Justin Beaumont was announced as the head coach of the Long Island University men’s volleyball team on October 18, 2024. Prior to being named head coach of the Sharks, Beaumont was an associate head coach for the LIU women’s volleyball team for the 2023 and 2024 seasons, helping guide the team to a Northeast Conference tournament championship in 2023.
Before leading from the sidelines at the Steinberg Wellness Center, Beaumont was the head coach for the men’s volleyball team at St. Francis Brooklyn, where he led the Terriers to an NEC Tournament berth in 2023, and an assistant coach for the Terrier women’s volleyball team from 2021-22.
Beaumont served as the head coach for the New Jersey City University women’s volleyball team in the 2019 season, coaching where he played as a student-athlete on the men’s volleyball team for four seasons until graduating in 2013.
His first coaching experience at the Division I level came at St. Peter’s University, where he was an assistant coach from 2017-18. With Beaumont on the bench, the Peacocks improved from 0-25 in 2016 and 0-30 in 2017 to 9-25 in the 2018 season, including a first-round upset of No. 5 seed Marist in the first round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament.
Prior to his time at St. Peter’s, Beaumont was an assistant coach at Division II Bloomfield College for five seasons from 2012-16. As an assistant coach, Beaumont helped take the Bears from four wins in 2012 and five wins in 2013 to 15 wins in 2014, 24 wins in 2015 and 21 wins in 2016.
His coaching career began in 2012 as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Division II Felician University.
Outside of the collegiate coaching ranks, Beaumont has worked at volleyball camps at the University of Michigan from 2016-23 and Stanford University each of the past two years. Beaumont is the Club Director of Sideout Sports in Fairfield, New Jersey, a youth volleyball club that has 35 teams of players aged 8-18.
Growing up, Beaumont was a three-sport athlete in high school, playing football, basketball and volleyball at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey. Beaumont played three seasons of varsity volleyball for the Bees, receiving several honors culminating in being named the HCIAA Player of the Year his senior year in 2007.
While playing setter and opposite hitter for NJCU, Beaumont was named a co-captain his junior and senior seasons and was a two-time First-Team All-Skyline Conference selection in 2012 and 2013. Beaumont finished his collegiate career with 2,604 assists, 896.5 points, 680 digs, 666 kills, 188 total blocks and 117 service aces across 117 matches played.
Beaumont has also played in the National Volleyball Association and the Volleyball League of America.
