Loyola University Maryland Athletics

Bayleigh Hoffman has joined the Loyola University Maryland volleyball coaching staff as an assistant coach, bringing more collegiate playing and coaching experience to the Greyhounds’ sideline.
 
Hoffman was an indoor and beach player at Louisiana Monroe before she played her final season at Penn State.
 
For the last three seasons, Hoffman has been a part of the staff at Elizabethtown College where she was most-recently the associate head coach.
 
Hoffman helped the Blue Jays reach the Landmark Conference semifinals each of the seasons she was on the bench after the program had not reached the league playoffs for five previous seasons. She was a part of Elizabethtown’s considerable success in 2021 when it went 21-9 overall and 6-1 in the Landmark.
 
She coached eight players who earned All-Landmark Conference honors, nine all-tournament representatives and a NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. The Blue Jays were recipients of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Academic Honor Roll Award each season she was at the Pennsylvania school.
 
In addition to her responsibilities at Elizabethtown, Hoffman has coached at Spooky Nook Sports as the 17 National Team head coach and the beach volleyball coordinator since 2019. With the club program, she coached 18 players who went on to compete collegiately.
 
As a student-athlete herself, Hoffman began her collegiate career at Louisiana Monroe in 2014 as an indoor player, appearing in all 118 sets for the Warhawks. She led the team and topped Sun Belt Conference freshman with 989 assists, an average of 8.38 per set while finishing fourth in the league with 0.31 service aces per set.
 
She then took her skills to the beach where she went 11-8 in her first collegiate season, including posting a key win in an upset win over then-No. 19 Tulane. Hoffman again led the indoor team in assists during 2015, posting 912 (8.5 per set) before returning to beach that spring.
 
Hoffman then went to Penn State where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in labor employment relations in 2019. During the 2018 season, she played in 19 matches as a defensive specialist as the Nittany Lions went 26-8 overall and reached the second round of the NCAA Championships.
 
Prior to college, she was a four-year standout player at Dover (Pennsylvania) Area High School where she was nominated for the Under Armour All-America Team and as Pennsylvania’s Gatorade Player of the Year.