Allison Burchyett enters her sixth season as the head coach of the Northwest volleyball program in 2025.
During her tenure with Northwest, Burchyett has compiled a 88-73 overall record, with winning seasons in each of her previous three seasons. Last year, the Rangers finished with a 25-9 overall record and an 8-2 mark inside the MACCC, the first official season of conference play. Northwest also posted a perfect 10-0 record at home during the regular season and captured the conference’s first awarded championship, before falling to Jones College in the title match of the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament.
In 2023, the Lady Rangers put together a 28-17 overall record, setting the program record for most wins in a single season. Northwest fell one win shy of reaching the FCSAA/NJCAA Division II Gulf District Tournament.
Burchyett’s squad made history in 2022, gathering a 15-14 overall record and the program’s first Region 23 title. As a result, Northwest advanced to the FCSAA/NJCAA Division II Gulf District Tournament for the first time, representing Region 23 in the next stage of the postseason.
In 2021, Northwest won 14 matches against established teams across the South and the Midwest, including wins against four-year programs Freed-Hardeman, Henderson State and Harris-Stowe State.
Despite facing COVID-19 related challenges throughout her first season, Burchyett helped cement a bright future for Northwest volleyball, guiding the Lady Rangers to a 6-12 overall record, including victories against Itawamba, Bevill State and Coastal Alabama-East.
Burchyett captured the program’s first win in their season-opening weekend on January 23, 2021, as the Lady Rangers defeated Coastal Alabama-East 3-2 in a neutral site match in Poplarville, Miss. Her first regular season home match also resulted in two victories, as Northwest blanked Bevill State on February 13.
With a 3-0 victory against Itawamba on March 6, the Lady Rangers and ICC were pitted against each other on March 26 for the Region 23 Play-In contest and despite a 3-1 loss, Northwest finished one victory away from advancing to the postseason in just its first year of competition.
Burchyett was chosen in December 2019 among a pool of national applicants and comes from Lewisburg High School in Olive Branch, where she established a tradition of consistency as one of the winningest programs in Mississippi through the last five years.
Since taking over as Lewisburg’s head coach prior to the start of the 2015 season, Burchyett compiled a 142-55-2 record for a .718 winning percentage, while guiding the Lady Patriots to the 2015 Class II state championship, two runner-up finishes and two semifinal appearances.
Prior to her stint at LHS, Burchyett taught for 15 years at Southaven High School beginning in 2002. From 2002-14, she also served as head coach for the school’s varsity volleyball program and led the Lady Chargers to three state titles (2006, 2008, 2013). Her 2006 team also finished the year with an unblemished 45-0 overall record.
Throughout her career at Lewisburg and Southaven, Burchyett garnered over 500 career victories with 16 semifinal appearances, leading her to receive four state Coach of the Year awards and receive a spot as co-chair of the Mississippi Association of Coaches Volleyball Committee from 2005-19.
Prior to her stint at Southaven, Burchyett helped establish the volleyball program at Lafayette High School in 2000 and also served as head coach of the volleyball program at Valley View High School in Jonesboro, Ark. from 1998-2000. Before that, Burchyett took her first teaching and coaching job at Willow Springs (Mo.) High School from 1997-98, serving as an assistant coach for volleyball, basketball and track.
Burchyett is a native of Jonesboro, Ark. and a 1997 graduate of Southwest Baptist University and holds a Bachelor of Science in physical education. She and her husband, Tyler, have two children, Barrett (21) and Baylee (18).
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