2018 marks the fifth season at the helm of the Westminster women's volleyball program. Givens has recorded 493 wins during his 37 years as a collegiate coach and looks forward to the 500th win this season. Givens has guided the Griffins to a 37-77 record, including a 13-41 record in RMAC matches.
Givens came to Westminster from the University of North Texas where he served as the associate head coach of the women’s volleyball program. Prior to the University of North Texas, Givens served as the head coach at Charleston Southern in 2012 and Texas A&M International in 2011. Givens was named the 2011 Heartland Conference’s Coach of the Year after leading the Dustdevils to a 14-18 record and their first bid to the Heartland Conference Tournament in five years.
Previous to that he was the head coach at Weber State University for 18 seasons and the the 2006 Big Sky Coach of the Year.
Givens started his coaching career in Yuma, Arizona in 1977 where he was head coach at Kofa High School. After four years at Kofa, he made the jump to college volleyball taking the head coach job at Arizona Western College.
In 1984, he made the leap into Division I, taking an assistant coach position at the University of Mississippi. The following season he was promoted to head coach and spent one year as the Rebels’ head coach before accepting the same role at Texas A&M University in College Station in 1986. During his two years at Ole Miss, the Rebels went 50-28, and Givens had a 29-15 record as the head coach. During his time with the Aggies, Givens picked up numerous Top 25 wins and one Top 10 win over No. 7 Texas in 1991, finishing his career with the Aggies with an overall 123-122 record.
After seven years with the Aggies, he accepted the head coaching job at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He had several Top 25 wins and one Top 10 win over No. 10 Utah in 2002. He was named Big Sky Coach of the Year in 2006 and finished his 18-season career at Weber State as the longest tenured volleyball coach in the history of the Big Sky Conference.
During his tenure as a head coach, (37 years at DI & II) Givens has coached 158 academic all-conference selections, 65 all-conference players, 10 all-tournament team selections, four All-South Region players, four Newcomers of the Year, three Freshman of the Year, one NCAA Woman of the Year and one NCAA Scholar Athlete of the Year as well as several Regional and National Academic All-Americans.
