Ex-Mahwah Volleyball Player Joins Coaching Ranks At Rutgers University

MAHWAH, NJ — A Mahwah native who helped a local women's volleyball team win its first-ever conference title has arrived "On The Banks" of Rutgers with her own newly acquired title.

Britni Jaskot, who played as a setter at Mahwah High School (2012-16), helped the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights to their first Northeast Conference win, as a graduate assistant volleyball coach. She will now join the Scarlet Knights as Director of Volleyball Operations, a Tuesday announcement said.

Jaskot, also tabbed as a member of the Northeast Conference Staff Member of the Year, helped Fairleigh in playing to its best conference record in program history and to an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Formerly named Mahwah High School's "Most Outstanding Player," Jasket signed to Kean University, where she was a four-year letter-winner, winning back-to-back New Jersey Athletic Conference championships with her team in 2017 and 2018.

She graduated in spring 2021 from Kean with a degree in exercise science, and is now working toward her master's degree in sports management from Fairleigh.

Prior to joining the Fairleigh coaching ranks in fall 2021, she served as head coach of nonprofit girls volleyball club DIGS ("Do It Garden State"), and worked with Kean's men's volleyball program as an undergraduate assistant.

During her high school career, she earned three Big North Conference Patriot League First-Team All-Division honors, and two All-Bergen County Third-Team honors.

Her best advice she's ever received, she said in a Kean player bio, was: "Life is short with a lot of obstacles, so don't take anything for granted."