Queen's University Athletics

Gabriel deGroot is entering his ninth year Head Coach, Queen's Men's Volleyball. deGroot led the Gaels to a second straight OUA Championship, and the fourth provincial title for the program under deGroot’s lead in 2025-26. Queen’s finished the 2025-26 regular season with a 14-6 record before earning the OUA title and a third straight U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball Championship appearance. Queen’s Men’s Volleyball has appeared in the national championship tournament in six of eight seasons under deGroot.

He led the Gaels to back-to-back OUA championships in his first two seasons in charge, and was named the OUA East Division Coach of the Year in his first season in 2018-19, before the 2020-21 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

deGroot was an assistant coach with Canada at the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship in 2021. He has also been assistant/statistical analyst for Team Ontario at the Canada Summer Games in 2016-17.

deGroot started as the Pegasus Volleyball U18 head coach in 2016 where he prepares athletes for success at the university and college level.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph and is also a trained Advanced Development Coach. At Guelph, he was an OUA All-Star and was named the  OUA Libero of the Year in consecutive seasons.

Awards

OUA East Division Coach of the Year: 2018-19

Career Record at Queen's

	Regular Season	OUA Playoffs	U SPORTS Championship
Year	W-L	W-L	W-L
2025-26*	14-6	3-0	0-2
2024-25*	15-5	3-0	0-2
2023-24	15-5	2-1	1-2
2022-23	11-9	0-1
2021-22	10-1	2-1	0-2
2020-21	Season cancelled due to COVID-19
2019-20*	14-4	3-0	Championship cancelled due to COVID-19
2018-19*	15-3	3-0	2-1
Overall	94-33	16-3	3-9

* OUA Champions