Bushnell University

Kim Elgarico joined the Beacon volleyball program as the Head Beach Volleyball Coach in 2020, overseeing the development and launch of the program which started competition in the fall of 2022. 

After just one win during their debut campaign, Elgarico took the Beacons to a seven-win season in year two that included a victory over NCAA Division I University of Portland, and multiple times receiving votes in the NAIA Top-10 Coaches Poll. Elgarico was named the NAIA West Grouping Pacific Northwest Coach of the Year, and saw her team earn both Defender of the Year and Newcomer of the Year honors. 

Elgarico came to Bushnell with over 20 years coaching experience at all levels including four years as a head coach at the NAIA level. Her career has taken her from South Carolina to Louisiana with stops in Los Angeles and Texas along the way before settling in Eugene for the past two years. She is currently a private beach volleyball coach and recently coached AVP Tour hopefuls Josh and Caleb Scott in their first appearance at the USAV Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where they took a Silver medal. 

Elgarico currently serves as the Beach Volleyball Coordinator for North Pacific Juniors (NPJ), the top ranked club in the Pacific Northwest.

Coach Elgarico has cut her teeth on the national stage, working summers with Brazilian coaches, training athletes from middle school through college at an international camp held in Fort Collins, Colorado. Through that experience she has worked with both professional and Olympic athletes from around the globe.

Prior to Eugene, Elgarico coached in Louisiana where she was a club coach at the NOLA Volleyball Club and Coconut Beach. She has coached at all levels in multiple competitive sports, leading players from ages 3-55 in volleyball, softball, and basketball. 

From 2006-2009 she was the head coach at La Sierra University, an NAIA program in Riverside, California that, at the time, was transitioning to the NCAA. 

Coach Elgarico played collegiate volleyball and softball at Defiance College, an NCAA Division III school in Ohio, and went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in marine science from the University of South Carolina.