LOS ANGELES — New UCLA Beach Volleyball head coach Jenny Johnson Jordan has completed her coaching staff for the upcoming 2024 season with the announcement of the hiring of UCLA standout Kelly Reeves as an assistant coach.
“This is a full circle moment having Kelly join the UCLA Beach Volleyball program as an assistant coach,” said Johnson Jordan. “As a student-athlete at UCLA and a current professional beach volleyball player, Kelly has always been a fierce competitor and student of the game and I am excited for the great impact I know she will have with this program.”
In addition to her playing career, Reeves has developed a coaching career in all levels of the sport, including juniors, collegiate, USAV development, and amateurs. In 2022, Reeves helped the LMU Lions finish 4th at the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, the best finish in the program’s history. That same year, Reeves was a recipient of the Thirty Under 30 Beach coaches award from the AVCA.
Her coaching career began with a two-year stint with WAVE Volleyball (2015-17) as an assistant coach. From there, Reeves joined the University of San Diego as a volunteer assistant coach for the Torero’s Indoor Volleyball Team (2016). Following this, she served as a private indoor coach for the VIBE Volleyball Lab from 2017-20 in Los Angeles. Reeves also spent two months as a Military Sports Coach for Pro Sports MVP based in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2021 and served as an assistant coach for three months in 2022 with the USA Beach National Training Development Program. She has also spent the last six years as the head coach at Elite Beach in Los Angeles.
Raised in San Diego, Calif., Reeves comes from a UCLA Volleyball family where her mother, Jeanne (inducted into UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000), competed and coached for the program, along with her two brothers, Connor and Jake. During her time at UCLA, Kelly helped the UCLA Indoor Team to a National Championship in 2011 and competed in the inaugural season with the UCLA Beach Program in 2013. Kelly was named the program’s first All-American in 2013.
Prior to her beach debut, Kelly played one year of professional indoor volleyball in Switzerland and trained with the USA Indoor National Team from 2014-15. She then made her debut on the AVP in 2016, finishing 5th in her first Main Draw. She was…
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