Coaching Staff
Jessica Rinehart
Head Coach
Office: (660) 562-1782
jrine@nwmissouri.edu
Jessica Rinehart was named head volleyball coach at Northwest Missouri State in the spring of 2010. She arrived in Maryville after spending five seasons as the head coach at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Rinehart has transcended two volleyball programs since 2003. She led Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, to back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in program history. In 2005, she transitioned to Augsburg where she inherited a program that had finished 12th in the MIAC standings and steadily moved the Auggies up and into fourth place in 2009.
Rinehart is a native of Red Oak, Iowa, and in 2007 was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. She was a three-year starting outside hitter at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., where she earned her bachelor’s degree. She was a graduate assistant coach at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., for two seasons where she earned her master’s degree.
Rinehart inherits a Northwest program in search of its first winning season since 2000. The Bearcats finished 15-21 in 2009 including a 6-14 mark and seventh-place finish in MIAA play.
The 2009 Bearcat team had no seniors. The 2010 roster includes two players from Rinehart’s hometown of Red Oak in senior libero Paige Spangenberg and junior outside hitter Alex Hanna. Spangenberg is the program leader in career digs. Hanna finished second on the squad with 311 kills in 2009.
Jessica and her husband, Mark, reside in Maryville. Mark is a Northwest graduate and a former member of the Bearcat football team.
