Ciara Jones - Volleyball Coach - Iowa State University Athletics

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Ciara Jones

Title:
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Email:
ciaraj@iastate.edu

Ciara Jones enters her third season as an assistant coach in 2025 working primarily with Cyclone pin hitters and leading recruiting efforts. In 2023, Jones worked with the middle blockers.

Prior to Iowa State, Jones spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma. At Oklahoma, Jones was integral in leading the Sooners to a 10-2 non-conference record in 2022, the best mark since 2013. In the same season, OU ranked third in hitting percentage and aces among the conference while three earned All-Big 12 honors.

Prior to Oklahoma, Jones spent four seasons at Howard University. Here she earned the AVCA Thirty under 30 award in 2019 and picked up a spot on the VolleyMag.com 40 Coaching Hotshots list. In the 2019 season, Howard made its fifth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and earned the fifth-consecutive MEAC Championship. Jones also played a contributing role in both recruiting and developing student-athletes.

Jones previously served as the director of operations at Clemson University, handling travel and team logistics, recruiting visit details and managing the team budget. Jones also served as a camp director managing the preparation, schedule coordination and assisting with coaching duties of over 300 campers.

Before her experience at Clemson, Jones served as the Top Select Volleyball Club head coach in Orlando, Fla. for a year and was named Top Select Head Volleyball Coach of the Year. Beginning in 2014, Jones spent three seasons as the head coach at Edgewater High School in Orlando, earning district championships every season. Jones was voted Metro Coach of the Year in 2016. Also from 2014-16, Jones was the event coordinator for the Orlando Health Foundation, assisting with event management and donor relations. From 2012-14, Jones worked for Marquette as the Blue and Gold Fund Assistant.

Jones played for Marquette from 2008-12 where she led the program to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011. In the same season, Jones was named a Big East First Team All-American. Jones was inducted into the Marquette University Hall of Fame in 2018.

Jones earned her bachelor's degree in broadcast and electronic communications and a master's in leadership studies with a specialization in sports leadership from Marquette.