Kansas Wesleyan University is pleased to announce Brandon Stephenson has been named as the men's volleyball coach at Kansas Wesleyan.
Stephenson currently serves as a Special Education teacher and Head Volleyball Coach at Central High School in Salina, Kansas, where he designs training programs, develops curriculum, and manages a full SPED caseload.
"This season is just putting the guys together as a team and seeing what we have," Stephenson said. "We will be focusing on ball control, being aggressive with serving, and then go fast tempo offensively, trying to hit high hands with a lot of the blockers being taller in our conference. We just have to try to be us and play our game, our style, control our controllables, and not worry about the other side at all."
With more than 15 years of coaching experience across collegiate and high school programs.
His last collegiate stop was at Cameron University where he spent three seasons leading the Aggies.
He also has collegiate stops at Barton County Community College, Lamar Community College, Highland Community College, Trinity Valley Community College, Bethany College, and Neosho County Community College.
Stephenson has built a reputation for strong program leadership and student-athlete development. His teams have achieved top academic honors, including #1 NJCAA Volleyball Team GPA for three consecutive years (2016-2018), and produced over 45 All-Conference and Academic All-American athletes.
Stephenson graduated from Salina Central High School in 2002 where he earned All-Class 5A and All-State Top 11 offensive lineman honors. Taking his ability to the collegiate level, Stephenson attended Coffeyville Community College becoming a two-time all-conference offensive lineman and was named a pre-season All-American his sophomore season. After Coffeyville, Stephenson attended the University of Nebraska-Kearney where injuries sidelined his playing career and later transferred to McPherson College.
While at McPherson, Stephenson became the student coach for the volleyball team and was in charge of the strength program. After two seasons, Stephenson transferred to Kansas Wesleyan University, where he graduated with a degree in physical education and minors in secondary health and coaching. Stephenson received his master's in Recreation and Sport Science from Ohio University in spring 2013.