Nikki Binetti, head coach at Salisbury since 2022, was named an assistant coach for the volleyball program at Colorado College on April 23, 2025.
Binetti led the Sea Gulls to three consecutive appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament and a 66-24 record in her three seasons at Salisbury.
In addition to leading her team to three 20-win seasons, a pair of NCAA Tournament victories and a Coast-to-Coast Conference title, Binetti coached four AVCA All-Americans and two C2C Players of the Year.
Prior to taking over the Salisbury program, Binetti was the head coach at Arcadia University from January through June of 2022. That May she was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 list, recognizing up-and-coming coaches at all levels of the sport.
Before Arcadia, Binetti spent three years as an assistant coach at Gettysburg College, serving as recruiting and academic coordinator and assisting with sports performance. The Bullets went 29-21, culminating with a 15-win season in 2021 and GC's first berth in the Centennial Conference Tournament since 2014. Binetti helped coach Zanza Kuba-McCoy to AVCA All-Region and All-America recognition.
Binetti also served as an assistant coach at Illinois College from 2017-18 and a graduate assistant-turned-interim head coach at LaGrange College (Ga.) from 2015-17. As interim head coach at LaGrange in 2016, she helped recruit the largest class in program history and oversaw the program's winningest season since 2005.
The Brick, N.J., native played collegiately at Rowan University from 2010-12, earning All-New Jersey Athletic Conference honors in 2012, before transferring to Salisbury in 2013. She was a two-year starter for the Sea Gulls and helped lead SU to the NCAA Tournament in 2013.
Binetti has spent ample time developing as a professional off the court. She graduated from the 43rd class of the NCAA Women's Cocahes Academy (WCA), hosted by the Alliance of Women Coaches, in 2017 and serves as a mentor in the AVCA Match Point Program.
She earned her bachelor's degree in physical education from Salisbury in 2015 and her master's in education from LaGrange College in 2017.
