Allison Byler returns for her second stint on the Southeastern coaching staff after being named associate head coach in January 2025 by new head coach, Lee McBride.
Byler was previously on the SLU staff as an assistant coach under previous head coach Jeremy White in 2023 where she was also the recruiting coordinator. That season saw the Lady Lions go 28-5, setting a program record for wins in a season, 17-1 in SLC play which is also the most wins SLU has ever accrued in conference action, win both the Southland’s regular season and tournament championships, and earn a berth in the NCAA National Championship Tournament. During that season, Southeastern defeated a Texas State team which was receiving votes in the NCAA/AVCA Top 25 Coaches Poll at the time and knocked off LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
In 2024, she went to Jacksonville University where she was an assistant coach and helped lead the Dolphins to their first winning season since 2017 and first ASUN Tournament appearance since the 2020 season which was played in the spring of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A two-year letter winner at Spartanburg Methodist College before finishing her undergraduate at the University of Georgia, Byler has been involved in coaching at either youth camps or on the high school level since 2016. She is also the founder of Sports Camp International, a non-profit that takes college athletes and support staff to run sports camps in Kenya during the summer.
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Her first foray into college coaching came in January 2021 when she joined the University of South Dakota as a volunteer coach where she helped guide the Coyotes to a Summit League Championship and NCAA Tournament berth during the spring 2021 indoor season, her lone season in Vermillion.
The Augusta, Ga. native then went to Morehead State where she served as the volleyball team’s operations manager in 2021-22 while achieving her master’s degree. The Eagles won a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular season championship in 2022 while Byler was on the staff.
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Byler earned her Bachelor’s in sports management from Georgia in 2021 and received her masters, also in sports management, from Morehead State in the spring of 2023.
