Tyler Hildebrand - Women's Volleyball Coach

Tyler Hildebrand

Title:
Associate Head Coach

Tyler Hildebrand is in his first season (2024) as an associate head coach for the Women of Troy. He was hired in February 2024 and arrived at USC following two seasons as head coach at Long Beach State (2022-23).

Hildebrand returned to his alma mater—Long Beach State—in December 2021 and led the Beach to a 40-19 record in two seasons. LBSU went 19-9 in his inaugural season (2022) and improved to 21-10 in 2023. Following his second year, Hildebrand was chosen to the Volleyball Magazine list of up-and-coming Coaching Hotshots.

Previously, Hildebrand was on staff at Nebraska for three seasons over the course of five years. The Cornhuskers reached the NCAA regional final in each his three campaigns (2017, ‘20, ‘21). In his first season in Lincoln, Hildebrand was responsible for a Nebraska defense that led the Big Ten in opponent hitting percentage (.154) and went on to win the 2017 NCAA championship with All-Americans Annika Albrecht and Mikaela Foecke.

In 2018, Hildebrand was selected to lead the USAV Beach National Team as the program’s head coach and director of coaching. As the first individual ever to hold that position, Hildebrand’s role was to identify and recruit athletes for the BNT, oversee all teams associated with USAV Beach, and serve as head coach for the program’s top pairs.

On the sand, Hildebrand has coached the U.S. men’s beach teams of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson (2016 Rio Games), Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena (2020), and Gibb and Tri Bourne (2020); and women’s pairs April Ross and Jennifer Kessy (USC All-Americans), Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings, and Emily Day and Summer Ross. In 2020, Hildebrand coached the U.S. pair of Ross and Alix Klineman to gold medals at the Tokyo Games.

From 2018-19, Hildebrand served his second Olympic cycle and worked with the four American pairs that later represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympic Games. He had previously gone to the 2016 Rio Olympics as a coach while concurrently working at Long Beach State. Hildebrand has also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men’s Indoor National Team.

Hildebrand returned to Nebraska in 2020 and helped the Huskers reach the regional final during the COVID-19 impacted spring season (played in 2021). In the fall of 2021, Hildebrand was promoted to associate head coach and helped guide a 10th-seeded Husker team to an NCAA runner-up finish.

Prior to his time at Nebraska, Hildebrand worked with the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team as an assistant coach from 2013-15 and as the associate head coach from 2016-17. With Hildebrand on staff, LBSU reached the semifinals of the NCAA championship twice (2016, ’17). In 2017, Hildebrand was honored as the AVCA National Assistant Coach of the Year.

Hildebrand accepted his first coaching assignment as a volunteer assistant coach at Long Beach State in 2008 and helped the Beach win the MPSF Championship and earn the program's seventh NCAA tournament berth. Following that season, Hildebrand left coaching to focus on his professional playing career.

Hildebrand retired from playing in 2013 and joined the Long Beach State men’s indoor volleyball staff as a full-time assistant coach. LBSU went 24-8 overall in his first season on the bench (2015) and made a return to the NCAA tournament in 2016. In 2017, Long Beach State reached the NCAA semifinal and finished the season ranked No. 3. TJ DeFalco was named the AVCA Player of the Year and setter Josh Tuaniga was named a first-team All-American under Hildebrand's direct tutelage.

As a student-athlete, Hildebrand was a four-year starting setter at Long Beach State (2003-06) and was the 2003 AVCA Newcomer of the Year as a freshman. He led LBSU to the NCAA championship match in 2004 and was named to the NCAA all-tournament team. Hildebrand is still (2024) the Long Beach State all-time career leader in assists and was a three-time first-team AVCA All-American (2004-06).

Following his collegiate career, Hildebrand went on to play for the U.S. Men’s National Team over the course of six years (2006-12) and played on the AVP Tour for two years. During that period, Hildebrand helped the U.S. men win four Pan American Cup championships.