Jeff Huebner was hired as the head coach of PBA volleyball in April 2024.
The Sailfish made a significant leap in Huebner's second season at the helm. PBA finished with a 22-10 overall record, recording it's most wins since 2018. PBA earned its first bid to the NCAA postseason since 2021, earning the No. 5 seed at NCAA Regionals. The 2025 team received votes in the AVCA top-25 on multiple occasions, earning two top-five wins against Barry. The 2025 squad boasted three all-conference honorees, with Grace Reynolds being named SSC Setter of the Year and earned AVCA all-American honors.
- 5 SSC Weekly Awards
- 3 All-SSC Honorees
- 1 AVCA All-Region Honoree
- 1 AVCA All-American
- 1 D2CCA All-Region Honoree
- 8 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Honorees
Huebner joined Palm Beach Atlantic after seven years as the head coach at Texas Woman’s University, an NCAA DII school in the Lone Star Conference. The Pioneers just had one of their best seasons in program history in 2023. They finished 19-9 with an 11-5 record in the conference, its best record since 2015. TWU was ranked in the region rankings for the first time.
Texas Woman's combined winning percentage in 2022 and 2023 is the best two-year winning percentage since the program joined NCAA DII in 1982. During his time at TWU, Huebner has notched 16 wins against ranked/RV opponents in the AVCA top 25. While at TWU, he’s had three student-athletes earn all-American honors, nine earn all-region honors, and 18 all-conference honors. In 2017, the Pioneers made a run to the LSC tournament championship match.
Before his time at TWU, Huebner served as an assistant coach at NCAA DI Middle Tennessee State. He was thrust into an Interim Head Coach position in 2016, before moving to TWU. Before Murfreesboro, Huebner founded the program at the College of Coastal Georgia. He recorded an overall record of 121-51 in five seasons. His squad spent 22 straight weeks in the NAIA top 25. Huebner won two conference championships and was named Southern State Athletics Conference Coach of the Year in 2014. In his coaching career, he’s coached nine all-Americans, 24 all-region, 52 all-conference student-athletes.
Huebner earned his bachelor’s degree in Middle-Level Education from Illinois State in 2009. As a player, he was a multiple-time Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) qualifier and competed on the EVPTour from 2005-2009. He was a three-time all-conference honoree as a setter.
The Buffalo Grove, Illinois native married his wife, Erin, in 2010. They have three sons, Asher, Cash and Ace, and one daughter, Rory.
Coastal Georgia
| Year |
-Overall- |
-Mountain West- |
-Notes- |
| W-L |
Pct. |
W-L |
Pct. |
| 2011 |
15-17 |
.468 |
-- |
-- |
|
| 2012 |
15-19 |
.441 |
5-9 |
.357 |
|
| 2013 |
26-11 |
.703 |
11-3 |
.786 |
|
| 2014 |
38-4 |
.905 |
20-0 |
1.000 |
SSAC Tournament Champions/SSAC Coach of the Year/AVCA Region Coach of the Year |
| 2015 |
32-6 |
.842 |
15-1 |
.938 |
SSAC Tournament Champions |
| 5 Seasons |
126-57 |
.689 |
51-13 |
.797 |
|
Texas Woman's
| Year |
-Overall- |
-LSC- |
-Notes- |
| W-L |
Pct. |
W-L |
Pct. |
| 2017 |
16-18 |
.471 |
10-10 |
.500 |
LSC Tournament Runner-Up |
| 2018 |
18-13 |
.581 |
10-10 |
.500 |
LSC Tournament Appearance |
| 2019 |
17-15 |
.531 |
11-7 |
.611 |
LSC Tournament Appearance |
| 2020 |
3-9 |
.250 |
3-9 |
.250 |
|
| 2021 |
10-18 |
.357 |
5-12 |
.294 |
|
| 2022 |
16-12 |
.571 |
7-9 |
.438 |
|
| 2023 |
19-9 |
.679 |
11-5 |
.688 |
LSC Tournament Appearance |
| 7 Seasons |
99-94 |
.512 |
57-62 |
.479 |
|
Palm Beach Atlantic
| Year |
-Overall- |
-Conference- |
-Notes- |
| W-L |
Pct. |
W-L |
Pct. |
| 2024 |
8-22 |
.267 |
2-18 |
.100 |
|
| 2025 |
22-10 |
.688 |
12-8 |
.600 |
NCAA South Region Berth |
| Totals (2 Seasons) |
30-32 |
.484 |
14-26 |
.350 |
|
Totals
|
-Overall- |
-Conference- |
-Years- |
| W-L |
Pct. |
W-L |
Pct. |
| 14 Seasons |
255-182 |
.584 |
122-101 |
.547 |
2011-15, 2016-Present |
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