Bio

Jeremy Thornburg was named the 17th head volleyball coach at Defiance College in January 2024.

Before coming to Defiance, he was a coach and Associate Club Director/Director of Programming and BSA Events for Team Pineapple Volleyball Club in Angola, Indiana. Thornburg also spent single seasons as an assistant coach at NAIA Goshen and Division-III Trine before joining Team Pineapple in March 2021. In addition to his coaching duties for various age groups at the club level, he was also in charge of camps, clinics, events, and programming for Team Pineapple.

Nearly half of Thornburg's coaching career took place as the men's volleyball head coach at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He started with the program in 2014 and built a team that began competing in the spring of 2015. The team's win total jumped from three to 10 in the second season of competition and turned in the first winning season in year four, which featured a runner-up finish in the conference tournament. Loras, a D-III institution, finished with winning records in each of Thornburg's last three years highlighted by a 21-7 campaign in 2019. Thornburg compiled a 66-76 record over his six seasons with the Duhawks.

Thornburg is a 2012 graduate of Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne and was a student manager and assistant for the Mastodons men's volleyball program. He was part of IPFW's NCAA Tournament runs to the 2006 Final Four and runner-up finish in the 2007 national title match. From there, he spent single seasons assisting the women's programs at Division I Arkansas State and D-II Eckerd College in Florida before landing in Iowa for the next seven years.

Jeremy Thornburg Head Coaching Record
at Loras College (Men's Volleyball, 6 seasons)
2015 - 3-20
2016 - 10-16
2017 - 9-15
2018 - 14-11
2019 - 21-7
2020 - 9-7
Overall Record 66-76 (6 seasons)