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Volleyball Adds Championship, All-American Experience to Coaching Staff

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Santa Clara volleyball first-year head coach Erin Lindsey announced on Friday that the Broncos have hired Jeff Alzina as the associate head coach, Bre Mackie as an assistant coach and Nikki Hess as a volunteer assistant coach.

Alzina joins the Broncos from UCLA, where he won the 2018 NCAA beach volleyball national championship as a volunteer assistant coach. Mackie comes to the Mission campus from Nebraska, where she was a graduate assistant for a Cornhusker team that won the 2017 NCAA indoor championship and reached the title match again in 2018. Hess, a former Bronco All-American, currently serves as an assistant coach with Vision Volleyball Club in nearby Los Gatos, California.