Evan Amstutz

Biography

Evan Amstutz, who helped lead Stephen F. Austin to conference championships in three of the last five seasons, was named Austin Peay State University's 10th head volleyball coach by Vice President and Director of Athletics Gerald Harrison in December 2024. Amstutz has spent the past five seasons at Stephen F. Austin, where he began as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach before the 2022 season. Before his time at SFA, Amstutz was an assistant coach at Angelo State for two seasons after serving as an assistant coach at Urbana during the 2017 season. Amstutz's first head coaching experience came when he launched the men's volleyball program at his alma mater Wittenberg and served as the program's first head coach from 2015-16. Before returning to his alma mater, Amstutz was a volunteer assistant at Miami (Ohio) for two seasons; he began his collegiate volleyball coaching career as a student assistant coach at Wittenberg from 2011-12. In five seasons at Stephen F. Austin, Amstutz has helped the Ladyjacks to a 120-34 (.779) overall record and a 78-18 (.813) record during his three seasons since being promoted to associate head coach. With Amstutz on staff, SFA won the 2022 Western Athletic Conference Tournament Championship and the 2023 WAC Regular-Season Championship, advancing to the NCAA Tournament as an automatic qualifier in 2022 and as an at-large for the first time in program history in 2023. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Amstutz earned his bachelor