to a 110-64 record and was named the National Coach of the Year at the Division III level by the AV

Kevin Berger joined the High Point University volleyball program as a volunteer assistant coach in August 2018 and was promoted as a full-time assistant in December of 2018. In August of 2023, he was promoted as the Associate Head Coach. Since joining the staff in 2018, Berger has worked under Head Coach Ryan Meek and helped guide the Panthers to an overall record of 123-65 and a Big South conference record of 81-10. Over the seven seasons, High Point has won five Big South regular season titles, four Big South Championships and competed at the NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament in 2018, 2021 (spring), 2023, 2024 and 2025. The purple and white made history during the spring 2021 Covid-19 season after defeating UCF in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to make it to the second round for the first time ever. The program under Coach Meek and Coach Berger has earned 67 Big South postseason All-Conference awards including six Big South Players of the Year, four Setters of the Year, two

High Point University volleyball Head Coach Ryan Meek announced the hiring of Assistant Coach Shelby Cooper in May of 2025. Cooper joined the Panthers coaching staff after spending a season as an assistant coach with Division II Carson-Newman University, coaching the indoor and beach volleyball programs. During her first season with the Panthers, High Point three-peated as the Big South Regular Season and Tournament Champions to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and played the University of Kansas in the First Round. The Panthers finished with an 18-10 overall record and a 12-12 record in league play after finishing the regular season on a six game win streak. Cooper began her time at Carson-Newman as a graduate assistant for both programs before transitioning into an assistant role. Cooper played at William Peace University, a Division III program in Raleigh, N.C., where she graduated in 2023 after seeing action in 104 matches.