Chuck Erbe

Chuck Erbe (born October 12, 1944) is an American volleyball coach. For the United States, he coached the teams that went to the 1974 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship and the 1981 World University Games. As a United States Volleyball Association coach, his Californian teams won the Women's Open event at the Indoor Open National Championship in 1975 and 1980. With the USC Trojans women's volleyball team primarily from 1976 to 1989, his players won three AIAW Volleyball Championships. In the NCAA, they were the 1981 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament winners and were runner ups in the 1982 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament. Erbe had 310 wins, 121 losses and 3 ties with USC before ending his coaching position.

After working for a year as an assistant coach for the University of Illinois, Erbe held multiple volleyball positions in Chicago during the 1990s. With the Michigan State Spartans women's volleyball team, Erbe was their coach from 1993 to 2004. While accumulating 244 wins and 140 losses, his team reached the Final Four at the 1995 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament. Outside of coaching, Erbe has worked as a volleyball referee. He received Coach of the Year awards from the Big Ten Conference and American Volleyball Coaches Association in 1995. Erbe joined the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2013.

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