Laura Neugebauer-Groff
Athletics
Laura Neugebauer-Groff is a former All-American at the University of Texas, where she captained the Longhorns to four Southwest Conference Championships from 1982-85.
She was a member of the National Sports Festival squad in 1983 and also participated at the 1995 World University Games in Japan. From 1986-87, she played professionally for the West German Volleyball League before joining the Chicago Breeze a year later.
In 1992, she was named to the SWC All-Decade team.
Laura coached briefly at Hondo High School, was an assistant coach at Texas A&M before accepting the head coaching position at St. Mary’s University for 8 years. In 2002, she became the head coach at UTSA. In 2022, Groff retired after 21 years, as the winningest volleyball coach in UTSA program history.
In 2002, The San Antonio Express-News named her one of its most-influential people in women’s sports.
Laura was also was a part of Jefferson High School’s inaugural Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni Class in May 2007. A member of the UIL’s All-Century third team in 2009. She was inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame in February 2011.
Laura was the Director of the Alamo Volleyball Club from 1993-2006. She also helped start the club Force and mentor coaches to help develop young women. Laura continues to have an impact on young women through lessons and mentoring!
Laura hopes to one day be a mentor for Jr high coaches in SAISD.
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