Volleyball

Jessica Aschenbrenner joined the Santa Clara University volleyball program in February, 2022 as an associate head coach, coming from the University of Denver.  She is also the team's recruiting coordinator. 

Aschenbrenner spent the past five years on the Denver volleyball staff, three as an assistant coach and two as the director of operations.  In the spring of 2021, she was named an AVCA Thirty Under 30 Award winner, recognized as one of the top 30 assistant coaches in the nation under the age of 30.

In 2021, Aschenbrenner served as the defensive coordinator, her first year in that role, helping the Pioneers to a 23-6 record.  Denver posted league best numbers in opponent attack percentage (.166), opponent assists (9.62), opponent kills (10.61), opponent service aces (.99), opponent digs (11.92), hitting percentage (.263), assists (12.67), and aces (1.94).

The season prior, in the spring of 2021, she coordinated the offense for the second year and assisted Denver to a regular season Summit League Championship.

In her first year as an assistant coach in 2019, Aschenbrenner helped develop Lydia Bartalo become Denver's first-ever Summit League Player of the Year and third all-time AVCA All-America selection.

Before being promoted to an assistant coach, she was the director of operations for the Pioneers program working on statistical analysis and scouting.

Over the past several years, the former University of Colorado volleyball player has been part of USA Volleyball in various capacities.  During the summer of 2021, she was the assistant coach for the U.S. Women's Indoor U20 National Team who placed 5th in the FIVB Women's U20 World Championship.

Aschenbrenner also served as an assistant coach with the 2019 USA Girls Youth A1 Program and as a lead tryout coach and evaluator for the USA Girls HP Program since 2019.

Aschenbrenner earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Colorado in 2014 as well as an MBA from the University of Denver in 2020.  She is currently pursuing a master of arts in sport coaching at Denver.