Bio

Head coach Lindsay Wilber enters her 11th season with the Dakota Wesleyan Tigers as the alltime winningest volleyball coach at the university. After Wilber finished her 2023 campaign, she has totaled 171 wins. Over those 10 years, Wilber has taken the Wesleyan volleyball program from the bottom of the Great Plains Athletic Conference to a national contending team.

The Tigers reached the NAIA Women’s Volleyball National Championship field in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, DWU won its first two national tournament matches in school history, defeating St. Ambrose University and Grand View University. In 2022, Wilber’s squad won three national tournament matches to finish in the elite eight and was ranked No. 6 in the country in the final poll. They defeated Kansas Wesleyan, Southern Oregon and Mid-America Nazarene before falling to their GPAC foe, Midland. That same year, Wilber received the NAIA Coach of Character Award and was named the 2022 South Dakota Sportswriters Collegiate Coach of the Year.

Wilber has coached three All-Americans while at DWU, including Becky Frick, Madeline Else and Ady Dwight. Dwight finished her career in 2023 as the most decorated volleyball athlete in DWU’s history with four All-American honors. She also was named Regional Attacker of the Year twice, was an NAIA Academic All-American and received the prestigious A.O. Duer Award, an honor that is given to only one female and one male athlete in the entire NAIA each sports year.

Wilber graduated from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, S.D., as a three-time All-American outside hitter and is a member of the Augustana Athletics Hall of Fame. She lives in Mitchell with her husband, Matt, her sons, AJ, Ben, Nathan and Tyson, and her daughter, Lizzie.