Former Bruin standout and Olympian Jenny Johnson Jordan enters her fourth season as the UCLA beach volleyball head coach and in her 14th season overall with the program. Johnson Jordan was named just the second head coach in the program's history on June 5, 2023. She had previously spent seven years as an assistant coach before being elevated to associate head coach for the Bruins after the 2020 season.
The 2025 MPSF Coach of the Year, Johnson Jordan sports an overall record of 101-20 (.835) entering the 2027 campaign. She captured her 100th career coaching victory in the 2026 NCAA semifinals against Texas. Her 101st victory gave Johnson Jordan her first NCAA title as a head coach.
Each of her Bruin teams have won at least 32 matches in her three years. In her rookie campaign in 2024, Johnson Jordan led her team to the NCAA Championship final and a 35-7 record. In 2025, the Bruins advanced to the NCAA semifinals and ended the year with a 32-7 mark. The 2026 Bruins went 34-6 and dropped just three duals in four matches at the NCAA Championships. In the Championship final against No. 1 seed Stanford, the Bruins did not drop a set in a 3-0 sweep.
A member of the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, Johnson Jordan has won four national titles. She captured one as a player on the 1991 women's volleyball team, two as an assistant beach volleyball coach in 2018 and 2019 and one as a head coach in 2026. The 2018 squad won a NCAA record 40 matches and captured UCLA's first-ever NCAA beach volleyball title. Johnson Jordan helped the Bruins win back-to-back titles in 2019 and went on to win AVCA National Assistant Beach Coach of the Year honors that season.
Johnson Jordan played with the UCLA women's volleyball team from 1991 to 1995 and was a two-time team captain (1994-1995). She was a member of UCLA's 1991 NCAA Championship squad, as well as the NCAA runner-up teams from ‘92 and ‘94. She earned NCAA All-Tournament Team honors in 1994.
In her four seasons of play, Johnson Jordan played in 127 matches and 406 sets, recording 1,212 kills and 1,214 digs. She is one of 12 Bruins to post at least 1,000 career kills and digs. Johnson Jordan, who sits eighth in school history in digs and 21st in kills, also had 93 service aces and 225 blocks. She led the Bruins in aces in 1993 and in aces and digs in 1995.
Johnson Jordan earned a pair of Volleyball Magazine All-American Honorable Mention accolades in 1994 and ‘95. She was also a two-time All-Pac-10 Conference First Team honoree (‘93 and ‘95) and a two-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection.
Following her playing days at UCLA, Johnson Jordan played on the beach, competing in the sport’s grandest stage. In 2000, with partner and former Bruin teammate Annett (Buckner) Davis, she finished fifth in the Sydney Olympic Games. She also served as an alternate for the 2004 Athens Games, and during that year with Davis, became just the second team in the world to compete in 100 events together.
Elsewhere on the beach, Johnson Jordan played on the Pro 4’s, FIVB, WPVA, BVA and AVP Tours. In 1997, she won the FIVB 4-Person World Beach Championship at UCLA. Two years later, she won a silver medal at the FIVB World Championships. A winner of 10 professional beach titles worldwide, Johnson Jordan ranked in the Top 10 in points every year she competed on the BVA and AVP Tours and was honored in 2002 with the AVP Special Achievement Award.
Johnson Jordan has been a High Performance Coach for USA Volleyball and is also USAV Beach Cap Certified. In 2012, she became the first beach volleyball coach at her alma mater, Windward High School, and that year was also the head coach for the LAVA girls club volleyball beach program.
A 1996 UCLA graduate in communications, Johnson Jordan comes from a rich tradition of Bruins and athletic pedigree. Her father, Rafer, was an Olympic Gold medalist in the Decathlon in 1960 and a Silver medalist in that event in 1956. He was a charter member of the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984, and when Johnson Jordan was inducted in 2018, they became the first father-daughter tandem in the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame. Her mother, Betsy, also attended UCLA, as did her brother Josh, a former javelin thrower, and uncle Jimmy, a former football player who went on to play for the San Francisco 49ers and is a member of the NFL Hall of Fame.
Johnson Jordan is married to former UCLA All-American wide receiver Kevin Jordan (class of ‘95). They have two children, Jaylen and Kory.