Women's Volleyball

Haley DeSales is in her first year as an assistant coach for the Tech volleyball team after being hired in April of 2022. She will also serve as the Golden Eagles' recruiting coordinator.

DeSales joined the Tech staff after serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Oregon State during the 2021 campaign. She assisted the coaching staff with scouting, recruiting, travel arrangements, running drills, and creating practice plans.

Prior to her time in Corvallis, DeSales completed two years as a graduate assistant at Concordia University Irvine. During her time at CUI, she worked closely with the liberos and primary passers on serve receive and defense. She also managed to team’s Instagram account, uploaded Volleymetrics, and served as the recruiting coordinator starting in January 2020, helping with visits and running the recruiting email and day-to-day communications with recruits.

She also served as the head coach of the Prime Volleyball Club for teams in 11’s and 15’s age groups from 2016-21.

DeSales played three seasons at the University of California, Irvine from 2016-19, competing as both a six rotation outside hitter (2016 and 2017) and a libero (2018). A two-time All-Big West Conference First Team member, she ranked fourth in the league in service aces in 2017 and third in the conference in 2018 with 4.69 digs per set.

She also finished in the top-10 in Anteater single-season history with 489 total digs during the 2018 campaign. Prior to her career at UC Irvine, she competed one season at Washington State in 2015.

A 2019 graduate of UC Irvine, DeSales received her bachelor’s degree in education sciences following her playing career. She added a master’s degree in education from Concordia University Irvine in May 2021.