Former Harvard Men’s Volleyball team captain Chase Howard ’20 enters his fourth season with the Crimson in 2027 after being named an assistant coach by head coach Brian Baise in June 2023. The former all-EIVA selection returned to Cambridge after spending the 2022-23 season coaching women’s volleyball in Virginia.
In three seasons, Howard has helped the Crimson reach the EIVA Tournament twice, including a semifinal appearance in 2024, and earn a No. 20 national ranking in 2025, which also saw it defeat nationally ranked Penn State to snap the Nittany Lions’ 38-match conference winning streak. The assistant coach also played an instrumental role in eight players capturing All-EIVA accolades.
After earning his Harvard degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy in May of 2020, Howard served as the Crimson’s volunteer assistant coach for the 2020-21 campaign, while concurrently making a difference working as an accessioning technician at The Broad Institute. When Howard was not keeping the team connected during a 2021 season with no competition due to the pandemic, he was involved with COVID-19 testing at The Broad Institute.
Howard later returned to his native state of Virginia and his alma mater, Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, in the summer of 2022 to become the school’s women’s volleyball coach. In the fall, he became the women’s beach volleyball head coach for Beach 757 Club.
The libero/outside hitter arrived at Harvard as a 2016 junior national team member and played immediately as a first-year, seeing action in 22 of 23 matches. The experience paid off in 2018 when the sophomore was named the National Libero of the Month three times before helping the Crimson win the EIVA tournament title and earn an NCAA berth. Howard’s Harvard career was cut short, however, in 2020 due to the pandemic. Despite the setback, he still collected all-conference honors from the EIVA and was Harvard Athletics’ recipient of the John P. Fadden Award.
