Taylor Virtue

Women's Volleyball Head Coach

Taylor Virtue was elevated to head coach in April 2023 after two seasons as the assistant coach. Virtue joined the Brown coaching staff in May 2021 as an assistant coach and has also served as the program's recruiting coordinator, having played a large part in the recruiting classes for 2022 and 2023. Virtue has also spent the last two seasons coaching the passing and defense for the Bears.

During Virtue's two seasons as an assistant, Brown has seen some of the best seasons in program history. In the 2021 season, Brown won the Ivy League Championship for the first time since 2001 and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998, taking on Washington in the first round. In 2022, the Bears made the final of the Ivy League Tournament.

Under Virtue, Cierra Jenkins was named 2021 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention, AVCA East All-Region, unanimous First Team All-Ivy and Ivy League Player of the Year. Beau Vanderlaan was named Ivy Rookie of the Year and Victoria Vo was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. Brown has had seven First Team All-Ivy selections and two Second Team All-Ivy selections with Virtue on the staff.

Virtue arrived at Brown after serving as an assistant coach at Youngstown State during the 2020 season and as an assistant coach at Bucknell during the 2019 season. Between those schools, Virtue held responsibilities with serve receive, defense, and setting as well as practice planning, recruiting, scouting, and team operations.
In 2019, Virtue helped the Bison almost double their win total from the previous season and helped the team set a school record with a 10-match win streak. Before Bucknell, Virtue worked as an assistant coach at Saint Martin’s University during the 2017 and 2018 seasons, helping the team set a school record for wins as a Division II program in 2017.

From 2015-17, Virtue acted as a graduate assistant at Springfield College, working with both the women’s and men’s programs. She helped the women’s team reach the sweet 16 round of the NCAA Division III Championship in both 2015 and 2016 and mentored the 2016 AVCA New England Region Freshman of the Year. On the men’s side, she aided the team in winning the 2017 NCAA Division III national title.

A 2015 graduate of Northwest Nazarene University, Virtue earned a bachelor’s degree in education/kinesiology & health. She went on to gain a master’s degree from Springfield in 2017 in advanced-level coaching.

She is married to Jacob and lives in Providence.