After 21 seasons at UW-Stout, Jill Jolliff completed her career as UW-Stout's head volleyball coach following the 2013 season. | Complete Story

Jolliff, the longest serving volleyball coach in Stout history and the second longest of any Stout women's sports, completed her Stout career with a 363-319 overall record, ranking seventh on the WIAC all-time coaching list at the time of her retirement.

The 2013 team finished the season at 15-15. Karley Wiensch was a WIAC honorable mention selection. Morgan Denny earned Academic All-District honors.

The Blue Devils are coming off their best season in several years, both in overall record and in conference finish. The Blue Devils were second in the league in 2012 in blocks and third in the league in service aces. Kate Mikutowski was a first team all-WIAC selection and Morgan Denny earned honorable mention selection. As a program, the Blue Devils surpassed their 500th career win.

The Blue Devils went 31-5 overall in 2004, earning the program's third-ever NCAA Division III Tournament berth by winning the WIAC Tournament, and recording Stout's eighth consecutive winning season. Stout also advanced to the NCAA tourney during Jolliff's tenure in 1994 and 1998.

Success rarely, if ever, eluded the winningest volleyball coach in Stout history. In her first season as the Blue Devils' head coach in 1993, Jolliff took Stout to its first ever 20-win season and followed that up with a 33-6 season and their first-ever NCAA bid in 1994. Jolliff was selected the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) and Midwest Region coach of the year for her efforts that season. Jolliff has three times led the Blue Devils to the NCAA Division III playoffs.

Journeying to Menomonie from the Buckeye State, Jolliff came from a highly successful career as both a player and coach at Ohio Northern University. ONU received a bid to the NCAA tournament throughout Jolliff's days on campus.

As a setter, Jolliff quarterbacked her alma mater to numerous Ohio Athletic Conference regular season and tournament titles. She also helped the team to several league crowns as an assistant coach from 1990-1993. Jolliff also played basketball at ONU where she ranks in the top 15 in both career scoring and rebounding. She was inducted into the Ohio Northern Athletic Hall of Fame in January, 2001.

An elementary education major, Jolliff finished her undergraduate degree in 1989. She went on to complete her master's degree in recreation from Bowling Green State University.

A native of Ohio, Jolliff has experience coaching at the high school level as well, serving at Ottawa's Glendorf High School and Ottoville's Local School, both in Ohio.

Specialization is key to the Jolliff coaching philosophy. She believes each athlete has a specific role on the court, and it is her job to prepare her student/athletes for those roles.

She also appreciates the role of the classroom in her players' lives and strives to push them in both areas. The court and the classroom represent the arena's link to rounding out the total student through the combination of the mental and physical. During her tenure, the Blue Devils have six teams that have earned an AVCA Team Academic Excellence award, including the 2009, 2010 and 2011 teams.

In addition to being an instructor in the Physical Education Department, Jolliff is the Blue Devils' compliance officer, and the athletic department's senior women's administrator, serving as an assistant athletic director.

Jill Jolliff Through the Years
Year, Overall Record, WIAC Record (finish)
1993, 20-15, 5-3 (third, tie)
1994, 33-6, 7-1 (first, tie)
1995, 13-22, 1-7 (eighth)
1996, 8-20, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
1997, 17-14, 2-6 (seventh)
1998, 22-14, 5-3 (third, tie)
1999, 17-13, 4-4 (fourth, tie)
2000, 24-12, 3-5 (sixth, tie)
2001, 23-9, 5-3 (third, tie)
2002, 31-6, 6-2 (third)
2003, 22-13, 1-6 (sixth, tie)
2004, 31-5, 6-2 (second)
2005, 17-18, 3-5 (sixth)
2006, 15-14, 1-7 (eighth)
2007, 10-18, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
2008, 5-25, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
2009, 14-19, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
2010, 6-24, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
2011, 5-23, 1-7 (eighth, tie)
2012, 15-14, 3-5 (fifth, tie)
2013, 15-15, 2-6 (eight)
Total, 363-319, 61-107 (WIAC)