Completed Event: Women's Volleyball at East Texas A&M on August 29, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 0
Women's Volleyball
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Providence College Athletics
Women's Volleyball
Royer-Johnson, Margot
Margot Royer-Johnson
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- mroyer@providence.edu
- Phone:
- (401) 865-2028
Margot Royer-Johnson, was named the fifth head volleyball coach in Providence College history in August of 2000 and is embarking on her 26th season with the Friars in 2025. Providence enters its 11th season back in the BIG EAST after competing in the league from 1977-2001. The Friars played in the America East Conference for four seasons (2010-13).
Royer-Johnson and her staff earned BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year honors in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season, and helped her team qualify for the BIG EAST Tournament for the first time since 1999. That year, the Friars posted a 7-3 overall record, including a 5-3 mark in BIG EAST Conference action. During her career, she has coached seven All-BIG EAST selections. She and her program also have prided themselves on the work they have done in the community. Her program has been selected as the Providence College Athletic Department's Driscoll Cup winner four times and consistently ranks among the top volleyball programs for community service year after year, according to Helper Helper, for NCAA Division I.
Royer-Johnson came to Providence after spending three years as assistant coach and kinesiology lecturer at Angelo State University. In addition to her coaching duties at Angelo State, Royer-Johnson was the director of ASU’s volleyball camp and coached the Planet Volleyball Junior Olympic club team for 18-and-under players.
From October 1996 to May 1997, Royer-Johnson worked for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she oversaw the fitness lab. While working for NASA, Royer-Johnson served as a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland in the kinesiology department, where she earned her master’s degree in kinesiology, with a concentration in sports psychology, in May of 1997.
A 1995 graduate of Scranton with a double-major in human services and philosophy, Royer-Johnson was a four-year letter winner on the volleyball team. She was a two-time captain and named the league MVP as a senior. She was also the recipient of the O’Hara Award, which is presented annually to the outstanding female athlete of the Scranton senior class.
In January 2009, Royer-Johnson was inducted into Scranton’s Wall of Fame, the first volleyball player in school history to receive the honor. The Wall of Fame was founded in 1970 to honor former student-athletes, coaches, administrators, and those in the community who have been instrumental in the overall development of Scranton’s athletics program.
Royer-Johnson is a graduate of the 2022 NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class #51. The NCAA Women Coaches Academy, hosted in partnership between WeCOACH and the NCAA, is a multi-day growth and development program available to NCAA coaches of all experience levels, designed for women coaches who are ready to increase their individual effectiveness by learning advanced skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success.
Royer-Johnson resides in East Providence, R.I. with her husband, Jeff. The couple married in 2009.
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