Volleyball

Erin Lindsey is in her fourth season as head coach of Santa Clara volleyball in 2022-23.

Lindsey, hired in December 2018, is the 10th head coach for a Bronco program that dates back to 1963 and is in her second stint as a head coach after leading Dartmouth from 2011 to 2015.

Prior to being hired at Santa Clara, Lindsey spent the previous two seasons at Stanford, where she helped program win its eighth NCAA championship in 2018. As a collegiate student-athlete, Lindsey was a standout setter at North Carolina. She is the program's all-time assists leader with 5,751 for her career and garnered ACC Player of the Year honors as a senior in 1998, among many other accolades.

During Lindsey's time with the Broncos, Santa Clara has produced three AVCA all-region selections, 10 all-WCC accolades and 15 WCC all-academic nods.  Additionally, under her guidance, the Broncos have earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award in each of the first three seasons, honoring teams that maintain a year-long grade point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale.  

The Broncos battled through the challenges of playing during the COVID-19 pandemic in their 2020 season, which took place in spring 2021 after the fall campaign was postponed. They were one of the toughest serving teams in the country, leading the WCC in aces (114, 33^rd NCAA) and aces/set (1.75, 24^th NCAA). Julia Sangiacomo was named to the AVCA Pacific North All-Region Team, giving the Santa Clara all-region selections in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2007-08.

Lindsey led the Broncos to a stellar campaign in her first season at the helm in 2019. Santa Clara went 21-12 overall (10-8 WCC), reached the postseason for the first time since 2015 and won its first postseason match since 2008 with an opening-round victory at Long Beach State in the NIVC. The Broncos, who logged a 15-win improvement compared to the previous year, also won 20 matches for the first time since 2015. Santa Clara took fourth place in the conference after being picked to finish ninth in the preseason coaches poll. Lindsey became the program's first head coach to start 6-0 in a debut season and the team's 10-3 nonconference record marked its best start through 13 matches since 2014. Santa Clara was the only WCC program to win 10 matches in nonconference play, which included victories in all six neutral site tournament tilts.

Taylor Odom led the NCAA and set a program record with 196 total blocks, the most in any era in Bronco history and good for fourth all-time in the WCC. Odom became Santa Clara’s first AVCA All-Pacific North Region selection since 2015 and garnered First Team All-WCC honors. Santa Clara led the WCC with 326.5 total blocks (10th NCAA) and 2.63 blocks/set (22nd NCAA), while holding opponents to a .168 hitting percentage (2nd WCC, 32nd NCAA). The Broncos also excelled in the classroom by matching a program best with five WCC all-academic honorees, including three student-athletes on the WCC All-Academic Team for the first time since 2005.

Lindsey worked with setters and the offense during her time at Stanford, which in 2017 and 2018 produced five first- and second-team All-Americans, including two-time TeamSnap/AVCA Division I National Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer. During her first year, Lindsey helped guide the team to a Pac-12 title and an appearance in the national semifinals.

In 2016, Lindsey served as an assistant coach to Kevin Hambly at Illinois, where she helped the Illini to a 17-win season. Hambly was tabbed as head coach at Stanford the following season, and hired Lindsey as an assistant coach with the Cardinal.

Lindsey led Dartmouth its most Ivy League wins in program history in 2015 and the Big Green earned their highest league finish since 1998 that season. Lindsey was named the 2015 league co-coach of the year, a first for the school. She coached 10 all-conference players, four academic all-league student-athletes, and two CoSIDA Academic All-District selections. Along with the individual accolades, the program earned the AVCA Team Academic Award four times.

The Honolulu, Hawaii, native began her coaching career at her alma mater where in five years (2005-09) she helped develop three AVCA All-Americans and seven All-ACC players, including 2005 ACC Player of the Year Dani Nyenhuis.  She helped UNC to a share of the league regular-season title twice while also serving as recruiting coordinator. Lindsey recruited three AVCA All-Region and All-ACC players, including Kaylie Gibson, who went on to be named 2010 ACC Defensive Player of the Year.

A four-year starter and two-time captain at North Carolina from 1995 to 1998, the star setter earned All-ACC honors and AVCA All-Region accolades twice in addition to her conference player of the year accolade from her senior campaign. In 1998, she led UNC to the conference regular-season title and its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history.

A 2000 graduate with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science, Lindsey is the school’s all-time leader in career assists and was named to the ACC's 50th Anniversary Team.

Lindsey graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science in 2000, before going on to get her master's degree in the same field in 2011.

Lindsey also served as the director of operations for the Carolina Volleyball Camps, Inc., as well as the head coach and director of setting academy at the Triangle Volleyball Club in North Carolina.