Men's Volleyball | 4/7/2022 12:20:19 PM
Russell Sage College's Director of Athletics and Head Women's Volleyball Coach, Sandy Augstein-Collins has been named to the NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Committee. The three-year appointment will commence on September 1, 2022.
Augstein-Collins, a 1987 Russell Sage College graduate joined Sage as the Associate Athletic Director and Head Women's Volleyball Coach in February of 2011. She was named the Director of Athletics at Sage, assuming leadership of the department in July 2017 following the departure of long-time Director of Athletics, Dani Drews.
She also currently serves as the first vice president of the Empire 8.
Augstein-Collins assumed the role of Director of Athletics at an exciting time for Sage. The Gators announced the addition of two new varsity programs, field hockey and men's lacrosse and commenced competition in the Empire 8 in the fall of 2017. In the following years since assuming that role, she has also helped the department expand to include the addition of five new sports that will begin varsity competition in 2021-2022 as Sage will now offer women's golf, baseball and esport as Sage now offers 21 varsity programs.
As an administrator, Augstein-Collins served as the department's Senior Woman Administrator (SWA), while also supervising Sage's academic support and leadership development programs. In addition, she has expanded her administrative skills, and continued her professional development, while pursuing her doctoral degree in Sport and Exercise Performance. In her seven years with the Gators, she led her volleyball team to three regular-season conference titles and a trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2014.
She received her B.S. in physical education from Russell Sage College in 1987, where she also played intercollegiate volleyball. She received her Master of Physical Education with a concentration in teaching and administration from Springfield College in 1997. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in sports psychology from the University of the Rockies. Augstein-Collins was inducted into the Russell Sage Athletics Hall of Fame on October 14, 2006.