FAR OUT/HUDSONVILLE

FAR OUT/LOWELL

FAR OUT/TRAVERSE CITY ST. FRANCIS

FAR OUT/HARPER CREEK

FAR OUT/GRAND LEDGE

FAR OUT/LOWELL

FAR OUT/FOREST HILLS NORTHERN

FAR OUT/ZEELAND EAST

FAR OUT/THREE RIVERS

FAR OUT/EAST LANSING

FAR OUT/GR CATHOLIC CENTRAL

FAR OUT/HAMILTON

Alan Kaufman, 20th year coach. 

Kaufman has coached FaR Out for 12 years at the regional level and 8 years at the national level. He has a lengthy playing history, starting in Salem, Ohio, in 1977, as both a setter and a pin hitter. Outside of Kaufman’s seventeen consecutive years with FaR Out, he has also been on the coaching staff for Salem High School and Caledonia High School.

Katie Lutjens, 6th year coach.

Lutjens has coached FaR Out for two years at the local level, as well as 2 year at the regional level. The 2026 season will be her second year at the national level coaching alongside Alan Kaufman. She graduated from Catholic Central in 2019 after playing for four years, and was also a FaR Out athlete from 2013 to 2019. Lutjens coached the Catholic Central varsity team as an assistant in 2020, then coached the Catholic Central freshman team as an assistant in 2021 and as the head coach in 2022. Lutjens is a graduate of Grand Valley State University, and is in her first year of teaching.