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Hutchison named Grinnell College volleyball coach
After being named Midwest Conference Volleyball Coach of the Year last season while serving in an interim role, Jackie Hutchison has been named head coach at Grinnell College.
Hutchison’s 2009 Pioneer squad qualified for the MWC Championships for the first time since a qualifying system was implemented in 2005. Grinnell finished third in the league with a 5-4 mark and had the league’s Player of the Year, Claire Reeder ’11.
Hutchison joined the Pioneer volleyball 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.
Hutchison and her partner have a six-year-old son and she enjoys studying and teaching yoga in her spare time.
“We are very pleased to announce Jackie Hutchison as head volleyball coach for 2010-2011,” said Grinnell Director of Athletics and Recreation Greg Wallace. “It is exciting when you can name the Conference Coach of the Year as the new full-time leader of a program. Jackie’s background as a Division I volleyball player and her commitment to the development of our student-athletes in the classroom as well as on the court are her greatest strengths. Jackie will also teach yoga classes within the physical education department.”
