Coaching Staff

Jeff Kaufmann is a 1994 graduate of Winona State University, in Winona, MN where he earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics. There he helped found the men’s volleyball club in 1989 playing for three years on the varsity club team as an outside hitter. His volleyball coaching career began in 1995, as the head freshman coach for Woodstock High School, in Woodstock, IL. He spent the next four seasons as the sophomore and JV coach until he took over as the head varsity coach in 2000. Over eight seasons he led the team to winning a 3A regional championship in 2006, and amassing a 168-120 overall record.

Coach Kaufmann went on to coach at St. Mary School in Woodstock for seven seasons and at Sky High Volleyball Club, in Crystal Lake, IL, where he coached for nine seasons. During that time, three of his teams qualified for, and competed in, the USA Volleyball National Tournament. In 2014, he joined the staff at Marian Central Catholic HS, in Woodstock, as an assistant coach. During those three seasons, the varsity team won the class 3A 2015 state championship and finished as the class 3A runner-up in 2016.

In the summer of 2020, Coach Kaufmann and his family moved to Lexington from northern Illinois, and he joined the staff here at Lexington Catholic as a volunteer assistant for the 2021 KY Class 2A State Championship season. He was hired as the head coach prior to the 2022 season. He and his wife Tara have five children, Alex (husband Nik Ruby)(27), Isaac (wife Hannah Marie) (25), Jordan (24), Matthew (22) and Hannah (20), and 2 grandchildren (Siena and Clare Ruby) with one more on the way in December of 2025! Matthew is a 2021 Lexington Catholic graduate and Hannah is a 2023 graduate. They are members of the Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary parish here in Lexington.