Caitlin Schweihofer was named the Rutgers head women’s volleyball coach on January 15, 2020 and will enter her seventh season at Rutgers in 2026. In her first season in the spring of 2021, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights established themselves as a program on the rise with numerous program and Big Ten firsts. Among the Scarlet Knights’ Spring 2021 accomplishments were the first-ever All-Big Ten honoree, first-ever home-opening Big Ten victory, and first-ever Big Ten series sweep. RU established new team, season, and match records for aces and reset program Big Ten game bests in kills, attempts, attack percentages and assists, and individual conference superlatives in attack percentage, assists, and digs.

The second season of the Schweihofer era saw the Scarlet Knights move a majority of its home games to Jersey Mike’s Arena, playing members of the nation’s top conference in the 8,000-seat arena. Rutgers captured set wins over #8 Purdue and #15 Penn State and took Illinois to five sets in front of a national audience on BTN.

The fall of 2022 saw RU 3-0 for the first time since 1998 with four Scarlet Knights named to All-Tournament squads. By the season’s end, Rutgers had 11 entries on the rally-era season leaders list including Megan Vernon who wrapped up her career ranked second in the rally era in solo blocks in only two seasons as a Scarlet Knight and freshman Taylor Humphrey tying for the most kills in a rally-era three-set match.

More milestones continued for the Scarlet Knight program in year four in 2023. The team was honored with its first-ever All-Big Ten attacker, captured the most wins and best nonconference record since 2012, improved its set win total by 45% over the previous season and set a school record in attendance. The Scarlet Knights collected the most kills and most digs as a program since 2012, the highest serve percentage since 2016 and the most assists since 2018. Redshirt sophomore Alissa Kinkela, who led the team in kills, was named Second Team All-Big Ten. The Scarlet Knights placed 12 entries into the rally-era individual season top 10 records, 13 entries into the rally-era team top 10 records while collecting the most sets played, kills, assists, assists per set, digs and solo blocks by a team in conference play since joining the Big Ten in 2014. Senior libero Madyson Chitty finished her career fifth all-time in career digs and senior middle blocker Kristina Grkovic concluded her career fifth all-time in hitting percentage while setting the rally-era record for solo blocks in a season and career. Rutgers improved its attendance by 50% while setting a program record of 6,757 in attendance at Jersey Mike's Arena when facing No. 1 Nebraska on Nov. 5. Additionally, Schweihofer registered her 100th career victory.

A youthful Schweihofer-led Scarlet Knight squad in 2024 continued to rewrite the Rutgers record book, putting up several notable career and season numbers as the Big Ten expanded to the West Coast. On the attack, Kinkela, the squad's first-ever All-Big Ten attacker, cracked the top 10 all-time in career kills, the second most rally-era career kills and the third most rally-era career kills per set. Additionally, Rutgers put nine entries into the rally-era individual season top 10 records with a new benchmark set for blocks in a rally-era season from Natalie Robinson. Additionally, freshman Natalie Robinson leads RU's career blocks per set category after only one season "On The Banks" while Lexi Visintine was just two aces shy of setting a new season standard in the category.

The 2025 season saw the Scarlet Knights have some of their biggest successes in a litany of categories. Rutgers surpassed its win total from the previous season nine games into the year, fueled by a seven-match win streak, the longest for the squad since 2012. The Scarlet Knights collected sweeps in six of the seven games. Against the Red Flash, RU swung .456, marking the best hitting percentage by the Scarlet Knights in a rally-era match. In nonconference action, RU played to a 9-3 mark with seven sweeps and a 4-0 home mark. In Big Ten action, the Scarlet Knights set not only a school record for attendance, but the 8,000 to witness the Scarlet Knights take on No. 1 Nebraska at Jersey Mike's Arena marked the largest crowd to watch a volleyball match in the state of New Jersey. RU also picked up its first-ever Big Ten win over Ohio State as the sweep marked the most by the program since 2000 and the first time in either Big East or Big Ten play that the Scarlet Knights have held an opponent to under 20 in a match. At the end of the 2025 season, Rutgers had captured the best hitting percentage and most aces of any team during the rally era, saw Zora Hardison set both the rally-era career and season solo block record and Lexi Visintine set the rally-era season record in aces and became only the second Scarlet Knight of the rally era with over 100 career aces. In Big Ten action, the Scarlet Knights posted the most assists and aces in a season since joining the league, with Lily Bolen averaging the most assists per set in a Big Ten season. Additional season stat notables included Visintine with the most aces since 1988, Hardison with the most season solo blocks since 1999, Aspen Maxwell with the most kills per set since 2009, Natalie Robinson with the best hitting percentage since 2011, Bolen with the most assists and assists per set since 2012, and Maxwell with the most kills since 2013.

Prior to arriving at Rutgers, Schweihofer was at the helm of the Northeastern women’s volleyball team, where she earned the 2018 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors. Under her tutelage, the Huskies captured their best hitting percentage since 2008, earned a trio of all-conference honors, and finished the season ranked among the top three in the Colonial Athletic Association in hitting percentage, kills, digs, and assists.

Before moving to Northeastern, Schweihofer spent five seasons as the head coach of La Salle University’s Women’s volleyball team. During her tenure, she recruited and trained the Atlantic 10 Setter of the Year, as well as multiple all-conference and all-rookie selections, and saw the team earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award each season. She led the Explorers to their first-ever Atlantic 10 tournament appearance in 2018 as the squad concluded their regular season at 17-11 overall, the most wins for the program since 1988. Additionally, six members of the team earned conference accolades, including Setter of the Year, while Schweihofer was honored as the league’s Coach of the Year.

Schweihofer oversaw an eight-win improvement over the span of the 2015-17 seasons, which included beginning the 2015 season with five-straight wins for the best start in program history. The 2015 season also saw her named to the AVCA Thirty Under Thirty list as she implemented the third largest turnaround in program history.