University of Oklahoma Athletics

Volleyball

Regan Hood
Regan Hood
Regan Hood begins her second season as an assistant coach with Oklahoma volleyball in 2024. A native of Texas, Hood was hired on April 28, 2023 after a 15-year professional playing career.

Hood joined the Sooners after serving as an assistant coach at Dartmouth in 2022 under head coach Gilad Doron. Hood helped Dartmouth to its best Ivy League win total in 2022 (8-6 record) to finish fourth in the conference and appear in the Ivy League Tournament. She also helped the team defeat Penn on the road for the first time since 1999 and helped the squad finish 25th nationally in aces per set (1.80).

Individually, Hood helped Dartmouth players Ellie Blain, Bomi Ogunlari and Amelia Gibbs to All-Ivy honors. Blain and Ogunlari were named to the second team while Gibbs was an honorable mention selection. Defensively, Ogunlari broke the program record for blocks in a season (97) and tied for most blocks per set in a season (1.18).

Bringing a wealth of international experience, Hood played overseas from Spain to Azerbaijan during her career and many other countries in between. In 2006, she played for Dok Dwingeloo in the Netherlands for a season before spending the next year in Spain and three seasons in France with two different teams. Following a year each in Azerbaijan and Romania, Hood served as team captain of Ilbank SK in Turkey from 2013-14. She had a short stint in Puerto Rico before returning to Turkey and spending time in Poland, and then captaining teams in Indonesia and Turkey again. After action in Italy and Germany, she played for Olympiacos in Athens, Greece, from 2018-20 before wrapping up her playing career in Romania in 2021.

HoodĀ also enjoyed an extensive playing career with the U.S. National Team (2011-14), helping the squad finish third at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. She also helped the U.S. to a sixth-place finish in the 2013 FVIB World Grand Prix, and captained the team to a second-place showing in Mexico City at the Pan America Cup in June 2014.

A 2006 LSU graduate with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in sociology, Hood was a four-year letterwinner for the Tigers and served as team captain in her junior and senior seasons. In 2003, the outside hitter/middle blocker earned an All-SEC second-team selection and was named first-team All-Louisiana in her final two seasons. Hood still ranks sixth all-time at LSU in kills per set (3.31) and recorded 1,172 kills in her career. She was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll in her final three seasons as a Tiger.