Terry Hutchinson is entering his seventh season on the Towson volleyball staff in 2025 in his second stint.
Hutchinson spent five seasons (2017-21) at Towson before landing a head coaching position at Georgia State the last two seasons.
Towson earned three straight Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) titles and berths into the NCAA Tournament during Hutchinson's first stint at Towson. The Tigers combined to go 61-9 those three seasons, including a 30-4 record in CAA play.
Charged with developing the middle blockers while handling recruiting coordination, Hutchinson joined the Towson staff as an assistant coach in June 2017.
Hutchinson has coached the Tigers to one of the best blocking teams in the country. During the fall 2021 campaign, Towson finished 18th in the country in blocks per set, averaging 2.64. Towson had the fourth-best opponent hitting percentage in Division I, limiting teams to just 0.136 hitting over the season. Within his recruiting duties, Hutchinson helped bring 2019 CAA Rookie of the Year Lydia Wiers to Towson, where in 2021, Wiers had the 29th most total blocks (138) and one of the best blocks per set ratios (1.20) in both the country and the CAA.
Fall 2021 was another record-setting season at the net as Towson batted down 304 total blocks, the 15th most in the country. That number is the most for the Tigers in the 25-point rally scoring era and just the third time in program history the Tigers have 300 or more blocks in a season. Early in the fall 2021 campaign, Towson combined for a program-record 21 blocks against Loyola University Maryland (Sept. 3), including 11 total blocks from Wiers.
Hutchinson helped revamp the Tigers’ efforts at the net as the 2018 edition of the program finished with 284.5 blocks, then the third-most blocks in a single season in Towson history. Hutchinson mentored three student-athletes, Olamide Sonuga (121), Silvia Grassini (116) and Olivia Finckel (108) over the 100-block mark.
Additionally, Hutchinson guided two Tigers to a top-five finish in the CAA in attack percentage as Sonuga ranked second at .368 and Grassini at .319, ranking fifth.
At Georgia Southern, Hutchinson was responsible for recruiting while training the middle blockers and teaching the blocking schemes for the team. He was also in charge of the team’s defense as well. The Eagles averaged 1.83 blocks per set last fall while Lauren Reichard ranked fifth in the Sun Belt Conference while putting up 1.09 blocks per set. Alex Beecher led the Sun Belt in total digs (632) under Hutchinson, was second in digs per set (5.10) while breaking her own school record for digs in a single season while earning Second Team All-Sun Belt Conference honors.
Hutchinson is no stranger to volleyball in the area as he served as an assistant coach for two years at Elizabethtown College and spent a year at Franklin & Marshall College.
Hutchinson began his coaching career in 2003 with the Norlanco Girls’ Volleyball Club and spent time coaching the Yorktowne and Spooky Nook Volleyball Clubs in central Pennsylvania. He also served as the varsity head coach at Manheim Township High School for four years.
Hutchinson started his collegiate career at Juniata College before transferring to East Stroudsburg University. He helped the Warriors make a pair of appearances in the EIVA Division I national semifinals. Hutchinson was nationally ranked for blocking in 1995 and 1996 and earned All-EIVA Division I honors in 1996.
He received his degree in corporate communications from Elizabethtown College while on the Dean’s List.
In the summer of 1995, Hutchinson was selected to take part in the U.S. Olympic Festival, which was part of the U.S. National Team training program. During the Festival, he helped the East team win the gold medal.
Hutchinson also has extensive experience as a certified strength and speed/agility coach.
