Austin Buchanan is an assistant coach for the West Virginia University volleyball program in Morgantown, West Virginia, joining the staff in February 2026. He came to West Virginia after serving as an assistant coach at Yale, where he worked on daily training, technical instruction, film review, scouting reports, and match preparation.
Before Yale, Buchanan coached in the Northeast Volleyball Club system beginning in 2024, leading academy camps, clinics, and private training with an emphasis on skill work and positional instruction. He also was an assistant coach at Joel Barlow High School during the 2025 season, when the boys volleyball team won the Connecticut State Championship. Earlier in his coaching career, he spent 2017 to 2018 as a volunteer assistant at the University of Idaho, contributing to practice planning, statistics, and opponent scouting, and he worked camps at Washington State in 2023 and 2024.
