Nicole Peterson was hired as an assistant coach in February 2025.

Peterson most recently served as an assistant coach at Grand Canyon University during the 2023 season, where she helped guide the program to a 23–8 overall record and a 13–3 mark in WAC play. The team captured the WAC Tournament title and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

She began her collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Arizona State University, where she spent two seasons following a standout four-year playing career with the Sun Devils. As a setter and outside hitter, Peterson led the team in assists in two seasons and ranked second in the other two, while also earning Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention honors in 2018.

Prior to returning to the collegiate ranks, Peterson spent four years with Revolution Volleyball Academy in Phoenix. During her time with the club, she advanced from assistant coach to lead clinician and ultimately head coach. She led her teams to gold medals in 2021 and 2022, as well as a silver medal finish in 2024.

Before her collegiate career, Peterson was a two-sport athlete in volleyball and tennis at Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon. She earned numerous accolades, including 2015 MaxPreps National Player of the Year, High School All-American, and Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year. She was also named Oregon Player of the Year, Metro League Player of the Year, and State Championship MVP in both 2014 and 2015, leading her team to state titles in 2012, 2014, and 2015.

Name	Title	Email Address
Taylor Virtue	Head Coach	taylor_virtue@brown.edu
Rob Chilcoat	Associate Head Coach	robert_chilcoat@brown.edu
Nicole Peterson-Shields	Assistant Coach	nicole_peterson1@brown.edu
Karen Murphy	Assistant Coach	karen_murphy1@brown.edu

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