Garcia Ramser enters his first year as head coach of the Fort Hays State University volleyball team in 2026. He is the ninth head coach in Tiger Volleyball history.
Ramser came to FHSU from Adams State University in Colorado, where he served as head coach for the last two seasons (2024 and 2025). The Grizzlies saw an immediate improvement in Ramser’s time leading the program, helping the Grizzlies to 26 wins over the two seasons, including a three-win improvement in his first season and a four-win improvement in his second season. In 2025, he led the Grizzlies to their first Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament appearance since 2017.
Prior to becoming the head coach at Adams State, Ramser was the lead assistant coach at Angelo State University, a program that has seen a high level of success sustained at the NCAA Division II level for nearly two decades under head coach Chuck Waddington. In his first season with the Rambelles, the COVID-19 season of 2020-21, he helped the team to a 16-2 overall record and win the AVCA National Championship tournament in the spring, since there was no fall NCAA Championship that year. In his four years overall at Angelo State (2020-23), he helped the team to two regional appearances in the NCAA Tournament and a pair of Lone Star Conference titles. He also helped coach four AVCA All-America selections, one AVCA Region Player of the Year, and 16 all-conference selections. Ramser was a recipient of the AVCA Thirty Under 30 Award.
Ramser also spent time at Canisius University in New York, where he was assistant coach for the 2019 season, then served as the interim head coach of the program from February to July of 2020 before moving on to Angelo State University. He helped the program to four all-conference selections.
Ramser earned his master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Quincy University in Illinois, where he served as a graduate assistant with the men’s volleyball program for a season (2018-19). Prior to that, he was the head coach of the men’s club program at the University of Pittsburgh from 2016-2018. He was the National College Volleyball Federation Coach of the Year in 2018. Ramser earned his bachelor’s in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering in 2018.
