Mackenzie Rombach enters her third season as an assistant coach for the Huskies volleyball program.
Rombach joins NIU after spending the previous two years as an assistant coach at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, coaching both the indoor and beach volleyball teams. While serving the Gamecocks, Rombach helped mentor seven All-Atlantic Sun Conference selections and one College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American. Rombach helped the Jacksonville State indoor team reach the ASUN postseason tournament in both years.
Familiar with recruiting the State of Illinois and surrounding area, Rombach was a graduate assistant at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville during the 2020 campaign. The Cougars owned a .714-win percentage and qualified for the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.
Before her stint at SIUE, Rombach played professional volleyball overseas for Prowin Volleys in Saarbrücken, Germany. Competing in second division Bundesliga, Rombach started as a four-rotation middle blocker for one season.
In addition to coaching at Jacksonville State, Rombach was a student-athlete from 2015-2018, playing both indoor and beach volleyball for the Gamecocks.
Indoors, Rombach led the nation in blocks for most of her sophomore year before finishing sixth overall with a school-record 175 blocks. Her name is inked in JSU’s record book as second on the career blocks list with 473. Rombach put a bow on her collegiate career by surpassing 1,000 career kills during her final OVC Tournament.
The Ottawa, Ill. native holds a bachelor’s degree in pre-medical studies from Jacksonville State and a master’s degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sport and exercise psychology from SIUE.
