Jenny Maurer enters her third season as head coach of the Mountain Hawks volleyball team. In 2008 Maurer led the Mountain Hawks to their most overall and Patriot League victories in five seasons. In addition Lehigh defeated archrival Lafayette in a thrilling 3-2 match – this marked the first time since the 2002 and 2003 seasons the Brown and White has beaten the Leopards in back-to-back seasons.

Maurer earned her first win as a Lehigh head coach in just her fifth match of the year, a 3-2 victory over Howard. In that win, she showed the great resiliency which great coaches are made of, as the team came back from a 2-0 deficit to finish on top.

That victory was also the first career win for Maurer, who had never coached at the collegiate level before becoming the 11th head coach in program history.

“It is a dream come true,” said Maurer, a native of St. Louis, Mo., at the time of her hiring. “I have a deep passion to teach the game and stepping into this position, I will be doing just that.”

Teaching and coaching are no strange tasks for Maurer, who spent the previous seven years before arriving at Lehigh as a Social Studies teacher for the Rockwood School District in Missouri while serving as head coach of St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis. At St. Joseph’s, Maurer was 182-63 and led the team to five District and Sectional championships. She also guided her teams to consecutive second place finishes in the Missouri Class 4 State Championships for the last three years and saw her team rank nationally in the top 100 for the last four.

In her inaugural season with the Angels, St. Joseph’s advanced to the state quarterfinals. Maurer coached five All-State athletes and had 13 of her former players go on to play volleyball at NCAA Division I or II institutions. She currently has former players at Ohio State, Alabama, St. Louis University, Florida Atlantic and Bryant.

Fresh out of college, Maurer’s first coaching position was with the Kirkwood Volleyball Club’s girls’ 14-U team. Maurer took a team that had never won a tournament in the previous years and led them to not only their first tournament victory, but also to a top ten finish at the AAU National Tournament.

Maurer played all four years of her collegiate career at Washington University under legendary Teri Clemens, who was the winningest coach in NCAA history at the time of her retirement in 1998. Maurer was a member of the Washington University squad that won the NCAA Division III National Championship in 1995 and 1996, advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 1997 and made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1998.

Individually, Maurer was a distinguished athlete with multiple conference, regional, and national honors to her name. She was named First-Team All-University Athletic Association three times and was also a three-time First-Team All-South honoree. At the 1996 Final Four, Maurer was selected to the Final Four All-Tournament Team. In 1997 and 1998, Maurer received First-Team All-American status from two different outlets—the AVCA and Asics/Volleyball Magazine. From 1996-98, she was selected as Division III National Player of the Week three times.

As a sophomore, Maurer led the Bears in service aces with 79. She then led the team in digs for the next two years, amounting 329 as a junior and 352 as a senior. To cap off her career, Maurer was selected to travel to Belgium and Holland for the College All-American Volleyball Tour and invited to the USA Volleyball A2 Tryouts.

Maurer has participated in multiple volleyball camps as a director (St. Joseph’s Academy Summer Volleyball Camp since 2000), an instructor (Washington University Summer Volleyball Camp since 1995) and as an intern coach (University of Illinois Volleyball Camp in 2005). In 2003 at age 26, Maurer became the youngest coach to appear in the CYC Coaches Training Video.

Maurer graduated from Washington University with a B.A. in Psychology in 1999 and then received her masters in Education from Lindenwood University in May 2003.

Maurer and her husband, Todd, have a son, Hudson, 3, and a one-year old daughter, Chaney.

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