Rachel Ferguson enters her fourth year with the Lipscomb volleyball program after joining as an assistant coach in May 2019.
Ferguson already had a unique relationship with Lipscomb volleyball as her sister, Kelsey, served as the team’s athletic trainer for four seasons from 2014-18.
Ferguson ventured to Nashville after spending one season with Indiana University as the volunteer assistant coach. In February alongside IU head coach Steve Aird, she was instrumental in helping build Indiana Volleyball Training - a business that includes more than 20 different camps for the Hoosiers program. Her job was to run the camp programing and create opportunities in the community.
Prior to arriving in Bloomington, Ferguson began working with USA Volleyball’s Collegiate National Team (CNT) as the Technical Coordinator in 2017. She provided video analysis through an advanced technical system that allows every touch to be graded.
Ferguson worked with USA Volleyball again in February for the College National Team tryouts.
Rosenthal felt her experiences with DataVolley for USA Volleyball provided a great opportunity to add a dimension the program has never had.
Ferguson directly worked with the CNT team that featured former Bison libero Brittany Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2017.
Ferguson also had a two-year stop at Grand Canyon University as the Director of Operations from 2016-18 where she managed the day-to-day operations for its women’s indoor volleyball program. She also assisted the men’s volleyball and beach volleyball programs at the director of each head coach.
Before her time at GCU, Ferguson served as an assistant coach at North Carolina Central University for the 2015-16 season. She also served as an assistant coach and head junior varsity coach in 2013 and 2014 at the University of Dubuque.
Ferguson was a four-year letter winner at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio where she recorded 2,551 assists from the setter position. She helped guide the Student Princes to three Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) regular season championships, one OAC Tournament Championship and four consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament appearances.
She was a three-time floor captain, a team captain as a senior and compiled a career record of 111-35.
Ferguson’s primary role will be working with the setters and helping the offensive side in-game.
Ferguson graduated from Heidelberg with a Bachelor of Arts degree in media communications in 2013. She then completed her Master of Business Administration at Dubuque in 2015.
