Thais Baziquetto-Allen enters her second season as head coach of FGCU volleyball in 2026, bringing with her an exceptional track record from Florida SouthWestern State College, where she became the first head coach in NJCAA Division I history to lead her program to three consecutive National Championships.

In her first season leading the Eagles in 2025, Baziquetto-Allen guided FGCU to a 19-9 overall record and a 13-3 mark in the ASUN, capturing the program's 9th ASUN Regular Season Championship, a title secured with a sweep at North Florida on November 15. She picked up her first career win at FGCU on August 30, a 3-1 decision over James Madison. Individually, Julija Grubisic Cabo earned First Team All-ASUN honors, Barbara Koehler was tabbed Second Team All-ASUN, and Erica Muhizi was named to the ASUN All-Freshman Team. The program also shined in the classroom, with Koehler, Grubisic Cabo, Hanna Borer and Eliska Vytiskova all earning CSC Academic All-District Team recognition, and Koehler adding Academic All-ASUN honors as well. On November 18, Baziquetto-Allen was inducted into the NJCAA Volleyball Hall of Fame, a recognition built in part on her tenure at Florida SouthWestern State College.

Baziquetto-Allen won three consecutive NJCAA National Championships at Florida SouthWestern State College, capping the run in 2024 with a 26-1 record and a 3-0 sweep of Miami Dade College in the championship match. She departs FSW with a 145-25 (.853) overall record and a 65-5 (.929) mark in conference play over six seasons. She was named NJCAA National Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons from 2022-24, and coached the NJCAA National Player of the Year in each of those same three years: Barbara Koehler in 2022, Roberta Purashaj in 2023, and current Eagle Julija Grubisic Cabo in 2024. She also built a pipeline to the next level, sending 25 players on to Division I programs and 32 total to four-year schools.

The Bucs won back-to-back-to-back NJCAA National Championships from 2022-24. In 2022, the program's fourth year of existence, FSW went 27-1, entered the national tournament as the top overall seed, and dropped just one set across four tournament matches en route to a 3-1 championship win over in-state rival Miami Dade; Koehler earned NJCAA and AVCA National Player of the Year honors that season, one of the Bucs' two All-Americans for a third straight year. In 2023, Baziquetto-Allen led FSW to a school-record 31 wins (31-1), losing only seven of 102 sets played all season while sitting atop the national rankings from start to finish. FSW defeated 17 ranked teams that year, including Miami Dade again in the national finals, as Purashaj and outside hitter Alondra Alarcon swept National Player of the Year honors — Purashaj taking home NJCAA and AVCA Player of the Year, and Alarcon earning VolleyMag Player of the Year. She closed out the three-peat in 2024, going 26-1 and sweeping Miami Dade 3-0 in the championship match, with Grubisic Cabo taking home National Player of the Year honors.

The foundation for that run was built in her first two seasons. In 2021, the Bucs went 25-5, won a second straight Suncoast Conference title with a perfect 16-0 mark, spent the final seven weeks of the regular season ranked No. 1 nationally, and finished fifth at the NJCAA National Tournament after beating archrival Miami Dade on the tournament's final day. Maria Petkova and Deborah Ribeiro were both named First-Team NJCAA All-Americans that season. A year earlier, in 2020-21, Baziquetto-Allen led FSW to its first-ever trip to the NJCAA National Tournament, finishing 20-9 and eighth nationally; she was named Suncoast Conference Coach of the Year as the Bucs won the program's first-ever conference title at 8-0, and Yasso Amin and Fiona Baker became the first All-Americans in FSW program history.

Before arriving at FSW, Baziquetto-Allen spent three seasons as head coach at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas, compiling an 86-28 (.754) overall record, including a 43-5 (.896) mark in Jayhawk West play. In 2017, she was one of just three NJCAA coaches to receive the AVCA Thirty Under 30 Award, recognizing the sport's top up-and-coming coaching talent. Prior to Seward County, she spent four seasons as head coach at Liberal High School. She began her coaching career as an assistant at Lamar Community College in Colorado, where in her only season she helped the Lopes to a 26-win season and recruited three All-Conference players.

As a player, Baziquetto-Allen starred at Western New Mexico University and St. Petersburg College. As a senior at Western New Mexico, she earned Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic honors and graduated with honors. At St. Petersburg College, she helped the Titans to a 26-9 record as a sophomore and was named to the President's Honor Roll. A native of Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil, she played at the highest level of amateur club volleyball in Brazil and maintains strong ties to the São Paulo area. She resides in Cape Coral with her husband, Roy Allen, and their dogs, Kai and Ace.