The successor to Ed Allen has been found.
Brittany Harry, a longtime junior college coach who hails from Champaign, IL, has been named Saluki Volleyball’s new head coach
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Harry, who has been a head coach for 16 seasons, holds a career 310-178 record, good for a 63% career win percentage.
“I feel really grateful and blessed to have the opportunity to lead this program,” Harry said.
Harry is a proven winner, and a highly decorated one at that. Harry has been named coach of the year four times while in various head coaching positions.
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Most recently, Harry was the head coach at West Texas A&M in Canyon, TX. In her only season at the helm, she led them to a conference championship, punched a ticket to the Division II national tournament and was named the Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year.
She also was the head coach at Texas A&M International from 2020 to 2023 and oversaw a 19-win improvement from 2021 to 2022, which represented the largest jump in NCAA DII. Harry was also named Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year that season.
At 23, Harry was one of the youngest coaches in the country when she kicked off her head coaching career at Spartanburg Methodist College in 2007. She won district coach of the year in both of her seasons at the helm.
“We were looking for a proven head coach, a winner and a leader with integrity and high character. That’s exactly what we found in Brittany,” athletic director Tim Leonard said.
Many players have received accolades while playing for Harry; three earned All-American honors, and 27 more were named all-conference players under her tutelage.
Harry has her work set out for her. SIU finished 10-19, including 3-15 in the Missouri Valley, in 2024. Though no other players have been announced to be in the transfer portal, the team will lose Maggie Wallenberger and Anna Jaworski to graduation.
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