Women's Volleyball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- shelly.dyche@siu.edu
- Phone:
- 618-453-5489
Shelly Dyche enters her second season as an assistant coach at Southern Illinois University in 2020. Dyche serves as SIU’s director of operations and assists in the development of its setters.
The Salukis improved greatly in Dyche’s first season on Allen’s staff, as their +9 win differential from the 2018 season was the 10th-best in the nation in 2019. Three of SIU’s 14 wins in 2019 were against teams that advanced to the NCAA Tournament and Southern set program records for total digs in a season and five-set matches played in. Southern led the nation in total digs while Rachel Maguire became the first Saluki since at least 1994 to lead the nation in a statistical category (triple-doubles).
Dyche came to Carbondale by way of the University of Alabama, where she served as the Director of Operations under current SIU head coach Ed Allen for four seasons from 2015-18. The Crimson Tide won 17-plus games in each of her four seasons on staff and amassed a 73-49 (.598) overall record.
Her arrival at Alabama in 2015 reunited her with Allen, who she previously coached with for two seasons at Anderson University in Anderson, Ind. Dyche assisted Allen in his first two seasons at Anderson University in 1992-93.
After her stint at Anderson, Dyche took a position as a K-6 physical education teacher and a high school volleyball coach at Lewis Palmer School District in Monument, Colo., where she spent 19 years before returning to the collegiate coaching ranks. While at Lewis Palmer, Dyche helped build a powerhouse, which included back-to-back Class 4A state championships in 2001 and 2002.
Dyche is a 1981 graduate of the University of Kansas, where she played both volleyball and softball. She and her husband, Sam, reside in Carterville. They have two children- a son, Kalib, who played football at McPherson College, and a daughter, Caitlin, who played volleyball for her mother at Lewis Palmer H.S. and was a walk-on for Allen at Tulsa.
