Mallory Matthews

Biography

Mallory Matthews came back home to ETBU as the new head coach on December 17, 2021, and immediately made an impact. The former AVCA All-American took ETBU to the next level in the ASC and NCAA Division III becoming the 2025 AVCA National Coach of the Year and helping the program to its first-ever No. 1 National Ranking. No stranger to ETBU, Matthews returns home to the program where she was an AVCA All-American and voted a CoSIDA Academic All-American playing from 2013-16. She is fifth all-time in career kills (1,373) and sixth in digs (1,147). In her four years as a player, ETBU won 83 matches finishing as the ASC Tournament runners-up in 2013 and qualified for four ASC Tournaments. Matthews started her coaching career in 2017 at the University of Texas Tyler under Mashe as a graduate assistant. UTT went 46-10 in those two years qualifying for the ASC Tournament in 2017. The 2018 season was a transitional year to NCAA Division II where UTT finished ranked 19th and went 24-2. She then served as the two-time American Southwest Conference East Division Coach of the Year at LeTourneau University, where in three seasons her teams won 51 matches, went 30-18 in the ASC, and finished in the ASC Tournament semi-finals twice.