East Texas Baptist University Athletics

Allison Kuster enters her second year at ETBU as the head women's beach volleyball coach starting the new program for the 2022-23 season. She also serves as the assistant indoor coach under ETBU head volleyball coach  Mallory Matthews.

In the program's first season, Kuster guided ETBU to six wins and a berth in the AVCA Small College Championship Tournament. ETBU earned their first win over Oklahoma Wesleyan, 4-1, on March 17. With that win, ETBU won five of their next seven matches and then earned their fifth win of the year over Mary Hardin-Baylor, 3-2, on March 22. Their sixth win of the year came on March 25 vs. Lynchburg, 3-2.

Kuster came to ETBU after two seasons as an assistant coach at LeTourneau University. She helped LeTourneau go 32-13 in her time coaching the Yellowjackets advancing to two American Southwest Conference tournaments. In spring 2021, she was a part of a staff that was named the ASC East co-Coaching Staff of the Year after the Yellowjackets went 16-6 overall, played in the ASC Tournament semi-finals, and had seven players earn All-ASC honors. 

Her collegiate coaching experience started at Hardin-Simmons University in 2019-20 as a graduate assistant. The Cowgirls finished third in the ASC West and made the ASC Tournament. While in Abilene, she helped coach the Halo Club Volleyball Program while also helping with school team camps in Dallas and East Texas.

A four-year starting outside hitter at Hardin-Simmons, she recorded 1,041 kills and 1,098 digs. She finished fifth all time in points, seventh in kills, seventh in digs and seventh in aces at Hardin-Simmons and set the school record for service aces in a match with nine. 

In her time as a player, she earned All-ASC West Division First-Team honors in 2018 and was a second-team member in 2016 and 2017. She earned three ASC West Player of the Week honors, and was voted the team's most valuable player in 2018. Academically, she was a two-time ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete team member and made the ASC All-Academic team three times.

A Mansfield, Texas native, she earned a Bachelor's Degree in psychology from Hardin-Simmons in 2019 and a Master's Degree in Kinesiology Sport and Recreation in 2020.