Amy Grabiec began with the University of New Orleans as a volunteer Beach coach Spring 2017 and accepted a full-time position following the conclusion of the beach season. She has been the Assistant Indoor and Beach coach for three seasons.

2020 wound up being shortened due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Privateers were 7-3 when the season was suspended. 

The Privateers enjoyed their most successful year on the sand with 15 wins in 2019. They also received votes in the final AVCA poll. Veronica Corcoran and Rachel Kuhn also earned AVCA Top Flight honors. 

In 2018, the Privateers advanced to the championship of the Southland Showcase after wins over Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas (twice), and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. 

In her rookie season at Tulane, Grabiec helped the Green Wave to their best year to date in Tulane's short four-year history with an 18-10 overall record and a No. 19 national ranking, according to the final DiG Poll, and the Green Wave notched their third straight winning season.

Grabiec joined the Green Wave family following club coaching stints with the East Valley Junior Volleyball Club and High Performance Arizona in 2014 and 2015 as well as a summer playing for the USA U26 National Sand Volleyball-Elite 10 in 2014 and the Arizona Region of the Premier Volleyball League the last two years.

With East Valley in 2015, Grabiec worked as the head coach with both male and female athletes aged 12-18 and helped prepare to compete in four local and two national tournaments. As an assistant with the team in 2014, she worked as a positional strength coach and implemented day-to-day practice drills. She was also a performance intern with Athletes' Performance in 2013, the head coach of the Spirit Volleyball Club 14s for the 2011-12 season and worked the Cleveland State Volleyball Camp from 2008-12.

After completing her degree, Grabiec moved on to the University of Louisiana at Monroe for the 2012-13 academic year where she was a member of the Warhawks' inaugural sand volleyball program. That year, ULM posted a 7-4 regular-season mark and earned a spot in the AVCA Collegiate National Championship. Primarily playing with the No. 2 pairs team, Grabiec tallied a 12-12 overall record and participated in the AVCA Championship pairs tournament.

As an undergrad, Grabiec starred from 2008-11 at Cleveland State where she posted 1,481 digs, 155 assists, 99 service aces and 10 digs in 425 sets of work with the Vikings. Her career digs total ranks second in school history, while her 545 as a junior and 447 as a senior sit second and ninth in single-season history, respectively. She helped lead Cleveland State to a combined 81-42 record, including a 26-8 mark in 2008 when the Vikings won the Horizon League regular-season title.

A four-year prep letterwinner at St. Joseph's Academy, Grabiec was a two-time all-district selection. As a senior, she claimed first-team all-district honor while setting school records with 516 digs and 47 aces, and also holds single-match records of 45 digs and eight aces. The starting libero each of her final two high school seasons, Grabiec was twice named to the all-academic team.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Grabiec earned her bachelor's degree in health science and psychology from Cleveland State in May 2012 and completed her master's degree in exercise science from ULM in May 2013. She claimed Dean's List recognition all four semesters as an undergrad and was earned the John Konstantinos Athletic Academic Honors each spring from 2009-12.

Grabiec is married to Matthew Blanke.