Aaron Pitts is in his first year as assistant volleyball coach at Grambling State University.
Pitts, who has been involved in volleyball for more than 30 years, has experience ranging from player and program organizer to official and coach.
In 1988 he played for the Y.M.C.A. Metairie Jazz Volleyball Team and played for several seasons. Later, he joined the United States Volleyball Association Delta Region, which is now called USA Volleyball Bayou Region. Pitts played as an outside hitter and with his incredible 36-inch vertical he was a force to be reckoned with.
In 1987, Pitts started officiating high volleyball in the LHSAA for the Kenner Officials Association until 2002. He later spent three years with Jefferson Officials until Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area.
In 1996, Pitts started officiating for the Sun Belt Conference Division I Women’s Volleyball. He is one of a few coaches in the South that has International volleyball experience; he was a line judge for the 1994 NORCECA Men’s Volleyball tournament held at the U.N.O Lakefront Arena.
Pitts’ coaching experience started in at Alcorn State University in 2006 as assistant women’s volleyball coach, and in 2007 as the second assistant women’s volleyball coach at Southern University. In 2008, Pitts was the assistant women’s volleyball coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, and was named the assistant women’s volleyball coach at Dillard University in 2010. While at Dillard, he helped guide the program to the GCAC Championship.
Pitts, who is the founder and club director for Cobra Volleyball Club in Baton Rouge, has three kids, son Aaron Pitts IV, Ariana E. Pitts, and Amber Pitts.
