With a long list of success in helping Morehead State volleyball achieve greatness in all aspects of the program, Kyrsten Becker-McBride completed her second season as head coach for Morehead State volleyball and 15th overall with the program.
 
With a young roster, Becker-McBride led MSU to an 18-13 record in her first season as two Eagles earned First-Team All-OVC. Becker-McBride guided the Eagles to another 18-win season in her second campaign, also helping MSU to the OVC Tournament championship match and the program's fourth NCAA Tournament berth.

Becker-McBride has helped lead Morehead State to prominence since joining the staff as director of operations in 2011. She served 2012-22 as an assistant coach and had held the title of associate head coach since the 2016 season. She has helped guide MSU to five Ohio Valley Conference regular season championships.
 
Becker-McBride served as recruiting coordinator since 2015. During her time on staff, Morehead State has had 18 student-athletes earn First-Team All-OVC honors with 25 total first-team awards. Fifteen additional players have earned second-team or all-freshmen accolades from the OVC.
 
She has coached two OVC Players of the Year (Ellie Roberson, Olivia Lohmeier), one OVC Defensive Player of the Year (Leslie Schellhaas) and three OVC Freshmen of the Year (Laura McDermott, Merideth Jewell and Bridget Bessler). She has also mentored five American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region selections and two AVCA All-Americans.
 
With her on staff, Morehead State went 50-2 in conference matches from 2011-13 en route to three consecutive regular-season league championships.  The Eagles captured conference tournament titles in 2011 and 2013 on their way to NCAA Tournament appearances. She also helped lead MSU to the OVC Tournament title in the spring 2021 season and helped guide the Eagles to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory, defeating Creighton.
 
The Eagles also posted back-to-back 20-win campaigns in 2018 and 2019 and have compiled six 20-win seasons with her on staff. She has been a crucial part of 212 wins since she came to MSU.
 
During her seasons as head coach of the beach program, she led the Eagles to the first-ever OVC regular season title in 2021 while coaching the league's Player of the Year and Pair of the Year.

Morehead State, which has posted a 3.5-or-better team grade point average for the indoor program in each of her years, won the OVC's Team Academic Award in 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017 and 2023.  The Eagles also claimed MSU's Team Academic Awards in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and have earned 12 Team Academic Awards from the AVCA. Two student-athletes have been named CoSIDA (now CSC) Academic All-Americans in her tenure.

With Becker-McBride on staff, Morehead State has earned 10 straight public recognitions for having one of the top Academic Progress Rates in the nation.
 
In 2015, she was tabbed by the AVCA as one of the nation's top 30 coaches under the age of 30. 

She came to Morehead State after a four-year playing career at St. Francis (Ill.).  The outside hitter was a three-time All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference performer.  An Academic All-District selection, she was also a two-time Daktronics NAIA Volleyball Scholar-Athlete.
 
A native of Arlington Heights, Ill., Becker-McBride earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and secondary education from St. Francis in 2011.  She received her Master's Degree in educational technology from Morehead State in 2015. In the summer of 2021, she married Josh McBride.