Bio

Katelyn Vara enters her ninth season as an assistant coach with the UW-Oshkosh women’s volleyball program in 2023. The 2020 season was canceled due to the novel cornavirus pandemic.

With Vara on the sidelines, UW-Oshkosh has produced a 193-83 record, including a 35-22 mark in conference play. 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 2022 the Titans earned an at-large berth into the Division III Championship en route to finishing the campaign ranked 15th in the nation with a 31-6 record.

Vara was a four-year letter winner as a setter for UW-Oshkosh from 2006-09. 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 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 and her husband, Jeremy Halfmann, have one child and live in Van Dyne.

(1/19/23)