Noelle Rooke - Head Coach - Beach Volleyball Coaches

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Noelle Rooke

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
noelle.rooke@csun.edu
Phone:
7784

A veteran college volleyball coach with over 250 victories in her career and a two-time Coach of the Year, Noelle Rooke opens her fifth season with the Matador beach volleyball team and fourth as head coach in 2021. Rooke is also a fourth-year assistant coach for the CSUN indoor volleyball team.

In her three seasons as head coach, Rooke has led the CSUN beach volleyball team to 37 wins, including a program-best 17-8 record in 2018. The Matadors finished 16-12 in 2019 and reached the final four of the Big West Tournament at Zuma Beach. CSUN was off to a program-best 4-1 start last season before the remainder of the season was canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rooke, who recorded 257 victories as an indoor head coach at four different institutions, came to CSUN after spending three seasons as the head coach at the University of Illinois Springfield, a NCAA Division II institution. Under Rooke’s guidance at UIS, Kayla Katarzynski set the single-season program record with 479 digs in 2013. 13251

In the classroom, nineteen student-athletes earned Great Lakes Valley Conference Academic accolades, while two student-athletes earned Division II Athletic Director Association (D2ADA) Academic Achievement Awards for maintaining a 3.5 GPA or higher.

Prior to her arrival at UIS, she spent eight seasons as the head coach at Mercer University in Macon, GA. While with the Bears she became the winningest coach in program history, guiding the program to 98 victories and qualifying for the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament seven times. Her teams set eight school records and she coached the first player in Mercer history to have 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career as well as the school’s all-time leaders in assist and kills. In addition, Rooke also coached the 2006 Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year and the 2010 Libero of the Year during her eight seasons in Macon.

Highlighting her tenure at Mercer was an 18-11 campaign in 2008 that included a 13-7 record in the Atlantic Sun Conference and earned her the league’s Coach of the Year award. The 13 wins in conference play are still the most in school history. Rooke’s 2008 squad ranked 16th in the nation in digs per set and was just as successful off the court as the squad was honored with Mercer’s Scholastic Award, which is given to the team with the highest GPA. In addition, nine members of the team were named to the A-Sun’s Academic Honor Roll.

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Prior to arriving at Mercer, Rooke spent three seasons as the head coach at Rowan University, a NCAA Division III school in Glassboro, N.J., where she went 65-27 and led the Profs to the NCAA Tournament for just the second time in school history. In 2002, her squad went 27-8 and won the New Jersey Athletic Conference championship, earning Rooke the league’s Coach of the Year honor.

Rooke’s first head coaching job was at NCAA Division II institution University of South Carolina Aiken where she posted a 64-42 record in three seasons. Her tenure at Aiken was highlighted by a 29-10 season in 1997 and two players earning Academic All-American honors.

As a student-athlete, Rooke was a standout setter at Florida Southern College where she served as a team captain and was the program’s Most Valuable Player after earning second team All-Conference accolades as a senior.

A native of Agoura, Calif., Rooke earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, with a double minor in Psychology and Criminology, from Florida Southern in 1996. She married her husband Max, an associate head soccer coach at Pepperdine, in 2008.