Kristen Fritsche joined head volleyball coach Evan Amstutz’s inaugural coaching staff at Austin Peay as an assistant coach in January 2025.
Fritsche spent the 2024 season as an assistant coach and director of operations at Cal Baptist in Riverside, California. Before joining the coaching staff at Cal Baptist, Fritsche spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons as a graduate assistant at Stephen F. Austin, where she worked alongside Amstutz.
At Cal Baptist, Fritsche coached the 2024 Western Athletic Conference Libero of the Year and First Team All-WAC selection, Amanda Darling, as well as a pair of Second Team All-WAC selections, Madison Gilliland and Nicole Mauser. During her time at Stephen F. Austin, the Ladyjacks won the 2022 Western Athletic Conference Tournament Championship and the 2023 WAC Regular-Season Championship, advancing to the NCAA Tournament as an automatic qualifier in 2022 and as an at-large for the first time in program history in 2023.
Before starting her coaching career, Fritsche was a four-year setter and three-year team captain at the University of Texas at El Paso. Fritsche led UTEP in assists during the 2018, 2020-21, and 2021 seasons while leading the team in service aces during the 2021 season. During her senior season in 2021, Fritsche helped the Miners go 24-8 overall and advance to the semifinal match of the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.
Fritsche earned a bachelor's degree in health promotion with a minor in nutrition from UTEP in 2022.
