Jenni Horvath Assistant Coach First Season Email: jnhorvat@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-5437 Office: 214 B Alumni

Jenni Horvath is in her first season as assistant coach on the Bulls' volleyball staff. Horvath comes to UB after spending the last season as an assistant coach at fellow MAC member, Toledo.

In her first season with the Rockets, Horvath helped lead the team to a 14-17 record and a first round victory in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

Horvath played a key role at right-side hitter for the Musketeers’ 2007 NCAA Tournament squad as a senior, ranking third on the team in digs (2.88) and service aces (0.19) per game and posting 2.27 kills per game and a .206 hitting percentage for a balanced offensive attack. She received A-10 All-Tournament Team honors after posting 14 kills and 20 digs in a semifinal win over Saint Louis and nine terminations and 11 digs in the championship match vs. Dayton. Horvath also earned A-10 All-Tourney honors as a junior when she tallied a then-career high 19 digs against Dayton in the semifinals. During her playing career, Xavier posted a 83-45 (.648) overall mark and an impressive 43-10 (.811) Atlantic 10 ledger.

A native of Oxford, OH, Horvath holds the school record for kills at Stephen T. Badin High School (Hamilton, OH). She was selected to the Cincinnati Enquirer’s All-Star Volleyball First-Team two years in a row and also was named to the Southwest Ohio Volleyball Coaches Association’s First-Team All-City as a senior.

Horvath comes from an athletic family with her grandfather, Bob Ptacek, earning team MVP honors as a quarterback at the University of Michigan in 1958 before playing professionally with the Cleveland Browns (1959) and the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders (1960-65). In addition, her father, Thomas, played baseball at Eastern Kentucky, and her sister, Allie, is a junior on the University of Pittsburgh women’s swimming and diving team.

Horvath graduated from Xavier in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in advertising.