Victoria Hurtt was named the Benedictine College Volleyball head coach in February of 2021.
In her third season with the Ravens, the program received a bid to the 2023 NAIA Women's Volleyball National Championship for the first time in program history. The Ravens finished the season with a 21-9 record finishing fourth in the Heart Conference. The program received multiple Heart Player of the Week honors throughout the season. Evelyn Arreola, Regan Bruggeman, and Hokulani Sagapolu all received Player of the Week honors. Mary Pat Taylor received Attacker of the Week twice and Amber Allen received Setter of the Week three times. Six players were named to the 2023 Heart All-Conference team. Co-Captain Mary Pat Taylor led the way receiving first-team honors, Evelyn Arreola and Amber Allen received second-team honors, Hokulani Sagapolu and Regan Bruggeman received third-team honors, and Maura Lickteig received honorable mention honors.
In her first season with the Ravens, the team finished 15-15 overall while going 10-9 in Heart of America Athletic Conference play while earning a spot in the 2021 Heart Volleyball Championship Tournament. The program placed four players on the 2021 Heart All-Conference team. Marea Wortmann was named the 2021 Heart Setter of the Year while earning first-team honors. Haylie Dickerson was named to the second team while Kristijana Istuk and Mary Pat Taylor were named to the third team.
In her second season with the Ravens, the team finished with a 15-15 overall record and made a second consecutive appearance to the 2022 Heart Volleyball Tournament. 4 players were named to the 2022 Heart All-Conference team. Mary Pat Taylor led the way being awarded second-team honors, Regan Bruggeman and Kristijana Istuk received third-team honors and outside hitter Sabrina Oncins received honorable mention honors.
A native of Raytown, Mo., Hurtt came to Benedictine after serving as an assistant coach at NCAA Div. II Midwestern State University where she started in January of 2019. She began her coaching career in 2015 at Archbishop O'Hara before moving on to serve as a graduate assistant at Indiana Wesleyan University and assistant coach at the University of New Hampshire.
At Midwestern State, Hurtt served as the recruiting coordinator for the program, helped develop scouting reports for matches, prepared travel itineraries, assisted with camp coordination, and met weekly with student-athletes to ensure academic success.
Hurtt had a standout collegiate volleyball career, playing at Iowa State University as an outside hitter. While at Iowa State she was named a two-time Academic All-Big 12 selection, an AVCA All-American selection, the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll, and a first-team All-Big 12 selection - with a unanimous selection in 2012. She was also voted as a team captain in her final two seasons at Iowa State.
