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ON AND OFF THE COURT
GIESSELMANN, WARRIORS ESTABLISH TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE Keith Kramme’s persistence paid off in a big way for the Midland University volleyball program.
I was really happy at Creighton. I loved it there, and had no desire to leave.”
Kramme, who was serving as the Midland athletic director at the time, reached out to Paul Giesselmann a few times to see if he was interested in becoming the Warriors’ head coach. Giesselmann, during that time, was serving as an assistant coach at Creighton University.
Kramme tried one last time in the spring of 2010 and was successful.
“For a span of about a decade they had gone through, for various reasons, three or four coaches,” Giesselmann said. “Keith would contact me because he knew that I lived in Fremont and my wife (Dr. Paige Groppe-Giesselmann) is a pediatrician here in town. But
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“My boys (Hunter and Garret) were going into high school and were golfers,” Giesselmann said. “When you are at the (NCAA) Division I level, you spend a lot of time with everyone else’s kids. You don’t see yours as much as you’d like to. My wife kind of convinced me to go talk to Midland about it.” Giesselmann, hired in May of 2010, took a program that had been struggling and turned it into a perennial power. Last fall, he
