High Country Volleyball Club|Salt Lake City, Utah

Kim Norman begins year eight as the head coach of the Westminster women’s volleyball program. During her time at the helm, Westminster has compiled a 107-101 record making Norman the most successful coach in school history.

Under the direction of Norman, Westminster has posted three winning seasons with two 20-win years. The team won the Frontier Conference championship in both 2005 and 2006. They qualified for the NAIA National Championships for the first time in 2007.

The Griffins have had 17 All-Frontier Conference performers, including two conference players of the year.  Norman was the 2005 Frontier Conference coach of the year.  Westminster has also had nine NAIA Scholar Athletes and 54 Academic All-Frontier Conference performers in the seven years with Norman as head coach.

When Norman took over the team in 2004, they were coming off a 1-32 season.  The first season under Norman they went 14-14, the first non-losing season in school history.  That season was followed up with a 16-13 season and a Frontier Conference Tournament championship.  The 2006 season saw another school first–a 20-win season. They finished 22-12 and claimed a share of the Frontier Conference regular season title and again won the conference tournament.

The 2007 season was the best in school history.  Norman guided the team to a 25-12 overall record and they qualified for the NAIA National Tournament for the first time ever.

Norman began her college coaching career at Utah State University in 1987, where she coached and earned an MS in physical education. After one season as second assistant coach for the USU women’s volleyball team, Norman took over the USU collegiate men’s program as their head coach from 1988–1991. Her concern that volleyball athletes were being recruited only from Southern California led her to start an arm of USA Volleyball now called the Intermountain Volleyball Association.  As founder and CEO since its inception in 1990, Norman is responsible for making Utah one of the nation’s powerhouses in the Junior Olympic Volleyball Club world.

She is also the founder of the High Country Volleyball Club where her responsibilities include Director of Coaching and Athlete Development. Teams coached by Norman have qualified for the USAV Junior Olympics several times with a best finish of second.

As Head Coach of Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, Norman compiled a 296-92 record over twelve seasons.  Under her coaching, the Rams made it to every state championship tournament from 1992–2003 and won the Utah High School State Championship in 1996 and 1997. Those teams were led by notable Olympian Logan Tom.

In 1994, she worked in various coaching and administrative capacities with USA Volleyball, including assisting the Women’s Junior National team.  In 1996, Norman and University of Utah head coach Beth Launiere started the USA Volleyball Intermountain High Performance Program, a program that has been touted as the best Olympic Development Program in the USA Volleyball system.  In December 2003, the United States Olympic Committee gave Utah and Intermountain Volleyball Association the only Community Olympic Development Program designation for volleyball in the
United States.  Through her involvement with USA Volleyball, Norman has coached and represented the United States and Utah in several foreign countries. In the summer of 2008, Norman led a group who traveled to Brazil and competed against some of the top competition in the world.  Norman’s life is volleyball, and her passion for the game is why she has taken Westminster, Intermountain Volleyball, High Performance, and High Country to the success it has achieved.