Brian Baise

Harvard Men's Volleyball Head Coach

     Brian Baise enters his ninth season as head coach of the Harvard men's volleyball team in 2017. Over eight seasons, he has ushered in an era of unprecedented success for the Crimson. You need not look further than the 2012 season for evidence of Harvard’s turnaround, as the Baise led Crimson earned the program’s first-ever national ranking and finished the year at No. 15 in the AVCA Coaches Poll. Harvard posted an 18-6 overall record on the year and finished second in the EIVA with a 10-4 conference mark, earning Baise EIVA Bob Sweeney Coach of the Year honors. Additionally, Harvard’s 18 wins were third-most in program history.  Harvard also posted its first win over a ranked opponent under Baise with a 3-1 defeat of then-No. 12 Cal State Northridge.
     In 2013, Baise and the Crimson continued on the road to success earning a national ranking on Feb. 25 at No. 14 in the AVCA Poll. Harvard finished second at the EIVA postseason tournament and posted its third 18-win season that included the program's first defeat of EIVA leader Penn State, 3-0, Feb. 15 and second victory over a ranked opponent under Baise.
     The Crimson earned a fourth-consecutive trip to the EIVA Championships in 2015, finishing second in conference play at 7-5, and tied the program's all-time highest ranking at No. 13 Feb. 9. 
     The successes continued in 2016 as Harvard reached the EIVA Tournament for a fifth-straight year and finished the campaign at 13-11 overall, 9-6 in conference. 
Baise completed his first season at Harvard in 2009, helping lead the Crimson to a tie for first place in the EIVA Hay Division with an 11-8 overall record and a 6-2 conference mark. 
     Baise is a 1995 graduate of Princeton where he earned a degree in English and was a four-year starter for the Tigers. A former two-time Junior Olympic All-American, Baise served as the Tigers' captain and was team MVP as a senior.
Before attending Princeton, Baise was a two-time captain and 1991 California Interscholastic Federation first team selection and CIF 3A state champion at Harvard-Westlake High School. He was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team in 1992.

Matt Jones

Assistant Coach - Harvard Men's and Women's Volleyball

     Matt Jones is in his first season as an assistant to both the men's and women's programs.
     Jones comes back to Cambridge after spending three seasons as the head coach for men’s volleyball at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, California. During that stint, he was also the 18-and-under boys head coach for the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club and the Director of MadSkills, a clinic for girls in grades four through eight.  
   The former outside hitter's name floods Harvard’s career records book ranking first in kills (1,218) and aces (97), third in kills per set (3.76), sixth in digs (452) and block assists (178), seventh in total blocks (206), and ninth in solo blocks (28). The four-year letterwinner was also named to the 2012 All-EIVA first team, the EIVA All-Tournament Team, and the EIVA All-Academic team.
     The La Jolla, California native graduated from Harvard in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics focusing in statistics. In October 2012, Jones was selected for an opportunity to play internationally on the Volley Bartreng in Bertange, Luxemburg where he helped the team make the playoffs for the first time in 10 years while also coaching and tutoring members of the club’s youth team in mathematics.