Columbia Basin College

Taylor Stewart enters her third year at the helm of the CBC Volleyball program.

Stewart's 2024 team put together a tremendous season (27-6) with East Region player of the year Zuri Reeser on their way to their first East Region title under Stewart. The team finished 4th at the NWAC Championships coming just one set shy of beating champion Skagit Valley in the semi-final. 

Prior to CBC, Stewart was the head volleyball coach at the Community Colleges of Spokane. In her first year at Spokane the Sasquatch earned first in the NWAC East Region, amidst the Covid-19 adversities, with a 12-4 record. In the 2021 season, the squad produced an 11-5
record and made the NWAC Elite 8 in the championships; the only East Region team to advance; sophomore setter earning All-NWAC honors. This past 2022 season, provided huge growth and strides having nine freshmen get acclimated to this level of play; two sophomores earn All-NWAC honors.
 
Stewart worked at Whitman College as the assistant volleyball coach for 3 years. During her time there, Stewart led the strength and conditioning programs, volleyball operations, as well as specialized in coaching outside hitters and defensive specialists. Competitively, she helped the Blues to signature wins against top Northwest Conference opponents including Whitworth University and Pacific Lutheran University, who have each had the opportunity to compete at the National Tournament. In 2017, the Blues finished their highest ever in conference with a winning record and two first team All-NWC players, one earning Freshman of the Year as an outside hitter. In 2018 and 2019, Blues’ senior outside hitters established all conference honors.
 
Prior to Whitman, Stewart spent time at William Jewell College (Mo.) as the volunteer for the Cardinals’ NCAA Division II volleyball program, which followed a two-year stint as the head girls volleyball coach at Potlatch High School. Stewart has also served as a camp coach for Whitworth University (2021), Washington State (2015, 2017), and as the Under-14 Palouse Area Volleyball Club (2015) and Under-18 Eastern Oregon Volleyball Club coach (2014).
 
A 2014 graduate of Eastern Oregon University, Stewart was an outside hitter for the volleyball team and played one year of basketball. She started all four years in volleyball and was part of a program that accumulated 78 wins during her time with the Mountaineers, including a 25-6 mark her senior year after which she earned Cascade Conference Honorable Mention as well as Academic All-American.
 
Stewart was a three-sport athlete at Priest River Lamanna High School in Priest River, Idaho. Receiving all-league in volleyball, basketball, and track her sophomore, junior and senior years, with MVP honors and was named the North Idaho Female Athlete of the Year for all three sports in her final year at Priest River. 
 
At EOU, Stewart majored in media arts communication with a concentration in digital design and minor in business, and has a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction from the University of Idaho. 
 
Stewart brings three generations of coaching in athletics to CBC. Her father, Gary Stewart is currently in his 30th year coaching basketball and football at Priest River High School. Together as coach and player, they won the first state championship in history for Priest River girls basketball. Bill Belknap, her late grandfather as of 2020 and great influencer on Stewart’s life, was the athletic director at the University of Idaho during the golden era and is a North Idaho Hall of Fame (2003) as well as University of Idaho Hall of Fame (2008).