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Alanna Jackson joined the Bulldog coaching staff in April of 2008 as an assistant coach. Jackson spent one year as an assistant at her alma mater, Nevada. At Nevada, Jackson was responsible for scheduling recruiting visits, monitoring academic success of student athletes, practice planning and the implementation of on-court training activities, coordinating travel, ordering, purchasing and issuing of uniforms and she was the co-director of the Nevada volleyball summer camps.
Prior to that, Jackson worked at the College of William and Mary in Virginia from 2004-2007. There Jackson had many similar duties as she planned practice activities, coordinated travel reservations, organized uniform ordering, purchasing and issuing, assisting the head coach in the evaluation of recruitment of potential student athletes and was the owner of the Colonial volleyball summer camps.
She was also the team head coach for the Williamsburg Volleyball Club coaching the 16 & under team in 2004 and 2005, the 15 & under team in 2006 and the 17 & under team in 2007.
Her coaching career started as a volunteer assistant at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she assisted in practice drill implementation and the coordination of recruitment.
As a collegiate athlete, Jackson earned a full scholarship to the University of Nevada in 1997 after transferring from De Anza College in San Jose, Calif. At De Anza, Jackson was a two-time captain, two-time Coast Conference MVP and two-time all-state selection.
As a senior at Nevada she led the Big West Conference in assists per game and was named to the all-conference second team, guiding the Wolf Pack to their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. That same season she earned Big West All-Academic recognition and Nevada's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. She captained the 1998 Wolf Pack squad that won the Eastern side of the Big West Conference for the first time ever.
After receiving her degree in theatre from Nevada in 2000, the Sacramento, Calif., native coached with the Sierra Nevada and Davis volleyball clubs.
Jackson and head coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell played two years together at the University of Nevada in 1997-98.
Jackson and her husband, Ed, the Bulldogs other assistant coach, were married on Aug. 2, 2002. The couple had their first child, Edward Richard Jackson on June 21.
