NCAA Women
December 20, 2023
We have the first major surprise hire of the NCAA volleyball offseason.
West Virginia announced Wednesday its new coach will be Jen Greeny, the former Washington State star who took her alma mater to national prominence as the head coach the past 13 years.
“We are very excited for a new venture and we will build something great,” Greeny told us.
It comes on the heels of a busy couple of days for the Division I transfer portal. Among the notables, former Nebraska standout Whitney Lauenstein, out of volleyball the past year and who had a baby, going to Texas; and Georgia getting Erykah Lovett, who was third in kills for Tennessee this season.
And the final AVCA top 25 came out after Texas won the NCAA title on Sunday.
Greeny to West Virginia
Jen Greeny grew up in Davenport, Washington, where she was one of the greatest small-school basketball players in state history. Then she played volleyball at Washington State (1995-98), where she became one of the best players in program history. After that, Greeny coached at Lewis-Clark State College in nearby Lewiston, Idaho, before returning to WSU in Pullman. So this will be her first…
