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. Fucette, 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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Brian Hosfeld
With the start of the 2008 season, Brian Hosfeld enters his fifth year as an assistant coach on Jerritt Elliott's staff at Texas. He was hired on June 14, 2004, after a successful eight-year head coaching tenure at Baylor University. In addition to his on-court duties and working with the setters, he oversees the team's strength and conditioning program as well as match preparation.
Hosfeld's arrival on the Forty Acres coincided with UT's return to the top of the collegiate volleyball scene. The Longhorns have earned three top-10 rankings in four seasons with Hosfeld on the bench, while advancing to four NCAA Tournaments. Additionally, Texas won a share of the Big 12 title in 2007 and finished second in the Big 12 Conference in 2004 and 2005.
In his first four seasons at Texas, Hosfeld worked with setter Michelle Moriarty as she has paced the team to its top three season hitting percentages in program history: .343 in 2007, .305 in 2004 and .272 in 2005. Moriarty earned AVCA All-America honors three times in her four-year career, while setting the UT career assists record with 5,819. Behind Moriarty, Texas finished the 2007 season ranked second nationally in hitting percentage and Moriarty ranked fourth nationally with 14.18 assists per-game.
During her junior campaign, Moriarty earned AVCA All-America Third Team honors as well as AVCA All-Central Region Moriarty ranked fourth nationally in 2006, recording 13.68 assists per game and leading her Texas team that ranked 21st nationally in hitting percentage.
As a sophomore, Moriarty earned AVCA honorable mention All-America honors, as well as AVCA First Team All-Central and First Team All-Big 12 accolades. Moriarty finished the 2005 season ranked 10th nationally in assists per game (13.38) while pacing the team - composed of six regular players classified as freshman or sophomores after the loss of a pair of All-American hitters the year before - to the second-best hitting mark in school history.
At the conclusion of the 2004 season, Hosfeld was selected to coach the 2005 USA Volleyball A2 junior national team, where he coached both Moriarty and Lauren Paolini in summer training sessions in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Before coming to Texas, Hosfeld elevated the Baylor program to new heights in his tenure in Waco. He led the 1999 squad to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, and followed that up with another showing in 2001. Hosfeld guided Baylor to three-straight winning seasons (1999-2001) for the first time in school history. Additionally, Volleyball Magazine rated his 1999 recruiting class fourth in the nation.
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 national championship. In addition to the 1993 Final Four appearance, Hosfeld helped guide the Beach to three-straight NCAA appearances during his stay. LBSU had an overall winning percentage of 81.8 percent (81-18) while Hosfeld worked with the team.
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 USA Volleyball's director of the World University and National Team try-outs at the Olympic Training Center.
A native of Long Beach, Calif., Hosfeld was active in junior volleyball before his ascension to head coaching duties at Baylor. In 1986, he co-founded the Magnum Volleyball Club and served as head coach until 1995. Today, the Magnum Volleyball Club still stands as one of the most successful junior development programs in the U.S.
Hosfeld graduated from Long Beach State in 1991. He and his wife, Jaimie (Lee), have one daughter, Ella (4) and a son, Max (2). Jaimie was the 1996 and 1997 Big East Most Valuable Player while she played volleyball at Notre Dame. She currently competes professionally on the AVP Tour, where she was the 2003 AVP Rookie of the Year.
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Salima Rockwell
The 2009 season marks Salima Rockwell's first on Jerritt Elliott's staff at Texas after joining the Longhorn family in January 2009. One of the nation's premier assistant coaches, Rockwell joins the Texas staff after spending three seasons on the Penn State coaching staff. Rockwell works with the team's setters and off the court, she serves as the Longhorns' recruiting coordinator.
Rockwell spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons at Penn State as an assistant coach and helped the Nittany Lions to back-to-back NCAA titles. She served as director of volleyball operations in 2006. Rockwell's primary duties included working with the setters and the offense, recruiting and match preparation.
The former Salima Davidson was a three-time All-America setter for the Nittany Lions from 1991-94 and served as a two-time team captain of the U.S. National Team during her time with the squad from 1995-99. She returned to Penn State after spending the 2005 season as an assistant coach at Oregon State under legendary head coach Terry Liskevych.
Under the guidance of Rockwell, setter Alisha Glass directed the 2007 and 2008 Penn State offenses to nation-leading hitting percentages of .350 (2007) and .390 (2008). In Glass' three-year career, the Penn State offense hit at an astounding .352 hitting percentage.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Rockwell was an assistant at the University of Pittsburgh from 2001-03 where she worked primarily with the Panthers' setters. She also was the Panthers' lead recruiter and signed four of their top five recruits in 2002.
Rockwell captained the USA National Team in 1997 and 1998 and served as the starting setter for the U.S. She earned the Coaches' Award, MVP and the Team Award in both seasons. Rockwell also spent three years in the ultra-competitive world of pharmaceutical sales, consistently ranking as a top-selling representative.
She still ranks fourth all-time on Penn State's career assists list with 5,455, and sits fourth on the career assists per game list (12.34). She ranks sixth on the career digging charts with 1,278 and sits 15th all-time on the career hitting percentage list (.301). An all-around player, Rockwell also ranks 11th on the career total blocks chart with 382 and was inducted into the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Hall of Fame.
A two-time member of the NCAA Championship All-Tournament team (1993 & 1994), Rockwell also earned All-Big Ten accolades four times, including three First Team selections. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of the Arts in speech communications.
Rockwell and her husband, Jeff, have one son, Logan, who was born in October of 2004.
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Nathan Mendoza
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