The 2025 season will mark the first season for Tara Beilsmith as a member of the Southeast Missouri Volleyball coaching staff.
Beilsmith most recently coached at Lindenwood University during the 2024 season. She helped lead the Lions to their first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title in just her first season with the program. The Lions finished 23-11 with a 14-4 mark in OVC play and captured the tournament title over Morehead State (3-0).
On the club side, Tara spent the last two years coaching for St. Louis-area 'High Performance Volleyball Club'. She coached the 13 Royal team during the 23-24 and has spent the 2024-25 season coaching the 15 Royal team.
She is a three-time OVC champion, winning twice as a player (2019 & 2021) and once as a coach (2024). She finished with one regular season title as a player during the 2021 campaign.
As a player, Beilsmith played all five seasons at Southeast Missouri where she was a two-time OVC Defensive Player of the Year selection (2022 & 23). She was a two-time All-OVC First Team Selection and a three-time Second Team selection in her career.
Over her time at Southeast Missouri, Beilsmith compiled 3,034 digs over 548 sets which marks her as the Ohio Valley Conference's all-time leader in career digs. In addition, she ranks third all-time in NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball history for career digs.
During the 2023 campaign, Beilsmith added her name to the NCAA record books with 797 digs in a single season. The number marked her fourth all-time in single-season history for NCAA Volleyball. She averaged 6.38 digs-per-set in 2023, ranking her 13th all-time in NCAA history.
In addition to the 2023 campaign, Beilsmith recorded 773 digs over 131 sets during the 2022 season which ranks her 10th all-time in the NCAA record book for a single season.
The daughter of Dan and Patty Beilsmith, Tara is a native of Weldon Spring, Missouri and graduated from Southeast Missouri with a degree in Cybersecurity. She most recently completed her Master's Degree of Business Administration in General Management at Southeast as well.
