AJ Lux joined the Butler volleyball staff in May of 2023 as an assistant coach on Kyle Shondell's first staff.
Lux arrived at Butler after serving on the Missouri State staff as assistant coach for both the indoor and beach volleyball programs. She spent three seasons at Missouri State beginning in 2020.
In three seasons, Lux tutored MSU’s outside hitters to four first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference selections. Amelia Flynn and Brooklyn Cink each ranked in the top 21 nationally in total kills and points during the 2020-21 campaign, and Flynn repeated as an All-Valley first-teamer in the fall 2021 season. Missouri State also ranked among the national leaders in total aces (sixth), digs (10th), assists (22nd), blocks (24th) and kills (26th) in 2020-21, while averaging 1.61 aces per set, the program’s best figure since 1995.
In 2022, the Bears surpassed their ace average from two seasons prior and outside hitter Manuela Ibarguen earned first-team all-league honors.
Lux began her coaching career as an assistant coach at Francis Marion University following a successful playing career at East Tennessee State.
While at ETSU, Lux was three-year captain and a first-team All-Southern Conference pick as a sophomore in 2016 for the Bucs’ regular season championship club, posting a .332 attack efficiency from the outside that ranked fourth in school history for a season at the time.
Lux helped East Tennessee State to NCAA Tournaments her junior and senior years, including becoming the first SoCon team in conference history to earn an NCAA at-large bid in 2018. She was a Senior CLASS Award nominee and on the SoCon All-Academic Team her senior year.
A native of Shelbyville, Ind., who played locally for Roncalli High School, Lux has additional coaching experience with club programs and summer camps in Tennessee and South Carolina, and earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and criminology with a coaching minor from East Tennessee State in 2019.
