Bio

Courtney Willis was named Dallas College Cedar Valley's head volleyball coach in June 2023.

In 2024, Willis coached Alexis Burton, who was named First Team All-Dallas Athletic Conference. Haven Hernandez was named Second Team All-DAC.

In her first season with the program, Willis coached three players who earned All-DAC honors. Hernandez led the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III in blocks per set at 1.82.

Willis served as a volunteer assistant volleyball coach at Texas Southern University in 2022-23, while also helping out with the women's track & field program. The Tigers’ volleyball team finished fifth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with a 9-7 league record. The women’s track & field team finished third at the SWAC Indoor Championships and fifth in the SWAC Outdoor Championships.

In 2022, she had a brief stint as Holy Patriot University’s head volleyball coach. In 2021-22, she was a graduate assistant volleyball coach at East Texas Baptist University, which went 14-11 overall and 11-7 in the American Southwest Conference. Willis also was a grad assistant with ETBU’s track & field program.

While at ETBU, she coached the East Texas Juniors Volleyball Club 16-Under team in the spring of 2022. Prior to college, she began coaching volleyball in summer camps and YMCA programs in Houston from 2015-19.

Willis played one season of volleyball at Oklahoma Baptist University in 2017. She transferred to Lamar University in 2018, where she competed on the track & field team, earning Southland Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll honors.

Willis earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts & Sciences from Lamar University in 2021. She earned a Master of Science in kinesiology from ETBU in May 2023.