Head Coach Jackie Hutchison
Head Coach Jackie Hutchison
Jackie Hutchison joined the Grinnell College volleyball coaching staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2008. She moved up to interim coach in 2009 and was named the Pioneers' head coach in 2010.
In 2009, Hutchison guided the Pioneers to the Midwest Conference postseason tournament for the first time since a qualifying system was implemented. She went on to be named the league's coach of the year. She played NCAA Division I volleyball at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for four years (1989-1993) where she was an outside hitter.
After her playing career, she earned a master's degree in physical therapy at Marquette University (1995) and is an accomplished physical therapist. She continues to practice and teach physical therapy, specializes in issues of women's health and craniosacral therapy, has taught in the doctorate in physical therapy program at George Washington University in Washington D.C. and at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, Spain, and regularly teaches seminars on craniosacral therapy.
She and her family moved to Grinnell in the fall of 2007 and she was thrilled to join the coaching staff the following year.
Hutchison and her partner have a son and she enjoys studying and teaching yoga in her spare time.
