Gillispie begins her first season on the Butler soccer coaching staff in 2024.

A Newton, Kan., native, Gillispie joins the Grizzlies from Kansas State where she spent the last three seasons as a student-athlete on the Wildcats women's soccer team.

Across her three seasons in Manhattan, she was a three-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll member.

Prior to Kansas State, Gillispie was a Kansas 5A All-State second team selection in 2018 at Newton High School. She was also named a 2018 All-Arkansas Valley Chisholm Trail League (AVCTL) First Team selection before graduating in 2020.

Gillispie has ties to Hunter, playing with the Wichita Rush Soccer Club from 2010-15 where Hunter was coaching. She is majoring in kinesiology and integrative physiology, set to graduate in spring 2024.

She brings some coaching experience to El Dorado, having spent time coaching at Kansas State soccer youth camps as well as a WUPC youth soccer camp.