Completed Event: Volleyball at #14 BYU on September 27, 2025 , Loss , 0, to, 3
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Iowa State University Athletics
Volleyball
Fiona Fonoti
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- fonoti@iastate.edu
- Phone:
- 4-9615
Fiona Fonoti (fee-oh-nah foe-no-tea) joined the Iowa State coaching staff in March 2018, and will begin her fourth season with the Cyclones in the fall. Fonoti came to ISU from a successful background that includes work as a high school and club coach, and as an instructor, all of that following a successful career as a setter at Nebraska.
Fonoti has helped work with ISU’s defensive specialists and liberos, and in 2020 helped Izzy Enna lead the Big 12 in digs per set (4.37) and earn AVCA All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention.
During her first two seasons in Ames, Fonoti helped train and develop Jenna Brandt and Piper Mauck in the setting positions. Mauck earned All-Big 12 Second Team and AVCA All-Midwest Region Team honors in 2019. In 2018, Mauck led the Big 12 with 11.22 assists per set and earned AVCA All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention recognition. ISU’s .253 team hitting percentage in 2018 was the third-best in program history.
Most recently, Fonoti was an assistant varsity girls coach at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii as well as a personal setter coach at the Elite Setting Academy in Pearl City, Hawaii. Fonoti also spent time coaching in Hawaii at Pearl City High School and McKinley High School. She also spent six years as the head coach for the Lil Spiker Academy.
During her time in Hawaii, Fonoti was also a teacher, teaching math and special education at a variety of grades and levels across the past 15 years.
As a player at Nebraska, Fonoti took over the setting duties from Johnson-Lynch after the Cyclone head coach graduated from UNL. Then Fiona Nepo, she became a three-time All-Big 12 First Team and three-time AVCA Fall-America honoree from 1996-98, culminating in being the Big 12 Player of the Year as well as a finalist for the NCAA Player of the Year and Honda Broderick Awards.
Fonoti and her husband Chris have five children: Savion (22), Sylus (20), Serania (12), Sideon (7) and S'hani (5).
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