Augsburg University Athletics

Florian was a three-sport star for the Auggies as a student (volleyball, basketball and softball). In volleyball, Florian helped lead the Auggies to a 52-25 record her last two seasons, with runner-up finishes to the University of Minnesota in the AIAW Minnesota state tournament. The 1975 Augsburg team reached the regional semifinals of the seven-state AIAW Region 6 Large College tournament. She graduated Cum Laude from Augsburg,  with a degree in physical education and math. She began her coaching career as an assistant volleyball coach at St. Cloud State, where she earned her master's degree in physical education. Her first volleyball head coaching position was at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa. Florian returned to Augsburg in 1980 to become an assistant volleyball coach, taking over the head coaching reins a year later. Florian also coached women's basketball at Augsburg from 1981-85, compiling a 47-49 career mark. Florian was Augsburg's volleyball head coach from 1981-98. She compiled a 271-366 record in her 18 seasons, including eight .500-or-above campaigns and 11 seasons of double-digit match victories. Her final Auggie squad (1998) finished 17-11 overall, the school's best record since 1985's school-record 32-16 campaign. Her coaching resume includes one NCAA Division III national playoff berth (1982) and two Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference runner-up finishes. Florian has been a member of the Augsburg athletic department staff since 1980. She served the college as women's athletic director from 1988 to 2007. In 2007, as part of a restructuring of the athletic department, her title was changed to Assistant Athletic Director. Also an assistant professor of physical education at Augsburg, Florian assumed duties as chair of the college's health and physical education department in 1999.   As women's athletic director, Florian led a steady increase in both the number of sports for women offered at Augsburg and number of female students involved in athletics. Augsburg has added golf, cross country and ice hockey as women's varsity sports in recent years, and in 1988, Florian initiated the induction of women athletes into the college's Athletic Hall of Fame.