Education: B.A. Secondary Education and Mathematics (Ouachita, 2013); M.S.E. Educational Leadership (Henderson State University)
Seasons at Ouachita: 7 as head coach, 1 as graduate assistant coach, 4 years as a student-athlete
Record: 107-88 entering the 2025 season
Allison Frizzell-Kizer became Ouachita's first former volleyball player to take the reins of the program as head coach when she returned in 2018. Since then, she has led the program to four winning seasons and four top five finishes in the Great American Conference, highlighted by her 2024 squad winning the Great American Conference Championship Tournament and qualifying for the NCAA tournament.
The 2024 Tigers finished 22-10 overall, marking the ninth 20+ win season in program history and just the third in the NCAA era (1996-present). Frizzell-Kizer helped Ouachita win its first ever GAC tournament crown in 2024, which gifted the team its first ever appearance in the NCAA tournament. Also during the 2024 campaign, she eclipsed 100 career wins as Ouachita's head coach, just the third coach in program history to reach the milestone.
Throughout her coaching tenure at Ouachita, Frizzell-Kizer has mentored two GAC setters of the year, one GAC tournament MVP, one GAC freshman of the year, four All-GAC first team selections, four All-GAC second team honorees, 10 All-GAC honorable mentions, 12 GAC Distinguished Scholar Athletes, and three GAC Elite Scholar Athletes.
Frizzell-Kizer came to Ouachita after four years as the head volleyball and women’s soccer coach at nearby Lakeside High School in Hot Springs. While at Lakeside, she accumulated a 101-29-2 record, including a 33-5-1 mark in her final season. Lakeside won the conference every year under Frizzell-Kizer’s watch, and the team went undefeated in district play in 2016 and 2017. During those undefeated campaigns, her teams led the conference in total kills, assists, digs and hitting percentage. She was selected as the 5A South Coach of the Year four years in a row, and was selected to coach at the Arkansas Activities Association All-Star Game in 2015.
As a student-athlete at Ouachita from 2009-12, Frizzell-Kizer was a four-year team captain and an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. Her highly decorated playing career started out with the 2009 Gulf South Conference West Division Freshman of the Year award and Ouachita Volleyball's Defensive Player of the Year. In 2010 as a sophomore, she earned All-GSC West Second Team honors as well as a spot on the GSC West All-Academic Team. She repeated as the team's defensive MVP that season. In 2011 as a junior, Ouachita's first year as a member of the Great American Conference, she was selected as Ouachita's Most Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year, was a finalist for the GAC Female Athlete of the Year award, and earned All-GAC First Team honors. Her final season as a student-athlete yielded All-GAC Second Team honors, as well as repeat honors as Ouachita's Female Scholar Athlete of the Year and finalist for the GAC's top academic honor.
As of the start of the 2025 season, Frizzell-Kizer ranks second at Ouachita in career digs with 2,226 and third in single-season digs with 640 in 2011.
In the summer of 2023, Frizzell-Kizer was selected to coach in Italy for the American International Sports Tour.
Frizzell-Kizer is married to Arkadelphia High School football and track coach Chris Kizer. The couple have a Welsh Corgi puppy named Roxy.
THE FRIZZELL-KIZER COACHING FILE
Ouachita Baptist Volleyball Head Coach: (2018-Present)
Lakeside High School Volleyball Head Coach: (2014-2017)
Hot Springs Force Volleyball Club Head Coach: (2014-2017)
Lakeside High School Women’s Soccer Coach: (2 years)
Ouachita Baptist Graduate Assistant Coach: (2013)
