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SBCC Names Bishop Diego’s Dillan Bennett as Men’s Volleyball Coach

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The Santa Barbara City College Men’s Volleyball program is excited to announce the hiring of Dillan Bennett as its new head coach for the upcoming 2027 season. Bennett brings a plethora of experience from the Division I, community college, and high school levels. Perhaps most notably, he was an assistant for the prestigious Penn State men’s volleyball program, where he developed scouting reports, worked with the defense, and led practices for athletes returning from injury. He also handled team administrative operations, including monitoring academic eligibility. Naturally, his day job is in education. He currently serves as a full-time social studies teacher—Government/Economics, Business & Entrepreneurship, and Sports Medicine—at Bishop Diego High School. Volleyball-wise, he leads both the boys’ and girls’ varsity programs at Bishop Diego.

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