Aaron Woliczko has been a member of the West Coast Conference staff since 2015. He currently serves as the Senior Associate Commissioner for Men's Basketball and Sport Administration.
As the Senior Associate Commissioner for Men's Basketball and Sport Administration, Woliczko focuses on developing and implementing strategies to enhance the national profile and success of men's basketball and other West Coast Conference sports. In addition, Woliczko also manages men's basketball day-to-day operations including collaborating with Conference members on non-conference scheduling efforts and managing the Conference's officiating program. Highly regarded for his scheduling efforts, Woliczko is responsible for the conference schedule creation of all round robin sports. He also leads oversight of Student Services for the Conference.
In addition to his day-to-day responsibilites for the WCC, Woliczko also is also a member of the Board of Directors for the San Jose Sports Authority. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, he was a member of the San Jose Sports Authority COVID-19 Task Force. He is also a Board Member of the Western Basketball Officiating Consortium (WBOC) and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Prior to his work in administration for the West Coast Conference, Woliczko had coaching stints at various levels. Woliczko spent three seasons as the head coach at Montana Tech, an NAIA university in Butte, Mt., overseeing all aspects of the program including scheduling and budgets. While in Butte, Woliczko developed three Academic All-Americans and increased the Diggers' win total from six to 15 over the course of three years.
After serving as the University of Pacific's Facilities and Events Assistant in the athletic department for two years, Woliczko furthered his basketball coaching career in 2002 as the Tigers' Coordinator of Men's Basketball Operations and eventually served as a full time assistant in 2005. While in Stockton, Woliczko handled facility coordination, camp oversight, coordinating travel and other tasks with his day-to-day coaching responsibilities of recruiting, scouting and player development. Over his eight years, the program won four Big West regular season titles and produced six 20-win teams, including the 2004-05 squad that reached No. 16 in the AP Top 25 and went to their second of three straight NCAA Tournaments with a 27-4 record – the best in school history.
He began his coaching career at Santa Cruz High School alongside Pete Newell Jr., son of the legendary University of San Francisco men's basketball coach, guiding the Cardinals to a 26-6 record in the 1999-00 season. Woliczko later became a member of the Santa Cruz High School Athletics Hall of Fame.
A 1997 graduate of Pacific, Woliczko contributed to a total of 227 wins in Stockton as a player and coach, including six Big West titles, seven postseason appearances (including four in the NCAA Tournament) and seven postseason victories. Woliczko played for three Hall of Fame coaches over the course of his career: Pete Newell Jr. (Santa Cruz High School), Bob Burton (West Valley Community College) and Bob Thomason (Pacific), winning conference championships at each level.
Woliczko's 1996-97 playing season at Pacific saw the Tigers go 24-6, highlighted by an NCAA Tournament appearance and a 16-game win streak. During his final year, he helped guide the Tigers to a 23-10 record, despite playing most of the season with a broken hand, earning him Pacific's Leadership Award that season. In 2009, Woliczko and his teammates from the '96-97 season were inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame. He also shared the hardwood with eventual 1998 No. 1 overall NBA draft pick, Michael Olowokandi, at University of the Pacific.
After finishing his playing career at Pacific in 1998, Woliczko enjoyed a brief professional career overseas in St. Niklass, Belgium. He began his coaching career after an injury in November 1999.
Prior to his time at the West Coast Conference, he served as the Business Development Manager at Ameri-Kleen, Inc. in Watsonville, Calif., a business that spent multiple years on the Inc. 500 list as one of the nation's fastest growing companies.
Woliczko met his wife, Erica, at the University of Pacific. She was a star athlete as well, starting at catcher on the Tigers' softball team. Both are graduates of Pacific's Sport Sciences program. The two were married in 2003 and have a daughter, McKenna, born in 2008. Their son Patrick was born in 2014. Erica was inducted into the Peninsula (Northern California) Sports Hall of Fame, joining John Madden, Bill Walsh and Barry Bonds among others.