COLUMBIA, Mo. - Mizzou athletics director Desiree Reed-Francois has hired a fourth head coach – and it’s someone she knows well. MU hired Nevada-Las Vegas women’s volleyball coach Dawn Sullivan to take over the Tigers’ program, the school announced Sunday. Reed-Francois also hired Sullivan at UNLV in January 2018 when she was AD there. Sullivan was 109-38 at UNLV over five seasons with five postseason appearances plus the 2022 Mountain West Conference championship. She was twice named the conference’s coach of the year.
Sullivan should know Mizzou’s program well: She was an All-American player in the Big 12 at Kansas State (1996-99) and spent 13 years as an assistant coach at Iowa State.