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Sarah Rumely Noble

Head Coach

• Sarah Rumely Noble, a former SEC Player of the Year and all-American, was named the University of South Carolina’s 12th head volleyball coach on Monday, March 31. Rumely Noble came to Columbia after three seasons as head coach of Appalachian State volleyball and previously spent seven seasons as an assistant coach in the SEC following a hall of fame playing career at Kentucky.
• The Mountaineers went from averaging seven wins per season in the three years prior to her arrival, to averaging 17 wins over her first three seasons at the helm.
• In her first year in Boone, Rumely Noble led the Mountaineers to an 18-10 record, highlighted by a season-ending stretch of 11 wins in the final 12 matches. In the most recent fall campaign, App State went 18-10 and earned a spot in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC), with four individuals making all-conference.
• Rumely Noble joined the Mountaineers from LSU, where she worked as an assistant for five seasons, including as the Tigers’ associate head coach in 2021. Serving as LSU’s recruiting coordinator, Rumely Noble helped the Tigers bring in three nationally ranked classes in 2019 (13th), 2020 (22nd) and 2022 (17th). In her last four recruiting classes at LSU, Rumely Noble helped sign nine top-100 players, including the top-ranked player from South Carolina in the 2023 freshman class.
• Over five seasons on the court, the Tigers posted 67 victories with a berth in the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
• Prior to LSU, Rumely Noble spent two seasons at Arkansas, where she ran the defense in 2016 and directed the offense in 2015.
• She also coached at Wake Forest from 2013-15, recruiting three players that earned All-ACC honors and working primarily with the team’s setters.
• She began her coaching career at North Texas for two seasons (2010-11) where she helped the team to 43 wins.
• Rumely Noble was a four-time All-SEC setter and two-time AVCA All-American at Kentucky from 2006-09, where she earned SEC Freshman of the Year honors in 2006 and SEC Player of the Year honors in 2008.
• She led the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournament appearances and is still the program’s all-time leader in both career and single season assists and service aces.
• She was inducted into the Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017, was named an SEC Women’s Legend in 2019, and made the school’s “Title IX Top 50” team, honoring the 50 greatest Wildcat women’s athletes of the Title IX era, in 2022.
• She graduated from Kentucky in the spring of 2010 with a degree in education-kinesiology. Following graduation, she played overseas in the top professional division in France, Ligue A, where she was the starting setter for Nantes Volley Feminin from 2010-11.

Chanelle Hargreaves

Assistant Coach

• Hargreaves worked under Rumely Noble since the 2022 season with Appalachian State.
• Hargreaves is no stranger to the Carolina Volleyball Center. She spent her collegiate career at Florida from 2016-19, an era where the Gators collected three SEC titles and made the national title match in 2017.
• App State’s defensive specialists/libero units averaged over 14 digs per set in each of her three seasons on staff, while also helping improve the defense’s serve receiving numbers. The passing quality carried over to the App State offense, which posted two of its highest team hitting percentage totals over the last 10 seasons.
• She earned her degree in sociology from Florida in May 2020 and received her Master’s degree in sports management from Florida in May 2022. While working towards her postgraduate degree, she worked with the Florida football program in recruiting and student-athlete development.

"Chanelle knows what it takes to win in the SEC ... she will bring a wealth of knowledge of developing championship culture. She is a great trainer in the gym and a great recruiter. She is passionate about culture and team dynamic and will impact our program on and off the court."