KATIE HILL, GRACE COLLEGE

• Hill led Grace to its second-consecutive NCCAA Division I national championship this season.
• As part of the record-setting 2024 campaign, her team earned its highest-ever NAIA ranking.
• The Lancers made their first NAIA Championship since 2001 and hosted the first home match in the NAIA tourney in program history.
• She becomes Grace’s second recipient of the AVCA NCCAA Coach of the Year award, joining 2011 winner Angie Taulborg.
• This was Hill’s 10th season as the head coach at Grace College.

AVCA NATIONAL COACHES OF THE YEAR FOR THE NCCAA

2009: Jason Farr, Lincoln Christian College
2010: Candace Moats, Indiana Wesleyan University
2011: Angie Taulborg, Grace College
2012: Cammie Petree, McMurry University
2013: Sarah Gustin, Point Loma Nazarene University
2014: Bill Schepel, Trinity Christian College
2015: Scott Masterson, Providence University (Canada)
2016: Bill Schepel, Trinity Christian College
2017: Regina DeLozier, Maranatha Baptist University
2018: Aaron Seltzer, Biola University
2019: Regina DeLozier, Maranatha Baptist University
2021 (spring): Katie Weiss, Bethel University
2021 (fall): Robin Vannoy, Johnson University
2022: Luke Ward, Trinity International University
2023: Lauren Sanders, Manhattan Christian College
2024: Katie Hill, Grace College