Jackie Hutchison joined the Grinnell College volleyball coaching staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2008. 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. She looks forward to the challenge of assuming the interim head coach position this year and relishes the opportunity it provides to help the women on the team grow as athletes and people.

Hutchison and her partner have a six-year-old son and she enjoys studying and teaching yoga in her spare time.