Erik Bateham - Volleyball Coach - University of Montana Athletics

Erik Bateham

Title:
Assistant Coach

>>> Bateham brings numbers to Montana

Erik Bateham spent one season at Montana, serving as an assistant coach during the 2021 season.

Montana earned 11 wins in 2021, its highest win total and best winning percentage since 2013. Season highlights included a UND Classic tournament title, a road win at rival Montana State and a season sweep over Idaho. Bateham, who primarily worked with the Grizzlies' back-row defense, helped Montana rank sixth in the Big Sky with 14.23 digs per set. In the team's win over Montana State, it recorded 103 digs, the program's most in four seasons.

Senior libero Sarina Moreno ranked third in the Big Sky with 4.03 digs per set in 2021, as Bateham also helped develop all-conference outside hitter Paige Clark.

Bateham came to Montana from Oregon State, where he most-recently served as a volunteer assistant coach. During the Beavers’ abbreviated Spring 2021 season, OSU earned Pac-12 wins over Arizona State (twice), California (twice) and USC. He primarily worked with OSU’s pin hitters, in addition to facilitating recruiting for future classes and generating various analytical reports.

Bateham has strong ties to Corvallis, Oregon, where he spent one season as the Beavers’ volunteer assistant coach (2020-21), two seasons as their graduate assistant coach (2014-16) and three more as a student manager (2011-14).

Bateham also played on OSU’s men’s club team, helping lead the Beavers to two PIVA titles and a 2014 NCVF D1AA National Championship. He was three times named a PIVA first-team opposite hitter.

Bateham, a Corvallis, Oregon, native, received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State in 2014, before earning his master’s in business administration from Oregon State in 2016. Prior to getting into coaching, he worked as a sales representative for Kuraray America Inc., in Houston, Texas, and as the director of energy for Kijani Forestry, in Gulu, Uganda, where he helped design and test low-cost and high-efficient charcoal kilns for improved global sustainability.

ERIK BATEHAM AT A GLANCE
Personal
Hometown	Corvallis, Oregon
Education	Bachelor's: Oregon State, 2014 (Chemical Engineering) Master's: Oregon State, 2016 (Business Administration)

COACHING RÉSUMÉ
Year	School/Team, Position
2011-13	Oregon State, student manager
2014-15	Oregon State, graduate assistant
Spring 2021	Oregon State, volunteer coach
2021	Montana, assistant coach