Alexis Conaway Season 2025
Alexis Conaway joined the LSU Beach Volleyball staff as a Director of Operations during the summer of 2024, staying on in a full-time capacity after handling many of those duties as a graduate assistant over the past two seasons.
A member of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s Basketball Hall of Fame, this marks Conaway’s second stint at LSU after serving as a volunteer assistant on the indoor staff in 2019. Conaway has worked as a graduate assistant in operations with the beach volleyball program for the past two years, doing a lot of what she will continue to do in her full-time role. Her work has allowed the LSU Beach Volleyball team to flourish, planning out itineraries for road trips that help the team stay focused for weekends of competition. She earned a master’s in Leadership and Human Resource Development from LSU in the summer of 2024. She will take over responsibilities from Blaire Hiler, who will continue at LSU working solely with the indoor volleyball program.
Conaway gained an internship with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as a Collegiate Volleyball Leader where she worked with student-athlete to develop them as leaders. Conaway united athletes of all levels, organizing camps, training, weekly outreach and special events.
Conaway parlayed her successful volleyball career into a volunteer assistant coaching role at LSU in 2019. She worked with student-athletes to work on individual skills as well as team dynamics, identifying goals to support the success of the team.
After a successful career playing volleyball at Iowa State she worked as an associate for the Letterwinner Club at her alma matter before working as a scheduler on Congressman David Young’s staff in Iowa.
A standout indoor volleyball player at Iowa State, Conaway earned multiple Big 12 honors throughout her career. She was a two-time All-Big 12 First Team selection (2015, 2016), an All-Big 12 honorable mention (2014) and a Big 12 All-Freshman (2014). In 2017 she was named to the AVCA All-Midwest Region honorable mention. Conaway was also a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America in 2017. Conaway turned her collegiate success into a professional volleyball career, playing one season in Finland and two in Germany.
The Orange City, Iowa, native starred as one of the top all-around athletes in Iowa, claiming state championships in three sports at MOC-Floyd Valley High School. She showed her athletic prowess in basketball and in track and field in addition to volleyball. Her impressive high school career got her inducted into the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.