Harlan Cohen

Harlan Cohen

Harlan Cohen (born 1934) is a former volleyball coach from the United States, whose coaching career began in 1963 with the Los Angeles Westside Jewish Community Center. In 1965 Westside won the men's USVBA Open Championship in Omaha, Nebraska.

Cohen was an assistant coach for the USA men's national team in 1966. He then guided the USA women's national team to a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada and to a silver medal at the 1967 World Championships in Tokyo. In 1968 he served as head coach of the USA women's team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

He served as the men's head coach at Pepperdine University from 1975-1976, posting a two-year record of 24-9. Along with co-coach Burt DeGroot, Cohen guided Santa Monica College to seven USVBA collegiate championships (1961/62/63/64/66/71/72) and Pepperdine to one USVBA collegiate crown (1975). From 1986-1991 he was an assistant coach at UCLA.

In 1991 he returned to Malibu to serve as an assistant coach of the men's volleyball program at Pepperdine. In 1999, USA Volleyball honored him as a George J. Fisher Leader in Volleyball Award recipient. In 2000, he was presented with the "USA Volleyball All-Time Great Volleyball Coach Award" in the Pioneer Division.


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