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Kyle Steele

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Steele steps down as OCU volleyball coach

Steele boasts of three 20-win seasons as Stars coach

OKLAHOMA CITY – Kyle Steele has vacated his position as Oklahoma City University volleyball coach to pursue other coaching opportunities.
Steele directed the Stars to a 73-25 record the past three years. Steele guided OCU to the 2016 Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships and into the NAIA Championships.
Oklahoma City went 32-5 with its first victories in the NAIA Championships ever among a bunch of program milestones in 2016: highest national ranking ever at No. 11, first SAC regular-season title, second SAC Tournament championship, first 30-win season since 2008, the SAC's 11th undefeated conference record and first 18-0 SAC record. Steele earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association NAIA South Central Region coach of the year plus his second consecutive SAC coach of the year award last season.
"We are grateful to Coach Steele for his efforts," OCU coach Jim Abbott said. "We are excited about what the future holds for our volleyball program and have already begun the search to find our new coach."
Steele boasted of seven all-Americans, nine all-region performers, 21 all-conference choices, eight NAIA scholar-athlete award winners, 13 academic all-conference selections and one CoSIDA academic all-district pick at OCU. He had the SAC most valuable player, two SAC hitter of the year honorees, one SAC newcomer of the year recipient, a league freshman of the year, one region player of the year and a region freshman of the year with the Stars.
"I would like to thank director of athletics Jim Abbott for giving me this great opportunity at OCU," Steele said. "He and the rest of the athletics staff will be missed. My family and I will remember our amazing players and people at OCU forever."
Prior to coming to OCU, Steele had been an assistant coach at Southern Nazarene and Redlands Community College in El Reno, Okla. Steele coached 13 all-conference performers, nine scholar-athlete award winners, a conference defensive player of the year, a league newcomer of the year and three all-Americans in three years at Southern Nazarene.
 
Steele's year-by-year record
Year, school                                       W-L Pct. Conf. Pct.
2014, Oklahoma City ………………. 20-12 .625 11-5  .688
2015, Oklahoma City ……................  21-8 .724 14-2  .875
2016, Oklahoma City ………….........  32-5 .865 18-0 1.000
Total                                                  73-25 .745 43-7  .860
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