CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Florida Gulf Coast University's volleyball head coach, Thais Baziquetto-Allen has been announced as a member of the 2025 NJCAA Volleyball Hall of Fame Class which will be inducted at the National Tournament banquet on November 18^th in Clarksville, Tennessee.

 Baziquetto-Allen served as the head coach of Florida SouthWestern for six seasons as well as Seward County (KS) for three seasons. She holds a NJCAA head coaching record of 231-53 (.813 winning %) as well as claiming seven Conference Championships. In addition to being named Coach of the Year on multiple occasions, she led the Bucs to three consecutive national titles, the only coach in NJCAA history to do so. Under her leadership, 11 of her players earned NJCAA All-America honors, three players earned NJCAA National Player of the Year Awards, her teams earned nine straight AVCA Team Academic Awards, and 5 players earned CSC/CoSida Academic All-American honors.  

She coached the NJCAA National Player of the Year in all three seasons in Barbara Koehler, Roberta Purashaj, and Julija Grubisic Cabo. In six seasons as the Head Coach with the Bucs, Baziquetto-Allen amassed a record of 145-25 (.853) overall and 65-5 (.929) in conference play.  Baziquetto-Allen put together a proven track record of sending players onto the next level with 25 players moving onto the Division I level in her first five recruiting cycles and 32 players overall continuing their careers at the four year level.

 It wasn't just success on the court that set Baziquetto-Allen's Bucs apart though.  FSW won six straight AVCA Team Academic Awards during her time in Fort Myers and her 2024 Championship squad was named the FCSAA Academic Team of the Year with a 3.75 Team GPA, the first team in FSW Athletics history to do so. Individually, five of Baziquetto-Allen's student-athletes were named CSC Academic All-Americans during her time with the Bucs, more than every other NJCAA Volleyball program combined during that stretch.

Her journey in the United States also started in the NJCAA as a student-athlete at St. Petersburg College where she played for two seasons before transferring on and graduating from Western New Mexico University. 
 
Baziquetto-Allen and the Eagles currently hold a 12-7 overall record for the 2025 season and have a  6-2 Atlantic Sun Conference record.