Savannah Rennie

Savannah Rennie is an Assistant Coach for the Bears Women's Volleyball Team.

Savannah Rennie enters her first year as an assistant coach for the Golden Bears in 2023.

Rennie spent the 2022 season as a volunteer assistant coach for the USC Trojans, who reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. During Rennie’s time on the coaching staff, the Trojans’ Skylar Fields received First Team All-American honors, while teammate Mia Tuaniga earned All-American Honorable Mention status.

In her final two years of collegiate competition, Rennie played for the Marquette Golden Eagles while earning a master’s degree in corporate communications, accumulating two All-Big East honors (2020, 2021) and a 2020 All-Region nod from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). She was also named to the 2020 All-Big East Championship Team and the 2021 All-Big East Preseason Team.

Rennie spent five seasons as a player on the California Golden Bears while majoring in media studies. She rose to national prominence following battles with congenital hepatic fibrosis with portal hypertension (which required her to undergo a liver transplant in 2016) and non-Hodgkin post-transplant lymphoma. In Rennie’s senior season in 2019, she earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 2) honors as well as the Tournament MVP title at the CSU Rams Volleyball Classic; later, she tore her ACL but continued to take the court for the Bears.

As a high school player, Rennie was PrepVolleyball.com’s No. 20 Senior Ace in the class of 2015, as well as an Under Armour Third Team All-American, a PrepVolleyball.com All-American and a U.S. Youth National Team member. The previous year, she earned the San Diego Section Player of the Year award.