Kristee Porter - Women's Volleyball Coach - University of North Texas Athletics

Kristee Porter

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
Kristee.Porter@unt.edu
Phone:
940-565-3666
Alma Mater:
UCLA, 2009

Last updated December 2024

Porter's Record (through 2024 season):
Career (seven years): 83-108
Division I (five years): 66-67
At UNT (three years): 43-49

Kristee Porter Year-by-Year Record

Kristee Porter was named the 10th head coach of UNT volleyball on Dec. 26, 2021. She enters her second season at the helm of the program in 2023.

In 2023, UNT earned its first national postseason tournament bid since 2018 at the National Invitational Volleyball Championship. The Mean Green captured 17 wins including 11 league victories as a first-year member of the American Athletic Conference, the most for a debut season in UNT history.

In her first season, Porter led the Mean Green to a 16-15 record and the program’s first postseason victory since 2018 with a win at the Conference USA Championship over UAB on Nov. 18. She posted nine wins in league play to finish fourth in CUSA with a roster of 16 newcomers, including five starters.

Three UNT players were honored as all-conference selections and junior middle blocker Sh’Diamond Holly collected the CUSA Defensive Player of the Year award. Junior opposite Treyaunna Rush joined Holly as first team selections while sophomore outside hitter Aryn Johnson garnered second team honors.

Before she arrived in Denton, Porter was the head coach at McNeese for two seasons. She led the Cowgirls to a 23-18 record overall including the COVID shortened 2020-21 season. In 2021, she guided her team to a 18-11 mark and a trip to McNeese's first conference championship match since 1999. The 18 wins was the most for the program since 2017 and a third-place regular season finish was the highest since 2006.

Additionally, McNeese volleyball placed three players on the 2021 All-Southland Conference teams for the first time since 2015. Freshman outside hitter Aryn Johnson was named to the second team while opposites Kendall Glueck and Macee Krpec were third team selections.

A native of Tyler, Texas, Porter served as head coach at her alma mater Tyler Lee High School from 2017-18. She also had head coaching stints at Navarro College (2009-11) and Henderson State (2015-16), as well as time as an assistant coach at Colorado (2012).

Before joining HSU, she spent a year at the Volleyball Factory Athletics as Director of Volleyball Operations where she led the division's day-to-day operations, as well as hiring and training coaches at staff for close to 100 events nationally each year. She also worked in close coordination with USA Volleyball's Olympic Training Center to host multiple events and selected student-athletes that competed for Under Armour All-American and developmental teams.

Porter began her coaching career serving as head coach at Navarro Junior College in Corsicana, Texas, from 2009-12. She guided Navarro to three-straight winning seasons while appearing in the NJCAA post-season tournament each year. She also coached the Texas Image Volleyball Club's 15's Mizuno Elite team in Dallas, Texas.

Porter became an assistant coach at Colorado in 2012 and was responsible for assisting in the daily operations of the volleyball program including recruiting, training, communication with prospects, travel, and game preparation.

As a player, Porter was a four-time All-American (two-time AVCA and two-time Volleyball Magazine) at UCLA, and was named the Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year in 2000. She was also a star on the basketball court and in track and field and was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame for all three sports.

One of the best athletes in the storied history at Westwood, Porter earned a bachelor's degree in history from UCLA in 2009. She was an inaugural inductee into the Tyler ISD Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.

After college, she became a member of the USA Volleyball Women's National Team from 2001-04. She also played professional volleyball internationally from 2001-10 in Puerto Rico and Spain where she won five league titles and two MVP awards.