Schreiner University

Jeremiah Tiffin heads into his fifth season in charge of the Schreiner University volleyball team after a historic 2025 campaign. 

The 2025 teams 24 wins set a program record since moving to the NCAA level in 1998. The program also claimed it’s first ever SCAC regular season championship (shared with Hendrix and St. Thomas) and reached the final of the SCAC tournament, falling in a close 5 set match. 

Tiffin also helped Schreiner receive its first positional player of the year award with Harlie Gallaspy being named co-setter of the year, as well as having two players make the all-conference first team for the first time, and a record of 5 players being named to all-conference teams. 

The program continued to break new ground in 2024, making the SCAC tournament in back-to-back years for the first time in program history, as well as having a player named to back-to-back SCAC all conference teams for just the second time. 

In 2023 Schreiner continued to reach new heights with their first 20-win season since 2001. In addition, Schreiner doubled their previous record of four conference wins earning a record eight regular season victories. 

After reaching the SCAC conference tournament for the first time in the 6-team format, Schreiner won an elimination game for the first time in SCAC history coming from behind to beat the University of St. Thomas in a 5-set match. 

2023 also saw the first time a Schreiner player received an award in their time in the SCAC as Giana Hilliard was named Freshman of the Year. It also marked the first time two Schreiner players were named to the SCAC All-Conference team as Hilliard and Brooke Byer were both named to the ALL-SCAC Second Team. 

In 2022, Tiffin’s first season, the Mountaineers recorded a record of 11-19, almost tripling their win total of 4 from the season before and the most wins since 2015. The team won more five set matches than the previous five seasons combined and tied the record for most SCAC conference wins with four. 

In addition to success on the court, the Schreiner volleyball program has received the  AVCA Team Academic Award in 2024 and 2025, with the team GPA being above a 3.3 (one a 4 point scale), just the 3rd and 4th times in school history. 

Previously, Tiffin was both an Associate Head Coach and Head Coach at the University of North Dakota. The UND teams excelled in the classroom earning AVCA/USMC Team Academic Awards each year. Additionally, five student-athletes were named to The Summit League’s Commissioner’s List and 14 earned Summit League Academic Honor Roll accolades. 

Tiffin went to North Dakota after spending four seasons as the Head Coach at Our Lady of the Lake University (2015-18), claiming Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) titles in each of his four seasons. The Saints won at least 20 matches three times and advanced to the NAIA Championship in a trio of campaigns. Tiffin also worked with four NAIA All-Americans, 15 AVCA All-Region selections, 34 all-conference athletes and the program’s first player to reach 1,000 kills. The 2017 OLLU team was the first in the Saints history to advance to Pool Play at the NAIA National Championship. Tiffin’s program also succeeded in the classroom, earning the NAIA Scholar Team Award three times. 

Before his time at OLLU, Tiffin served as the Recruiting Coordinator at Baylor in 2014 where he helped his alma mater ink a pair of top-75 players that offseason. He was promoted to Assistant Coach following the 2013 campaign, previously serving as the Bears Director of Volleyball Operations. 

He entered the head coaching ranks at Hill College (2010-13). Tiffin led the program to a 51-55 overall record, making the playoffs all three seasons and finishing no worse than third in the conference standings each year. He helped seven Rebels earn first team all-conference and had three players named Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year. 

Tiffin entered the college coaching realm at Arkansas State as a volunteer assistant coach in 2006, helping guide ASU to a 21-14 record and a second-place finish in the Sun Belt Conference. 

The Winnipeg, Manitoba native started coaching in the club ranks and spent 14 seasons coaching various age groups, beginning in 2004 as the Head Coach of the Baylor Men’s and Women’s Club Volleyball teams. In 2013 Tiffin was named the National Collegiate Volleyball Federation (NCVF) National Coach of the Year. 

Overall, Tiffin has earned over 220 wins at the college level and multiple medals from club nationals and national qualifiers. 

Tiffin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Baylor University. 

Tiffin and his wife, Rachel, have two sons, Isaac and Daniel.