SUNY Brockport Athletics

Kate Isaksen spent the 2022 season as the interim head volleyball coach before returning to her post as an assistant coach for the Golden Eagles in 2023. In 2022 she guided the Golden Eagles to a 20-8 overall record and an 8-1 ledger in SUNYAC play. They earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and advanced to the SUNYAC Championship match, narrowly falling to top-seeded Cortland in the finals. Jordan Thompson and Andrea Coyle were named AVCA All-Americans and four Golden Eagles earned All-Conference honors.

Isaksen spent the 2021 season as an assistant coach at Brockport, helping to guide the Golden Eagles to a 17-10 overall record and a 6-3 mark in SUNYAC play. Brockport went a perfect 12-0 on their home court, including a win over Buffalo State in the SUNYAC Tournament Quarterfinals.

Isaksen came to Brockport after a successful playing career at Clarkson University where she was a three time All-American, three time ECAC Div. III Defensive Player of the Year, three time AVCA All-Region, two time CoSIDA Academic All-American, four year All-Conference selection, and team captain for two seasons. Isaksen concluded her collegiate career with 3,217 digs and 6.60 digs per set, holding the seventh and ninth best marks in NCAA Division III history, and is the only player to do so entirely in the 25-points per set era.

Isaksen graduated from Clarkson in 2020 as a double major in computer science and mathematics and she played her high school volleyball at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School. She is also an experienced camp instructor, working at the Spike Mountain Summer Camp, IREVA High Performance Summer Camp, and Lakeside Volleyball Club in recent years.

Brockport's storied volleyball history includes nine SUNYAC Conference Championships. The Golden Eagles have won four of the last six SUNYAC Championships under the direction of Steve Pike, earning the conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division III Championships each season.