After seven seasons as assistant coach of the Wolf Pack indoor volleyball team under Jesse Zabal and four seasons as beach volleyball head coach, Robert Pitre took over as head coach of the indoor team for the 2025 season. 

He completed one season as head coach, bringing the program its first Southern States Athletic Conference tournament championship. The Wolf Pack compiled a 29-9 overall record in 2025, which was tied for the second-best team record in any season in program history and marked the best season by a first-year head coach. Pitre was named SSAC Coach of the Year in 2025, adding on to two SSAC Assistant Coach of the Year awards in 2020 and 2021. 

Pitre joined the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball staff in the spring of 2018.

In his sixth season as assistant coach, the Wolf Pack put together a 26-7 overall record, the best winning percentage in a season in program history. While the Pack dropped its SSAC semifinal match, the team earned an at-large bid to make the field of the NAIA National Championship tournament for the first time since 2002. The team also featured three First-Team All-Conference winners for the fourth year in a row. 
 

The 2021 fall season was also historic for the Wolf Pack volleyball program in many ways. In August of that year, Pitre was named the head coach of the new beach volleyball program. The Wolf Pack indoor volleyball team then captured its first SSAC Regular Season Championship since joining the conference prior to the 2010 season. Pitre was named SSAC Assistant Coach of the Year and the AVCA Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the second-straight season. 
 

Pitre was recognized by several institutions after the 2020-21 season, his third with the program, after the Wolf Pack, with a 17-11 overall record, finished third in the SSAC in the regular season and runners-up at the SSAC Championship tournament. He was named the Assistant Coach of the Year by the SSAC and the Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. 

Pitre came to Loyola after coaching the Mississippi Gulf Coast Volleyball Club to a 16-10 record. During the 2017 volleyball season as the assistant coach at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore., he helped guide the team to a historic year, garnering the most conference wins in school history. Earning their first playoff appearance for the program since 2014, their season was highlighted by an upset against the No. 15 team in the country, Corban University. Working with the 16U Webfoot Juniors Volleyball Club in Eugene, Ore. during the 2015-16 season, the team went 16-2 and placed eighth at the Pacific Northwest Qualifier in 2017.

Pitre’s other coaching experiences include volunteering with NCU volleyball during the 2014-15 season and earning the 2010 Baseball Willamette Valley Championship as the 12U Willamette Valley Babe Ruth Volunteer Head Coach.

He graduated with Cum Laude Honors from the University of Oregon in June of 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Pitre married his wife, Kelly Pitre, in 2015 and welcomed his first child in the winter of 2016, Elijah.