Jo Kremer Coaching Beach Volleyball Team at Stanford

Nothing compares to playing a sport that you are passionate about at the highest level. Jo Kremer did that at USC, leading the Women of Troy sand volleyball team to the AVCA national title in 2015 and back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2016 and 2017. Now, the Palisades native is putting her knowledge and expertise of the game to use in the coaching ranks.

In May, she was named an assistant coach for the Stanford University beach volleyball program and in her first season on the bench alongside head coach Andrew Fuller the Cardinal are off to a 21-3 start and ranked No. 2 in the country.

Kremer came to The Farm after a year as the assistant coach at Tulane in New Orleans, where she helped the Green Wave to their best season ever, finishing No. 17 in the nation after matching the program record for wins in a single season (24. She spent the summer of 2022 as the co-coach and chaperone for the USA Youth Beach Volleyball team’s three-and-a-half week trip to the Maccabi Games in Israel, during which she led her pairs to seven top-four medal finishes. Kremer honed her coaching skills at some of the best prep and club indoor and sand teams in California, including several years at her alma mater Harvard-Westlake High. She grew up in Marquez Knolls, went to St. Matthew’s School from Mommy & Me through 8th grade and spent many years at Sinjin Smith’s volleyball camp at Will Rogers State Beach. She made the Palisadian-Post Athletes of the Year list multiple times.