Jaylen Reyes

Jaylen Reyes joined the Nebraska volleyball program as an assistant coach in March 2018. 

Reyes coaches the Husker liberos and defense while helping coordinate game plans and scouting reports and assisting with other positions. He also serves as the Huskers’ recruiting coordinator and is the head coach of the beach volleyball team. 

In his six years with the program, Reyes has played an instrumental role in helping the Huskers consistently rank among the nation's top defensive teams. Since Reyes joined the program in 2018, Nebraska has ranked in the top 10 nationally in defense five times, including the No. 1 opponent hitting percentage in 2022 and 2023. Reyes has also established himself as one of the top recruiters in the nation, helping Nebraska land the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class for both 2021 and 2023 according to PrepVolleyball.com, as well as the No. 2-ranked class for 2022. 

With Reyes on staff, the Huskers have been to the NCAA Championship match three times and won the Big Ten title in 2023. Under Reyes' guidance, libero Lexi Rodriguez is a three-time AVCA All-American, while Kenzie Maloney was an All-American libero in 2018. Rodriguez has twice been named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, becoming just the fifth player in Big Ten history to receive the honor twice in a career. 

In 2022, Nebraska led the nation with a .128 opponent hitting percentage, the best defensive mark for the program since 2005. The Huskers followed up in 2023 by leading the nation in opponent hitting percentage again (.137) as they won the Big Ten title and finished the season in the NCAA Championship match with a 33-2 record, Nebraska's best record since the 2005 season. 

Reyes has been actively involved with the U.S. National Team as well. In May 2019 he served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women's Collegiate National Team as they toured Japan. In June 2024, he served as an assistant coach for the U21 National Team as they won gold at the U21 NORCECA Continental Championship in Toronto. 

Prior to Nebraska, Reyes was an assistant coach for the BYU men’s volleyball team from 2016-18. He handled player development and was the recruiting coordinator for the Cougars, who reached the NCAA Championship match in 2016 and 2017 and were NCAA semifinalists in 2018. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Reyes is the son of Tino Reyes, who was the head women’s volleyball coach at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from 2010-15 and spent 17 years as associate head coach on the Hawaii men’s volleyball coaching staff.

Reyes helped lead BYU to a 26-5 (16-2 MPSF) record in 2017, winning a share of the conference regular-season title. The Cougars reached the national championship match for a second-consecutive season. BYU went 27-4 (19-3 MPSF) in 2016 – Reyes’ first season on staff – also winning the conference title and playing in the national final. In 2018, the Cougars reached the national semifinals once again and finished with a 22-7 overall record while winning the MPSF tournament title. Reyes coached four AVCA All-Americans in each of his three seasons at BYU.

Reyes’ other coaching experience includes serving as the lead coach at the Gold Medal Squared Clinic since 2014, and as an assistant coach with the SCVA High Performance Team in the International Youth Division at the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships, winning silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016.

Reyes received his bachelor’s degree from BYU in exercise science in 2015. He was the starting libero for the Cougars from 2012-15 and received AVCA All-America honorable mention in 2015. Reyes helped his team to back-to-back MPSF regular-season and tournament titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2013-14. Reyes is BYU’s all-time rally-scoring era leader in games played (431) and is second in career digs (762).