An exceptional high school and college player, Gretchen Boykin has coached championship teams at every level.
coach Spanish Fort Gretchen Boykin directs her team against Bayside Academy during the AHSAA Class 6A volleyball state championship at Bill Harris Arena in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. A registered dietician at a Mobile hospital, Boykin had also coached volleyball for numerous club teams and four years at Spring Hill College. When her alma mater, McGill-Toolen Catholic called to offer a job, Boykin decided that volleyball was her love.
Boykin has a 1,001-180 career record, an 84.8 winning percentage, and led two different high schools to three total state championships along with numerous title games and final four appearances. She led McGill-Toolen to the Class 6A state championship in 2005 — only six classes with Class 7A beginning in 2014 — along with semifinal appearances in 2006, 2009 and 2012.
The McGill-Toolen call in 2005 sealed her fate. Boykin spent nine seasons with the Dirty Dozen, posting a 500-97 record along with the 2005 title before taking over at Spanish Fort in 2014. She played high school volleyball under AHSAA Hall of Fame coach McGill-Toolen Becky Dickinson and was selected all-state as a senior setter in 1991. She helped the Dirty Dozen to the Class 6A title in 1990.
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