Oklahoma Christian University Women's Volleyball

Asa Freeman is in his first full year as the head volleyball coach at Oklahoma Christian for the 2024 season after serving in an interim role during the 2023 campaign. Freeman, who has served as an assistant volleyball coach at OC since August 2021, held an 8-10 record during his stint as interim head coach, earning his first win as acting head coach against Eastern New Mexico Sept. 22, 2023. During his first official year as head coach, Freeman led the Oklahoma Christian volleyball program to its first 20-win season as an NCAA Division II member while also posting its most Lone Star Conference wins in school history (9), reaching the eight-team LSC Tournament as the seven seed. In his inaugural season at the helm, Freeman coached the program's first ever Lone Star Conference Freshman of the Year and Second Team All-Conference recipient Chloe Jones after a program-record 368-kill season.   Freeman began his coaching career in 2010 as a student assistant at Central Oklahoma for two seasons, during which the Bronchos went a combined 39-25. Also in 2010, Freeman coached the Kaizen Volleyball Club and guided the club team to the national championship in 2017 following three consecutive runner-up finishes in 2014, '15 and '16. Freeman now sits on the club's executive board as the vice president. In 2014, Freeman was a co-founder of the Southwest Boys Tour while coaching at Casady School in Oklahoma City from 2012-16, posting a 102-33 record and winning the Southwest Preparatory Conference title in 2016. Freeman later worked in Dallas for the North Texas Region of USA Volleyball, overseeing adult and beach programs and founding a boys high-performance program. He also worked at the Excel Volleyball Club in Dallas and coached at St. Mark's School, where he won the SPC title in 2018 and was that league's runner-up in 2019. During his time in Dallas, Freeman co-founded the Texoma High Performance Program, which took top athletes in Oklahoma and Texas to compete at the USA High Performance Championships from 2016-2018. He went on to work for one of the top clubs in the country, Austin Junior Volleyball, as the boys volleyball coordinator from 2017 to 2018 and coached for St. Stephen's Episcopal School. In 1998, Freeman played for the Kaizen Volleyball Club as Oklahoma's first boys volleyball club, for which he played until 2010 when he began coaching the club. In 2009, Freeman was a part of the USA Youth National Training Team. Coach Freeman lives in Edmond, Okla., with his wife Suzie and their son and daughter, Garrison and Collins.   Season Overall Record Conference Record 2023* 8-10 6-10 2024 20-11 9-7 (LSC) Total 28-21 15-17 (LSC) *Interim  

Coach Jason Butch was the recipient of the 2023 USAV Rebecca B Howard Diversity & Inclusion Award. Coach Butch is in his fourth season as the Assistant Coach at Oklahoma Christian University where, for the first time in program history, they finished the season with a winning record in Fall 2022. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Varsity Coach at Mount St. Marys Catholic High School where he helped lead the Rockets to multiple State Finals. He has coached club volleyball for over 10 years. During the summer, Coach Butch manages and coaches OKC Sharks, a successful beach volleyball program in Oklahoma City.  In the past 6 years, OKC Sharks has garnered over 110 national bids with one of those teams competing in the gold bracket at Nationals. Jason has coached for over 15 years and is a CAP 2 Indoor Certified coach. 

Ahead of the 2026 fall season, head coach Asa Freeman has added Taryn Winters to the coaching staff in an assistant role. Winters comes to Oklahoma Christian from Choctaw High School, where she served as the head coach from 2022-25. Under Winters, the Yellowjacket continued a streak of nine consecutive conference championships while being honored as the 2024 Big 7 Coach of the Year. During her stint at CHS, where she also served as the History teacher, Winters has spent four additional years coaching club volleyball with Oklahoma Force 18s (2021-22), Kaizen Girl's 17s (2022-23), Kaizen Girl's 16s/15s (2023-24) and Rise Volleyball (2024-25). Winters (Weber) spent her playing career at Oklahoma Baptist, where she was was a three-time Great American Conference regular season champion and two-time GAC Tournament champion, while also receiving the GAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete Award as a senior in 2021. Prior to that, Weber played four years at Prosper High School, where she won a 5A State Championship. Off the court, Weber served as President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for both Oklahoma Baptist University and the GAC, playing a key role in orchestrating the Bison Sports Awards Show. Weber also worked as an athletic communications intern, where she managed multiple social media accounts, assisted with website development and worked game day operations.