The Wuest File
Alma Mater, Year	Elmhurst College (Ill.), 2017
Record at Arkansas Tech (Years)	15-12 (1 season)
Overall Record (Years)	Same

Hannah Wuest (rhymes with beast) enters into her second season as head coach at Arkansas Tech after being named as the program's 10th head coach on January 21, 2025.

In her first season, Wuest began to lay the groundwork in re-establishing the Golden Suns volleyball program as a championship contender. In that initial season in 2025, Wuest guided the Golden Suns to their first GAC Tournament appearance and winning record since 2022 as they finished the regular season 15-11 overall and 11-5 in the GAC to earn the No. 4-seed in the tournament.

Under Wuest's tutelage in 2025, the Golden Suns had three players earn All-GAC honors. Erika Hernandez was awarded as the league's Newcomer of the Year in her true freshman campaign. She was also a second team all-conference selection while Henley Hooks was first team and Savannah Meyer was honorable mention.

A highly-decorated player in her collegiate volleyball days, Wuest made her way to Tech following a remarkably successful five-year stint as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at nationally-prominent Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.
 
Joining Ferris State in 2020, Wuest helped lead the Bulldogs to a 125-29 overall record, which included a 34-1 mark in 2024.
 
Instrumental in the success of the Bulldogs, Wuest helped Ferris win a pair of Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) regular season championships (2024 & 2022) as well as four-straight GLIAC Tournament titles (2024-2021). With those conference tournament championships in hand, Ferris State automatically appeared in four-consecutive NCAA Midwest Region Tournaments, playing in the title game in all four and winning the regional this past fall to advance to the D2 Elite Eight.
 
While at Ferris, Wuest also helped mentor and cultivate several major GLIAC “…of the Year” award winners including the Player of the Year (2024), Freshman of the Year (2024), Offensive Player of the Year (2024, 2023), Defensive Player of the Year (2021, 2020) and Setter of the Year (2024, 2023, 2022).
 
Highlighted among those award winners was outside hitter Olivia Henneman-Dallape, who took home the Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year awards in the GLIAC in 2024. Those top conference plaudits were just the start as Henneman-Dallape went on to garner Midwest Region and National Player of the Year honors from the AVCA and D2CCA.
 
Prior to her time at Ferris, Wuest spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Indianapolis. At UIndy, Wuest helped led the Greyhounds to a 40-22 overall record with an appearance in the Midwest Region Tournament her final year.
 
Wuest’s high-level volleyball coaching career was foreshadowed by her collegiate playing career as she was a two-time All-American setter at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois.
 
A four-year starter for the Bluejays, Wuest would help guide her team to four-straight NCAA Regional Tournaments as they amassed a 115-39 record. Captaining the court as the setter, Wuest would go on to rack up 4,238 assists, which set and currently stands as a program record at Elmhurst. In addition to her All-America plaudits as a player, Wuest was also a three-time all-region and three-time first team all-conference award winner as well.
 
Wuest is married to her husband, Kyle. The couple have a son, Kellen and are expecting a baby girl in October.
 

Hannah Wuest Collegiate Coaching Career
Year	School	Position	Note(s)
2025	Arkansas Tech	Head Coach	* - 15-12 overall record and 11-5 record in GAC * - Advanced to GAC Tournament as No. 4-seed * - Coached three All-GAC players * - Coached GAC Newcomer of the Year
2024	Ferris State	Assistant Coach	* - 34-1 overall record and 17-0 record in GLIAC * - GLIAC Regular Season and Tournament Champions * - Won Midwest Region Tournament Championship * - Advanced to NCAA Elite Eight * - Coached NCAA DII National Player of the Year (AVCA/D2CCA) * - Coached NCAA DII Midwest Region Player of the Year (AVCA/D2CCA) * - Coached GLIAC Player of the Year * - Coached GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year * - Coached GLIAC Setter of the Year * - Coached GLIAC Freshman of the Year
2023	Ferris State	Assistant Coach	* - 27-8 overall record and 15-3 record in GLIAC * - Won GLIAC Tournament Championship * - Advanced to Midwest Region Tournament Championship * - Coached GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year * - Coached GLIAC Setter of the Year
2022	Ferris State	Assistant Coach	* - 26-10 overall record and 16-2 record in GLIAC * - GLIAC Regular Season and Tournament Champions * - Advanced to Midwest Region Tournament Championship * - Coached GLIAC Setter of the Year
2021	Ferris State	Assistant Coach	* - 27-5 overall record and 12-2 record in GLIAC * - Won GLIAC Tournament Championship * - Advanced to Midwest Region Tournament Championship * - Coached GLIAC Defensive Player of the Year
2020	Ferris State	Assistant Coach	* - 11-5 overall record and 10-4 record in GLIAC * - Season played in Spring 2021 due to COVID-19 * - Coached GLIAC Defensive Player of the Year
2019	Indianapolis	Graduate Assistant	* - 21-10 overall record and 11-4 record in GLVC * - Advanced to Midwest Region Tournament
2018	Indianapolis	Graduate Assistant	* - 19-12 overall record and 12-6 record in GLVC
2017	South Dakota State	Graduate Assistant	* - Worked with setters and was video coordinator