Melissa Rabell joined the Aces volleyball staff as a graduate assistant in 2017 and was named the Interim Assistant Coach in 2019 before assuming full-time assistant coach duties later in the fall. In her first season as an assistant, she helped the Purple Aces advance to the MVC Championship for the first time since 2008.Â
Her work has been pivotal in a turnaround that has seen the UE program advance to the MVC Championship in two of the last three seasons. Evansville won 21 matches in the fall of 2021, its first 20-win campaign since 1988. The Aces went on to play in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC), winning two matches in its first postseason trip as members of the MVC.
She was a student-athlete at North Carolina Central where she played volleyball from 2011 through 2015. Rabell graduated Magna Cum Laude and made the Dean's List on six occasions. She also garnered the NCCU Athletics True Grit Award in 2013 and 2014.
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Rabell spent time in San Juan, Puerto Rico as an Accounting Auditor at BDO Puerto Rico, P.S.C. She now looks to continue her volleyball career on the coaching side where she has Level I FPV National Coaching Certification. Rabell is also a Gold Medal Squared Volleyball Clinic attendee.
