Katelyn Vara-Halfmann enters her 12th season as an assistant coach with the UW-Oshkosh women’s volleyball program in 2026. Vara has helped the Titans win the 2025 NCAA Division III championship and five WIAC regular season titles (2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025).
With Vara-Halfmann on the sidelines, UW-Oshkosh has produced a 256-92 record, including a 48-23 mark in conference play.
Last season Vara-Halfmann and the Titans won the first national title in program history, finishing as the unanimous top-ranked team in the country with a 34-3 record. Oshkosh won the league regular season title, conference postseason championship and swept through the NCAA tournament with six 3-0 victories, including a triumph over University of La Verne (Calif.) in the title match Dec. 6, 2025, in Bloomington, Ill.
In 2016 UW-Oshkosh compiled a 28-8 record, earned a share of the WIAC championship and qualified for the NCAA Division III postseason tournament. In 2023 the Titans secured an at-large berth into the Division III Championship en route to finishing the campaign ranked fifth in the nation with a 37-2 record. In 2024 UW-Oshkosh once again capped the season ranked fifth in the country after going 29-6 overall, advancing to the national quarterfinals and winning the conference regular season title.
Vara-Halfmann was a four-year letter winner as a setter for UW-Oshkosh from 2006-09, helping the Titans to a 143-18 record, three regular season conference championships and four NCAA Championship appearances. The New Berlin West High School graduate earned NCAA Division III All-Midwest Region and All-WIAC first team honors in 2009 after totaling 1,478 assists, 326 digs and 77 blocks. The two-time WIAC Women's Volleyball Player of the Week honoree was named UW-Oshkosh's 2010 winner of the Phyllis Roney Coaches Award.
Vara-Halfmann earned a bachelor's degree from UW-Oshkosh in 2010 and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 2012. Vara-Halfmann and her husband, Jeremy Halfmann, have one child and live in Van Dyne.
Last updated January 14, 2026
