The 2023 volleyball season will be Lisa Lechtenberg's sixth as the head volleyball coach at Butler Community College. She has compiled a 109-53 overall record in her first five seasons.

Butler Volleyball has received the AVCA Marine Corp. Academic Award (3.3+ accumulative team GPA) every year during Lechtenberg's tenure.

The 2022 season was another one of success for the Grizzlies. Lechtenberg guided her Grizzlies to another KJCCC Conference Championship with an impressive 14-2 record in conference play. She led her Grizzlies to five wins over oppenents ranked in the NJCAA Top-20 and the Grizzlies also reached the Region VI Championship game for the second consecutive year and for just the second time in team history. Lechtenberg also had four players receive All-KJCCC Volleyball Honors with three being named to the First-Team. Ivy Fink was named a second team NJCAA All-American and Kennedy Kelly was an honorable mention NJCAA All-American.

2021 was a historic year for the Butler Volleyball program as coach Lechtenberg led the Grizzlies to their first ever Div. I KJCCC Championship and Region VI title. The Grizzlies also advanced to their first ever NJCAA Div. I National Tournament where they finished 4th in the nation. Butler had two All-Americans in Kayli Duncan and Jaryn Benning to go along with six All-KJCCC Selections. Ivy Fink was named to the  NJCAA All-Tournament team. That season the Grizzlies received 'The Sportsmanship Award' from the NJCAA as a team/program during the National Tournament.

The 2020 season was moved to spring 2021 due to the challenges worldwide with COVID-19. The Grizzlies played a condensed schedule and finished the year 14-10 and a fifth-place KJCCC finish. Butler defeated Colby during the regular season for their first win over the Trojans since 2017 and they took two sets from Seward (first time in over five years) in a heartbreaking five-set loss on the road. Jaryn Benning, Carly Clennan and Sydney Hefty each picked up All-KJCCC honors during the season.

In 2019, the Grizzlies finished 18-12 on the season and 8-8 in a tough conference finishing fifth overall. The Grizzlies defeated Hutchinson 3-0 on September 23, 2019... the first win over the Blue Dragons since September of 2002. Amalie Rupertova was named First Team All-KJCCC while Morgan Bryand, Milayna Hollinger and Jaryn Benning were recognized with Honorable Mention honors. The team finished with 3.59 GPA for the year, 18th in the entire NJCAA.

In her first season as head coach for the Grizzlies, Butler went 15-15 overall and 8-8 in KJCCC play with a fifth place finish. Freshman stand out Amalie Rupertova earned second team All-KJCCC honors while sophomore Alli Klausmeyer picked up Honorable Mention honors. The Grizzlies were recognized as the NJCAA Volleyball Academic Team of the Year leading the nation with a 3.76 GPA.

As a four-year starter and team captain at Kansas State, Lechtenberg was named first-team All-Big 12 in 2001. She was also a three-time All-Big 12 first-team academic selection. As a junior, she had one of the best performances of her career against No. 1 Nebraska with a season-high 21 kills and 29 digs to lead KSU past the Cornhuskers.

After her playing career was over, Lechtenberg spent one season as a student assistant coach at Kansas State. The Wildcats finished the year with a 20-11 record and a second-place finish in the Big 12.

Lechtenberg then spent one season as the top assistant at Southwest Minnesota State. She helped guide the Mustangs to a 20-11 overall mark and a third-place finish in the Northern Sun Conference.

She then moved on to Montana State, a Division I program in the Big Sky Conference. She was an assistant for three seasons, with two seasons as the top assistant. She coached seven all-conference players.

Lechtenberg then left college coaching and moved to El Dorado, where she has lived since. She spent one season as the head coach at El Dorado High School and three seasons as the head volleyball coach at El Dorado Middle School. Most recently, she has served as an elementary school teacher while coaching the EHS freshman team.

Lechtenberg is originally from Spencer, Neb., where she attended Spencer-Naper High in Nebraska where she was an all-state and all-conference performer in volleyball, basketball and track. Her dad has been a high school coach in Nebraska for 50 years, while her sister is also a high school coach in her home state.

Lisa and her husband, Lance, have three children, William, Joseph and Katie.