Jade Hayes Antolik joined Eckerd in January 2023 as the assistant indoor and beach volleyball coach. She was elevated to head beach volleyball coach in June 2024. She enters her fourth overall season with the Tritons and second as head beach coach in the 2026 campaign.
Hayes guided the team beach squad to its most wins since the 2018 season in 2024. The top tandem of Madison Hardbarger and Anna Jupin posted nine wins in the top flight this year. In 2023, Eckerd won the Bronze A Pool at the AVCA Small College Championships.
In 2025, Hayes Antolik produced Eckerd's first ever All-SSC selections in Anna Jupin and Brooke Hand, who earned first team honors. She
Working with the indoor squad in 2023, Eckerd made back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournament, posting an 11-match win streak while producing an All-American in outside hitter Stella Antypa.
Eckerd College - Assistant Indoor/Beach Volleyball Coach - January 2023 - June 2024
Tulane - Assistant Beach Volleyball Coach 2021-2022
University of South Florida - Assistant Volleyball Coach - 2020
Missouri State - Assistant Beach Volleyball Coach - 2019-20
University of Central Florida - Director of Volleyball Operations- 2017
Hayes most recently served as the beach volleyball assistant coach at Tulane for the 2021-22 season, assisting the Green Wave to a 24-13 record. She was selected to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Beach Thirty Under 30 award list in April.
Before Tulane, she served as the indoor volleyball assistant coach at the University of South Florida during the 2020 campaign.
She spent the 2019-20 season at Missouri State as the assistant beach volleyball coach and 2017 at the University of Central Florida as the Director of Volleyball Operations. In addition, she has served as a beach volleyball coach at Better at Beach Volleyball for the past two years.
As a player, Hayes spent two seasons at Missouri as a defensive specialist compiling 438 digs and 35 aces. She spent her final two seasons as the libero at the University of Central Florida, posting 1,012 digs and 36 aces. She spent the 2015 season playing beach volleyball at the University of South Carolina, where she compiled a 16-5 record in the No. 4 dual slot.
Hayes graduated from Missouri in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in health sciences/health professions and obtained her master's degree in interdisciplinary studies at UCF in May 2016.
