Texas Volleyball Camp Staff
Jerritt Elliott
The Director of the Texas Volleyball Camp, Jerritt Elliott is hailed as one of the top coaches in the sport. Since taking the reins of the program, Elliott has Texas back in the national spotlight. He has twice been named Big 12 Coach of the Year and AVCA Central Region Coach of the Year while at Texas.
In 2007, the Longhorns were 27-4 and entered the NCAA tournament as the 4th overall seed. Texas advanced to the Gainesville Regional Finals. The Longhorns ended the regular season as Big 12 Co-Champions. Juliann Faucette was named Big 12 Freshman of the Year which marks the second consecutive year a Longhorn has won the award. Faucette, Ashley Engle, Destinee Hooker, Michelle Moriarty, and Lauren Paolini garnered first team Big 12 All-Conference Honors while Brandy Magee received Honorable Mention. At the national level, Elliott’s players garnered four All American honors as well as the National Freshman of the Year.
During Elliott’s tenure at Texas, the Longhorns have received 23 All Conference certificates and 18 All American selections. In 2006, the Longhorns were 24-7, gained a bid to the NCAA Tournament as the 7th overall seed, and advanced to the Elite Eight. The Longhorns had three All Conference selections and three All-American selections. In 2005 the Longhorns were 24-5 and placed second in the Big 12 while gaining a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Longhorns had three All-Conference selections and three All-American selections.
Elliott continues to make his mark as one of the top recruiters in the sport. Elliott has had back to back #2 recruiting classes in 2007 and 2006 and one of the nation’s top recruiting classes in 2008. After a spectacular two-year run as head coach at the University of Southern California, the former two-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year and the 2000 AVCA Pacific Region Coach of the Year was hired to rebuild the proud Texas Longhorns volleyball program.
In his two years leading USC, Elliott compiled a sterling 50-12 record while guiding the Women of Troy to their first Final Four appearance in 15 years and first-ever share of the Pac-10 Championship. Additionally, Elliott landed back to back # 1 recruiting classes at USC. Shortly after his second season, Elliott was named the head coach of the prestigious USA Junior National Team, but he chose to relinquish the role due to taking the job at Texas.
The future is bright for Elliott’s Longhorns, and he has the volleyball community once again mentioning Texas when discussing the nation’s elite.
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Tonya Johnson
The 2007 season marks Tonya Johnson's fifth as an assistant coach on Jerritt Elliott's staff at Texas. She was brought into the UT family in April of 2003 after spending five seasons as an assistant at her alma mater, LSU.
Johnson works with the team's outside hitters and, off the court, she is the team's recruiting coordinator, travel coordinator and is the assistant camp director. As the team's recruiting coordinator, Johnson has helped head coach Jerritt Elliott land the second-ranked recruiting class in the country in each of the past two seasons (2006-07). She helped lead the Longhorns 2005 club - complete with one senior and five starters who were freshmen or sophomores - to its second 20-win season in a row and a second consecutive second-place showing in the highly competitive Big 12 Conference. UT went 7-3 against other ranked teams, including a thrilling, 3-2 victory over top-ranked and previously undefeated Nebraska to close the regular season.
In her first season at Texas in 2003, Johnson was instrumental in organizing the team's 13-day tour of Europe in May 2004. Johnson served as the top volleyball assistant at LSU from 1998-2003 under Fran (Teeter) Flory (Texas '83) where she was responsible for the majority of the Tigers' recruiting efforts. In 1995, Johnson began her collegiate coaching career at Kentucky as an assistant to Flory.
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Brian Hosfeld
The 2007 season marked the start of Brian Hosfeld’s fourth year as a Texas assistant coach on Jerritt Elliott’s staff. Hosfeld joined Texas’s staff after a successful eight-year head coaching tenure at Baylor University where he elevated the program to new heights.
With the help of the fourth ranked recruiting class in the nation, Hosfeld’s Bears burst on to the national scene in 1999 with their first ever NCAA tournament appearance. The Lady Bears finished the season ranked No. 20 in the final polls.
Prior to arriving at Baylor, Hosfeld was an assistant coach at Long Beach State for three years (1993-95) and was a member of the coaching staff when the 49ers won the 1993 NCAA championship. He helped guide the team to two Final Fours (1993, 1994) and three straight NCAA appearances.
In addition to his collegiate coaching duties, Hosfeld also was selected to lead USA Volleyball's silver-medal winning entry at the 1997 World University Games in Sicily, Italy. Prior to his work with that team, Hosfeld served as the director for the USA, World University and National Team try-outs at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
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Updated:
3/19/08
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