Jackie Hutchison joined the volleyball coaching staff as an assistant in the fall of 2008. She served as the team’s interim head coach in 2009 and received the conference’s Coach of the Year award that season; the “interim” tag was removed in 2010 and she has coached the Pioneers since.
Grinnell’s volleyball team has been very successful in her years as coach. The Pioneers twice qualified for the conference’s postseason tournament, the first time Grinnell qualified since a qualifying system was implemented in 2004. In only five years at the helm, Hutchison is second on the volleyball career wins list. In addition to coaching at Grinnell, Hutchison is active with both the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) and with USA Volleyball as a coach with Iowa High-Performance.
Hutchison is also an accomplished yoga instructor. Her teaching at the College includes yoga courses and she utilizes yoga in the volleyball team’s training program.
Hutchison played NCAA Division I volleyball at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she was an outside hitter. Between playing in college and coaching at Grinnell, she spent more than a decade practicing physical therapy.
She moved to Grinnell in 2007 when her partner Paul took a position on the faculty of the Education Department here at the College. She and her partner have a son, Henry, who is an 8th grader and a cat named Maxine who they rescued from the PALS where they volunteer.
