Spencer McLachlin
Co-Director
Spencer McLachlin is the associate head coach for the USC women's volleyball program.
Spencer McLachlin is in his third season (2025) as an associate head coach for the USC women's volleyball program.
In his first season with the Women of Troy (2023), McLachlin helped USC go 19-13 with a 12-8 mark in Pac-12 matches for a fifth-place finish. Outside hitter Skylar Fields was chosen for AVCA All-America first-team laurels. In 2024, the Trojans advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the third straight year and finished 22-10 overall with a 13-7 mark in the Big Ten (tied for sixth). Setter Mia Tuaniga was named to the AVCA All-America third team.
Previously, McLachlin served as the associate head coach at Indiana in 2022 where he was responsible for coordinating the defense and blocking. The Hoosiers were 16-16 and went 9-11 in the Big Ten to finish eighth in the conference standings. IU’s nine conference victories were its most since 2010 and the team had its highest finish since the Big Ten expanded to 14 teams (2014).
While at Indiana, McLachlin helped coach the Hoosiers to wins over a fifth-ranked Ohio State and No. 25 Michigan on the road; the first season in program history that IU had multiple road victories over ranked opponents. Under his guidance, middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede produced 118 blocks and had 14 matches with five or more blocks. Five different Hoosiers had more than 40 blocks in 2022 and as a team, IU had 250 blocks with a season-high 18 in a victory over Northwestern.
Prior to Indiana, McLachlin was an assistant coach for the UCLA men’s volleyball program for four years (2018-21). He has also had experience coaching at the international level with the U.S. men’s national team where he was on staffs for squads which competed in the Pan American Cup and NORCECA Champions cup.
Before he joined the UCLA men’s program, McLachlin spent two seasons (2016-17) as an assistant coach at California for the Golden Bears’ women’s team. In 2017, he was named to the American Volleyball Coach Association (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 list, an honor presented to up-and-coming coaching talents across all levels of volleyball. McLachlin got his start in coaching as an assistant for the men’s volleyball program at Hawai’i. During his time with the Warriors, the team earned a bid to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 13 seasons.
As a student-athlete, McLachlin played outside hitter at Stanford (2008-11) where he won a national championship with the Cardinal in 2010 and finished his career among the program’s all-time leaders in kills with 1,288. McLachlin was a senior captain, an All-MPSF second team choice, and received MPSF all-academic team recognition three times.
McLachlin graduated from Stanford with a degree in political science in 2011 and completed a Master of Education in 2012 while serving as a club coach for the Bay-to-Bay Volleyball Club.
As a professional athlete, McLachlin was an outside hitter for Mas NIKI Aiginio in Greece for three years (2012-14).
McLachlin is married to former USC volleyball standout opposite hitter Diane Copenhagen (2004-07), a 2004 Pac-10 All-Freshman Team selection. The McLachlins are parents to two daughters, Leila and Malia, and a son named Koa.