Ashlie Hain is in her 10th season as the Anteater head coach, entering the season with a 135-133 overall record at UCI.
Under Hain, the Anteaters have taken down four ranked teams, the last in 2023, upsetting No. 25 UC Santa Barbara, 3-1 at home. UCI also recorded upsets of No. 21 San Diego (2015), No. 7 USC (2016) and No. 11 Hawaii in 2019.
In her tenue, Hain has coached 12 first team All-Big West performers, 12 honorable mention honorees and five All-Freshman team selections, including Big West Freshman of the Year in 2023 and 2018.
In 2022, UCI finished the year 20-10 overall and 13-7 in the Big West. The 20 wins are the fourth most wins in program history and the 13 conference wins are a school record.
Hain led the Anteaters to a 24-8 overall record in 2017, tying the school record for most victories in a season. After starting the year with a 12-1 non-conference mark, UCI went 10-6 in Big West action, finishing third, the highest finish since 2009. The team made its first postseason appearance since 2004, advancing to the quarterfinals of the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.
Hain guided the Anteaters to back-to-back post-season appearances in 2017 and 2018, a feat that hadn't been done since 2003 and 2004 when Hain was a player.
Hain, a starting setter on UC Irvine’s 2003 and 2004 NCAA Tournament teams, returned to her alma mater as the head coach in 2015.
Hain, a two-time team captain for the Anteaters, played at UCI from 2001-04 and is still the career leader in assists with 5,698. Hain is fifth in career digs (1,175) and holds the top three spots in the UCI single-season assist annals as well as dotting the record books in single-match assists.
With Hain orchestrating the offense, the Anteaters made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances and guided the program to its first-ever post-season win, a 3-2 victory against Missouri in 2003.
She returned to UCI after coaching at American River College and serving as a Professor of Kinesiology since 2009. Â There, she took over a program that had won just three matches and led the Beavers to consecutive Big 8 Conference titles in 2013 and 2014. Â The 2013 squad advanced to the state championship finals and the program has been ranked in the top eight in the state the last six years.
In 2014, Hain’s team reached the NorCal Regional semifinal and ended the year with a 22-7 record, a No. 3 ranking in the state, and a 13-1 conference mark.
Hain amassed 127 wins in six years at ARC and was voted the Conference Coach of the Year as well as the Northern California Coach of the Year in 2013.
She began her coaching career at Moorpark College in 2007, where she was the associate head coach and helped the program win two Western State Conference Championships while earning a state ranking of fourth.  The Raiders were 42-7 during Hain’s two-year tenure with the program.
At the club level, Hain served as the head coach of the Northern California Volleyball Club, where she led her team to a fourth-place finish in the Gold NVCA Power League. She also coached at the SynergyForce Volleyball Club, mentoring a pair of pre-season high school All-Americans. Â Hain led the 16-1s team to a fifth-place finish at Nationals in 2013 and last season guided the 17-1s squad to a first-place finish at Northern California Champions and a Far Westerns National Qualifier Open Division title.
She spent two years in the professional ranks, playing in in Stuttgart, Germany, and Split, Croatia.
Hain prepped at La Reina High School, where she was a two-time All-CIF first-team honoree and two-time All-Tri Valley League Most Valuable Player.
A two-time Big West scholar-athlete and UCI’s 2004 Lauds and Laurels Athlete of the Year, Hain graduated cum laude from UCI with a B.S. in psychology and a minor in management in 2004.  She received a master’s degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific in 2009.
Hain and her husband, Erik, have two sons, Lincoln and Lucas.
