After a storied playing career and a deep coaching ledger, Megan Shifflett Bachmann (pronounced: MEE-gan SHIF-let Bach Min) joined the Towson University women’s volleyball staff as an assistant coach in 2018. During her second season with the program in 2019, Shifflett Bachmann helped the Tigers' backrow become a force in the CAA en route to three-straight league championships.
As an assistant with the Tigers, Shifflett Bachmann’s primary focus is working with the Tigers’ defensive specialists and liberos.
After seeing the program’s all-time digs leader Anna Holehouse graduate last season, Shifflett Bachmann helped mentor Camryn Allen into the starting libero roll while developing a deep corps of defensive specialists. In the fall of 2021, one of Shifflett Bachmann's charges, Rachel Hess, earned Towson Invtiational Most Outstanding Player and All-Tournament plaudits. Additionally, Hess was named CAA Defensive Player of the Week twice that year.
During the 2018 campaign, Shifflett Bachmann helped guide Holehouse to a career second-best 595 digs, ranking first in the CAA in total digs. Shifflett Bachmann helped the Tigers rack up 1,945 digs, ranking third in the CAA.
Shifflett Bachmann helped led Penn State to three-straight NCAA Division I National Championships (2008, 2009, 2010). She played in 88 matches during her career as a defensive specialist, seeing time in 140 sets. Shifflett Bachmann was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2009, 2012) as well.
Prior to Towson, Shifflett Bachmann served as an assistant volleyball coach at the United States Naval Academy and helped the Mids reach the Patriot League Tournament for the first time in over a decade. Working with the team’s defensive corps, Shifflett Bachmann helped the libero set a school record for digs in a match (46) while helping Navy beat league power American University for the first time since 1989.
In addition to her coaching duties at the Naval Academy, Shifflett Bachmann served as the de facto director of operations, handling travel operations, working with the equipment staff, coordinating video recording and sharing.
In the fall of 2015, Shifflett Bachmann was hired as an assistant volleyball coach at Western Oregon University. She was part of a coaching staff that helped the Division II program improve both in and out of conference records year over year. She helped coach 10 Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) all-academic honorees. Additionally, she oversaw three GNAC honorable mention selections and mentored the team’s libero to the second-most digs per set in Division II that season.
During the winter of 2015 and spring of 2016, Shifflett Bachmann served as the interim head volleyball coach with the Wolves.
Shifflett Bachmann cut her teeth in coaching while working at Volleyball Express Camps during her summers in Central Pennsylvania. After graduation from Penn State, Shifflett Bachmann returned home to the Northern Virginia area and began coaching at camps and her alma mater, Langley High School.
Hailing from Falls Church, Virginia, Shifflett Bachmann gained her first collegiate coaching experience working with the men’s side at Durham University, guiding the team to its most successful season to date as the University finished as one of the top eight universities in the United Kingdom.
After returning stateside, Shifflett Bachmann gained more experience as the head coach of the Capital City Elite Volleyball Club U18 team from 2015-16.
Graduating from Penn State in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a concentration in social studies, Shifflett Bachmann continued her education at Durham University (England). She completed her master’s degree in 2014 in education after successfully defending her thesis on The Effects of Physical Education on Special Education Needs Students with a Focus on ADHD.
During her time in England, Shifflett Bachmann was a member of the University’s volleyball team, leading the school to a British Universities and College Sports National Championship (2014) and the Student Cup Championship (2014). In that same year, Shifflett Bachmann was a Team Durham Half Palatinate Award winner, a member of the Team Durham Women’s Team of the Year and was a Team Durham Sportswoman of the Year nominee.
