Jane Becker
Head Coach

Jane Becker (St. Thomas '04) enters her second season as the Augsburg College volleyball coach in 2011. Becker also serves as an instructor in the Health and Physical Education Department.

In her first season at Augsburg, Becker led the Auggies to a 16-14 record, the team's fifth straight double-digit victory season. The Auggies just missed earning their second straight trip to the Minnesota intercollegiate Athletic Conference postseason playoffs.

Becker returned to her Minnesota roots with her position at Augsburg. A native of Lakeville, Minn.,

Becker led a dramatic turnaround of the Luther College (Iowa) volleyball program during her three-year tenure as head coach (2007-09), leading the Norse to their first-ever NCAA Division III national tournament berth in 2009. The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s Coach of the Year in 2009, Gibbs is 76-56 as a collegiate head coach.

As head coach at Luther, Becker took over a team that had finished 3-29 in 2005 and 3-27 in 2006, and her hiring immediately paid dividends. The Norse finished 15-15 in 2007, improving three spots in the IIAC standings. The following year, her squad finished 19-15, finishing fourth in the IIAC standings and qualifying for the conference tournament for the first time since the postseason meet had changed to a six-team format in 2005.

In 2009, the Norse had one of their best seasons in school history, finishing 26-12 overall -- the school’s best record since 1993 -- while finishing second in the IIAC and advancing to the NCAA Division III national tournament for the first time in school history. In the national tournament, the Norse opened with an upset win over No. 15-ranked St. Benedict before falling to her alma mater, St. Thomas, in the second round.

After graduating from St. Thomas in 2004, Becker served as an assistant coach at Division I Gardner-Webb (N.C.) for two seasons, and was an assistant coach at Division III Wisconsin-River Falls in the 2006 season. While at Gardner-Webb, she also served as owner, director and coach of the Black Bear Volleyball Club, a youth volleyball club. She currently serves as owner, director and coach of All Love Volleyball, Inc., based in St. Paul, Minn.

Becker earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Spanish from St. Thomas in 2004, and her master’s degree in sport science and pedagogy from Gardner-Webb in 2006.

Previous Coaching Experience:
Head Coach- Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) 60-42 coaching record
Assistant Coach- UW-River Falls
Assistant Coach- Gardner-Webb

Playing Experience/Achievements:
Becker (formerly Gibbs) was a two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III All-American (2002, 2003) as a setter at the University of St. Thomas, earning All-MIAC honors each of her four seasons (2000-03). She was named MIAC Player of the Year in 2003, and set four school records for assists during her tenure. Teams she played on finished 97-31 in her career, winning MIAC regular-season titles in 2002 and 2003.

Other Duties/Campus Involvement at Augsburg:
Becker serves as a professor in the Health and Physical Education Department at Augsburg.