Coach Jill Jolliff
Jill Jolliff begins her 15th season as UW-Stout's head coach with the Blue Devils. Jolliff, the longest serving volleyball coach in Stout history, will be in pursuit of her 300th career win this season.
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.
After seeing her team struggle nine seasons ago, Jolliff brought the team back to respectability as the Blue Devils have stayed above the .500 mark ever since.
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.
Contact Information:
- jolliffj@uwstout.edu
- 715-232-1689
- 208 Sports & Fitness Center
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.
In addition to being an instructor in the Physical Education Department, Jolliff is also the Blue Devils' compliance officer and the athletic department's senior women's administrator.
| Year | All | WIAC |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 15-14 | 1-7 |
| 2005 | 17-18 | 3-5 |
| 2004 | 31-5 | 6-2 |
| 2003 | 22-13 | 2-6 |
| 2002 | 31-6 | 6-2 |
| 2001 | 23-9 | 5-3 |
| 2000 | 24-12 | 3-5 |
| 1999 | 17-13 | 4-4 |
| 1998 | 22-14 | 5-3 |
| 1997 | 17-14 | 2-6 |
| 1996 | 8-20 | 1-7 |
| 1995 | 13-22 | 1-7 |
| 1994 | 33-6 | 7-1 |
| 1993 | 20-15 | 5-3 |
| Total | 293-181 | 51-61 |
Assistant Coach Pam Schroeder
Pam Schroeder begins her fourth year as an assistant for the Blue Devils. A former two-time All-American setter at NCAA Division II North Dakota State University, Schroeder, who played for the Bisons from 1993-96, is the team's all-time assists leader with 5408 assists over her career. Schroeder and her husband, Brian, reside in Caryville with their son and daughter.