Evan Larson - Women's Volleyball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

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Evan Larson

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
evan.larson@gcu.edu

Evan Larson will enter her third season as Grand Canyon's women's volleyball assistant coach in the 2025 season.

In 2024, the Lopes made impressive strides, landing the first consecutive 20-win seasons in the D1-era along with single-season records in both blocks (316) and service aces (197). The Lopes boasted the most honorees (five) of any WAC team this postseason and the most for GCU since the Lopes also had five honorees when the 2020 season was held in the spring of 2021.

Larson joined the GCU women's volleyball staff in April of 2023, assisting the Lopes to a 23-8 record and their first WAC Championship title as well as their first NCAA Tournament appearance.

Larson previously coached three seasons as the graduate manager/director of operations for Santa Clara volleyball and a four-year playing career at Drury.

The 2020 Drury graduate, with a double major in Psychology and Sociology, has worked with the Net Results Volleyball Club (now 417 Juniors), where she was an assistant coach for the 17-1 and 16-1 national teams, as well as head coach of the 14-1 and 13-1 national teams. She also worked as a sports performance specialist with RedLine Athletics.

During Larson's time at Santa Clara, the Broncos produced two American Volleyball Coaches Association all-region selections, six all-West Coast Conference accolades and 10 WCC all-academic nods.

Although the fall 2020 campaign was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Broncos rose to the occasion in the spring of 2021, asserting themselves as a top serving team with a WCC-best 114 aces (33rd in the nation) and 1.75 aces/set (24th in the nation). Julia Sangiacomo was also named to the AVCA Pacific North All-Region Team, giving Santa Clara all-region selections in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2007-08.

Larson, a former middle blocker, earned a spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Academic Team in each of her four years and played a pivotal role in Drury's historic 2018 season. She started all 35 matches and played in all 131 sets for the 28-7 Panthers, who posted their most wins in a season since moving to Division II in 1994 and reached the NCAA Division II tournament for the first time.

Larson totaled 223 kills and was second on the team with 132 blocks, including 11 block assists in a 3-1 victory over No. 8 Rockhurst on Sept. 8. It marked the second-most block assists in a single match in program history. Drury entered the postseason as the top-ranked team in the Midwest Region and finished at No. 17 in the nation.