Michaela Ebben concluded her first season as assistant volleyball coach at Sacramento State in 2025.
During that 2025 season, Ebben helped coach the Hornets to a 20-10 overall record and 12-4 mark in the Big Sky Conference (second place finish). The Hornets won four Big Sky individual awards for the first time in program history - Victoria Marthaler (MVP), Kate Doorn (Setter of the Year), Reese Ampi (Libero of the Year) and Keonahi’ilani Solaita (Freshman of the Year).
Ebben has 22 years of collegiate coaching experience and was a starting setter at Arizona. Prior to Sacramento State, she spent 21 seasons at Sonoma State, where she was an assistant coach from 2006-24, and volunteer assistant in 2004-05. Ebben helped coach the Seawolves to 10 NCAA Div. II Tournament appearances over her final 17 years with the program, and had been head coach Bear Grassl’s top assistant since 2006.
Not only did Sonoma State make 10 NCAA Tournament appearances since 2008, Ebben helped coach the program to a 306-152 overall record, and 212-99 conference mark during that span. That included the program’s first-ever California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament title in 2015, and NCAA West Region championship in 2014.
Prior to the Seawolves’ run of 10 NCAA Tourney trips, Sonoma State had qualified for the NCAA’s postseason event just three times in program history.
The Forestville, Calif., native played four years at Arizona (1994-97) of the Pac-10 Conference where she was the Wildcats’ starting setter each of her final two seasons. In fact, Ebben ranks seventh in program history with a career average of 10.47 assists per set, and 10th with 2,692 career assists. She also racked up a combined 222 kills and hit .352 during her final two seasons.
An honorable mention all-Pac 10 Conference selection in 1997, her average of 12.10 assists that season remain ninth in Arizona single-season history. During her two years as the starting setter (1996-97), Arizona combined to go 40-17 overall and 22-14 in the Pac-10 while qualifying for the NCAA Tournament both seasons.
Ebben graduated from Arizona in 1998 with a degree in family studies and human development.
