Hofstra University Women's Volleyball

Steven Klosterman, one of the most decorated players in the history of UCLA Volleyball, is in his fifth season as an assistant coach at Hofstra in 2024. he was promoted to assistant coach in June, 2024.  Klosterman has extensive club volleyball coaching experience, most recently serving as a lead technical coach and trainer for the Chicago Bounce Volleyball Club. Since 2013, he has also worked with the Huntington Beach Volleyball Club as both a head coach and assistant coach. While at HBC he coached Josh Tuiniga and TJ DeFalco, both of whom recently captured AVCA Player of the Year honors and earned national titles at Long Beach State.  This will not be Klosterman’s first collegiate coaching experience either as he previously worked as a volunteer assistant coach with the Loyola Chicago women’s team and UCLA men’s team.  Klosterman was a two-time All-American at UCLA during a career which spanned from 2003 to 2007. The MVP of the 2006 National Championship that UCLA captured, Klosterman holds the program’s rally scoring-era record for kills with 1,513.  Klosterman played professionally from 2007 to 2014 in Puerto Rico, France, Finland, Egypt, Qatar, Vietnam and Czech Republic.  Klosterman majored in history at UCLA. 

Lara LoIacono is in her second season with the Hofstra volleyball program after serving as the director of volleyball operations during the 2024 campaign.  LoIacono assists with all aspects of the Pride program, most notably handling all team travel arrangements.  LoIacono has previously served as a coach with Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island during the 2023 campaign. In addition, she has coaching experience with St. Anthony’s High School in 2022.  LoIacono also has extensive experience handling social media, having served as the director of social media for Jetty Bar and Grill in Long Beach, New York, for two years and for the Roger Williams volleyball program in 2020.  LoIacono graduated from Roger Williams in May of 2020. A volleyball student-athlete, she earned her bachelor of arts in communications in multimedia.