Bio

RYAN SHOWMAN joined Our Lady of the Lake as the head women's basketball coach in May 2025. Showman comes to OLLU after 18 years at Kansas Wesleyan University, serving the last 13 as the head coach. 

During his 18 years on the bench with the Coyotes, teams went 390-256 overall and 268-153 in the KCAC. In his 13-year career as head coach, Showman led the Coyotes to a 250-151 overall record and a 184-93 record in the KCAC.

Showman coached 41 All-KCAC players including the 2022 KCAC Defensive Player of the Year in Kelcey Hinz, back-to-back KCAC Newcomers of the Year in 2019 (Kayla Kavinski) and 2020 (Hinz). He also coached eight NAIA All-Americans.

Showman was named the Lonnie Kruse KCAC Women’s Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2025. In 2020 he was chosen as a WBCA Regional Coach of the Year and was selected as the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association Women’s 4-Year College Coach of the Year.

His teams were also successful academically, frequently a member of the WBCA NAIA Academic Top 25 and received NAIA Scholar Team awards nearly every season. He coached 82 Academic All-KCAC student-athletes and 72 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes. He also coached two College Sports Communicators Academic All-America (COSIDA) selections.

He was part of six NAIA National Championship appearances for the Coyotes, the first in 2009,which started a streak of three straight. In 2019 and 2020, the Coyotes made back-to back-appearances at the National Championships, with the 2020 run cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2025, the Coyotes again reached the National Championships, and were the only No. 15 seed in the First Round to advance as the Coyotes knocked off host MidAmerica Nazarene in March.