Maurer was the UCF associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for seven years after joining the Knights' staff in January 2016—and her resume features nine years as an NCAA Division I head coach and 16 total years as a head coach. Her role at UCF has included overseeing recruiting efforts, serving as offensive coordinator and training the setters.
In seven seasons in Orlando, Maurer has helped the UCF attack maintain a season hitting percentage over. 250. The Knights posted five 20-win seasons, including a trip to the 2017 National Invitational Volleyball Championship, and the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 NCAA tournaments with two second round appearances. Maurer has mentored AVCA All-American McKenna Melville and AVCA All-Region selections Kia Bright, Jale Hervey, and Anne-Mare Watson during her time in Orlando. She also helped guide Amber Olson to UCF's first AAC Setter of the Year honor.
Maurer's commitment to academics is exhibited by the volleyball team's combined 3.64 grade-point average in the 2022 fall semester—best by any UCF team—followed by a 3.653 in the 2023 spring semester. Over the course of her seven seasons with the Knights, the volleyball program has achieved a combined 3.621 GPA (paced by a 3.7 in 2021-22) and twice had the top team GPA.
Maurer joined the Knights after spending five seasons as the head volleyball coach at Bradley University, from 2011-2015. In her first three seasons at Bradley, she led the Braves to 34 wins, the program's most victories in a three-year stretch since the 2005 season. In 2012, Maurer led Bradley to the first 5-0 start in program history, and in 2013, the Braves advanced to the Missouri Valley Tournament for the first time since 2005.
Prior to her stint in Peoria, she served as the head coach at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania). During her four years with the Mountain Hawks (2007-10), Maurer improved her squad's record each season and in 2009 coached Lehigh into the Patriot League Tournament for the first time since 2003. She improved her squad's RPI by 130 spots during her four-year tenure.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Maurer (then Jenny Cafazza) was a four-year starter and two-time AVCA first-team All-America volleyball player (1997 and 1998) at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a three-time All-South and All-University Athletic Association first-team selection and the team leader in aces as a sophomore and digs as a junior and senior as a right-side hitter and setter. She helped the Bears to a combined 85-9 record during the 1995 and 1996 NCAA Division III title seasons. In 1997 Washington finished fourth nationally and in 1998 advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.
She went on to earn a master's degree in education from Lindenwood University (St. Charles, Missouri) in 2003. Maurer spent seven years coaching volleyball at St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, three times taking the Angels to the championship game of the Missouri Class 3-4A state tournament and four times playing in the final four. She also played with USA Athletes International in Belgium and Holland in the summer of 1999.
Maurer has two children: son Hudson and daughter Chaney.
Jenny Maurer's Years at UCF
Year Overall AAC (place) Postseason
2016 23-10 13-7 (4th) ---
2017 20-14 12-8 (5th) NIVC Second Round
2018 27-4 18-0 (1st) NCAA First Round
2019 25-8 *14-2 (2nd/East Div.) NCAA Second Round
2020 16-2 *8-0 (1st) NCAA First Round
2021 27-7 19-1 (1st) NCAA Second Round
2022 28-2 19-1 (1st) NCAA Second Round
*UCF also won AAC Tournament Championship