McMaster University Athletics

Coach Eibbitt is entering his seventh season with the Marauder Men’s Volleyball Program and his fourth as the full-time Lead Assistant Coach. This upcoming season (2023-24), he adds the responsibility of recruiting coordinator to his coaching portfolio. Eibbitt also acted as the Interim Head coach for 6 months during the summer of 2022 and during the transition of Coach Preston’s retirement and the hiring of new Head Coach Brad Douwes.

Coach Eibbitt brings a wealth of coaching experience spanning over two decades at the Club, Provincial and National Team levels. Eibbitt is a certified Performance Coach and, this past summer, was the Lead Mentor Coach for the Team Ontario Red programs. He was also recently named the Head Coach of the 2025 Canada Summer Games team and, in 2017, was on the coaching staff that won the gold medal for Ontario at the Canada Games held in Manitoba.

Ian has been involved with many stages of the Volleyball Canada pathway. He began his National Team journey in 2019 as the Assistant Coach for the U19 Youth National Team. He then moved onto the National Excellence Program in September 2020 and, most recently, was the Assistant Coach on the Junior National Team from 2020-2021 where he experienced a major competition at the U21 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. He also worked with the NextGen team in the same summer that qualified Canada into the World Championships. 

During his time here at McMaster, Eibbitt has been a part of 3 OUA Championship banners and 2 national bronze medals since his hiring in the fall of the 2017-2018 season.