Jason Barshinger will be in his first season as the head women's volleyball coach at Kutztown University in 2025.
Barshinger brings five seasons of collegiate men’s volleyball head coaching experience to Berks County, most recently leading NCAA Division III Bryn Athyn College since 2023.
Barshinger worked quickly to raise the level of play at Bryn Athyn, which was in just its second season of varsity play when he arrived in 2023. The Lions won a program record 12 matches and enjoyed their longest winning streak (four) in 2024. Barshinger mentored the first All-United East First Team selection in program history and boasted four all-conference selections, a senior scholar-athlete and four player of the week award winners overall.
Under Barshinger’s leadership, the Lions ranked eighth in NCAA Division III in aces per set and 20th in digs per set during the 2024 season.
Prior to arriving at Bryn Athyn, Barshinger was the first head men’s volleyball coach at Wilson College from 2015-17. The Phoenix developed into an eight-win program in just their second year of competition in 2017. Barshinger also relaunched the women’s volleyball program as head coach at Central Penn College from 2012-15 and led the team to 15 wins by its third season.
Barshinger enjoyed a successful stint as a head coach at the scholastic level between stints at New Oxford High School and Abington High School. He was named 2015 YAIAA Coach of the Year at New Oxford after leading the team to its first winning season in nearly a decade and upsetting a state-ranked opponent. In 2022, Barshinger led Abington to a 13-6 record.
In addition to his coaching duties at Bryn Athyn, Barshinger also served as the assistant director of recruitment, an academic advisor, residence life coordinator and event planner for admissions.
A three-year starter for Pennsylvania boys’ volleyball state power Central York High School, Barshinger also played for Yorktowne Volleyball Club and participated in the 1999 USA Volleyball Junior National Championship Tournament in New Orleans.
While at Central Penn College, Barshinger was a member of the basketball, cross country and golf teams and was named Athlete of the Year in 2002. He earned his associate’s degree in communications from Central Penn in 2003 before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Elizabethtown College in 2021.
Barshinger, a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Jenifer, and daughters, Elianna and Karina.
Updated 6/26/25
