Maile Powell joined the Santa Clara University volleyball staff as a graduate assistant in July 2023 and is in her third year with the program during the 2025-26 academic year.
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Powell brings an abundance of volleyball experience to the position as both a former student-athlete and club coach. With the Broncos, Powell handles planning and organizing team meals, planning travel itineraries, assisting with scouting reports, coding using volley station, and helping out daily with team practices.
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Powell played five years of NCAA collegiate volleyball as a setter at both the Division I and Division II levels. She spent her freshman year of 2018 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, leading the team and finishing among the PacWest Conference’s top-10 in service aces. She then transferred nearly 5,000 miles to play at Division I Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., from 2019-21. There, she was a three-time Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll honoree a MAAC All-Academic Team selection. She finished her career with the Gaels totaling over 400 assists and 260 digs with 26 service aces. She’d close out her collegiate career with a graduate year at Hawaii Pacific University in 2022, appearing in 25 matches and finishing the season with 264 assists, 115 digs and 16 service aces.
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Powell has acted as a club head coach for 16s and 18s boys teams since 2020. As the head coach of the California Volleyball Club’s 16s boys team, she took the program to the AAU Nationals and the SoCal Cup tournaments. In 2022, she also took the club’s 18s boys squad to the SoCal Cup tournament. She’s also helped run summer clinics for Tstreet Volleyball Club alongside other NCAA Division I men’s and women’s volleyball athletes. She’s conducted private setting lessons for three years in California at Fairmont Private Schools.
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Powell earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Iona College in 2022. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in clinical psychology, following her strong interest in going into sports psychology.
