Louise Bawden begins her second season as assistant coach in 2020.
Named to the position on Oct. 4, 2018, Bawden was an Olympian in both indoor and beach volleyball for her native country of Australia. Bawden retired from professional competition in February 2018, ending her 20+ year playing career in the sport.
Named to the position on Oct. 4, 2018, Bawden was an Olympian in both indoor and beach volleyball for her native country of Australia. Bawden retired from professional competition in February 2018, ending her 20+ year playing career in the sport.
Bawden appeared at her first Olympics, Sydney 2000, as part of the Australian indoor team that finished ninth. Nine years later, Bawden switched to beach volleyball and successfully made the 2012 Olympic team for the London games with partner Becchara Palmer. She went on to represent Australia with a new partner, Taliqua Clancy, and finished fifth in the 2016 Rio Olympics, falling to eventual bronze medalist and former Cardinal Kerri Walsh Jennings and partner April Ross.
Bawden's professional beach career is a decorated one, as the 2009 FIVB Rookie of the Year was also named the Australian Beach Volleyball Player of the Year six times.