Following a highly successful career as the head women's volleyball coach at Milwaukee, Kathy Litzau has served as a Senior Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator since 2007.

In her current role, Kathy oversees academic support services, sports medicine and strength and conditioning, and serves as the sport administrator for women's soccer, women's basketball, and men's and women's swimming and diving.

As volleyball coach, her teams compiled a remarkable 118-14 (.894) record in Horizon League play over her last 10 seasons. She led her teams to a Horizon League regular-season title in each of her final four seasons at the helm of the program, while the Panthers also won 20 or more matches nine times in her final 10 campaigns. Thanks to her success with Milwaukee, Kathy was inducted into the Bud K. Haidet Milwaukee Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.

UWM lost just five regular-season league matches over her last four seasons and with her guidance, the Panthers won 115 of their final 128 home matches. Only two Horizon League teams defeated UWM at the Klotsche Center after 1996.

Kathy was a seven-time Horizon League Coach of the Year honoree and guided Milwaukee to eight regular-season conference crowns and six NCAA appearances in her career. In 14 seasons at UWM, she racked up 271 wins after taking over a program that won just three matches the year before her arrival.

Before taking over the program at Milwaukee, Kathy served as an assistant coach at the University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University.

A standout volleyball player at the University of Notre Dame, Kathy was a team captain and earned team MVP honors as a senior. She earned her bachelor's degree from Notre Dame and later was awarded a master's in kinesiology from the University of Illinois. The Naperville, Ill. native attended Naperville Central High School, where she lettered in three sports. In 2015, she was inducted into the Naperville Central High School Athletics Hall of Fame.

She and her husband, Steve, have three daughters - Lauren, Danielle and Kayce - and a son - Nicholas.