Dayana Acevedo Trent - Blue Dragon Volleyball

Bio

Dayana Acevedo, the 14th head coach in Blue Dragon Volleyball history, is in her second season at Hutchinson Community College.

The Blue Dragons posted a 15-18 record in Acevado-Trent’s first season in 2025. The Dragons tied for sixth in the Jayhawk Conference at 6-10. Playing on the road for the opening-round of the Region 6 Tournament, the Blue Dragons rallied from two sets down at Butler to defeat the Grizzlies in five sets. Hutchinson then lost to Colby in the Region 6 semifinals.

Clara Oliveira and Alondra Villanueva were first-team All-KJCCC selections in 2025. Seven members of the 2025 Blue Dragons moved on to play at four-year institutions.

Acevedo Trent is 113-51 in five seasons as a collegiate head coach.

Acevedo Trent came to Hutchinson after serving as head coach at Odessa College for four seasons. She posted a four-year record of 98-29 with the Wranglers that included two regional championships, two appearances in the NJCAA national tournament and a 10th-place performance in 2024.

Odessa was Acevedo Trent’s first head coaching position. She posted a 15-7 record and advanced to the Region 5 Tournament semifinals in her first season in 2021. OC had three all-conference selections in her first season. The Wranglers improved by 10 wins in the 2022 season and made it all the way to the Region 5 Tournament championship match where the Wranglers lost to New Mexico Military in five sets.

Acevedo Trent’s third Odessa team in 2023 made a three-win improvement (28-8), but broke through in the Region 5 Tournament, defeating New Mexico Junior College in five sets in the championship match to earn the region’s automatic berth into the NJCAA national tournament. The Wranglers dropped a pair of five-set matches in the 2023 national tournament, which was played at the Sports Arena.

The Wranglers posted a 30-10 overall record in 2024. OC won its second-straight Region 5 Tournament championship to advance to nationals. Odessa wound up placing 10th in the 2024 national tournament with a 2-2 record.

Acevedo Trent mentored 15 all-conference/region players, including two-time WJCAC Setter of the Year Jade Cuya (2023 and 2024), 2024 Defensive Player of the year Mana Kaneko and 2023 Newcomer of the Year Devyn Lewis.

Cuya was a second-team NJCAA All-American in 2024.

Before becoming the head coach at Odessa, Acevedo Trent served as the head assistant coach at Iowa Western Community College. From the 2016 to 2020 seasons, Acevedo Trent helped the Reivers to a combined 171-25 record and five NJCAA National Tournament appearances. IWCC finished second in 2016, third in 2018, fifth in 2019 and win the national championship in the 2020/21 season.

Acevedo Trent’s playing collegiate career had stops at Iowa Western and the University of Texas-El Paso.

Playing at Iowa Western in the 2011 and 2012 seasons, Acevedo Trent amassed 1,418 total digs in two seasons which ranks her third on the Reiver career charts. She earned multiple honors including become a two-time NJCAA Division I All-American first team and two-time AVCA All-American first team, two-time All-Region first team and a two-time Academic All-Region first team recipient. Iowa Western won a combined 90 matches with two national tournament appearances during Acevedo Trent’s playing tenure.

At UTEP in 2013 and 2014, Acevedo Trent played in 181 sets with 509 digs and 39 service aces.

Originally from Naranjito, Puerto Rico, Acevedo Trent has an associate's degree in General Studies from Iowa Western Community College and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from UTEP.

Acevedo Trent is married to Alex Trent. The couple’s son, Axel, was born in December of 2025. She is the daughter of Ranier Acevedo and Myriam Rios and has three sisters - Mayrin, Maryam and Melizabeth.

DAYANA ACEVEDO TRENT’S YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORDS
2021    Odessa           15-7      Region 5 semifinals
2022    Odessa           25-8      Region 5 runner-up
2023    Odessa           28-8      Region 5 Champion; NJCAA Tournament qualifier
2024    Odessa           30-10    Region 5 Champion; 10th Place in NJCAA Tournament
2025    Hutchinson     15-18    Region 6 semifinalist
           Totals           113-51