Wilson enters her third season with Gonzaga in 2024, joining the Bulldogs in December 2021 after having spent the last seven seasons at the University of Notre Dame, where she had served as Associate Head Coach since 2018. She had spent five of the last six seasons with setting, passing, outside hitters and offensive coordinator as her primary coaching responsibility.
In her first season as Head Coach at Gonzaga, GU broke its single-season aces record, serving up 179 in total.
During her tenure as an assistant coach, Wilson played a major role in the improvement of the Notre Dame program, as the team went from a 7-25 record in 2015 to back-to-back 22-win seasons in 2016 and 2017. In Wilson's seven seasons with the Irish, Notre Dame has reached the NCAA Tournament three times (2017, 2019, 2020).
In 2020, Wilson helped lead the Fighting Irish to a second-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the program's best-ever ACC finish. Notre Dame appeared in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 2019 and 2020, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005.
As the Notre Dame Defensive Coordinator in 2020, the Fighting Irish ranked third in the ACC in opponent hitting percentage at .165, third in the ACC in blocks averaging 2.46 per set, and first in the ACC in digs averaging 16.45 per set. Wilson was a large part of the 13th-ranked recruiting class by Prepvolleyball.com with the Class of 2021.
The Fighting Irish had the 10th-ranked recruiting class by Prepvolleyball.com in 2019. Also in 2019, as the Offensive Coordinator, Notre Dame ranked third in the ACC in total kills averaging 13.00 per set.
In 2017, Wilson helped lead the Fighting Irish to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2012, and three wins over teams ranked in the top 25 of the AVCA Coaches Poll.
Wilson joined the Notre Dame staff in 2015 after spending the 2011 fall and 2012 spring seasons at Seattle University working primarily as the middle hitter coach and data analyst.
In addition to her college coaching experience, Wilson has a combined 13 years of high school coaching experience at Lakeside School, Seattle Prep and her alma mater, Bellarmine Preparatory School. Leading Seattle Prep to a state championship in 2010.
Wilson also was a U.S. National Team Development Program U-17 and U-18 Coach. She developed and evaluated athletes for the U.S. U-17 and U-18 pipeline during the week-long Summer Training Series Camp held at the USA training facility in Anaheim, Calif. She was a Volunteer Assistant Coach for Team Canada in 2019-20.
Wilson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing from the University of Puget Sound in 1999. A native to the Puget Sound area, Wilson is married to her husband, Ryan, and have two children, Kira and Jacob.
